{"product_id":"huma-utku-the-psychologist-2lp","title":"Hüma Utku - The Psychologist [2LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2 x LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: EMEGO302V\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0880918255576\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 09 Dec 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Industrial Dance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e01: Fuel for the Flames - Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003e02: Dissolution of I - Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003e03: Sublimation - Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003e04: Ataxia - Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003e05: Light of All Lights - Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003e06: Continuing Bonds - Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003e07: Islands of Consciousness - Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003e08: Rüya (Şimdiki Zaman Kipinde) - Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003e09: Chironian Wound - Hüma Utku\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2nd album by Berlin based Hüma Utku after her debut on Karlrecords in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDouble Vinyl Edition to follow in late 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditions Mego presents The Psychologist, the sophomore album by the Istanbul born and raised, Berlin based electronic music composer and sound artist Hüma Utku.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the title suggests, The Psychologist, is a series of sonic essays based around themes of psychological phenomena and can be read as a musical enquiry into the human condition. With Utku's background as a graduate of Psychology and her current practice as a conceptual music composer we see the two main threads in her professional career intertwine on this unique and ambitious release.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluding recordings of Buchla 200 from Utku's Elektronmusikstudion residency in October 2020,The Psychologist is a genre aversive work that embodies elements of synthesiser music, electroacoustic, experimental techno, industrial, modern composition and spoken word. Piano, string compositions and vocals hold weight throughout a number of pieces providing a dramatic acoustic edge to the psychological explorations contained within.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe foreboding mood of much of this release is the product of investigation that lends the unsettling theme of anticipatory grief to the mood of the tracks Light of All Lights and Continuing Bonds. Islands of Consciousness refers to Jungian metaphor for consciousness whilst the unnerving Rüya twists around dream analysis in Gestalt psychology. Fuel For The Flames proceeds as a buzzing and swirling representation of alchemy and psychological symbolism. Dissolution of I is haunted by a strange sensation of dissociation whilst defense mechanisms support the sublime Sublimation. The bright shapes of Chironian Wound represent archetypes and analytical psychology whilst the fried soundscapes and rhythms of Ataxia encapture neurological states.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe results unravel with both the clockwork rhythms of the human body and the unpredictable nature of the psyche, the pieces follow arrhythmic patterns in a harmonious way. It tells the raw and intimate story of the human experience with a new work whereby the predictable operates in parallel with the unexpected and like human experience itself, is dark and complex.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComposed, Written \u0026amp; Produced by Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003ePiano by Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003eVocals by Hüma Utku\u003cbr\u003eDouble Bass performed by Adam Pultz Melbye\u003cbr\u003eCello performed by Florina Speth (aka Schloss Mirabell)\u003cbr\u003eViolin performed by Marta Forsberg\u003cbr\u003eCover photography \u0026amp; art by Gözde Güngör\u003cbr\u003eDesign by Eloise Leigh\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42211819520156,"sku":"EMEGO302V","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/1_ce2b207c-54f3-402a-a617-912af01d157f.jpg?v=1670229513","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/huma-utku-the-psychologist-2lp","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}