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i Häxa

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ashtxo Breathtakingly beautiful. Such depth of feeling that I am overwhelmed. Favorite track: Dryland.
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black_gaze Faint. Hidden between foggy banks, beneath creaking branches, eerily whispering twigs. Rising from reeds, a forlorn pond. Hear: in the rushing flow of electronic streams, meandering in subtle strings, mixed with heartbroken beats and ever changing rhythmic flows. A whispering voice, dancing long haired on shaded clearings, clad in dried, old leaves. A presence of beauty, summoned by a candle tongue. Still humming in my mind, haunting, full off harmonic shadowplay. Favorite track: The Well.
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Charlie Gardner Not just dark but the dark horse Album of the Year. From out of the shadows, Rebecca emerges as the true goth child of Kate Bush. A mysterious, mesmerising and completely original creation with a soul beyond any AI's understanding, and another triumph for Pelagic Records. If you only buy one album this year, buy this.
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1.
Underworld 03:53
I wandered into this underworld Thought I could handle being free I’m riding backwards so they can’t see That my poor blackbirds inside of me I lost a planet so dear to me I hear it’s voices when I sleep I pick my battles always in vain I lost my blackbird, he’d sing to me I lost my way in this labyrinth A fool disguised in human skin I stay in shadow, so they can’t steal My only blackbird, what’s left of me. What’s left of me? In my fever I dream of them, I hear their voices, it tortures me. I lost my battles, I must confess, I wanted love not this loneliness. This loneliness. Oh. Muses lost to me What’s left of me.
2.
Inferno 04:38
Silence, still seeking silence Searching for hands no longer living But still breathing Existing in parallel Somewhere I cannot find. No place Some place I am someone else now They built me from the outside in Am I within? Now I an encased in a frame of mind A fool, disguised in skin The skulls barrier traps the spirit in human shaped prisons Collecting miniscule chemicals and memories Some kind of imprinted lie Woven into the fabric of this wretched concept we call time. Bound to shallow views How can eyes made from flesh grasp truths. Limbs tremble A seasickness on steady ground Weighted by hysteria An anchor tied around ankles, Breaking through horizons And I wonder... If somewhere I took a wrong turn I found myself astray where the straight road has been lost. Thick hazied dreams of alternate timelines And a dizzying kaleidoscope of selves. Any other self. Anything else. Anything but this. Pains new flavour Choking back imaginations ripening fantasies of ecstasy Then rotting back down to earth's solitude Stealing breath from this now cavernous body A slate, scrubbed down, Bleached and burning, But nothing can be new. I’m still showing the faded signs of what once was. What am I to do?
3.
Last at the table Finish what’s left You and I both Tell me the tale of your father Tell me the tale of your father I thought I knew Had no idea
4.
Sapling 05:19
Coiling, unfurling and retreating Unraveling this longing Coiling, unfurling and retreating To the ground I see a light, I see I see a light, I see I see an end, I see I see the start, I see I see it all, I see. I see it all. Fingers reaching Breaking surface Like clawing out from a grave I see a light, I see (but it dims) I see a light, I see (the closer I get) I see an end, I see I see the start, I see (but it bends) I see it all, I see. (the closer I get) I see it all I’m just a flicker Watching the fire in your eyes You mistake my envy for a forest But I feel like a sapling I’m so jealous. Did all we know turn out to be our worst addictions? And are we failing? Are we failing?
5.
Eight Eyes 04:00
How does it feel To be running again? How does it feel Living in shadow? How does it feel In that dust cloud? Don’t shy away now Don’t shy away Forever trying Never changing Board a train Endless stations Bear the weight For two Respire and still now So now I still Journeying Humbling Fine lines between love and rage Recklessly loving me Eight eyes for both sides How does it feel trapped in fantasy? How does it feel burning bridges? How does it feel to be so loved? Go shy away now Go shy away Journeying Humbling Fine lines between love and rage Recklessly loving me Eight eyes for both sides.
6.
We Three 03:36
Shadow at my door Stain under my feet Blur at the bound The fear we share The fear that we share We three, the blood we share Hopelessly transfixed a false awakening Through paintings Gateways to unwelcome worlds Befriend this beast, I try Always flees and always returns The fear of three, a power raging Psychically connected Such pretty hands Knuckles turn white, As we grip each other In our minds, we are one Battling this omen Waging a war with our weaknesses We are our own worst horrors. Out she falls Spiraling Phantom twin Dust through our eyes I remember taking the skin from her face But now she is beautiful Beautifully plain, serene Like a doll. Devoid of any feeling Sheer nothing, A hole in the wall A tear in space Is she looking to fill herself? Will she sink into me? Riding like a puppet Or will she sear our minds together? Mourning the losses she can no longer remember She can no longer remember.
7.
The Well 05:33
Goodbye and good riddance Never tasted so sweet You’re so full of shit Sitting in your room with her Living and dying All over again I wish my heart were like a well With a cover, so I don’t have to suffer I could never figure it out Goodbye and godspeed Never felt so bleak I stumble in one last desperation Sitting in your room with her Living and dying, Dancing with our fate, now I wish my heart were like a well With a cover, so I don’t have to suffer I could never figure it out
8.
Fog of War 01:57
Fog of war The trees circles us Beyond is darkness This patch of earth now a planet The fire our sun Our life Our death As it races toward us Heat has its own smell It’s own language And my skin will be scorched before I fully understand it’s words The elements claim back their roots And we are no longer their children Am I being murdered by the hands of my country? Now darkness turns to glow Fear and beauty Like oil and water Co-existing in a fever dream Fires legs on fumes Ghosts in full swing, Could outrun any child of man It didn’t occur to me how helpless we are Walking organic containers At the mercy of circumstance I am too afraid to cry Eyes glued to the hues of my southern hemisphere Ablaze, A borealis of flame.
9.
Army 03:03
Now the sight of your army fills me with fire Burning up through legs that stand on their own. Your soldiers, brain washed. They’re puppets dribbling at your feet And your poems of lost love humour me. I can see your fabricated world now The walls caving in Living and dying in fantasy. My rage is expansive And I will destroy and rebuild a thousand times, Living a hundred different lives simultaneously, Sucking on life, Sucking it dry, Before it consumes me.
10.
Dryland 04:17
You let the sleepers lie, You know the sleepers are gonna die. You see them praying in the dark, You know the endings not so far. You didn’t know it was gonna be this way, You would have told her you wanted to stay. You would have had the kids you never wanted. You would have kept your feet on the dryland. You would have said yes to your brother, You would have given love, you never bothered, Now all the things you wish you would have said now sink, Down to the bottom as good as dead. You let the sleepers lie, You knew the sleepers were gonna die. You left them praying in the dark, Now the ending’s not so far. You could beg and plead, Your fate is sealed. Now peacefully, Cold. Why don’t we talk about it? Death comes so easy. Why don’t we talk about it? Now it’s all you’ll ever know.
11.
Oils & Inks 01:48
The air (The wave) Flows and swells (Is coming) A great ocean (Over) Oils and inks blending together (No time to breathe) Fluid (Soaking) Will I wash away? And take all that remains? Growing (Slow down) He’s in the garden Growing (Slow Down)
12.
Now we are alone together Skin glows sickly I’m repulsed Hands softness turns to leather As I begin to pulse 2, 3, 4 Pulse 2, 3, 4 You return but you are not the same Eyes alight with madness and disdain Destroy everything. Death taker, life giver Born again but maybe it was wrong Fear, hopeless turns to danger As I continue to pulse 2, 3, 4 Stop 2, 3, 4 You return but you are not the same Eyes alight with madness and disdain You return but clearly not the same Deaths demonic dance now silent Destroy everything. Kill Burn Destroy everything Dies Burn Destroy everything Kill everything Burn Everyone dies in the end
13.
Vessel 03:56
Jump starting a heart Paranoia A skipped beat (Circumference..) Symbols smeared in maroon A tormented limping vessel My once pale skin is now charred and frayed Organs rearranged into an unrecognizable design Mazes forming, folding and fading Coiled and collecting in pools Limbs torn (Conductant...) And flesh dripping through a scorched barren land White noise Static Silence
14.
Blue Angel 03:07
Blue angel Tendrils of light Spirit of wonder Pulverise Tilting landscapes Figures leaning over a form My body? Am I being observed? Oh there’s something in the water I can’t seem to find the eyes behind my lids. Where am I? They drift away into light Clarify...
15.
Infernum 04:28
Infernum, sacra mors Innovo, vivere Erro Crawling Time suspended Try to tear through The material To the other side The inferno The mundanity Painful in a different way Crave the blood lust Dream of chaos Try to break through Rise out of a different view Is this the promised land The indulgence A sick desire For my inferno
16.
Circle 04:01
Out of the blue I feel crystal clear It’s quiet now Slip inside the pool First one to revive The waves of everyone we’ve ever loved Of everyone we’ve ever loved Careless of the time I circle through it all again Through everyone I’ve ever loved Keep hold of everyone we’ve ever loved Blending into the dust The land, the earth Breathing in time A universal mind I see a light, I see an end And a start, I see it all

about

Mysterious, multifaceted collective i Häxa have unveiled the latest and final chapter that completes the self-titled ‘i Häxa’ full album; a ground-breaking, year-long multimedia project shaped by a collision of ancient gods and cutting-edge technology…

A singular vision that weaves together genre-defiant soundscapes, abstract cinema and ancient meteorological mythologies from singer-songwriter and visual artist Rebecca Need-Menear (also of electronic alt-rock duo Anavae) and forward-thinking producer Peter Miles (Architects, Dodie, Fizz); i Häxa is a ritualistic dissection of the world as we know it, a forceful separation of the monotony of modernity from the rites and rituals that for centuries formed the foundations for who we are, how we came to be and where we claim to belong. Disjointed fragments of time collide. Two sides, one of logic and one of chaos, seeking unity and balance through an expression of freedom. This is i Häxa.

A sonic culture clash that envelopes organic alt-folk storytelling, harsh industrial electronica and a dream-like ambience that conjures the golden age of the UK’s pioneering trip hop scene, Parts One to Three evolve in symbiotic unison with their visual pairings made in collaboration with filmmaker Daniel Broadley. The eerie folk-distortion of Part One’s ‘Underworld’ and ‘Last At The Table’ soundtrack a nameless, wraith-like woman as she journeys through an ever-shifting fever dream before Part Two’s ‘The Well’ introduces a more intimate and tender dynamic palette as i Häxa emerge as a physical entity in their own right, captured as myth made manifest in a breathtaking live performance. In jarring contrast Part Three is visceral and menacing, with bone-shaking basslines on tracks like ‘Dryland’ and ‘Destroy Everything’ interrupted without warning by abrupt, high-gain percussion as Need-Menear’s spellbinding voice and cryptic lyrics float effortlessly above the maelstrom.

Part Four is an awe-inspiring and unsettling amalgamation of what came before as plaintive piano refrains collide with shimmering drum and bass grooves, all interspersed with rich string arrangements and truly apocalyptic synthesiser soundscapes. ‘Vessel’, Part Four’s opening piece, is pulsating synth suspense and eerie effected spoken word as Need-Menear’s already otherworldly vocal delivery is played forwards and backwards, akin to a tapelooped ghost in the machine. ‘Blue Angel’ immediately bursts into life with a fluttering, syncopated breakbeat that channels the likes of Goldie, Massive Attack and Björk as Need-Menear’s presence also gathers momentum before receding back into a deep droning menace that would make i Häxa labelmate and dark ambient pioneer Lustmord proud.

‘Infernum’, a twisting, cyclic callback to Part One’s ‘Inferno’, is as incendiary as its name suggests. The breakbeat from ‘Blue Angel’ returns with a vengeance; this time bitcrushed, compressed and relentless, conjuring the chaos of IDM icons like Squarepusher and Aphex Twin, but paired with a plaintive string motif that adds a distinctive human melancholy to the machine-like madness. Not just the final piece of Part Four but the closing chapter of the entire i Häxa saga, ‘Circle’ is a work of staggering intimacy and emotional candour. The sparse piano, string and vocals arrangements that make up ‘Circle’ are somehow more powerful than the barrage of breakbeats and basslines that precede it and, whilst in this direction the dynamic shift might appear abrupt, ‘Circle’ crucially echoes the latent alt-folk ambience of ‘Underworld’, the very first track of i Häxa’s Part One. As such, ‘Circle’ begins the project’s epic arc again, with Need-Menear’s last words “I see a light, I see an end / And a start, I see it all” serving lyrically and literally as project’s open and close.

Whilst ‘i Häxa’ is composed of four distinct movements each consisting of four distinct tracks themselves; pulling them apart into easily digestible, standalone singles isn’t an easy feat and, as is now clear from the project’s sprawling cyclic nature, was never the intention. In an age of fast fun and instant gratification, the ties that bind these works together are intended to transcend tracklisting. With aural, visual and lyrical themes freely intertwining, i Häxa is something to be consumed whole; just as it will, in time, consume you.

With each part released throughout 2024 in order to coincide with seasonal solstices, ‘Part Four’ is the final missing piece that completes this ambitious and truly ground-breaking multimedia project. Charting an existential journey to the very depths of what makes us who we are, with every dark corner illuminated in glitched out, discordant glory; i Häxa is a project years in the making that draws simultaneously from rituals for old gods and the modern day deification of data. i Häxa is both heartwarming and horrifying; i Häxa is ancient history and hyper-real; i Häxa is everybody and no one at all; i Häxa is for you and for me; i Häxa is here and it is happening now.

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released November 1, 2024

i Häxa is Rebecca Need-Menear & Peter Miles
PRODUCED & MIXED BY Peter Miles
VOCALS PERFORMED BY Rebecca Need-Menear
INSTRUMENTS PERFORMED BY Peter Miles
MASTERED BY Lewis Hopkin at Stardelta Audio Mastering

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Disjointed fragments of time collide. Two sides, one of logic and one of chaos, seeking unity and truth through the expression of freedom.

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