Dark Morph: Dark Morph (Jónsi & CM Hausswolff)

Dark Morph: digital + vinyl: jonsi.ffm.to/d... - released MAY 10
Track: BEKA YALO.
Details. jonsi.com
Troubled by environmental injustices playing out in the oceans - affecting human and more-than-human lives - Jónsi (sound artist, chanteur and member of Sigur Rós, living in Los Angeles) and Carl Michael von Hausswolff (visual artist, electro-acoustic composer and King of Vargaland, living in Stockholm) have teamed up for a one-off collaboration as Dark Morph.
Dark Morph is a collaborative project by Jónsi and Carl Michael von Hausswolff commissioned by TBA21-Academy

[@LDixon007]

~ from the website: The project came to life last summer onboard the research vessel Dardanella in the seas around Fiji, where hydrophone and field recordings made by the pair were sampled and manipulated during a trip driven by artistic exchange and collaboration. Jónsi and Carl Michael recorded humpback whales in Tonga, bats in Fiji and the strange murmurations of shrimps in the waters between - as well as the eponymous ‘dark morph’ heron of the islands. Assembled and mixed in Jamaica this January, the project will now be released as the self-titled ‘Dark Morph’ as a digital album (via Sigur Rós’s imprint Krunk) and an vinyl album (via The Vinyl Factory) on May 10. “While we were on the boat I started to take the recordings, manipulate them and mutate them into drones or other types of musical functions-so we could use the sounds as instruments for building compositions. We decided, ‘Let’s try not to have them sounding too much like real sounds, let’s turn them into something else.’ When I had done some drones, some long tones out of a bird or something, I gave it to Jónsi and he started to peel off certain types of melodious things, and then play it to me. And then we started to just throw the ball back and forth,” explains von Hausswolff.

[@UncleRJ]

For a moment, I thought Jónsi was doing a Black Metal song

[@subhrojyoti-605]

How insane would that be!

[@ng3933]

Their last album kinda proved that they could pull it off I think

[@Stret173]

i thought so too!

[@The17Games]

@@ng3933 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJmreJidpcSZnMU&ab_channel=LiveNationBelgium this part of a song they made that has yet to be released sounds very heavy O.o

[@xzxblue090uwu4]

@@ng3933 which album?

[@DudefacemanMZ]

This is out there, but props to Jonsi for always doing what he feels like doing.

[@kazkisone4502]

its so funny think how dark is jonsi now, im remembering some songs of the fairy jonsi like sticks and stones ahhahaah i rly like this new material

[@fabiobraido6989]

the sound of this deadly era, Antropocene.

[@allcenema]

So eerie and ethereal! I got strong cyberpunk vibes; absolutely loved it!

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

🎶✨🦉✨🎶

[@lindenlynx]

I wasn't sure what I expected, but this is really cool! You're the best, Jónsi!

[@moories1]

Is this the reincarnation of COIL?!? Love it!!

[@fortylove68]

Just right in so many ways. I think the less people think about it, the better off they will be. For sure.

[@sashakingcrimson187]

💿💿💿💿

[@vitokoskullerx9345]

I prefer Jonsi "light" side :( his solo albums are amazing.

[@roymarshall_]

These are not the feelings I usually get from Jonsi, but hey nothing wrong with trying new things

[@andrea_myers]

Jonsi never disappoints. 😁

[@danielyanez2162]

Reminds me a bit "Techno Animal", loved it!

[@urokira]

Freakin awesome!!!

[@kornette87]

interesting sound nice work guys !

[@FinianBlaxhall]

yesssssss

[@thepiotrekpl]

Jónsi is best and good. :)

[@n0b0d1off6]

🖤🖤🖤

[@424manolo242]

more is less less is more

[@carlospires7411]

More...much more😉

[@chicachicawahwah6032]

Sounds very Nine Inch Nails like/Jónsi. Far to industrial 🌉& with that train whistle sound towards the end it's painful👂. But I respect the thoughts🌊 behind sound & the visual is good~Frolicking Horsedogs🐴🐺. But to much of the city🌇 is heard here.

[@RUTH-lc7wc]

sooo great!

[@maksimgalanin9910]

Satan has taken Jonsi's soul? What happened?

[@The_bleak_boy]

I kinda wanted this to be metal lmaooooo

[@The_bleak_boy]

Can someone explain what this is?

[@kazkisone4502]

natural sounds transformed in electronics and darks sounds

[@efficky]

You can't explain it, you just need to explore and abandon you pre-existing views of what music should sound like.

[@synaestheticstudios]

this is so lynchian

[@Lashwine.]

When the hell is Jonsi going to release some actual music?

[@placebo_yue]

when you're already rich and famous and you can stop giving a fuck and release weird noises. Same thing (but not on this level) happened to radiohead. It's better than MK Ultra induced meltdowns other famous artists have but eh...

[@Legionere]

Yeah.....not a fan.

[@superyuyo4060]

I just don’t get this...