If this is what the new shit sounds like damn!!!!!!!!!!!

“A Dirge for What’s Dead” is a new sonic ritual by Lizbeth Poirier (synth, drums) and Hex Evans (cello, voice). We returned to our Blood and Dust roots with this song, carving out the hollows of our hearts and turning emotional extremes into sound. Imagine rocky shores, the raging sea, a grieving figure suspended in time, emerging from the water to understand their pain, take back what was taken, and lay their soul to rest.

Featured in this song is a sample of traditional Irish keening (caoineadh), an ancient form of grieving that was practiced until it was erased by the pressures of the Catholic Church and British moral imperialism.

You can’t bring back what’s dead, but you can return it to the earth with dignity, and then destroy the foundations that both birthed and silenced the misery.

A Dirge For What's Dead

GOOD BOY!

Septic Snake and Joshua A.C. Newman got to be there as General Lee was removed from the top of the marble memorial to Richmond's African American citizens. I'm glad they removed that eyesore from such a colorful, powerful emblem of the city's democracy.

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Back into Nothingness, "poetic architecture" for actress-singer, choir and electronics. Text by Laure Gauthier, commission of Grame and Ircam, premiered at TNP of Villeurbanne by Anna Clementi, Spirito Choir, Nicole Corti conductor and scenography by Giuseppe Frigeni.
Soloists Magali Perol-Dumora and Léo Fernique.
With the help of "Aide à l'Écriture" of Culture French Ministry.

Electronics by Núria Giménez Comas and Max Bruckert (Grame).

"Back into Nothingness emprunte son titre à un cycle gravé du symboliste allemand Max Klinger (Ins Nichts zurück). Ce monodrame fait écho au destin de l’orphelin Kaspar Hauser qui a défrayé la chronique dans l’Europe du début du XIXe siècle. Kaspar est cet enfant trouvé qui est arrivé en 1828 aux portes de Nuremberg après 17 ans de captivité dans une cache sombre. « Le séquestré au cœur pur » (F. Dolto) n’a cessé d’inspirer les artistes, de Verlaine à Peter Handke.

Comment faire entendre la surdité, l’enfermement, le langage par onomatopée, la langue qui déraille et devient chant ? "


Entretien dans Poezibao: https://poezibao.typepad.com/muzibao/2018/03/entretien-avec-laure-gauthier-et-n%C3%BAria-gim%C3%A9nez-comas-autour-de-back-into-nothingness.html

Back into Nothingness, excerpts, Part1

Hold Fast

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Blood and Dust is a collaboration between two dark queerdos inspired by horror cinema and occult mythology. Part horror drone, part spookfolk, part post-rock, their music blends modular synth, cello, and field recordings into nightmarish auditory rituals. It is the music you hear while wandering a cursed manor at night, calling you to the basement where your lantern is extinguished and dreadful things happen. Remember to bring your salt, and stay safe while communing with the dead.

A Dirge For What's Dead

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