cxvi

Clear vinyl. Many years in the works, CXVI is Akira Rabelais’s supernatural album of collaborations, featuring the singular composer in rapt dialogue with a wish list of peers including Harold Budd, Ben Frost, Karen Vogt (Heligoland), Geir Jenssen (Biosphere), Kassel Jaeger (François Bonnet), and Stephan Mathieu. Unfurling a quietly breathtaking, dreamlike sequence of events, CXVI blooms in the wake of Boomkat Editions’ first-time vinyl pressings of Akira’s seminal classics, 2001’s Eisoptrophobia and 2004’s Spellewauerynsherde, introduced his rarified work to myriad, keen new ears, while also reminding longer terms fans of his nonpareil genius and alchemical style of composition