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embers

by the jewel ship

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The Jewel Ship has been a formerly ‘secret’ side project of mine since releases on HVRF and Dream Catalogue.

Inspired by Longchempa’s sadhana of the same name* in combination of a challenge by an acquaintance to use more explicitly ‘patterns’ that i would normally do - and perhaps work in the ilk of so-called ‘vaporwave’ (i adopted vintage samples from old favorite BBC 1970’s sci-fi television and the like). Also using this project as an excuse to dive into an exploration of vintage synth emulations with an ‘art brut’ approach to poly-rhythmic motifs. Over the past few years, I have come up with some curious little odds and ends culminating with this collection I call ‘embers’.

"imagine different kinds of minerals generated from sound and hovering in space just in front of you. slowly rotating and revealing various facets and fissures glinting in the light."

*'You Are the Eyes of the World' (Byaṅ chub kyi sems kun byed rgyal po'i don khrid rin chen gru bo/bodhicitta kulayarāja ratnanāva vr̥tti/The Precious Boat: A Commentary on the All-Creating King of the Family of Bodhicitta). Translated by Kennard Lipman and Merrill Peterson. Snow Lion Publications, 2000.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longchenpa

credits

released February 6, 2020

tracks generated and corrected in locations ranging from a mountain cabin near talent, oregon - derek and cameron’s living room in pdx - an apartment near bouddhanth stupa in kathmandu - and gautam and eva’s house in kushalnagar, karnataka (where it was finalized and published).

begun in 2016 at bear gulch - ended in 2020 near balamuri temple.

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michael northam

Active & published internationally, for the past two decades Michael Northam has been cultivating a personal style exploring experience through the sound. His compositions are based on alternative techniques for sound recording & mixing where improvisations on unusual electro-acoustic instruments, including self-designed ones, are interwoven with recordings from various locations around the world. ... more

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