Agnes Haus shares ‘Faust’ ahead of ‘Inexorable Ascent’ (Nite Hive, December 5, 2025)
Agnes Haus (Photo by Penelope Trappes)
Brighton-based experimental / modular-ambient audio-visual artist Agnes Haus has released the new track “Faust”, previewing the album “Inexorable Ascent,” due December 5, 2025 via Penelope Trappes’ imprint Nite Hive.
The 9-track release “Inexorable Ascent” is presented as a collection of slow, drone-based modular synthesizer works written in the early-morning hours (00:00–04:00). The album is offered as a limited, hand-stamped cassette (edition of 60; ships around December 5) and as a digital release on the same date.
Agnes Haus comments on the record’s process: “Every night, for two weeks in my attic studio, I watched granular Bergman and Tarkovsky films in the background while I crudely experimented on my small modular synthesiser… I kind of anaesthetised myself in the late-night hours, focusing on the subtleties of the quiet particulars of sound.” The release clearly nods to Tarkovsky, exploring surveillance, detachment, and social pressure.
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) was a Soviet/Russian film director and writer known for spiritually themed, visually poetic cinema and long, meditative takes. Key films include “Ivan’s Childhood” (1962), “Andrei Rublev” (1966), “Solaris” (1972), “Mirror” (1975), “Stalker” (1979), “Nostalghia” (1983), and “The Sacrifice” (1986). His work focuses on time, memory, faith, and nature. He described filmmaking as “sculpting in time” (also the title of his 1986 book). He left the USSR in the early 1980s and died in France in 1986.
Watch the earlier single “Persona,” directed by Agnes Haus below.
About Agnes Haus
Agnes Haus is a Brighton, UK-based audio-visual artist and composer working with modular synthesis to create drone- and texture-led pieces, as well as self-directed visual works. The project’s first two full-length albums, “Sequel” (March 11, 2023, Opal Tapes) and “Everything Is Resurrection” (2024, Opal Tapes), were cassette-first releases.
By 2025 the project moved to Penelope Trappes’ Nite Hive label for “Right Ascension Into The First Point of Aries” (single/track, September 2025) and “Inexorable Ascent.” Nite Hive is the imprint founded by Penelope Trappes for women and gender-expansive artists, releasing experimental works on limited cassette and digital. Previous titles include releases by Trappes, Karen Vogt, Patricia Wolf, and Pefkin.
Visual and music-video work includes collaborations with Mogwai, Penelope Trappes, and Microcorps, with screenings at venues such as Queen Elizabeth Hall, Attenborough Centre for the Arts, EarTH, Dark Mofo, Sonica Festival, and SXSW.
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