Khonsu

Review by Andrew Khedoori on First Impressions
​Published November 13, 2024

Khonsu - Blanket Swimming: One of many projects for Kansas City producer Nicholas Maloney, their work as Blanket Swimming dates back to 2015, with this latest work coming up as a nice find on Tasmania's Perceptual Tapes, a reliable landing spot for homespun drift variations. The name might be an aqueous take on the magic carpet ride, and indeed the indeterminate flow of water features in the dissonant pitch of these two extended pieces. Named after the Ancient Egyptian god of the moon, Khonsu sees Maloney in accord with the restless cycles of nature as their muse and perhaps reflecting how the moon’s distance offers only a temporal light to capture it, with the music evoking both the fragility and comfort of our place within the void.

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