Description
Four tracks of sizzling analogue circuitry, mangled field recordings, voice improvisation and manual tape degradation. Comes with an A4 poster/info sheet, edition of 30 pro duplicates cassettes. Hand numbered, hand assembled.
All the money collected from the sales, physical and digital, will be donated (including the production costs) to The Sameer Project, who provide direct aid on the ground in Gaza.
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Do plant spirits get angry? Do they get sad? if they do, how do they communicate that? Do they defend themselves in ways we don’t even recognise?
My worldview is quite animistic so I’d say the answer to these questions is ‘yes’.
So if they do, how would that translate into sound?
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There’s a photo from 2005 of Mahfodah Shtayyeh, an old Palestinian farmer, that has been seared into my mind for a while now. She is hugging an olive tree, risking her life in trying to prevent the settlers from uprooting it like hundreds of thousands of others they’ve uprooted before. It’s not just because the olive harvest is a source of her income, it’s so much deeper than that.
It is true love, connection and understanding of the land she lives in. This is something that a colonialist mindset is incapable of, whether it’s in Africa, the Americas, Asia etc, because it is driven by conquest and subjugation. That’s why it’s always in perpetual conflict with its surroundings – with flora, fauna, the people and the land itself. Domination requires constant investment, genuine care does not.
