Hüma Utku’s music makes the air clang and clink. The composer and producer, formerly also active as Roads At Night and R.A.N., builds powerful and nuanced pieces that combine massive bass frequencies and piercing harsh noise with acoustic sounds and fluttering rhythms. The result is sometimes remotely reminiscent of abstracted industrial techno, but takes just as much inspiration from various avant-garde traditions from the field of electroacoustic music. »The Psychologist« is Utku’s second album under her real name and is both a psychonautic trip and a musical tour de force. Buchla recordings from a residency, string sounds, occasional vocals and a lot of low-end growling come together here to form brooding orchestral drones, there to indulge in clattering post-post-industrial rhythms. Pretty goth, very far out, perfect for Editions Mego. As one of the (unfortunately very few) releases to be published by the imprint following the death of Peter Rehberg, »The Psychologist« brings together musical traditions and concepts that have always guided the label head’s work and yet have rarely been combined with such consistency. More importantly, you don’t need to read the CliffNotes to C.G. Jung’s oeuvre to get a grasp of what is going on here: Utku’s music sounds more immediate and urgent than ever in these nine pieces. The air clangs and clinks while the unconscious trembles to the beat.
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