Komodo Haunts

Komodo Haunts is the psychedelic drone solo project of Ollie Tutty (aka Mt. Tjhris) from Lincolnshire, UK. With his music he explores drone structure, sonic textures, meditative zones and personal fictions through analogue and digital technologies, creating tape jams that play on human familiarity, natural ambiances, faux-exotica, mythologies, and "reality therapy." Taking inspiration from drone masters and new age wanderers, the Suijin album is all about getting into "the zone" and could be the soundtrack to an unreleased Tarkovsky movie. Building up from a basis of minimalistic stylings in the vein of Terry Riley's Persian Surgery Dervishes and adding rich instrumental and vocal layers, Tutty creates immersive soundscapes that echo the textural investigations of Tim Hecker, and the environmental awareness of Hiroshi Yoshimura.

The album explores water as both concept and sound source. Suijin references the Shinto god of water, examining liquid forms, water as a force, its symbolic status, and the people-water relationship. Instruments range from shifting tape loops to reverb-laden electric guitar and dark synths, human voice, wind, distorted bass, ceramic ocarina, acoustic strings, processed electronics and oscillating waves.

Tutty's approach shares DNA with the "tropical drone" aesthetic he pioneered on earlier releases for labels like Hooker Vision and Holy Page, channeling what has been described as "Conradian slow-float dread" while maintaining the meditative focus that connects his work to artists like Grouper, William Basinski, and Félicia Atkinson.