{"product_id":"hres2241-a-second-invitation-to-an-uninterrupted-katabatic-lens","title":"A Second Invitation To An Uninterrupted Katabatic Lens","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Second Invitation To An Uninterrupted Katabatic Lens\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis the second and certainly irrefutable invitation to the inimitable artistic world of \u003cstrong\u003eDecolonise Your Mind Society\u003c\/strong\u003e an exceptional Hungarian band. Following the path on after their widely acclaimed debut Anabatic Prism, the geography and climate has somewhat changed: the playfulness and colorfulness of higher overtones central to Anabatic Prism fall apart and a massive gate instantly opens up to a down-to-earthiness nowhere else to be found. The album follows the group's first release at NativeDSD - a \u003cstrong\u003ePure DSD 256 Stereo\u003c\/strong\u003e album titled \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/product\/hres2017-anabatic-prism-live\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Courteous Invitation To An Uninhabited Anabatic Prism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e.\r\n\r\nIs it an ancient human culture excavated in the soil or rather a fearless survival attempt in a possible near future? Whatever the answer is, as we walk through these immense and diverse landscapes invoked by the record's stunning compositions featuring different \"equal divisions of the octave\" tunings and complex meters, one can be sure that this unknown planet seems real and tangible, fierce and muddy, corporeal and with an unattainable antigravitational urge to leave weightiness behind.\r\n\r\nOur ears are enchanted by the catchy melodies while they indelibly come back to us over and over again... We are simply hooked on them.\r\n\r\nGraphic designer Csenge Csató's cover art offers a suitably illuminated welcome to listeners who take up the latest invitation from these upliftingly off-kilter Hungarian musicians led by guitarist, composer and instrument builder \u003cstrong\u003eBálint Szabó\u003c\/strong\u003e. Mysterious figures climb from their subterranean homes, and move through a lustrously colored landscape, where fried eggs are dotted inexplicably among gigantic plants. A huge serpent emerges from soil in which dinosaur bones are embedded. Strange angular birds flutter overhead. Scaly mountain peaks resemble the caps of psilocybin mushrooms. Cató is providing an orientation, or disorientation, as she did for the group's debut release, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/product\/hres2017-anabatic-prism-live\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Courteous Invitation To An Uninhabited Anabatic Prism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/a\u003e The music, like the imagery, skews what is familiar, tilting addictive riffs and infectiously simple melodies to a harmonically oblique angle where a surreal title, such as \"How I Learnt To Fly In A Dove's Dream\", seems entirely reasonable. Unconventional tunings and insistent grooves steer the ear beyond routine horizons, and perform hallucinatory tricks.\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eDecolonise Your Mind Society\u003c\/strong\u003e are metrically astute, but they avoid unnecessary complication and superfluous flourishes. Their departures from orthodox temperament are often startling, yet consistently purposeful. The world heard through their music's lens may seem warped in relation to Eurocentric norms, but it never sounds arcane or frivolously decorative. Emphasis during their previous outing fell on ascent (anabasis) towards the light and ecstatic jangle of higher overtones. Here Szabó and his fellow explorers undertake their descent (katabasis), at times moving with dirge-like slowness, but mostly clinging to the funky chop and churn of embodied trance music. In his review of their debut in The Wire 441, Daniel Spicer provided a wide-ranging catalogue of other musics brought to mind by the group's choice of tunings and global sensibility. On this sequel, Decolonize Your Mind Society are moving persuasively through their own exhilarating territory. \u003cem\u003e- Julian Cowley\r\n\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eDecolonise Your Mind Society\u003c\/strong\u003e\r\nErnő Hock - Fretless Bass Guitar \u0026amp; Vocals\r\nGergő Kováts - Saxophone \u0026amp; Vocals\r\nÁron Porteleki - Drums \u0026amp; Vocals\r\nMáté Pozsár - Synth \u0026amp; Vocals\r\nBálint Szabó - Just Intonation Guitar, Fretless Guitar \u0026amp; Vocals\r\nDániel Váczi - Glissotar \u0026amp; Vocals\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rnvaTabK-r8\r\n\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hunnia Records","offers":[{"title":"WAV 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740041883972,"sku":"HRES2241-5","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740041916740,"sku":"HRES2241-6","price":20.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC 96 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740041949508,"sku":"HRES2241-7","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 64 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740041982276,"sku":"HRES2241-14","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 128 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740042015044,"sku":"HRES2241-15","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 256 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740042047812,"sku":"HRES2241-16","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DSD 512 \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740042080580,"sku":"HRES2241-21","price":35.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"DXD 24 Bit \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":56740042113348,"sku":"HRES2241-22","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV 192 kHz \/ 2ch Stereo","offer_id":57339333509444,"sku":"HRES2241-3","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/7900\/2436\/files\/HRES2241.jpg?v=1778491795","url":"https:\/\/www.nativedsd.com\/products\/hres2241-a-second-invitation-to-an-uninterrupted-katabatic-lens","provider":"NativeDSD Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}