Fusing her training in both Western and South Asian classical music with DIY production set ups, electronic artist Helen Anahita Wilson has devoted her musical life to pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, and finding fascinating new ways to generate sounds.
Her latest album Nightshade widens Helen’s experimental journey into a shadowier frontier, taking its starting points from the titular magic-tinged - yet dangerous - family of plants.
Nightshade features a unique biophilic composition approach - harnessed from edible species including aubergines and potatoes and even hallucinogens such as the fabulously-named 'devil’s trumpet' (Datura stramonium) and deadlier, poisonous variants.
It follows her 2023 album, Linea Naturalis, which analysed the bio-electricity within plants that are typically used for medicinal or healing purposes.
