“Tantric Cat” is the epic 30:03 track that opens the new Dionisaf album Healing Music (released January 12, 2024). It begins with the sound of purring before the tones of an enveloping cosmic soundscape drift into the distance. What sounds like a campfire or rain falling into a lake layers through the spectral haze. After three minutes voices echo through like ancient radio transmissions captured and rendered audible by an alien technology or organism or a blend of the two. The streaming, luminescent tones increase in speed like tail of a comet and we hear the sound of those streaking lights a harmonic, evolcing drone embodies the brightest end of that movement. Perhaps the music is an interpretation of the title and the said cat rather than that of the Schrödinger variety is taking a journey through time and space via a discipline enabling a type of astral projection and able to translate this experience as a sound that conjures visual images while the cat is warmed by a fire that grounds the ethereal and heavenly flow of noises inducing a sense of deep calm and connection with a larger universe and spaces and energies we will likely never know directly except through such creative expressions. More voices leak through the shimmering vistas of drone over a third of the way through the piece sounding ever so much like the chatter of astronauts adrift in space from decades past and rather than being haunting it curiously has a quality of comfort through familiarity in the abstraction of the ambient soundstream. In the last third of the composition the dense drone clears away as though we’ve entered a primordial cavern with textural sounds, rattles and the sound of rain replacing the drones of earlier, it’s a cleansing sound, tranquil in its fashion rooted in tactile experiences yet with the beacon of pulses of melodic tones discernible in the far distance. As the song comes to a close the chatter of humans returns as the rain diminishes and a sense of being gentle set down in regular reality sets in while all sounds fade to silence. It feels like a real journey and that it can’t possible have been around a half hour in total. Listen to “Tantric Cat” on Spotify and follow Dionisaf at the links provided.
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