Patronage has always been a potent element for the arts over the centuries and continues to be so. It has generally been associated with the wealthy, royalty etc. supporting particular artists in varied mediums but nowadays has emerged as something for all to get involved in through the likes of crowd-funding. UK duo HEKSAGONS is a band seeing the extra potential in it, striving to provide their music for free by ignoring sales and funding their endeavours through fans as patrons. To spark such endeavour, HEKSAGONS has just released the irresistible first part of a debut album set to be recorded and released over three episodes.
HEKSAGONS is the union of Bobby Bloomfield (Does It Offend You, Yeah?) and HinHin. There is little more to reveal about the project right now other than adding the opening line to Bobby’s introduction to the band to us, “I have a side project called HEKSAGONS. We are all about flutes, talk boxes, 70s synths and psychedelia.” As much as that sums things up neatly though, it is only a hint at the fun to be found in the spellbinding psych pop, spatially adventured EPISODES One.
It swings into view with the exceptional temper tantrums, the track initially an electronic and melodic shimmer of a seduction with the lively exploits and enticements of a Venusian temptress. As it expands it is like being immersed into an episode of Space 1999 with Barbarella for company, the song flirting and playing with the imagination as keys and harmonies share a celestial romance aligned to sultry funk spawned revelry. The song is delicious, a spellbinding tempting which has all the potential to incite lusty habits.
The following persephone is just as irresistibly magnetic. Its otherworldly charm and melodic sway has a more earthbound feel to it, though thoughts of Stingray and its character Marina spark in thoughts as the electronic smoulder of the song heats up to boisterously merge with the perpetual psychedelic wash of transfixing harmonies led by HinHin. As its predecessor, the track is as potently cinematic as it is melodically persuasive, sparking the imagination to spring its own adventures; a quality just as virulent in one of his episodes. Opening with an old Thames TV ident, the instrumental lies down a sinister synth bred coaxing which becomes more compelling and imposing as rhythms and intensity add their weight. Its dynamics and agitated surge has all the ills of the world in its nature before an evocative calm eventually breaks out to move in and replace the danger lit intimidation with an oasis of calm and safety. It is a peaceful yet shadowed passage which is soon under the returning umbrella of apocalyptic provocations, they building to a closing ear thrilling crescendo.
Completed by the melodic stroll of super-ego, another romance between melodies and harmonies to capture the imagination as an eventful climate frames its psychedelic beauty, EPISODES One brings ears and imagination alive, not forgetting the spirit for creative adventure.
EPISODES One is available for free now @ http://heksagons.com/
For information on being a patron and helping EPISODES Two and Three come to light check out https://www.patreon.com/heksagons
Pete RingMaster 09/03/3016
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imagination right away before the song settles into a mellow yet intensive persuasion with thumping rhythms and moody dark tones puncturing the electronic wash. It is an instantly engaging and provocative encounter but one which goes more directly for the passions once the guitars and bass temptation strides and erupts across the song around the expressive enjoyable vocals of McAvoy. At times unashamedly anthemic and constantly stirring up the imagination with a melodic craft which helps fuel an already hungry appetite for the release, the track is an urgently persuasive introduction to the album setting a high bar for it to maintain.