From the upcoming album "SINNER GET READY", out August 6th via Sargent House.
Pre-order / Stream / Download: https://ffm.to/li-sinnergetready
Video Credits:
All clothing is by Ashley Rose Couture / ashleyrosecouture.com
Videographer: Emily Birds
Makeup Artist: Kelsey Herbst
Hair Stylist: Tina le Noble Gentry
Exec. Producer: Cathy Pellow
Thank you to Adam Wallacavage for letting us shoot in your home in Philadelphia, PA
FF//GG IS PRE-LINGUA IGNOTA ACADEMIC WORK WRITTEN, PERFORMED, AND RECORDED FOR BROWN UNIVERSITY'S DIGITAL LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAM IN 2016. THE PIECE IS ABOUT VIOLENCE, CONTROL, REPETITION, AND GRIEF.
TEXT, VOICE, AND SOUND GENERATE A CONCEPTUAL FEEDBACK LOOP THROUGH ALGORITHMIC AND PREDICTIVE PROCESSES. DOZENS OF DISCRETE SAMPLES ALIGNED WITH FRAGMENTS OF TEXT ARE MANIPULATED AND TRIGGERED VIA GESTURAL CONTROL AND MAX/MSP.
Sep 09 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Sep 10 - Detroit, MI @ Deluxx Fluxx
Sep 11 - Toronto, ON @ Baby G
Sep 12 - Montreal, QC @ La Vitrola
Sep 13 - Providence, RI @ The Columbus Theater w/ The Body
Sep 14 - Hudson, NY @ Basilica Soundscape
Sep 15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Public Records
Sep 17 - Philadelphia, PA @ PhilMOCA
Sep 27 - Amsterdam, NL @ de Brakke Grond *
Sep 28 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso *
Oct 05 - Nijemegen, NL @ Soulcrusher Festival
Oct 07- Krakow, PL @ Krakow Unsound
Nov 08 Austin, TX @ Levitation
Nov 25 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
Nov 26 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
w/ Amenra *
“CALIGULA”, the new album from LINGUA IGNOTA set for release on July 19th on CD/2xLP/Digital through Profound Lore Records, takes the vision of Kristin Hayter’s vessel to a new level of grandeur, her purging and vengeful audial vision going beyond anything preceding it and reaching a new unparalleled sonic plane within her oeuvre.
Succeeding her self-released 2017 “All Bitches Die” opus (re-released by Profound Lore Records in 2018), “CALIGULA” sees Hayter design her most ambitious work to date, displaying the full force of her talent as a vocalist, composer, and storyteller. Vast in scope and multivalent in its influences, with delivery nothing short of demonic, “CALIGULA” is an outsider’s opera; magnificent, hideous, and raw. Eschewing and disavowing genre altogether, Hayter builds her own world. Here she fully embodies the moniker Lingua Ignota, from the German mystic Hildegard of Bingen, meaning “unknown language” — this music has no home, any precedent or comparison could only be uneasily given, and there is nothing else like it in our contemporary realm.
LINGUA IGNOTA has always taken a radical, unflinching approach to themes of violence and vengeance, and “CALIGULA” builds on the transformation of the survivor at the core of this narrative. “CALIGULA” embraces the darkness that closes in, sharpens itself with the cruelty it has been subjected to, betrays as it has been betrayed. It is wrath unleashed, scathing, a caustic blood-letting: “Let them hate me so long as they fear me,” Hayter snarls in a voice that ricochets from chilling raw power to agonizing vulnerability. Whilst “CALIGULA” is unapologetically personal and critically self-aware, there are broader themes explored; the decadence, corruption, depravity and senseless violence of emperor Caligula is well documented and yet still permeates today. Brimming with references and sly jabs, Hayter’s sardonic commentary on abuse of power and invalidation is deftly woven.
Working closely with Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets studio in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Hayter strips away much of the industrial and electronic elements of her previous work, approaching instead the corporeal intensity and intimate menace of her notorious live performances, achieved with unconventional recording techniques and sound sources, as well as a full arsenal of live instrumentation and collaborators including harsh noise master Sam McKinlay (THE RITA), visceral drummer Lee Buford (The Body) and frenetic percussionist Ted Byrnes (Cackle Car, Wood & Metal), with guest vocals from Dylan Walker (Full of Hell), Mike Berdan (Uniform), and Noraa Kaplan (Visibilities). “CALIGULA” is a massive work, a multi-layered epic that gives voice and space to that which has been silenced and cut out.