Returning to World Canvas after his previous work ‘Distilled’ in 2020, Comastasis presents his latest piece of music ‘Photoantithesis, Concerto For Petromodernity’. In the vein of his conceptual approach to compositional practice ‘Photoantithesis’ follows and engages with theoretically informed themes of oil and its ontology, the way a contemporary fossil subject is to great extent determined by oil and its flow within societies. Additionally, the release draws inspiration and thematic outlines from the ongoing eco catastrophe and a historical materialism and new materialism related ideas about limitations of human agency (in terms of making history), where ideology and philosophical abstractions are outlined by material conditions, flowing from the outside in. Through its compositional properties, ‘Photoantithesis’ utilises an arbitrarily moving feedback loops, stochastic synthesiser patterns and improvised noise and vocal passages. These elements, which present themselves throughout the course of the work function as embedded layers which communicate with an ever-present dark sound of a murmuring, oily surge. Over the course of its 9 tracks, the release drifts between drones, soundscapes and beats, balancing between explorative and occasionally conventional, at points reminiscent of Comastasis’ most recent club music -inclined work, ‘Ross 308’ on the Italian label paynomindtous. As a “photoantithesis”, the album addresses a question about reversed photosynthesis, where once photosynthesised forms of energy are currently being released via exploitative practices which are destroying the habitable conditions of each and every living creature and organism.