Spiritual Disturbance, by Leitmotiv Limbo

Spiritual Disturbance

by Leitmotiv Limbo

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1.	A1. Introduction on Entry 02:08	buy track
2.	A2. Ancestral Memories 07:48	buy track
3.	A3. Submersive 03:09	buy track
4.	A4. Troupe of Troops 05:05	buy track
5.	A5. Spiritual Disturbance 02:51	buy track
6.	A6. Rattle Without Roll 04:54	buy track
7.	B1. Indiscrete Exit 02:09	buy track
8.	B2. Another Folk Marched In 03:12	buy track
9.	B3. Two Note Gypsy Begging Tune For Two Notes 04:18	buy track
10.	B4. Ancestral Memory Fragment 02:37	buy track
11.	B5. Scraping With Nails 07:03	buy track
12.	B6. Folk Saunter / Waving / Killing Meditation Folk 06:22	buy track
13.	B7. Cat Calling 02:40	buy track

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De la Catessen Records presents Spiritual Disturbance, from Elijah Värttö's project Leitmotiv Limbo. Currently based in Port Adelaide, Australia, Leitmotiv Limbo has developed, slowly but surely, over the past few decades, through international travel and relocation, including 5 years in Estonia (2008-2012), where Värttö set up the Servataguse Muusika concert series. Spiritual Disturbance was recorded in 2020 and released privately as a small run of recycled cassettes - this CD version is the first widely available Leitmotiv Limbo release since their 2018 split cassette with RNPno2 on Finnish label Hyster Tapes.

Central to the Leitmotiv Limbo ethos are Värttö’s self-made instruments, built from discarded, repurposed, and found objects, such as loose springs and other metallic implements. Affixed to wood sourced from a disused and dismantled piano frame, their deep resonance, both percussive and timbral, positions Värttö’s approach within a trajectory of instrument builders / creators – you can hear echoes of the music of artists like Z’ev, Hal Rammel, and Rod Cooper in the shattered textures and industrial drones of tracks like “Submersive”, for example. There’s also a tactility to the performances here, a haptic resonance, and a strange, viscous sensuality to the material.

Värttö recorded Spiritual Disturbance in a church hall in Adelaide, on a four-track, using room mics and direct line input, and it’s made up largely of one-take performances on Värttö’s self-made instruments, with minimal intervention, at times, from analogue filters and a drum synth. The combination of the evacuated tonalities of the instruments, plus the cavernous reverb of the recording space, gives Spiritual Disturbance a distinctly ritualistic sensibility; poetic and primitive, but eloquent in its exploration. It also brings to mind mysterious projects like Organum, Morphogenesis, Metgumbnerbone, perhaps even an acoustic Voice Crack, where conceptual rigour meets unpredictability via real-time improvisation.

Spectral and haunted, Leitmotiv Limbo’s Spiritual Disturbance is a compelling collection of oneiric expression, and an eloquent articulation of a unique, invented universe.

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released March 31, 2022

Recorded in a disused church hall in Adelaide, Australia on two days of January and February 2020. Onto 4 track cassette with two room microphones and direct line.

Instruments made of metal springs and wood built and performed by Elijah Värttö.

Recording methods aided by David Pleic.

Post-editing and artwork by Elijah Värttö.

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