Föllakzoid grows
via depuration, aiming with each record to fill longer spaces of time
with fewer and fewer elements. The creative perspective of the band has
always been about unlearning the narrative and musical knowledge that
shape the physical and digital formats and conceptions available, both
visually and musically in order to make a time-space metric structure
that dissolves both the author and the narrative paradigms. Today
they've unveiled the last quarter - "IIII" - of their forthcoming, four-part record 'I' which sees its release on Sacred Bones August 1.
Föllakzoid's journey
began 10 years ago as a trance experience between childhood friends
Domingae and Diego from Santiago, Chile. Heavily informed by the
heritage of the ancient music of the Andes, the band has learned to
integrate their origins with contemporary sounds and technologies of our
times, creating a rich yet minimal electronic-organic atmosphere.
Unlike past Föllakzoid records that were
done in single takes with the full band, this record took three months
to construct out of more than 60 separate stems - guitars, bass, drums,
synthesizers, and vocals, all recorded in isolation. Producer Atom TM,
who was not present for recording, was then asked to re-organize the
four sequences of stems without any length, structural restrictions or
guidelines. Those sequences ultimately became the four long tracks that
appear on 'I'.
The result of this was a set of songs where neither the
band's, nor the producer's, structural vision primarily shaped the
metric or tonal space shifts, but where both were still subliminally
present in each of the parts that form the structure and the frequency
modulations that guide them.