Das gerne als obskur bezeichnete Projekt Nihiti bringt Anfang Juni ein neues Album heraus. “Sustained”, ursprünglich für eine Aufführung beim Sustained-Release Festival konzipiert, enthält drei auslandende Ambient-Stücke rauschender und dröhnender Natur, die sich mehrklich von der eher songorientierten Struktur des Vorgängers “A New Kind of Weather” (2020) unterscheiden. Das Album erscheint als LP und digital bei Lo Bit Landscapes.
“Commissioned for the first and second years of Aurora Halal and Zara Wladawsky’s ‘Sustain-Release’ festival (named ‘the best music festival on US soil today’ by Resident Advisor on year two) the three longform tracks herein were composed to serve as an escape from the festival’s more high-octane dancefloor offerings. [...] An ambient escape has since become a mainstay of Sustain-Release, as it does for most musical electronic music festivals.
These installations differed slightly from the theme of an ambient music stage, however – the music contained here in was just always on the same loop for any given 24-48 hour period, in a room with no performers. Thus the experience for festival attendees of stepping back into the same pool of reassuring, soul calming music was always familiar, yet unexpected. And above all, very private.” (Lo Bit Landscapes)