I am worried about publishing this song. As a musician and songwriter, I am not shy about honestly expressing my confused and often contradicting views in words and music; writing and performing the results is as much therapy for me as it is torture for you.
However, my views on THE church are as extreme as my experiences with its representatives - Men, I know to be utterly corrupt, devious, deceitful, in short anything but what they claim to be. It is because of them and, what I believe to be their true agenda, that I frequently question the origins of the Lord's words, a terrible state to find myself in...
Are these men misappropriating/abusing the words of the Lord, or have they invented them? And if they have indeed made them up, where does that leave me?

These are angry words, trying to rid myself of the rage that regularly returns - not an old friend, but a destructive force.

Please understand. Do not be offended. Thank you.

lyrics

like the raven the wise one
we're predators too
ravens prey on ducklings
like we prey on you

believed to be noble
we are anything but
and like the raven
the devil
we are creatures of god

we own these lands 
by enslaving its people
never have our hands
built a wall or a steeple

we are a curse 
we're the plague
bred from birth
to deceive and to take

we laugh at your faith
in the stories we told you
we lie to your face
make sure you don't grow



your blind faith is
all we need
all the worlds races
before us on their knees

we are the church
the bishops, the priests
the pope and the preachers
slavers and thieves


and if one day we stand before a gate
before a god who decides our fate
we'll thank him gladly
for the life we had
heaven on earth
it's more than they get
the true believers
who prayed to the lord
victims of deceivers
who made up his words

curse

Curse

Le Révélateur
Hyper
Picture-Disc LP (Hybrid Vinyl)
Dekorder 080

Release Date: March 18, 2016

https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/hyper

Dekorder 10-Year Anniversary Hybrid-Vinyl Series

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Le Révélateur
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Kemialliset Ystävät
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https://dekorder.bandcamp.com/album/10-year-anniversary-hybrid-vinyl-series

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EnCOUTnTErs - The Avian Speculative at Cafe Oto, July 25, 2018.
Also performing: Lee Patterson and Sharon Gal. 
Pic by Sonia Levy/SoundFjord
Recording: Hear and Now, BBC Radio 3.
July 25, 2018.

Set - EnCOUnTErs - Cafe Oto, July 25, 2018 - recording thanks to BBC Hear and Now Radio 3

Drift is a free fall album consisting of three compositions invoking a sense of hovering expansion. Deeply spacious yet tightly compacted sound movements create holding patterns that slowly shift and evolve.

Cycles fall in and out of sync while atmospheres envelope time, appearing on the periphery before being subsumed back into space. The compositions utilize modified alto saxophone with spring reverb attachment, synthesizers, percussion, field recordings and electronic processing.

The saxophone is played with an acoustic spring reverberation preparation to produce multiple feedback tones, pitch beating and metallic distortion. Using sampling and pitch shifting techniques, the instrument and its presence of breath act as the glue that binds the pieces.

Rosalind Hall - Drift - Cassette - PRE-ORDER NOW AVAILABLE

REMO SEELAND - Hollow Body, LP

A1) Body Innovation (04:20)
A2) Hollow City (07:24) 
A3) Second Coming (04:29)
B1) Pulse Points Green (05:33)
B2) Whoosh Before Laya (08:19)
B3) Night Within (05:04)

Release date - Sept 13th 2019 
Catalogue nr. - HG1903
Format - Vinyl/digital

All music composed and played by Remo Seeland
Recorded in New York, Reykjavik and Zurich

Guests:
Steve Fors, trombone on “Second Coming”
Reinier van Houdt, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”
Norman Westberg, guitars on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”

Digital mastering by Jeremy Cox
Vinyl mastering by Rob Viso
Mix and production by Roger Hofmann and Remo Seeland
Inlay Photo by Ralph Kuehne
Artwork and photo by Ruth Stofer

Promotion by Dense Promotion, ed@dense.de 
Distribution by Cargo Records and A-Musik
Released by Hallow Ground

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Remo Seeland’s “Hollow Body” is a suspenseful exploration of the interaction between sound environments and individual perception. It was sparked by an intense physical experience the Swiss artist had during a residency in New York City. “The subway became a sort of ‘atonal symphony’ for me, provoking a full-body experience with the rattling of the overcrowded, airless trains,” the Hallow Ground founder explains. “However, while the old subway is not exactly beloved by everyone, it also represented for me the melancholic meta-level of the moloch above it.” The album, his first under his given name, makes this disparity audible over six tracks in which the visceral and the personal become at once abstract and universal. 

Based on field recordings from both urban and rural environments, “Hollow Body” aims to mirror another of Seeland’s psychosonic encounters. “In the highlands of Iceland, I noticed my pulse lowering and my breathing decelerating,” he says. “Just shortly after that, a single insect’s buzzing seemed so loud to me that I became even more aware of the silence surrounding me.” Silence, perception, order and the curious dialectics of the outside world and the inner workings of the human psyche are the central questions of “Hollow Body”.

Recorded in New York, Reykjavík and Zurich, “Hollow Body” draws extensively on field recordings and sees Seeland collaborating with Hallow Ground-affiliated artists Norman Westberg (Swans, guitar on “Body Innovation” and “Hollow City”) and Reinier van Houdt (Current 93, e-bowed guitar on “Hollow City” and Rhodes organ on “Pulse Points Green”), as well as the Swiss-based US-American musician Steve Fors (Deaf At Sea, trombone on “Second Coming”). The diversity of the source material is mirrored in the stylistic richness Seeland lays out with this LP. From the lush, bass-heavy drones of the opener “Body Innovation” to the downbeat-driven “Second Coming” and, finally, the haunting organ sounds of “Night Within”, “Hollow Body” forms a holistic entity that integrates idiosyncratic compositions into a coherent narrative.

“Hollow Body” was also conceptually inspired by Seeland’s research as a cultural scientist with a focus on Southeast Asian cultures, specifically the anomic tantric cults of India. It thus serves as a mediator between not only the individual experience of site-specific sounds and general ideas of sound production in and about space, but also between different compositional techniques ranging from drones to synthesized vocals and more primitive forms of ritualistic music. Its sonic abundancy is to be understood as a direct result of its underlying idea: at its most challenging, this record also makes the most coherent statements about the order of space, sound and their cryptic relationship with the human body.

Hollow Body

REMO SEELAND - Hollow City (feat. Reinier van Houdt and Norman Westberg) - HG1903

"Isolate with", a compilation of music made during covid 19 pandemic, from Katuktu Collective avaliable now via bandcamp. Featurin a track "detour" from myself. Free download. https://katuktucollective.bandcamp.com/album/isolate-with-i

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Handstitched* update: pre-order 25 October ->  

https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/album/paragraphs

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Emba  – “Paragraphs” is released in two limited editions, a digipak version, limited to 50 copies and a handmade edition, limited to 20 copies. Both editions come with artwork by Genoveva Kachurkova.

Emba is a collaborative project between Tim Diagram, UK and Mathieu Lamontagne who is based in Quebec, Canada.

Thanks for listening x

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