“In the face of whatever it is that is breaking our names apart” – Sean Bonney
Score for as many players as you like – the recording is for nine.
Play any frequency between 264.94 Hz and 277.18 Hz, held, bent or gliding, between B3 and C#4 – hold this note for as long as your breath and/or heart permits. If you feel you are in the same heart or breath rhythm of another player, cluster with them, or squirm out from under or over them.
Imagine a pink nerve inside your gut going up into your lungs, into your heart, into your reptilian brain, back into your gut. Imagine the colour pink on the inside of this nerve.
Stop when you feel your pink nerve is sufficiently soothed into rest and digest.
credits
released May 20, 2022
Strings, sines, voice and poem by Simon Pomery. Essential travel music recorded by Simon Pomery downstairs at The Park Studios, December 2020. Mixed to Tascam 38 8-track tape by Tobin Jones at The Park Studios, December 2021. Mastered By Russell Haswell, February 2022. IIllustration – Stefan Fähler.
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I thought Mullane was "merely" an excellent and innovative primitive guitarist, turns out he's also a tape-manipulating electronic wizard. Parts of this album remind me of Autechre. t-wazoo
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I love it that I have to work myself through all thse layers of sounds and noises to get to the music - and of couse, these ARE the music. Listening to Philip Jeck's albums is challenging and at the same time utterly touching. And this fine collaboration is no exception. Sven
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thanks so much . this album rescued me from the clutches of January.
Along with Matana Roberts. Both found just in the nick of time in the Wire '23 retrospective.
thanks Chris. So long Philip. tibufawa