15/05/2026
A year ago around this time, multifaceted Australian musician Alex Albrecht spent a week with us in Hiriketiya for a sound residency at MOND.
Out of that residency emerged Hiriketiya, an album shaped by place, exchange and temporary togetherness. During the week, we extended the invitation into a collaboration with some of our favourite Sri Lankan musicians: Dhyan Basho (sitar), Dinelka Liyanage (electronics), Pasindu Herath (saxophone) and Uvindu Perera (double bass). Their performances appear throughout the record, sampled and re-contextualised, shaping its melodic language, pacing and tone.
Much of the music was formed directly by its surroundings. Waves setting irregular rhythms against the rocks, insects bleeding into recordings at dusk, wind moving through tall grasslands, open decks overlooking the ocean.
Together with Ryan Wijayaratne, we are currently working on a short film around the residency and recently found ourselves revisiting these fragments again. Sharing a few behind-the-scenes moments from those days here.
Excited to hear the track “Hiriketiya” has been playing on Australian radio this past week, while the vinyl is currently pressing somewhere far away and slowly making its way back to the island over the coming months.
Thank you Alex and all the musicians involved for the trust, openness and generosity that shaped this residency into what it became.
You can listen to the album on Bandcamp.
Link in our bio.
