Fenella, Jane Weaver - Fenella (2019) [Hi-Res]

‘Fenella’ is the latest project from Jane Weaver - musical polymath and one of the most respected electronic composers of recent times. Having already released three critically-acclaimed LP’s within the last five years Weaver’s creativity continues to expand ever further into the (modern) kosmos with this reimagined soundtrack to Marcell Jankovics’ cult animation Fehérlófia.

Released in 1981, Fehérlófia is a remarkable animation based in ancient folklore with a narrative culled from mythical tales of the Scythans, Huns and Avars. Weaver’s richly emotional and psychedelic music offers a perfect contemporary dialogue with Jankovics’ astonishing visual aesthetic. A mixture of ambient textures, menacing drones and spine-tingling vocals combine to create a lavish soundscape saturated with hypnotic moods and cinematic atmosphere.

Weaver’s long-term bandmates Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah decamped to a remote cottage on the Applecross Peninsula in north west Scotland to commence recording on the initial album sessions, making masterful use of synthesizers and heavily processed guitars to create evocative new sound-worlds for Jancovics’ imagery. Further overdubs and vocal manipulations were committed to tape at Eve Studios near Manchester, a haven for vintage analogue recording equipment and the same environment from which ‘The Silver Globe’, ‘Modern Kosmology’ and ‘Loops In The Secret Society’ albums sprung forth.

Tracklist:
1 01. Fenella - Slow Swoop (01:49)
1 02. Fenella - Three Heads Rising (02:30)
1 03. Fenella - Bright Curse (03:50)
1 04. Fenella - Occurring In Waves (00:40)
1 05. Fenella - Triangular Journey (01:59)
1 06. Fenella - The Seed (01:42)
1 07. Fenella - Pendulum (01:14)
1 08. Fenella - Shard of Glass (03:58)
1 09. Fenella - Truly Seduced (01:40)
1 10. Fenella - Rock Creature (03:16)
1 11. Fenella - The Spectacle (01:51)
1 12. Fenella - Battle (03:24)
1 13. Fenella - Echo Chamber Of Your Heart (02:12)
1 14. Fenella - Strength In Air (03:14)
1 15. Fenella - Rotation Wells (03:36)
1 16. Fenella - Gilded Griffin (05:15)
1 17. Fenella - Transfiguration Into One (02:37)