An invitation to travel through time - with a broken watch.
„Dear future“ is a conceptual invitation to put ideas of what the future is into perspective. To embrace the unexpected. To celebrate and experience the moments not as they come, but as they are. Written over 18 months that were marked by both unforeseen bitter loss and finding the most meaningful love, HHNOI’s second full length album deals with intentionally corrupting the human need to imagine, forecast and map what might, could or should happen next. „Dear future“ is like traveling through time with a broken watch: There is no predictable next step, no steady second breath after the first, every moment is now, on purpose - because now can only be appreciated if you stop thinking about what’s next. Familiar electronic elements and patterns are intentionally broken into novel, granular and time defying fragments, rearranged into what could be the soundtrack to a future that never had a past. Decelerated shattered beats create the rhythm to follow, yet every next step remains uncertain in this nonlinear arrangement. Stellar guest performances by Surkid, Crystin, Deliah De France and Italian Rapper Skalia, as well as the incorporation of Lap Steel Guitar, Ukulele and degraded VHS-Tapes further underline HHNOI’s message on „Dear Future“: The value of now is determined by our presence. Literally.
180 gram black vinyl with full color cover print.
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Artist Bio:
HHNOI is Cologne based composer and producer Marco Petracca, born in D?sseldorf, Germany as a son of Italian immigrants. He discovered his passion for electronic music at the age of 14 while listening to early industrial music in a time when Rave music was taking off. He made soundtracks for sex hotlines, art school thrillers and tv station adverts in the late 1990s, played in a german electro punk band in early 2000 and released music as part of HEARHERE from 2008 on. In 2012 Petracca began to focus on making music with modular synths, which led to his alter ego HHNOI. He is known in the modular scene for creating music that pushes the compositional limitations of this technology – not only on record, but also on stage with his fellow label mate and wife Rachel Palmer, whose generative visual art ultimately inspired him to embed more unpredictability into his music. This can be heard on his latest releases, drawing heavily from cutting out structures and styles found in ambient, post-step and hip hop; rearranging them into free form music that mixes captivating compositions with the unsettling abrasiveness of nontraditional analog and digital sound design.
