Melati ESP

hipernatural

Carpark Records

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Imagine strange and wonderful creatures that could never exist on Earth.

- FINDME RECORDS

about the album

The music of Melati ESP aka Melati Malay is a euphoric vision of megacity rhythm and rainforest escape, club breaks and weightless pop, mapping new dreams from the sound of futures past: hipernatural.

Drawing on the music era of her teenage years growing up in Jakarta – Javanese radio Dangdut, gamelan cassettes, Moving Shadow-era liquid jungle, Japanese chill-out, etc. – as well as her current work in progressive percussion trio Asa Tone, Malay’s solo debut is boldly borderless, bridging worlds and wavelengths into a richly imagined hybrid synthetic utopia.

hipernatural is momentous linguistically, too, as Malay’s first foray into singing in Indonesian, the language of her youth. She characterizes her lyrical mode as “abstract, and a bit broken,” an intuitive collage of diaristic emotion and oblique poetry (“plant me in fleeting twilight / missing home, where is home? / I am another you”). Her voice serves as its own versatile instrument, alternately intimate and alien, sensual and sacred, shaded with the haze of hidden heavens.

prescriptions

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prescriptions: soma and herbs
me-time activities: picnic, gardening, countryside walk
explore the wooded areas of your neighboring suburbs with this album as your companion, and let its soundscapes deepen your immersion in nature.

CREDITS

Record Label
Carpark Records
Composed by
Melati ESP & Kaazi
Mixed by
Tristan Arp (except track 3 mixed by Steve Nalepa)
Mastered by
Christopher Botta at Fer Sound
Genre
alternative, indie, and electronic