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Date:

Sep­tem­ber 17

Time:

8:00 pm

Event Cat­e­go­ry:

2019-09 (SEPTEMBER), Dates, Invi­ta­tions (ARCHIVE), Under­ground Arts, Venues

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Venue

Under­ground Arts

1200 Cal­lowhill St

Philadel­phia, PA, Unit­ed States, 19123

* THE LINGUA IGNOTA SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED FROM PHILAMOCA TO UNDERGROUND ARTS (1200 CALLOWHILL STREET). ALL EXISTING TICKETS WILL BE HONORED, THE SHOW IS STILL ALL AGES, AND ADDITIONAL TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! *

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Lin­gua Ignota

“CALIGULA”, the new album from LINGUA IGNOTA set for release on July 19th on CD/2xLP/Digital through Pro­found Lore Records, takes the vision of Kristin Hayter’s ves­sel to a new lev­el of grandeur, her purg­ing and venge­ful audi­al vision going beyond any­thing pre­ced­ing it and reach­ing a new unpar­al­leled son­ic plane with­in her oeuvre.

Suc­ceed­ing her “All Bitch­es Die” EP, “CALIGULA” sees Hayter design her most ambi­tious work to date, dis­play­ing the full force of her tal­ent as a vocal­ist, com­pos­er, and sto­ry­teller. Vast in scope and mul­ti­va­lent in its influ­ences, with deliv­ery noth­ing short of demon­ic, “CALIGULA” is an outsider’s opera; mag­nif­i­cent, hideous, and raw. Eschew­ing and dis­avow­ing genre alto­geth­er, Hayter builds her own world. Here she ful­ly embod­ies the moniker Lin­gua Igno­ta, from the Ger­man mys­tic Hilde­gard of Bin­gen, mean­ing “unknown lan­guage” — this music has no home, any prece­dent or com­par­i­son could only be uneasi­ly giv­en, and there is noth­ing else like it in our con­tem­po­rary realm.

LINGUA IGNOTA has always tak­en a rad­i­cal, unflinch­ing approach to themes of vio­lence and vengeance, and “CALIGULA” builds on the trans­for­ma­tion of the sur­vivor at the core of this nar­ra­tive. “CALIGULA” embraces the dark­ness that clos­es in, sharp­ens itself with the cru­el­ty it has been sub­ject­ed to, betrays as it has been betrayed. It is wrath unleashed, scathing, a caus­tic blood-let­ting: “Let them hate me so long as they fear me,” Hayter snarls in a voice that ric­o­chets from chill­ing raw pow­er to ago­niz­ing vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty. Whilst “CALIGULA” is unapolo­get­i­cal­ly per­son­al and crit­i­cal­ly self-aware, there are broad­er themes explored; the deca­dence, cor­rup­tion, deprav­i­ty and sense­less vio­lence of emper­or Caligu­la is well doc­u­ment­ed and yet still per­me­ates today. Brim­ming with ref­er­ences and sly jabs, Hayter’s sar­don­ic com­men­tary on abuse of pow­er and inval­i­da­tion is deft­ly woven. 

Work­ing close­ly with Seth Man­ches­ter at Machines With Mag­nets stu­dio in Paw­tuck­et, Rhode Island, Hayter strips away much of the indus­tri­al and elec­tron­ic ele­ments of her pre­vi­ous work, approach­ing instead the cor­po­re­al inten­si­ty and inti­mate men­ace of her noto­ri­ous live per­for­mances, achieved with uncon­ven­tion­al record­ing tech­niques and sound sources, as well as a full arse­nal of live instru­men­ta­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tors includ­ing harsh noise mas­ter Sam McKin­lay (THE RITA), vis­cer­al drum­mer Lee Buford (The Body) and fre­net­ic per­cus­sion­ist Ted Byrnes (Cack­le Car, Wood & Met­al), with guest vocals from Dylan Walk­er (Full of Hell), Mike Berdan (Uni­form), and Noraa Kaplan (Vis­i­bil­i­ties). “CALIGULA” is a mas­sive work, a mul­ti-lay­ered epic that gives voice and space to that which has been silenced and cut out.

Void Vision

V V is Shari Vari.

Venue Infor­ma­tion:
Under­ground Arts
1200 Cal­lowhill Street
Philadel­phia, PA 19107

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