Andrew Sherwell -  The Book of Trinkets (Album Preview)
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https://shimmeringmoodsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-book-of-trinkets

This is an awkward album. Some of this awkwardness is unconscious and unplanned, the by-product of lo-fi techniques and studio ineptitude. Some is planned and conscious, the product of searching for rifts, of searching for “the symbols of the divine that show up in the trash stratum” (Philip K. Dick). Through awkwardness and juxtapositions, glimpses of something else can be seen, a something that is lost in the polished, the tuned, the smooth. Partly because I believe ‘better’ works often come with their own inbuilt responses, by engaging with them they engender a set reaction, so there is simply no room nor stimulus for the listener/reader/viewer’s own interpretation and thoughts. The art has become artifice – merely propaganda or pornography. 

By embracing the rifts, the imperfect, the awkward, and the juxtaposition, we turn our backs on works that are apparently perfect reflections, as comforting and numbing as they are, of a reality that doesn’t really exist anyway. To push further, alongside art, we need other, obsolete modes of thinking, approaches that, well, capitalism has forced out. We need more magic, more religion. Through art, magic, religion, we can push back, think for ourselves and finally see the radical mystery, the Other, the divine behind everything, and that makes life, and by extension, us anything but irrelevant. 

All that from some static and too much reverb. 

Andrew

Releases October 8, 2021 

Music & Artwork - Andrew Sherwell 
Mastering - Stephan Mathieu 
Shimmering Moods Records 2021 
SHM 175

Andrew Sherwell - The Book of Trinkets (Album Preview)

A musical narrative visible to the minds eye.

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Personne  Perturbé  Produisant  Perturbation

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