Enofa - Small Modernist House in Woodland Setting
Released: August 14 The most succinct and accurate way to describe the latest album from Enofa is contrasting. Throughout its more than 80 minute runtime, everything feels like a contrast; a sitar among the sounds of the English countryside, a hammer striking processed wood as ghostly vocalizations emanate from amplified environmental noises, gently plucked strings over a ramshackle assortment of improvised percussion. Even the title itself presents a stark contrast as the hard and defined angular nature of the modernist architecture crashes against the backdrop of a sprawling woodland. Utilizing this framework of contrast between straight and unnatural lines against the impossibility of such an occurrence in nature, we are thrown into an expansive and ever unfolding scene of elements that would not coincide without a conscious decision to do so. There’s a moment on the fifth track of this album, “Lovely Old Tree,” near the very end that gives insight into the creative impu...
