Robert Hunter started the missing scenes project in 2021 but his experience designing sounds and composing takes us back to the early 2000s. After the project Conversations About The Light, which, among others, has released the compilation A Retrospective (Ominous Recordings), and several collaborations later, he joined the avant-garde metal “big band” Self Spiller and the project Snares of Sixes after that. The abstract languages, noise and experimentalism are therefore familiar to him, and that is where his field of work lies.
Words by Marco Guerra
Discovered via http://musosoup.com
Photo credits: T. Kragness
missing scenes latest single “chosen ghosts” is part of his upcoming album pink moon/buck moon, the second in a triptych whose development began in late 2021. The first was cold moon/worm moon and it was released this year in June. sturgeon moon/beaver moon is expected to arrive in early 2023.
According to “chosen ghosts” press release, this is the story behind the project: “As 2021 was coming to a close, I was on a walk late one night. It was nearly a full moon. An idea came to me as I looked up. Each month on the full moon in 2022 I will record one new piece of music. I will go out and create field recordings or work on piecing together the elements of a track. The idea grew from there…”.
“chosen ghosts” is a piece of music that straddles the aesthetic universes of drone, dark ambient and experimentalism. A journey of sonic exploration that suggests futuristic and apocalyptic landscapes. Distortion and saturation are words that fit well in the description of its sound textures. Created with 0-Coast, JMT-LD2, Lyra-8 and Moog Matriarch, it is no less interesting that, when we get lost in the listening of “chosen ghosts”, we feel we are in front of a sophisticated guitar singing in a dramatic way. Robert Hunter combines conceptual ability with an exquisite musical performance, which makes me excited to hear all his future creations.