Sleepwalker by Hourloupe

Imagine a series of rooms.
Imagine a figure, permanently asleep.
Imagine him firing beams of light, walking through each.
Imagine his targets are:

--the inside of the skull of Descartes;
--the vestibules of the crypts of New Orleans;
--a mass in which the gospel is silence;
--a palace where one room disappears.

This is the world of Sleepwalker, the second release of the duo Hourloupe. If their debut, Future Deserts, was a journey through collapsed time, combining ancient sounds with our burning world, Sleepwalker is one through expanding space. In twenty-four minutes — eleven interlaced songs and texts — the listener looks through the eyes of a figure navigating a series of scenes: not so much to destroy monsters that lurk as to study them. Determine whether they are actually monsters or the reflections of things we long for and dread... when no one else is looking.

Hourloupe: “I associate it, by assonance, to ‘hurler’ (to roar), to ‘huleler’ (to hoot), to ‘loup’ (wolf).”
—Jean Dubuffet

Hourloupe is a collaboration between writer, musician, and artist Frank Menchaca and Anar Badalov.