I See Beyond The Black Sun (KLP200)

Light passes through a prism and fractures to create a rainbow effect; the color spectrum breaks off from every angle. It appears as if the colors divide themselves, but in reality they bleed in together – overlapping and mingling. It is within this closely inspected area of bleeding and mingling that Arrington de Dionyso creates his latest solo work I See Beyond the Black Sun [KLP200]. De Dionyso explores tones in terms of specific individual sounds, much like each minute shift of color across the spectrum. Interchanging bass clarinet and throat-singing with homemade instruments used as vocal modifiers, I See Beyond the Black Sun is less the apocalyptic doom of his ramshackle post-punk group Old Time Relijun, but instead a raga influenced anthropological meditation. Locating the tones between tones and the overtones within overtones – seeing beyond the black sun. I See Beyond the Black Sun pushes de Dionyso's previous solo album Breath of Fire [KLP176] (2006) from a charcoal sketchboo