After all the rituals, the gods did not return

by Porous Collective

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Erwin Koslowski English is not my native language, so I can't really concentrate on the spoken text. But the voice gives the sound a drive and urgency that keeps me captivated over the entire span of the record. As the tracks unfold, the sounds under the voice establish this "quiet chaos" that takes center stage from track 5 on - only to throw you back into the vortex in the following track. Another great record. Favorite track: And there is no peace.

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	1.	Hermetic definition 03:55
	2.	I say, Come! 01:47
	3.	All the symbols now 02:05
	4.	We seem to have lost the radiant world where one thought cuts through 06:19
	5.	And there is no peace 05:58
	6.	Aurelia 04:56
	7.	As if the spirit evolved 07:05
	8.	Alabama 03:46

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The text, read by a voice synthesizer, is a cut up, but the segments between cuts are fairly long. The sources are Robert Duncan's HD Book, Jung's reading of Nerval, Woolf's The Waves and Orlando.

The last track ends with a statement of Coltrane's "Alabama," though it start as something else.

Overall, this is an attempt at grappling with the end and persistence of various Modernist traditions.

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released September 28, 2023

(Julia on reeds and percussion.)

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Porous Collective Fresno, California

First an archive of Michigan improvisers, now a metaphor for the many/others that is the self. Lalén, Caeiro and Xeno are heteronyms, in Pessoa’s sense. Their vocation is electroacoustic, experimental, improvisation. Sound art that sometimes lies beyond what some call music. Ultimately, the fundamental work behind these recordings is to precariously ground unground existence in the doing. Peace. ... more

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