The latest release from Berlin-bred, NYC-based indie artist Panteon called “The Hill (Iini Istako)” was written during her residency at Banff Center of Arts and Creativity (Canada). The song was written in less than an hour looking outside the studio space at a view of steep and snowy mountain peaks. One mountain in particular called ‘Sleeping Buffalo’ in the native Blackfoot tribe called Iini Istako holds a rumor that it shouldn’t be a place to settle for long because of it’s otherworldly energy.
The song plays with the concept of nature and the always moving city life where it feels easy to disconnect from your inner voice and just lose focus to everything around you. The chorus line of the song ‘You’re pulling me to the wire and telling me to cover up the fire’ refers to the idea of suppressing instinct and intuition and trading it for a life of seeking constant momentum while losing the spark inside.
Glide is thrilled to premiere the seductive composition “The Hill” (below) – a mirage of woozy breakbeats and landscape lustre, creating a Kid A sound voyage.
“I was doing an art residency at Banff Centre (Canada) in late 2017. I initially wanted to finish songs I wrote while traveling through Mongolia prior to my stay at Banff but one morning just came up with a new melody,” says Panteon. “While looking out my studio window into an almost unreal landscape of snowy mountains ‘The Hill’ was written. The cover Art done by Italian Illustrator Giovanna Morando shows me torn between nature and reoccurring graphic patterns which represent the hectic city life.”
Photo by Kathrin Leisch
