Erlik Khan is the god of death and underworld in Turkish and Mongolian mythology. This collaboration between Turkish experimental genre-hopper and multi-media artist Erdem Helvacioglu and Brooklyn, NY contextualizer Bruce Tovsky is a truly otherworldly experience.
Featuring two prickly longform works fusing GuitarViol (a hybrid stringed instrument), lap steel, random acoustics, and processed electronics into a colorful, polyglot stew, the enigmatic duo forge dense, dark, quivering soundscapes that recall nothing less than Thomas Koner, Shinjuku Thief, & Lull's isolationist climes skyrocketing through the improvisational smears first championed by the likes of AMM and Zbigniew Karkowski. Erlik Khan is also the first recording of its kind to combine electric lapsteel and guitarviol with live electronics, an aural hybrid navigating various sonic eddies and frequency-intensive night terrors.
Ascendance 20:27
Produced by Erdem Helvacioglu
Recorded by Bruce Tovsky
Skeleton Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Edited and mixed by Erdem Helvacioglu
Helvacioglu Studio, Istanbul
Mastered by Pieter Snapper, Babajim Istanbul Studios & Mastering
All realtime compositions by Erdem Helvacioglu & Bruce Tovsky
Special thanks: Tracy Wuischpard, Native Instruments and Esin Uslu
©2012 Helvacioglu & Tovsky
©2012 Periphery
periphery.bandcamp.com/album/erlik-khan
www.erdemhelvacioglu.com
www.skeletonhome.com
from
Erlik Khan,
track released June 27, 2012
Erdem Helvacioglu: Togaman GuitarViol, live electronics
Bruce Tovsky: Oahu Tonemaster lapsteel, live electronics