Heith – A Venus Flytrap in the circus lodge

On X, wheel, the new album from artist and Haunter Records founder Heith, the very texture of human consciousness is rendered as both malleable and nebulous, something that shifts and warps as a result of the artist’s continued exploration of esoteric notions of reality. His first album for PAN manifests a practice that draws on both the spiritual and the artistic, folding in elements of psychedelia, psytrance, freak folk, stoner metal, harsh noise and early electronic music into a singular sonic language, inspired in equal parts by biological forms of plant communication and the logic of dreams. This focus on alternative methods of communication extends out of phonetic expression and into speculative inscription with Angel’s Hair, an alphabet of vegetal glyphs and mycological characters devised by Heith in collaboration with the visual artist Pietro Agostoni. The alphabet shares its name with the folkloric substance siliceous cotton, a sticky gelatinous substance of unknown origin, claimed by believers and z