Fields Become Sky (Hyperdelia, 2025)
debut album as Monasunne
co-composed with Louis d’Heudieres
30’00
12” Vinyl and digital download available here
Fields Become Sky
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Photography by Oliver Mckenzie
Starting from their shared experience of growing up in East Anglia in the UK, the duo dug into the history of the region, finding myths and poems written at a time when it was an independent kingdom. The Anglo-Saxon poetry - dealing with questions of death, mortality and spirituality - forms the textual backdrop of the record and is sung in its original Old English. The duo treat the language as a sonic artefact and voice it through ‘the musical contemporary’ autotune, giving the music a wonderfully unsettling temporality. Rather than embalm a buried past, Monasunne re-imagine the historical geographies as a myth. The sonic worlding that results is a journeying across distanced times.
Fields Become Sky was developed over multiple recording and listening sessions from 2020-2023, using a mixture of self-programmed synths, violin textures, field recordings and autotuned vocals. Musically adjacent to a hybrid of Under Byen, Björk and Felicia Atkinson, the album traverses an emotional landscape of ritualistic chanting, cavernous spaces and subterranean kicks. From the primordial phonographic vocal folds emerge alternative lullabies in a lost mothertongue.
- Hyperdelia, 2025
“supremely confident and conceptually powerful” - Tom Boulton, The Quietus
debut album as Monasunne
co-composed with Louis d’Heudieres
30’00
12” Vinyl and digital download available here
Fields Become Sky
Photography by Oliver Mckenzie
Starting from their shared experience of growing up in East Anglia in the UK, the duo dug into the history of the region, finding myths and poems written at a time when it was an independent kingdom. The Anglo-Saxon poetry - dealing with questions of death, mortality and spirituality - forms the textual backdrop of the record and is sung in its original Old English. The duo treat the language as a sonic artefact and voice it through ‘the musical contemporary’ autotune, giving the music a wonderfully unsettling temporality. Rather than embalm a buried past, Monasunne re-imagine the historical geographies as a myth. The sonic worlding that results is a journeying across distanced times.
Fields Become Sky was developed over multiple recording and listening sessions from 2020-2023, using a mixture of self-programmed synths, violin textures, field recordings and autotuned vocals. Musically adjacent to a hybrid of Under Byen, Björk and Felicia Atkinson, the album traverses an emotional landscape of ritualistic chanting, cavernous spaces and subterranean kicks. From the primordial phonographic vocal folds emerge alternative lullabies in a lost mothertongue.
- Hyperdelia, 2025
“supremely confident and conceptually powerful” - Tom Boulton, The Quietus
Monasunne
Performing and recording duo with Louis d’Heudieres
Performing and recording duo with Louis d’Heudieres
Live, Upstream, Hamburg, 2024, photos by Wojceich Rusin