[Shuffle 49] ...we go...
We Will Always Love You, The Avalanches
Xerrox, Vol. 4, alva noto
Good Hope, Dave Holland
OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES, SOPHIE
New Me, Same Us, Little Dragon
Once Erin pointed me to this latest from The Avalanches, it closed the loop; things that sound like UV:/ feels, to me. Heavily manipulated, yet so, so soft, so human underneath it all. I zeroed in on Ghost Story, Wherever You Go, Music Is The Light and Weightless, immediately; echoing sounds picked from here and there. Apesanteur is just the same. Of course it is: alva noto long provided our soundtrack and environment. Dave too, and this new one spirals into infinity in the same way, jazz-raga, natural/unnatural. SOPHIE found me, after the fact, and the opening of OIL… urged me deeper; this pain, this party, inside-out. And Little Dragon dances, certainly. There's this same mediation though, the same echo and same heart; a little dark and a lot of fun. What we're making may be more dark than fun, but the humor is still there (if you can find it; wherever we go it goes). Music that makes me think about endlessness, loops and spirals, orbits and everness, travel and constant stillness, the heaviness, echo, crowdedness of isolation. Without returning, where do we go?
Heard this go’round: August 28, 2021
Scratch and roar, squawk and double-thump, twinkle, twist and shout; siren. Street play, echo fun, "we go on, burning / fighting with each other." Little rhythms, tossed around, beamed up and out, forever. Quiet hum, settling in, washing over us; drones. "GURRRL! Don't make me come and try-try-try-try-try…" voice like an alert. Sound storms, uneven whiplash and fade. Whisper. "Who are you?" Child and monster. Tap and thwap, horn and fingertips, string picks, brass and wood. War-storm, some classic ripped and returned, pieced together again, imperfect. "Ocean glitter." Finally a melody to ride, aching with the same reach, straining to be heard, hoping to hold on. (Impossible.) "This will never return." Waves that roll forever, light and sound, all same, no change, only change. Only one path that spirals around itself into somewhere new but not entirely. Just enough.
Ponyboy
We Go On
Xerrox Argo
Not Okay
Star Song.IMG
Infatuation
J Bhai
Xerrox Sans Retour
Stay Right Here
Until Daylight Comes
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