Hejira - Floating Test (Hejira x Floating Points)

The Eglo brainiac continues to move into big-room orchestral terrain with this match-up of the Matthew Herbert-approved band.

Eglo co-boss and general smart dude Floating Points is always worth keeping an eye on, and can often surprise: take the recent orchestral and organ manouevres of 11-minute opus Wires, for example.

While at the time it seemed these forays may have just been a one-off, this new match-up with Hejira (who Matthew Herbert first drew our eyes to) continues in a similar vein. The source material, a plaintive Herbert-produced folk chant – is taken stratospheric: drum rolls roll, bass licks lick and a maelstrom of strings build – before spacious xylophones saunter off into space. There's something defiantly big about where Floating Points has been headed recently, and it'll be interesting to see how these moves pan out.