Extary II by Roland Kayn

For fans of Tim Hecker, Rafael Toral, Saba Alizadeh, Kubrick movies, and the quiet horror of a life spent scrolling social media, Extary II by Roland Kayn continues the work of archiving and exposing the brilliant work of this key member of the electroacoustic scene. Most known for his activity in the experimental scene in the 70s and 80s, the rest of his life would be spent further experimenting with mostly electronic sounds without a single album released to his name. This all changed around a decade after he passed away in 2011, and since then an absolute torrent of brilliant unreleased material has blessed our ears. Extary II in particular plays out like a montage of unsettling liminal environments, the sort of waking nightmare which shows us supposedly familiar and unthreatening environments in the most hair-raising possible light. For those of us now mindlessly assembling montages through the algorithm, the horror of Roland Kayn becomes a premonition, an increasingly common instance of avant garde art predicting the future after we failed to heed its frantic warnings.