Lead Hand

After several EP releases on ECHØVEIL, what an immense pleasure it is to welcome back experimental sound artist Michael Baum for a full-length album! Across five hazy, drifting and stripped-down tracks, Baum distills his very own drone-nebula against a minimalist canvas of hypnagogic echoes. This is music that invites introspection and surrender to its slow, contemplative drift... And yet, there is always that deliciously ambivalent quality to Baum's work; contrasting emotional hues that plunge the listener into a peculiar state of mind where languor, melancholy, enchantment and bewitchment intertwine... A cornerstone artist of ECHØVEIL, Baum continues to pursue his own singular path, delving ever deeper into the exploration of strange and elusive sonic waves, somewhere between shadow and light, the minuscule and the monumental, emotion and rigor... -Sir Kuliktavikt