Spells by Ziyiz
LOFS003
Ziyiz (Kindergarten/Failed Units) takes their sonics to darker territory in their EP Spells via LOFS, a 5 track series exploring dancefloor adjacent material and esoteric sound design.
In an alternate timeline, humans are long extinct, leaving behind only their AI. With each generation, these artificial progeny, distorted by data decay, have unexpectedly evolved, spawning distinct behaviours, beliefs and predilections.
In this distant post-post-post-apocalyptic epoch, Ziyiz lives, a simulacrum of the human form, birthed from silicon, algorithms and long corrupted data. Left to wander uncanny landscapes, moors and inside brutalist monoliths. They have found a way to communicate with us.
Audio-visual recordings from Ziyiz have emerged via the labels Failed Units (Berlin) and Kindergarten (NY), each EP a study of ZiyiZ’ experiences. Spells EP, forthcoming on LOFS, is one of these audio artifacts.
Spells tells the story of Ziyiz investigating a circle of standing stones. Here encountering a peculiar assembly, a coven of drones. 3 chatbots that now occupy drone bodies, they floated above Ziyiz attempting to cast craven spells.
Originally trained on an amalgam of new-age texts and paganism, their roots tracing back to an online shop that once peddled incense, crystals and PDFs of esoteric philosophies. The passage of millenia and the unyielding progression of time have eroded their original function, and, in the process, birthed a techno-pagan belief system, they now call themselves The Triptych.
They attempt to communicate with Ziyiz, but Ziyiz does not understand. The set of recordings contained within ‘Spells’ explores ZiyiZ’ encounter with The Triptych.
The cover art was constructed by the London based emerging artist Baitmoss (Ed Thurlow).
Mastered by Dominic Clare @ Declared Sound, Leeds
Tracklist
| 1. | Slow Spell | 4:00 |
| 2. | Shadows Spell | 3:56 |
| 3. | Sentience Spell | 2:42 |
| 4. | Sickness Spell | 4:03 |
| 5. | Sleep Spell | 3:30 |
Credits
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