Bgerosani’s “Greater Unity,” released April 28, 2023, stands as one of the most unorthodox and philosophically charged experimental singles of recent years. It’s a sprawling more than 21-minute confrontation with division, isolation, and the fragile architecture of the human mind. Created by Tbilisi-based artist Demetre Gamsachurdia in collaboration with the Hoax Quartet, comprising of Agustín Nazzetta, Damiano Pisanello, Jinhee Kim, and Tobias Krebs, and produced by Nenad Leonart, the piece merges spectral music, noise, ambient textures, bowed guitars, live retuned open strings, and even sampling sourced from the Naruto series. Recorded in a vast industrial hall in Switzerland, the track is a ritual than a song, born from the emotional turbulence of the Covid era and shaped by influences like Fausto Romitelli, Radulescu, Jay Schwartz, and Lou Reed. It attempts to cleanse, moving beyond ideology, identity, or genre toward something raw, sovereign, and mind-altering.
Anyway, once “Greater Unity” begins, the atmosphere grabs you by the spine. It opens with a haunting, distant, airy soundscape, thin as vapor yet unsettlingly present. Then, out of nowhere, a whispering voice begins repeating “wake up,” drifting in with a ghostly, menacing tone that, honestly, freaked me out at first. It’s eerie, disorienting, and yet hypnotic, pulling you deeper in. Soon after, a muffled speaker-like voice enters, speaking gravely as though addressing the listener from behind a wall. The guitars, bowed, arrive next, with slow, haunting chords that bloom like shadows. A heavy droning resonance engulfs the space, the repeated bow strokes creating an uneasy, almost suffocating tension.
As the minutes stretch on, the track evolves like a living organism. Layers swell, distort, collapse, and reform. Near the end, the dense noise dissolves into a suspenseful, urgent, almost liturgical throbbing, cathedral-like choral pulse. The tempo quickens, the sound thickens, and then a shrill scream tears through the crescendo, followed by a final intoxicated groan before everything drops into silence.
“Greater Unity” is a psychological event, an unsettling but gripping sonic argument for dissolving the borders between “me” and “you.” Check out the music video on YouTube.
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Review by: Naomi Joan