Sunju Hargun - Mok

About this track

The last chapter of Sunju Hargun's solo album for Siamese Twins carries the rite past its signature sounds and into a wider spectrum of psyched-out dub: an excavation of lost Siamese kingdoms, where old world chants and ceremonial percussion are re-imagined through circuitry. Built on the label's founding belief that the deepest trips are taken in company, "Doi Wao" holds the whole of the A side and appears in two forms. The stretched-out Zen Version meanders through jungle hills covered with foggy temple ruins at dawn. Its answer, made with Dazion, clears the fog with a 4x4 percussive head-trip at full throttle, gaining momentum. The B side opens with "Mok," a polyrhythmic half-timer that grooves and floats on jungle rhythms. "The Seven Spires" follows with head-on psychedelic waves, seven towers of a sonic city. "Crossing Salween," with Tokyo-based Haruka, takes its name from the river cutting through the wider Golden Triangle. Like the river, the track is the final passage: a dub stream that breaks down borders. Two sides, one act of personal world-building. A kingdom mapped in sound, pointing back to Siam and forward past it. Artwork and design by Kissemet Mastering and Additional Mixing by Neel at Enisslab Distributed by Sound Metaphors, Berlin Recorded at TMM Studios, Bangkok Digital Bonus track mastered by AudioSol, Goa Special Thanks to Tommy Hanson, Frank, Cris Kuhlen & Haruka.