Hesaitix presents “Santarosae”

Through the haze we could make out hardly any­thing. Just the black line of the ho­ri­zon. And in the dis­tance the faint glim­mer­ing of the sea.

James Whipple re­turns from a long peri­od of music­al dormancy with his first full-length LP for PAN since 2017.

As M.E.S.H., he honed a sin­gu­lar and un­pre­dictable son­ic iden­tity on his de­but al­bum Piteous Gate. Re-emer­ging as He­saitix, the now-fa­mil­i­ar mo­tifs have be­come stream­lined, the sound palette both more re­fined and more elab­or­ate. Even at its most ab­stract, there is an un­canny pres­ence permeat­ing the re­cord, a con­vin­cing emo­tion­al real­ity with its own nar­rat­ive and spa­tial lo­gic.