Rathan by Roland Kayn

‘Rathan’ as a piece lives very much in the springs of Kayn’s reverberation units and in the electron fog of multiple generations of tape edits. Counterintuitively, somehow the resultant musical haze brings about a sharpening of the listener’s senses – as sound is disembodied from source, the brain resists, struggling to bridge the gap and identify the unidentifiable. We ultimately perceive only the winding, slowing and recoiling of acoustic phenomena, as if hearing some Proustian resequencing and reexamination of a life witnessed by the ears alone.

"The mystery, the grace, the boundless invention – Kayn’s machine music is a vast catalogue of very human wonder." -The Guardian

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