Future Deserts by Hourloupe

Greek harps, woozy synths, intimate pianos and jolts of noise form the sonic landscape of Future Deserts, the debut release of the duo Hourloupe. Eight arrangements of voice and sound guide the listener on a journey in which time is cut up and remixed. There is texting to stone tablets. An ancient mummy revives in a COVID-19 ward. Jesus appears poolside at a resort. A toddler physicist wanders a Bronze Age settlement trying to define where we are, where we were and what the future looks like. Meanwhile the world burns, floods and transforms from one flickering instant to the next.

Hourloupe: “I associate it, by assonance, to ‘hurler’ (to roar), to ‘huleler’ (to hoot), to ‘loup’ (wolf).”
—Jean Dubuffet

Hourloupe is a collaboration between writer, musician, and artist Frank Menchaca and Anar Badalov.