The Alchemist, by Hessien

The Alchemist

by Hessien

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This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 250 gsm dark brown recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 120 gsm smoky grey recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

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1.	Michigan Roads 05:56	buy track
2.	Two Wolves 07:07	buy track
3.	During The Darkest 06:13	buy track
4.	Yemeles 03:43	buy track
5.	Solingen 05:16	buy track
6.	There’s More To It, You Know 05:32	buy track
7.	Remember Danny Torrance 07:23	buy track
8.	Design The Ageless Soul 09:24	buy track
9.	We Are Fond Of Them 07:26	buy track
10.	Her Love Of Skulls and Mushrooms 03:16	buy track

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Sound In Silence is proud to announce the return of Hessien, presenting their new album The Alchemist.

This is their second release on the label after the highly acclaimed, and already sold out, Calcifer EP back in 2013.

Hessien is the ambient duo of Tim Martin (Maps and Diagrams, Atlantis, Karst, Bluhm, Black Elk, Ouvala) and Charles Sage (y0t0, The Rothko Chapel).
A twenty-year UK electronic and experimental veteran with over thirty album releases, Tim Martin has released on multiple labels and appeared on John Peel's iconic radio show. In addition to curating the Citygenetic project, his photography has been shown globally in the CityLab art collective, he dabbles in audio visual comms and he also runs the Handstitched* record label.
After a solid ten years on Australia’s indie pub circuit, Charles Sage issued four releases as y0t0 and co-founded guitar noise collective The Rothko Chapel (Pete Dowd, Noveller, Steve Kilbey, Tape Loop Orchestra, elintseeker, Tree Of Man). He also curated Internecine: The Vanished Musicians, a multimedia tribute to refugee musicians interned during the Second World War.

Hessien were prolific in the first half of the last decade, releasing works on Fluid Audio, Sound In Silence, Beko DSL, Long Story, and Audio Gourmet.
After an extended hiatus, Hessien return with The Alchemist, a companion piece to 2010’s Home Is Where the Ghost Is, a one-hour asymmetrical trip through guitar textured dream-state sound design. Carefully mastered by George Mastrokostas (Absent Without Leave), The Alchemist is an evolution in their instantly recognisable tone, reflecting the influence of side projects, collaborations, and life experiences of the last ten years.

This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 250 gsm dark brown recycled cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 120 gsm smoky grey recycled cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

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released September 4, 2023

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