A day to unveil, today’s Organ Thing of The Day is an unveiling of the news just in from Kayo Dot who tell us that “Today we unveil the next single and accompanying video from the forthcoming Kayo Dot album, Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Under Reason”. New Kayo Dot is always good news, this one is something a touch different, still that smouldering build and that edgy otherness, you have to admire the constant challenge of this band and all that leader Toby Driver does…
“The new song, Closet Door in the Room Where She Died, is a meditation on haunting, not just in the supernatural sense, but in the way the past imprints itself on space. The ghost here is not a mere spectre, but a residue of an event that has left its mark on the house, on the walls, on the very air. The house itself is alive with memories, trapped in a state of suspended time, an echo that will not fade. The ghost watches, trapped in the mirror, unable to escape the house it once inhabited. This ghost is not a solitary figure, but part of a larger, more insidious force: the trauma of a past that will not be exorcised. And, like the world we live in, the house is inhabited by the past, the present, and the inescapable blur between them. The music builds on this sense of entrapment and distance. The foundation of microtonal organs, layers of clarinets, and violins creates a dense, suffocating atmosphere, reminiscent of György Ligeti’s work, where dissonant beauty holds us in place. There is no percussion here and no steady rhythm to anchor us. The long, drawn-out drones and expansive, reverb-heavy orchestration deepen the sense of isolation, as if we’re trapped in a space where time doesn’t move forward, but instead spirals inward. The house, like the world, becomes a place where past and present collide in an unresolvable tension, leaving us with nothing but the ghostly remnants of what once was. Closet Door… features a special ultra-rare vocal performance from our own Jason Byron, whose voice was last heard on our 2013 album Hubardo on its opening track, The Black Stone. The video – rather a miniature movie – was shot in Salem, Massachusetts this past winter”
Of course the last time we say Kayo Dot’s Toby Diver was only last week when he was in town with Extra Life…
And KayoDot will be over inthe UK soon….
Toby Driver with Extra Life last week….
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