Qoso - Healing Frequencies (2020)

Healing Frequencies, completed in March 2020, brings together in a single mix and a pseudo-therapeutic program a series of tracks composed by Qoso over the last two years, ranging from pyschædelic drone-dub miniatures escaped from the recent Morning Routine (The Trilogy Tapes, 2019) to uplifiting house micro-bangers in the vein of the Monica EP (In Paradisum, 2013), through downtempo "vibes" with sweet voices that seem to have escaped from the Mo'Wax / SourceLabs era.

When Qoso's music addresses the capacity of music to "take care of yourself", it is not to parody or denounce this pretense. Rather, he grasps it with a generosity and wonder that draws directly from the ambivalence of this therapeutic function - which resonates in the pre-chewed script of a woman whispering "I want you to take care of me" on a worn-out breakbeat, or a male voice who describes the powers of incense, with an almost disturbing hint of indifference, and against a backdrop of oceanic flanger sounds.

Healing Frequencies thus takes Qoso's music to new spaces, to the strange familiarity of a pseudo-civilization where multicolored leisure reigns, evocative of the landscapes of Andorra filmed by Virgil Vernier where the fountains look like holograms, or the corridors of sports halls where the house hits of the last decade resonate distorted, and flashy counters sell supernatural perfumes.

You can llsten to Healing Frequencies to "boost your karma" or for the pleasure of seeing the world of intimacy-show and psychobiological management recompose itself in the distorting mirror of an attractive and perverse soundtrack.