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Angelus Novus

from Aura by Hatis Noit

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Following the announcement of her debut album Aura, due out June 24, with Mary Anne Hobbs championing her at BBC 6 Music as "one of the most extraordinary live performers", Hatis Noit shares transcendental next single Angelus Novus with an equally mind-bending, A.I.-generated music video. She also announces unmissable headline shows at Hallé at St Michael's, Manchester on August 20 and St John on Bethnal Green, London on August 25.

Angelus Novus, meaning ‘New Angel’ in Latin, is named after a monoprint by the artist Paul Klee, which appears in the German philosopher Walter Benjamin’s essay Angel of History. "When I wrote this song, I remembered this image of an angel flying against the rough winds of history, which resonated very strongly with me in regards to both personal and social struggles. The song has a very intimate, introverted outro as I wanted it to end with a place of healing," she recalls.

Directed by Yuma Kishi and his A.I., Yuma creates works in which the digital intelligence and the analogue body are always placed in a parallel relationship. For the video Hatis Noit wanted to explore the borderlines and fluidity of identity after being confronted with the self-alienated sensation she feels as a Japanese individual living in the UK. Sometimes being mistaken for Chinese she wondered ‘what makes us different?’ or ‘Is there any borderline?’.

Elaborating, she explains: “Sometimes the answer is ‘yes', we are different and unique, but then also I found that sometimes we have something in common, or sometimes we even feel we are connected through our genes somehow... With this video, I wanted to show how apparent yet fluid this borderline is — through the united and mutated image of different cast by Yuma's artificial intelligence without prejudice, and ask further: 'where does one end and another begin?’.”

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from Aura, track released May 17, 2022
All music created with the voice of Hatis Noit

Composed and performed by Hatis Noit
Arranged by Hatis Noit and Robert Raths
Published by Erased Tapes Music

Produced by Robert Raths

Mixed by Marta Salogni at Studio Zona

Recorded by Francesco Donadello
with U47 microphone no. 3908
in the Vox-Ton studio kitchen in Berlin
on August 31 and September 2, 2019

Re-looped by Ben Lukas Boysen
Audio restoration by Aneek Thapar

Re-amped by Chris Kalcov and Marta Salogni
at St John of Jerusalem Church in Hackney, London
on June 7, 2021

Mastered by Zino Mikorey

Vinyl cut by Jana Falcon at Schnittstelle

Photograph by Yuki Tsukishima
Artwork by Özge Cöne
Design by Shaz Madani

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Hatis Noit London, UK

Japanese vocal performer hailing from distant Shiretoko in Hokkaido who now resides in London. Hatis Noit's accomplished range is astonishingly self-taught, inspired by everything she could find from Gagaku — Japanese classical music — and operatic styles, Bulgarian and Gregorian chanting, to avant-garde and pop vocalists. ... more

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