Manitou

A journey back into an earlier, demented artefact from the vast and uncompromising discography of the Canadian sound sorcerer Phibes Praetorius. Here, the occult sonic alchemist turns his attention to the myth of the Wendigo: a malevolent spirit of Algonquian folklore, a skeletal giant with a heart of ice, embodiment of hunger, greed, and cannibalism. Associated with winter, famine, and the decay of the human soul, it possesses or transforms humans who have tasted human flesh, turning them into ravenous monsters. A warning woven into the marrow of morality, explored across literature and dark popular imagination. Through disoriented, labyrinthine tracks, Phibes Praetorius drags the listener across frozen landscapes corrupted by malevolent spirits, coaxing the human mind to indulge its basest instincts. Dark ambient pulses shiver like frostbitten veins; haunted plunderphonics unravel like spectral tape loops; ritualistic deliriums smolder hypnotically, corrosively; documentary fragments and cryptic film samples twist into fractured visions; concrete music splinters into schizophrenic false paths—all coalescing under the clawed hands of a masterful, ruthless sonic manipulator, always lurking where least expected. This is horror. This is ritual. This is exquisite, experimental sonic art. -Sir Kuliktavikt