Eric Angelo Bessel makes music like a man hunched over a workbench at 3 a.m., soldering starlight into old machinery. Double Helix, the new track from his upcoming 7” EP Mirror at Night B-Sides, hums low and patient, then slowly unfurls soft coils of tone looping back on themselves, rising in quiet spirals. It’s ambient, but not wallpaper…it breathes. It hovers. It circles the drain of memory and peers in the void.
Sonic layers stack up in gauzy tiers, chords held long enough to bend the clock. You can practically see the tape reels turning, even if the whole thing’s living inside a laptop. The track twirls and repeats, gentle but insistent, like DNA threading itself in slow motion. Artificial clouds part. Water glows with a strange interior light. You start thinking about your own cells, the little cosmic librarians filing away heartbreak and grocery lists with equal seriousness.
Bessel says, “Double Helix feels excavated from time itself – ancient and futuristic at once, drifting through memory like a half-remembered dream.” It’s a pretty clean description of the sensation: something unearthed, brushed off, set spinning again. There’s a whiff of Delia Derbyshire’s laboratory mischief and Daphne Oram’s tape-spliced wizardry in the architecture, and yes, the patient hush of Brian Eno hovers nearby, but Bessel is building a room and letting the air thicken inside it.
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As a companion piece to 2025’s Mirror at Night, these instrumentals feel like secret corridors branching off the main hall. The track sits outside the usual grid. No chorus to chase, no beat to bully you forward. Just accumulation. Tone upon tone, like sediment settling at the bottom of a glass.
Maybe that comes from his eye as much as his ear. Bessel studied photography at Syracuse University and later at the School of Visual Arts, and you can hear the framing instinct. He knows where to place the horizon line. He understands exposure: how much light to let in, how much to withhold. His earlier books and exhibitions were about catching atmosphere before it slipped away. Double Helix does the same thing in sound: pins a fleeting feeling to the wall and lets it glow.
Listen to Double Helix below and order the single here. The Mirror at Night B-Sides EP comes out on Friday, March 27, 2026 via Lore City Music.
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