Name: Labyrinth
Brand: Doon Kanda

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

HDBCD044

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-01-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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5055869593526

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Artist

Doon Kanda

Genre GB

Bass / Breaks

Label GB

Hyperdub

Jesse Kanda is a visual artist and musician widely known for his modern gothic surrealist art, especially his work with Bjork, Arca, and FKA twigs, and in recent years for his own musical output as Doon Kanda. Labyrinth is his debut album, comprised of 13 pieces of new music, and 10 artworks. It is a dreamlike, exhilarating listen from start to finish, covering emotional ground from hell to heaven. It was created between summer 2018 and spring 2019 in London and Ontario. His two previous EPs Heart (2017) and Luna (2018) focused on melody across a spectrum of emotion, and like his visual work often metamorphosed pain into beauty. Labyrinth chronicles a period of loss, in ecstatic fantasy. Stylistically, much of the album is in 3/4 time signature in rhythms reminiscent of waltz, allowing Kanda to create movement through melody. This idiosyncratic gothic style was hinted at in his first EP, and is in full bloom here. It is also a proposition of a new form of club music; one can imagine venues transformed into an alien world, where the music moves the crowd in previously unknown ways. The album has a narrative arc of building chaos, peaking with Mino, then a resolve of clarity at Bunny. Jesse hopes listeners experience Labyrinth in its presented order, while maybe flipping through the artwork in the accompanying full size 10 page picture book.

Labyrinth

Music GB