Shakti - Illud Tempus (2025)

With ILLUD TEMPUS, Shakti presents a work that transcends the limits of the merely musical to enter a territory where sound becomes a vehicle for spiritual transformation. The title of the EP refers to a concept coming from mythical thought: the “illud tempus” or “that time” - the original, sacred and foundational time where the archetypes that structure reality took place. Unlike linear time, this is a cyclical, eternal space where everything can begin again.

From the first bars, the EP unfolds as a sonic rite that invokes invisible forces. Shakti builds dense and intentionally charged landscapes, using percussions that seem to come from a remote past, layers of organic textures, enveloping drones and rhythmic patterns that, more than marking a tempo, induce altered states of perception. Each track functions as a threshold, a passage to the occult, to that liminal space where the human dissolves and only vibration remains.

The structure of the EP suggests an initiatory journey: a controlled descent into the depths of the psyche and the body, where the sensory is intensified and the sounds act as codes that unlock archaic memories. In this process, the listener not only listens, but is pierced, drawn into an expanded present where ordinary time is suspended.

Shakti's sonic approach here lies somewhere between experimental techno, ambient ritual and contemporary ceremonial music. There is a constant tension between the organic and the electronic, the primitive and the futuristic, the earthly and the cosmic. This duality nourishes the EP's narrative and enhances its evocative capacity.

ILLUD TEMPUS is a call to introspection, to reconnect with the essential, with what is hidden under the layers of everyday noise. It is a work that does not seek to entertain, but to awaken. A sound map of the sacred, an alchemy of frequencies designed to open internal portals.

With this work, Shakti consolidates an artistic identity deeply connected to the ritual and the transcendent, reaffirming her place within a scene that seeks to go beyond the dance floor and explore the transformative possibilities of sound.