Video Premiere: Ritual Forms - 'Dreaming'
London trip-hop trio Ritual Forms premiere the atmospheric video for their recent debut single ‘Dreaming’.
Ritual Forms formed at the height of the pandemic in 2021 when good friends Anna Marcella, Curtis ElVidge, and Joe Cross decided it was time to combine their distinctive musical backgrounds into a new project with the intention to remove all self-imposed constraints and rediscover themselves in an uninhibited creative process.
With roots in both England and the US, the trio now hail from London, where they’ve been cultivating a unique and often atmospheric sound that balances lyrical intensity, nuanced production, and emotive synth arrangements with creative beats and powerful bass. Listen closely and you’ll find layers of sound that build and break – crushing and then restrained. Production flourishes and pitch-shifted harmonies showcase emotion through sound design, creating an aesthetic that shifts between light and dark effortlessly.
The perfect example of the light/dark dichotomy that so characterises the album, ‘Dreaming’ is three minutes of shifting textures and atmosphere that serves as the perfect introduction to the band.
“Dreaming started from a looped production idea Curtis created for fun when messing around with drums, piano and a vocal sample from an old obscure rock song, never intending for it to be for Ritual Forms” the band explain. “But Anna heard it and immediately took it in another direction, being inspired by the vocal sample and losing herself in memories of fun nights out, at the time so far away from the height of the pandemic. A new vocal sample was written to start out the catchy trip hop track.”
When the Horn Blows are pleased to be able to exclusively premiere the track below:
