“This striking set of defamiliarised sounds- strings like nothing we’ve heard before, a voice like nothing we can understand – is our introduction to Thorn Wych…” – WIRE

Based in Bacup, UK, Thorn Wych makes instruments from tree branches; bowed strings, flutes and percussion that she runs through a chain of loopers, pitch bending glitches and delay pedals. Strange songs sung in tongues, mashed up chewed and spat out. As the adder weaves her way through the dirt and mycelium hum, we play in the mud and converse with insects.

Aesthesis is Thorn Wych’s debut LP that she recorded and mixed herself at home, often performing long improvised pieces, then later editing them down, cutting and pasting and overlaying other instruments.

This album takes inspiration from such works as ‘The Secret Book of John’, the 1940 film ‘The Thief of Bagdad’, and Lata Mangeshkar’s ‘Meera Bhajans’. She dedicates her work to the Divine Mother Asherah, Holy Spirit, Guardian of the Tree of Life.