Drew McDowall – Algalma Vinyl LP 2020 – Default Title

Track Listing

1. Algama I (Folding) – Drew McDowall
2. Algama II (Feat. Caterina Barbieri) – Drew McDowall
3. Algama III (Beacon) [feat. Robert Aiki & Aubrey Lowe] – Drew McDowall
4. Algama IV (Feat. Robert Aiki & Aubrey Lowe) – Drew McDowall
5. Algama V (Feat. Kali Malone) – Drew McDowall
6. Algama VI – Drew McDowall
7. Algama VII (Toyor El Janeh) [feat. Bashar Suleiman Elvin Brandhi & MSYLMA] – Drew McDowall

McDowall’s original working title for the record is revealing: Ritual Music. He speaks of his creative practice in ceremonial terms, negating binaries by seeking the middle path to anuminous equilibrium that erases the distinction between the inner and outer worlds. These compositions feel similarly processional and intuitive, at the crossroads of holiness and hallucination, the sacred vertigo of yawning naves rising into untouchable night skies. It’s a vision of industrial music as enigma and invocation, cryptic hymnals of shrouded beauty summoned in catacombs and crumbling cathedrals.