Nave by Hex Kist

Broken echos of bronze bells. "Nave" develops from reworked layers of church bells samples recorded in various locations in Europe in 2022. This EP seeks to create space and evoke the meditative quietude of subdued noise distortions. The word "nave" refers to the long central part of a church, and here it evokes the resonating and enclosed space that the architecture of the church creates. Or rather, what in ruins remains of it.

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Hex Kist is the post-romantic, one-woman experimental project of Jimena Hellebore, threading and collaging fragile musical remains and the intimacies of found sounds... Hex Kist is centrally concerned with 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