Holy Tongue - Basilikum Holy Tongue

Valentina Magaletti (Moin), Al Wootton, and Susumu Mukai (Vanishing Twin) create expansive rhythmic music that moves freely through dub, trance, free improvisation, and cinematic psychedelia. For Basilikum, the trio recorded a series of improvisations in the Swiss Alps and London. Built on the foundation of vintage drum machines and instinctive interplay, they created compositions where no stylistic borders apply.

Dub techniques meet ritual percussion, hypnotic pulse, and vast Popol Vuh-esque landscapes. Drawing equally from popular music, experimental traditions, and spontaneous interaction, the trio treats playing, recording, editing, and transformation as part of the same creative act. Sounds emerge, dissolve, and reappear in new forms, creating music that is both deeply physical and endlessly open.

With no fixed boundaries and no allegiance to genre, their work embraces movement, texture, and collective energy. The result is immersive, transportive music that shifts between meditation and propulsion, intimacy and scale, always evolving in the moment.