Glasswort is and acts as a medium. A means of transmission, a channel, a liminal state, a container, an environment. A sympathetic vessel, a palette, a mirror - it centers itself in giving and receiving. In this it is both lost and found. Here it finds purpose, but not meaning. It transcribes and is transcribed in the process. As a lens, it brings those around it into focus yet cannot see itself. The soda ash from incinerated glasswort is used to make glass, valued for its crystal clear color. Sympathetic to the season, their stems take on rich purples, reds and pinks moving into leaf season - dappling the marshes like mome raths. You may also know it as swampfire, sea bean, samphire or pickleweed.

Latin: Salicornia depressa, roughly meaning depressed salt horn/branch 

Properties: A member of the goosefoot clade, Glasswort is equal parts vegetable, herb and spice. Much like oysters, kelp and other aquacultures - seabeans are a purifying force both within and without. As a halophytic plant (salt-tolerant) that can thrive in saline wastewater, it has the dual value of being a nutritious, commercially-valued vegetables and also treating wastewater from commercial fishing or shrimp operations. Glasswort is a vitamin and ionic mineral powerhouse; it is rich in calcium, iron, iodine, magnesium, copper, potassium, fiber and Vitamins, A, B, C + D. It is also very high in protein for a vegetable. You can find this small, bush-like succulent in the middle + lower levels of salt marshes in May-August in New England. Virginia Glasswort is widely distributed, from the coasts of FL to PEI in the Atlantic and from CA to BC in the Pacific. It is lovely raw, pickled, as a seasoning or cooked as a vegetable. 

Companions: Glasswort seeds are a vital food source for passerine birds and geese. It also provides a safe-haven for insects and snails, such as the marsh periwinkle and western pygmy blue, during high tides.The endangered salt marsh harvest mouse relies exclusively on Glasswort for its habitat and primary food source. They eat pickleweed and climb on top if its sturdy leaves to forage more efficiently. 

Recipe: https://honest-food.net/sea-beans-salicornia-samphire-saltwort

On Memory and Not Knowing

Giant Claw and Isabel Watson ~ June (Glasswort)

https://soundcloud.com/luispestana approaches the pagan nature, according to a filter of the saturation of humanity and its technological achievements. A recent but already solid heritage of people like Oneohtrix Point Never, James Ferraro or Ben Frost, who distilled the popular sphere into a dystopian and yet effervescent digital alchemy. A utopia made reality. The fauna and flora summoned by Luis Pestana are still existences to be verified. The kind we read about in sci-fi books and popular legends: so unreal and yet so familiar.

''What was a crucial sonic experience in your life?’'
Listening a strange pipe organ drone coming from a little church in Palmela, near my hometown. Never heard a pipe organ sounding like that, as though as it was slowly being consumed by fire, singing melting blue dirges. What a strange and beautiful thing. The door was closed; no info outside. Occasionally I would pass by but never heard it again. Ten years later I found out it was a Tim Hecker gig.

Links:
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/rosa-pano
https://www.instagram.com/luispestana333/
https://www.facebook.com/habemuspestana/

Tracklist:
- Pérotin - Viderunt Omnes (David Munrow)
- Ricardo Rocha - Irradiante
- Kara-Lis Coverdale - Icon /c
- Anna Homler - M'bó Yé Yé
- Księżyc - Mijana
- Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson - The Bee Symphony
- Francisco António Bailão - Ó Filha Vai-te Deitar
- Georg Friedrich Haas - Oktett
- Keith Fullerton Whitman - 101105
- Matthew Welch - Traversing Mad-Hatten, Opus 27
- Charles Wuorinen - Time's Encomium
- David Borden - Enfield in Winter
- James Tenney - Cellogram
- Luis Pestana - Rosa Pano
- Teiji Ito - Tenno

MNEMOSYNE #023 - LUIS PESTANA

The forbidden fruit, the sister sun. A language of lust ripening as the sun stretches past its zenith. Inherently feminine in nature, the tomato is associated with Venus, Aphrodite and Hera. Like the great yew, the sentinel of immortality and death, the tomato is dichotomous. A foil to the largely toxic Nightshade family it belongs to, the tomato transmutes the toxic into the edible with its fruit. Originally thought to be poisonous, and even hallucinogenic, tomatoes were long considered a corrupting influence in Europe. A drop of sun under the shade of night, tomatoes can be used in place of other apples, earthapples and nightshades in witchcraft to ward off evil and malice. 

Latin: Solanum lycopersicum is a combination of both Greek and Latin, roughly meaning Persian sun wolf, or wolf peach. The wolf etymology comes from the fact that many members of the nightshade family are poisonous and “persic.” or peaches, were thought to originate from Persia at the time. 

Properties: Pinnate, hairy leaves with 5-9 leaflets; flowers with five petals. Fruits ranging from green, to orange, to yellow, to red, to purple. All parts of the plant, other than the fruit, are mildly toxic, but the leaves can be used in perfumery. Originally cultivated and treasured by the Aztecs and Incas, where other nightshades, like potatoes, were a critical staple in the diet. Tomatoes contain all four major carotenoids, bringing lycopene into focus in particular, which has the highest antioxidant activity of all. 

Companions: Many of tomato’s culinary companions are its spiritual allies as well. Basil will help repel harmful flies and worms. Asparagus will help clear the soil of root-knot nematodes attracted to tomatoes, and tomatoes repel asparagus beetles with a chemical called solanine. Nasturtiums are a self-sacrificing companion which keep black flies and aphids busy, so its companions can thrive. Mints, alliums and amaranth will also help with natural pest control. There’s a great deal of harmonic interference between brassicas and tomatoes, so they will stunt each other’s growth. Sympathetic to the rosehip, another red earth stone, tomatoes can protect roses from black spot disease.

Recipe: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/cucumber-tomato-and-green-bean-salad

---__--___  ~ August (Cherry Tomato)

A new mix by Pascale Project who has released music on Planet Euphorique, La Rama Records, Orange Milk and her own label 'Your Approval Isn't Needed'.

She is also part of the Shift Radio Crew from the city of Montreal ▶️

Expect a mix of ambient and downtempo vibes.

For more music:
www.discoesencia.com

Pascale Project info:

@pascaleproject
https://yourapprovalisntneeded.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist

Esencia 046 - Pascale Project

Midwest polymath Keith Rankin is a visual artist who’s made covers for Rico Nasty and Kerwin Frost. He's also the co-owner of the experimental label Orange Milk, the sole member of Giant Claw, and 1/3 of the group Death’s Dynamic Shroud. 

We dive into how people listen to music, the evolution of musical styles and definitions, as well as Keith’s music journalist days with Tiny Mix Tapes. Everything we cover lays out the ethos of Musically Proper (cue drum roll).  

Source: https://musicallyproper.squarespace.com/blogall/giant-claw-interview

Giant Claw Interview

This is a live recording of our Orange Milk Showcase set at Prospect Range 11/9/13. It was somewhat impromptu, featuring Richard from Maharadja Sweets.

Cream Juice Live at Orange Milk Showcase

Giant Claw is visual artist and Orange Milk Records co-founder Keith Rankin.

Vinyl LP and Digital release on Orange Milk and Noumenal Loom ~~ 9/30/14

Buy:

giantclaw.bandcamp.com/album/dark-web
orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dark-web
noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/giant-…law-dark-web

www.orangemilkrecords.com/
noumenalloom.com/


Giant Claw - DARK WEB 003

Giant Claw - DARK WEB 002

"Here we celebrate memory, the most precious gift of life, the only root of dreams, inspiration and knowledge"

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MNEMOSYNE is a series of archival sonic mixes that wants to celebrate Memory, as it covers the most important role in creativity, progress and life itself.
By presenting a different vision of it on each episode, participants will distill memories and ideas that formed their projects, using a variety of audio materials to create a sonic self portrait.

Contact: myalomusic[at]gmail.com

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