London-based black metal band Calligram have released “Ostranenie” from upcoming album Position | Momentum due out July 14. “Ostranenie” is the third single Calligram has shared from Position | Momentum.
Calligram states:
“‘Ostranenie’ is a word that Russian formalists used for Defamiliarization. This is what life is all about: fighting habits, seeking desire undiluted by habits. Habits ruin everything; they make everything flat and plain. Defamiliarization is the impossible aim to experience everything like it was the first time, and it’s the central concepts of art, poetry and of course music.
“The purpose of art and music is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult. The function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. ‘Position | Momentum’ and its celebration of chaos shakes up the “familiar scene” giving a new meaning to it.”
Position | Momentum was recorded with Russ Russell (Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir, At The Gates) during the summer of 2022, the follow up to 2020’s The Eye Is The First Circle.
Photo courtesy of Calligram
