why we love this
With an Okinawan pit viper as muse, Lieven approaches post-exotica like an antidote made out of poison. Too little won’t work, and too much will kill you. But just the right amount heals, drenched in sawtoothed riptides.
about the record
"This LP has 3 works. In the prelude I took up and rejected the proposal of writing the first existing piece of music for Monserrate palace - an unsung place of (touristic) beauty. A mini-male suite of simple electronic and simulacra melodies. And a larger piece that takes the Habu snake - an Okinawan pit viper - as its motive. It is a mosaic collection of questions." - Lieven Martens
The album’s three pieces cast an omniverous net that explores those fragile tendriles between imagined and real, natural and fabricated, unity and chaos; concrete sounds enabling abstract inner landscapes. With the ecstatic revelry of Marco Polo returning to his queen, Lieven brings us gems from all corners of the navigable world: tales of an impossibly guilded Portuguese palace, a fertility tonic conjured from a poisionous serpent, a simulacrum of Honolulu. At a moment when the world is more geographically isolated than it has been in generations, Martens’ the Habu is a welcome odyssey, a Charybdian travelogue of the psyche.
- A1 - Prelude (a fragmentary, oriental dream) 6:37
- A2 - Suite sentimentale e mini-male I 2:18
- A3 - Suite sentimentale e mini-male II 4:03
- A4 - Suite sentimentale e mini-male III 2:15
- B1 - the Habu snake, an archipelago I 3:54
- B2 - the Habu snake, an archipelago II 1:06
- B3 - the Habu snake, an archipelago III 1:23
- B4 - the Habu snake, an archipelago IV 3:42
- B5 - the Habu snake, an archipelago V 2:46
- B6 - the Habu snake, an archipelago VI 1:55
- B7 - the Habu snake, an archipelago VII 1:45
- B8 - the Habu snake, an archipelago VIII 2:47
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- A1 - Prelude (a fragmentary, oriental dream) 6:37
- A2 - Suite sentimentale e mini-male I 2:18
- A3 - Suite sentimentale e mini-male II 4:03
- A4 - Suite sentimentale e mini-male III 2:15
- B1 - the Habu snake, an archipelago I 3:54
- B2 - the Habu snake, an archipelago II 1:06
- B3 - the Habu snake, an archipelago III 1:23
- B4 - the Habu snake, an archipelago IV 3:42
- B5 - the Habu snake, an archipelago V 2:46
- B6 - the Habu snake, an archipelago VI 1:55
- B7 - the Habu snake, an archipelago VII 1:45
- B8 - the Habu snake, an archipelago VIII 2:47
why we love this
With an Okinawan pit viper as muse, Lieven approaches post-exotica like an antidote made out of poison. Too little won’t work, and too much will kill you. But just the right amount heals, drenched in sawtoothed riptides.
about the record
"This LP has 3 works. In the prelude I took up and rejected the proposal of writing the first existing piece of music for Monserrate palace - an unsung place of (touristic) beauty. A mini-male suite of simple electronic and simulacra melodies. And a larger piece that takes the Habu snake - an Okinawan pit viper - as its motive. It is a mosaic collection of questions." - Lieven Martens
The album’s three pieces cast an omniverous net that explores those fragile tendriles between imagined and real, natural and fabricated, unity and chaos; concrete sounds enabling abstract inner landscapes. With the ecstatic revelry of Marco Polo returning to his queen, Lieven brings us gems from all corners of the navigable world: tales of an impossibly guilded Portuguese palace, a fertility tonic conjured from a poisionous serpent, a simulacrum of Honolulu. At a moment when the world is more geographically isolated than it has been in generations, Martens’ the Habu is a welcome odyssey, a Charybdian travelogue of the psyche.
