KiF Productions / Passiflora / Music To Watch Seeds Grow By

While KiF Productions’ debut soundtracked the English landscape, and a road trip from Yorkshire to Devon, the duo’s contribution to Ran$om Note’s Music To Watch Seeds Grow By series is a score for the lifecycle of the Passion Flower. Employing similar KLF-inspired techniques of sampling and collaging as their previous release, the pair create a symphony that follows the plant from seed to sprouting, bloom, fruit and finally fuel for the next generation. Opening with birdsong, chimes, woodwinds and choral calls. Flapping wings, temple tingsha and orchestral drones. Gongs rumble and resonate. Horns hark after Jon Hassell’s “Ba Benzele”. Tribal chants are spun backwards constructing, momentarily, a tower of Babel. Other vocals are ethereal, a little eerie, “Twin Peaks”, David Lynch-ian, like `50s Sci-Fi B-movie alien sirens. Taking the set far deeper and darker than any other entry in the project. Light comes in the form of Ghost Box-like pastoral film cues. Synths begin to sigh and…