Venera, the post-industrial/ambient project featuring Korn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer and electronic musician Chris Hunt, have teamed up with artist and musician Jesse Draxler for a new collaborative track titled “Asbestos.”
The song will appear on Draxler’s upcoming album “Tongue Of Angels,” which brings together an eclectic collection of collaborators from across the heavy music and experimental worlds.
Among the other artists appearing on the record are Iggor Cavalera (Cavalera, ex-Sepultura), Ian Astbury (The Cult), Trace Amount and Black Magnet, among others.
“Tongue Of Angels” is currently expected to arrive digitally on August 24th through Federal Prisoner, the label co-founded by Draxler and Greg Puciato (ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan, Better Lovers).
The collaborative nature of the album was built into its creative process, with Draxler sending field recordings to the various artists involved and allowing them to interpret those sounds through their own musical perspectives.
For Shaffer, the opportunity to work with Draxler offered a chance to collaborate with an artist whose approach extends well beyond music.
“There are only a handful of artists that have the energy and passion for music and art that [Jesse Draxler] does. You can feel how much he loves and enjoys the process of creating whatever he works on. He’s extremely talented. His openness to collaborations allows for others to explore and expand their own creativity.”
Hunt similarly praised Draxler‘s approach to texture and sound, explaining how the field recordings became the foundation for the collaboration.
“I agree. Jesse is a generous artist with a keen sensibility towards texture, decay and materiality which resonates with what we’re interested in with our own work. It was an intriguing task looking at the inside of his brain, hearing bits of the world through his ears and attempting to contextualize those sounds.”
Hunt continued:
“Sometimes field recording is flattened into a pursuit of purity and accuracy of an environment so it’s worthwhile to get to interact with sound like any other compelling textural piece of trash on the street or rotting wall or weird anomaly to be investigated and constructed with.”
The resulting collaboration brings together Venera’s experimental instincts with Draxler’s broader multimedia approach, adding another unconventional piece to what is shaping up to be a particularly diverse release.
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