Phortah shares again his unique, rich and emotive sound, this time on Earthly Measures. Sadaken exhibits further refinement of his familiar melancholic tonality blended with subtle, textural atmospheric elements. These five tracks are pulsing grooves that get heads bopping and hips writhing, in a very unique & intimate way.
Phortah’s vocal improvisations are being cultivated and appears across Sadaken. Phortah says of its effects “it creates that not-quite-human sound which connects with where I feel a lot of us are at: super digitised organisms, yearning for a way back to our earthly nature”.
That image captures Phortah’s sound and journey well: a repressed, visceral, animal nature reemerging to reclaim its place in an increasingly abstract, digital, binary, landscape.
Flute composition by Benn Demole & Karim Salem
Artwork collage of illustrations by William T Cooper assembled by Nicholas Gilchrist aka Phortah.
