Nightshade

This album is dedicated to my friend and Solanaceae guide, botanist Sandy Knapp Reviews/Press: "In this unusual album, Helen Anahita Wilson not only produces sonic tributes to the members of the Solanaceae plant family; she provides them with a voice. Biodata from member plants is used to trigger certain instruments and sounds, with whom Wilson produces duets both electronic and organic. The mysterious nature of the family ~ represented in the clever alliteration of “magic, medicine, myth and mortality” ~ is extended to the allusive sounds." -A Closer Listen acloserlisten.com/2025/10/17/helen-anahita-wilson-nightshade/ ---- "a composer, sound artist and researcher based in Brighton, doesn’t really seem to be active in a ‘scene’ in the way most people featured here are. Her discography preceding new album Nightshade – a concept album about the plant family of the title, released on US noise label Flag Day – comprises some Satie-esque piano sketches and collaborations with Talvin Singh." -The Quietus thequietus.com/quietus-reviews/new-weird-britain/new-weird-britain-in-review-for-november-by-noel-gardner/ ---- "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." -Music Radar www.musicradar.com/artists/occasionally-ive-been-worried-that-ive-poisoned-myself-but-its-always-turned-out-fine-we-speak-to-the-artist-who-has-just-made-an-album-from-dangerous-plants