HORTE
MAA ANTAA YON VAIENTAA

Sophomore album by Finnish experimental post-rock extravaganza HORTE!

“If you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss will also stare back into you”, Nietzsche found. It is this existential experience that is the brooding essence of Maa antaa yon vaientaa. Every musical idea is based essentially on emotional dispositions, which unravel as the idea is sketched, developed, then thrust into the abyss... only to echo back and find bleak resonance within the very heart that initially gave birth to it. Listening to these echoes is deeply cathartic, and an integral part of the HORTE experience.
“Our principal goal is to keep the focus on the music without highlighting us as individuals”, says singer Riikka. It is her otherworldly but ultimately pacifying voice which inevitably places HORTE's dreamy, psychedelically distorted soundscapes in the far North.

The Finish Four piece released their self-titled debut album via SVART Records in 2017, heralded for its dense atmosphere between post rock, shoegaze and nordic psychedelia. ”Materialising as if from nowhere, it’s just possible the Finnish enigma known as HORTE really are from another realm”, Ja Ja Ja Music wrote. The band made an impression at the 2018 edition of Roadburn Festival, to which they have returned this year as part of the Pelagic Records showcase. Maa antaa yon vaientaa (“Land Lets the Night Grow Silent”) was recorded by the band at their homes and at Tonehaven Studio in Lievestuore, Finland.

"Repeating verses as mantras, they have the power of dragging you amidst the dreamy domain that Horte has built.” – PopMatters

FOR FANS OF: ANNA VON HAUSWOLFF, CHELSEA WOLFE, ÅRABROT, ORANSSI PAZUZU, GOLD, FEVER RAY, ALCEST, BLUENECK, DEAD CAN DANCE, JULIA HOLTER, JENNY HVAL