Renowned producer Preservation (MF Doom, RZA, Mos Def) felt a connection with experimental composer and vocalist Hatis Noit’s audio and visual aesthetic and heard a resonance between her work and that of NYC hip-hop duo Armand Hammer. The result was a rework of the single “Jomon” originally found on Hatis Noit’s 2022 album Aura. This new version of the song takes out of regular time and place to a realm where shamanic vocal soundscaping and rhythms and streetwise poetry can intermingle and inform one another in a brilliantly syncretic musical fusion. Preservation certainly heard the way the simple percussion of the song suited Armand Hammer’s spoken word style and elevated poetic meter and how Hatis Noit’s hypnotic and transporting mantra-esque delivery threaded through and around Armand Hammer’s vocals could give each other an emotional resonance and context that probably no one else was thinking of combining. It’s a powerful piece of music that links the primal, instinctual places from which the creativity of everyone involved in the project stems. Listen to this rework of “Jomon” on YouTube and follow Hatis Noit at the links provided.
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