Hauntology From Bulgaria, Japan, and Sweden

Forgotten futures through the sounds of Evitceles (Bulgaria), The Silence (Japan), and El Huervo (Sweden)

Cover made using Canva — Mark Fisher’s picture taken from this photo by FactMag

We have handpicked three hauntological tunes of different flavors and countries. We hope longing for a dead future does not become one of your daily chores, but the pleasure can keep you tied to the post for future references and wisdom.

Burial-like Hauntology From Bulgaria

I, too, will never be able to adjust to the paradoxes of this new situation. The immediate temptation here is to fit what I’m saying into a wearily familiar narrative: it is a matter of the old failing to come to terms with the new, saying it was better in their day. Yet it is just this picture — with its assumption that the young are automatically at the leading edge of cultural change — that is now out of date.
~ Mark Fisher, The Slow Cancellation of the Future

It is through songs like “Elanchol” by Evitceles that we come closer to the fact that the world Burial created less than a decade ago was a little bit more than just a new trendy genre. Evitceles is far from the name that will be on any chart, radar, or list any time soon (even though we keep our fingers crossed that artistry prevails against corporate commercialism…