Matchess - Huizkol (2020)

The seven updrafts of Huizkol are an opportunity to engage with your own skepticism or belief in the effects of sound on the body. The album consists of 7 tracks on each side, 7 minutes each, a meditation on the dualities of sevens. The Active mix is suited to listening while doing, and the Passive mix is intended for devoted attention to inner reality. The theory of brainwave entrainment suggests that through sustained listening brain activity will adapt to the rate of beating binaural frequencies. Huizkol gradually raises this rate to an energetic centerpiece before returning to an ultimately relaxed state.
The album is inspired by the Anne Carson poem "The Wolf God" in which she discovers how an immortal canis named Huizkol learned to cope with sonic disequilibrium.