In this unusual album, Helen Anahita Wilsonnot only produces sonic tributes to the members of the Solanaceae plant family; she provides them with a voice. Biodata from member plants is used to trigger certain instruments and sounds, with whom Wilson produces duets both electronic and organic. The mysterious nature of the family ~ represented in the clever alliteration of “magic, medicine, myth and mortality” ~ is extended to the allusive sounds.
The first surprise: every member of the nightshade family contains nicotine: not only the tobacco plant, but the eggplant, potato, pepper and gooseberry. In the opening piece, Wilson establishes a percussive pulse, quicker than one might expect for something called “Nicotine Hit,” backed by what sounds like a saw, likely triggered by…

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