Back Trace by Hex Kist

Sometimes it's good to make music for your 16-year-old self. Made and mixed in a couple hours, "Back Trace" is a 1-minute song looking back at the type of music we made during those days of youthful furor, grimy practice studios, and untidy songs.

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Hex Kist is the post-Romantic, one-woman experimental project of Jimena Hellebore, threading and collaging fragile musical remains and their intimacies... Hex Kist is centrally concerned with manipulating found sounds, musical decompositions and relics of old forgotten songs, with fragments of collapsed melodies that once were perhaps beautiful and now are broken and submerged in a tempest of noise. But there can be satirical laughter too in mourning; desire amidst encounters with death; the ironies of meaninglessness and their narratives. To gaze into the burial chamber is to hear echoes of life pulling you into death. All those words show a line post-Romanticism walks, the line between philosophical depth and gothic melodrama in an age of ennui and technological maladaptations.

“To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbarism.” ~Adorno.

"Awaken yourselves, nymphs of the underground. And collage me a pattern in a yonder hotel. Away from seed fields and street siren harvests." ~Anonymous


Hex Kist is the one-woman experimental project of sound-designer and researcher Jimena Hellebore centered on cinematic soundscapes of found sounds and compositional fragments