Unlike much of Florian Hecker‘s recent work, such as 2021’s ‘Synopsis Seriation’ or ‘Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera’, his acclaimed PAN-released collaboration with Mark Leckey, there’s no single overarching narrative that binds ‘Natural Selection’. Hecker describes the sprawling, nine-track album as a “constellation of pieces originating from related investigations”, and the clue’s in the title. Ranging from under a minute to over half an hour, these works have been grouped together because they share very specific properties, using correlated modes of synthesis and approaching timbral metamorphosis in a similar way. Pieces that might seem incongruous at first are united not by one concept, but by a cluster of queries that Hecker has been probing diligently…

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