Hossei - Thunderbloom LP

NEW - SPECIAL HOSSEI THUNDERBLOOM ALBUM

HOSSEI’s practice seems to manifest into two branches, one focused on his relationships with his mother, and the other on ensemble performance. Both explore intimacy.

THUNDERBLOOM will be presented at Melbourne’s West Space Gallery and extend into Collingwood Yards as a public installation. The show will be a visual album created in collaboration with his mother. Each song will have a music video sung and performed by the two of them. HOSSEI and his mum, Nahid, have been writing songs about, “Iranian mother-power, angry heavy metal songs, songs about healing and being in denial about healing, passion for Persian food, a song about going to the Grocery shop etc,.” The poster for the exhibition, of Nahid in front of a backdrop of electric blue with white lighting shattering a dark sky, suggests a cosmic rebirth is taking place.

He explains that he and his mother are going deeper into the work than ever before: “I’m already so close with her, there’s this obvious and undeniable link between us, but this experience is like we’re going deeper together. It feels like we’re submerging into our brains that are compounding into one another and we’re swimming through it. It’s really crazy! And it’s really a lot of trust . . . I’m out of my comfort zone too. Yeah, like, it’s not just her, it’s me too . . . I’m pushing myself to do these things as well and we know these are things I’m kind of learning about myself.”