Theo Kottis - Moonlight

May 11, 2018 - Beautiful Strangers

Theo Kottis. The boi is young, and his moves be fresh. His latest single ‘Moonlight’ off his upcoming album Beautiful Strangers is a study of the relationship between the early humans within modern humans and moonlight. Tribalism isn’t just a part of paranoid centrists’ narrative for the collapsing infrastructure between America’s two party system. It’s also a naïve explication of the phenomenon they’re perceiving. But this isn’t the blog for that, nor is it the blog for discussion of the Illuminati’s stronghold over the IMF and World Bank. But this is the blog to take tribalism in a different direction. Theo Kottis’s direction. (If you, our dear readers, keep flooding my inbox with questions about the use of Qliphoth and other modernized darknesses in current world wide oppression, you’re going to get me flagged and our interns hired on as unsuspecting decoys killed).

This infectiously horny track has no problem weaving popular imagination regarding party life in the B.C.E. into present desire. It’s lightly syncopated rhythms come alive with groupthink chants and banshee screeches. 

The track opens as a ritual with intonations pitched to beckon the unseen. And before you know it, here’s the banshee screeching over plucky arpeggiation and gently spread snare. The effect is eco-logic. All this occurs about fifty-five seconds into ‘Moonlight.’ The buildup prior takes on the efforts of a prologue. It’s the slow percussive build, at the end of which is the first banshee screech. This barebones intro intimates the precursor to any summoning, which is that while we feel that we’ve begun the ritual, we are the midway point for that which is ritualized has first beckoned us. This is how people fall into dark-power traps. Please enjoy the wisdom present in ‘Moonlight’ should you seek other realms. 

The resulting pleasures of symbiotic ethereal bonds first takes shape in ‘Moonlight’ with contractually-binding blood thumping bass. The first reward is sensuality among one another. Next is success, as the track takes on a hunter’s rhythm. Third, is rejoicing, promises have been delivered in full so far and the contract is renewed, some of the rewards are returned to that which grants success. Here the track tapers off. A slow fadeout as the cycle continues, back to its stripped down rhythms present in the prologue, but the instruments themselves are richer, more physically grounded. Eventually something else becomes of us, all that we have received and all that we’ve given is ultimately a mystery, and whatever bargains with us makes yet another deal. ⛰️