FENELLA

Fehérlófia fire

Jane Weaver side project produces cosmic soundtrack to Hungarian animation.

Fehérlófia (Son Of The White Mare) is a mindblowingly psychedelic animated film from 1981 that draws on ancient folklore, and is by turns mystical, disturbing and erotic. As such, it’s perfect fodder for cosmic poptician Jane Weaver, who’s come together with long-term bandmates Peter Philipson and Raz Ullah as Fenella to compose a new soundtrack for the film as part of Fire Records’ reimagined score series. In many ways, this is a continuation of Weaver’s Loops In

The Secret Society, released earlier this year, a fantastical soundscape of melodic kosmische, all reverbed drones, pulsating sub-bass and Weaver’s ecstatic exhalations. It’s not formless though – Bright Curse is melancholy synth pop with plenty of audio generator-style whooshing, while Shard Of Glass and The Spectacle are lovely space age electro-ballads. It’s mainly beatless – the entwining synth lines of Truly Seduced cry out for a trance techno remix – though there’s chiming guitar and drums on Strength In Air, which is very Durutti Column. By the throbbing arpeggios of the climactic, Tangerine Dream-esque Gilded Griffin, it feels like we’re heading towards some kind of singularity. JB