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CMU Approved
Approved: Pharmakon
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 16 January 2017
As the tenth anniversary of her Pharmakon project draws near, Margaret Chardiet returns with new album ‘Contact’. While last album ‘Bestial Burden’ examined the disconnect between mind and body, this time around she’s focussing on moments where the mind seems to transcend the body entirely.
Those familiar with the project will be aware that this means noise. Lots of noise. Lots of seemingly chaotic, but carefully constructed noise. And with the first track from the new album, ‘Transmission’, she delivers even more of it in as cathartic and satisfying a manner as ever.
“We are each nothing but a single, short-lived cell in a vast organism which itself will one day die”, says Chardiet. “If we accept that the only true claim sentience gives us is our tiny sliver of time, it opens us to revel in it, to make contact. The moments of connection / communion / contact, when the veil is for a brief but glorious moment lifted, and we are free. Empathy! EMPATHY, NOW!”
You can catch Chardiet live in London at Electrowerkz on 25 Apr. And you should listen to ‘Transmission’ here:
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