Today is Saturday, July 22. Day of the Heavy Sight. Time for another long-form drone by the redoubtable Catherine Christer Hennix. This piece, Central Palace Music, was recorded in 1976 but not released until 2016.
Upon her return to Sweden from New York in 1971, Hennix enlisted her brother, Peter Hennix, and friend Hans Isgren to form a live-electronic ensemble, The Deontic Miracle, which Hennix herself has called “the most rejected band ever formed in Sweden.” The only live performances by The Deontic Miracle were at the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art during an 8-day festival in March 1976. Catherine and Peter both played amplified Renaissance oboes, with Catherine also providing live electronics and sine wave generators and Hans Isgren on an amplified sarangi (a traditional South Asian stringed instrument).
Fortunately, the performance was recorded and while it literally went decades without being released, in 2016 the Important Records label finally released 100 Model Subjects for Hegikan Roku, consisting of one extended track, Central Palace Music. Then in 2019, Blank Forms released Selections From 100 Models of Hegikan Roku containing two additional tracks from the Stockholm performance, each about 40 minutes long, titled Music of Auspicious Clouds and Waves of the Blue Sea. At long last, we can finally get an idea of just what went down on those chilly nights in Stockholm.
Anyway, Saturday morning. . . let your awareness and consciousness expand into the upcoming week with this drone from nearly 50 years ago.
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