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Golden Chanterelle (Silica Gel)

Summer’s currency whorled in the peat moss. Turmeric dancers. The type species, the golden standard. Both yolks and yokes are rooted in the bestial. There’s a certain wild joy in the washes where water goes to rest, and the crow flies over the white oak tree. Here, the blades are mere wrinkles; here, time slows and smells of apricot.  

Latin: Cantharellus cibarius, roughly meaning culinary chalice.

Properties: The chanterelle is a cosmopolitan mushroom that occurs nearly worldwide; known as the pfifferling in Germany, the girolle in France and the gallinacci in Italy, it is beloved everywhere it occurs. It’s becoming clearer to science that there are many cryptic cibaroid species hiding within the “golden chanterelle” species complex. Golden chanterelles are one of the few mushrooms that have had no changes to their original latin binomial since it was assigned in the 1800’s. Like their illuminating star, Cantharellus sp. provide high amounts of Vitamin D and quicken the vision with carotenoids. 

Companions: Chanterelles are ectomycorrhizal with numerous hardwoods and coniferous trees; in these alliances, the chanterelles and trees exchange nutrients that they can’t synthesize on their own. In the eastern United States, chanterelles associate heavily with Quercus species, but they also find kinship with the dark, witchy hemlock forests of New England. Other companions include: beech, birch, eastern white pine, balsam fir and sphagnum mosses. Care should be taken to avoid poison ivy, as they’re often in cohabitation. 

Recipe: https://foragerchef.com/yellowfoot-chanterelle-vodka

Silica Gel ~ July (Chanterelle)

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)

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RESIN

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Shagbark Hickory (Andy Loebs)

Saw-stalked maple. Sister shag. Her secret isn’t safe in an ivory purse; there’s a certain mapley dew that rolls off her lance-shaped leaves and catches in the soft valleys of her voice. Like a honeyguide, a red squirrel shows us exactly when and where we should unwrap her husk. About when it’s time to draw the drapes — when the last trees are felled for winter; here, we get a glimmer of spring. Like sap weeping from the maple in early March, Shagbark Hickory drupes are buttery and sweet. These stores of fats and sugars are often held for 5 years before there’s a banner year, and this energy is clearly transmitted by the fruit they bear.  

Etymology: Carya ovata, roughly meaning egg-shaped nut with connotations of exultation or praise. Carya comes from the pre-Classical ‘Nut Tree Goddess.’ 

Properties: A tree in the walnut family that is present in most of the eastern US, with the exception of the Gulf’s coastal plains. Unlike pecans, the shagbark hickory is self-fertilizing. Hickory milk was a significant food for the Alongquin who used it to make corn cakes and hominy. Its wood imparts wonderful flavor to smoked meats, and the bark can be boiled to create a maple-like syrup. Hickory nuts are also a great source of healthy fats, trace minerals, antioxidants and B Vitamins. Using the doctrine of signatures, or the sympathetic connection between a plant’s physical qualities and its healing properties, we can infer a number of things about hickories.They symbolize patience, as they are very slow growing and require great stores of nutrients to fruit. Hickories also have connotations of release, rebirth and resurrection. Like the snake, the hickory sloughs off its old skin with time. As a deciduous tree, it loses its flowers, leaves and fruit each year. Hickory wood is an ideal construction material for tools such as axe handles, bows, looms and spokes because it is highly flexible and strong. 

Companions: Hickories are an important food source for squirrels, foxes, bears, rabbits and bobwhites. Their loose bark also creates a nesting habitat for the Indiana Bat. Although they serve the same culinary purpose as pecans, even the largest of trees produce unreliable crops making them unsuitable for commercial orchards. However, hickories and pecans can hybridize and a few “hican” varieties are commercially propagated. I often find choice edible boletes, such as: Hemileccinum hortonii, Tylopilus alboater and Boletus separans in association with oak and shagbark hickories. 

Recipe: https://www.seriouseats.com/hickory-bark-ice-cream-recipe

Andy Loebs ~ September (Shagbark Hickory)

“Biloxi Retrograde Phantasm” by @jasper-k-lee

There’s a lightness to the margin where light pools in your velveteen hairs. And how the felted feathers spill from the wounded wood in autumn! Oh, and what is a wound but a chance to heal? In her you can see a slow, enveloping primacy that rings like cut crystal across a pond. Sometimes I even see myself reflected in her. Satin shelves and soft fractals. So teach me to answer questions with questions. Let me find strength in softness. Let me be porous like wood.

Etymology: Trametes versicolor, roughly meaning the thin, multi-colored one.

Properties: T. versicolor is a cosmopolitan, saprobic to weakly parasitic, white-rot fungus found in forests all over the globe. It’s cap colors are variable, ranging from blue to brown to green to gray, but it often has a color and shape reminiscent of a turkey’s tail. These distinctive colors are determined in part by the mineral content of the wood they are decaying, and they can be used to create natural dyes with blueish-green hues. The texture of turkey tail is similar to suede, and its flesh is tough and fibrous. The surface of the mushroom is covered in a fine, velvet-like texture and the bottom has minute pores. It has a long history of use in traditional medicine and is known affectionately as yun zhi in China and karawatake in Japan. Their polysaccharides, polyphenols and flavonoids are purported to be immunomodulatory, antitumor and antiviral. A comforting, brothy tea reminiscent of aged puerh can be made from the boiled flesh. 

Companions: Turkey Tails are partial to hardwood hosts throughout their range, but can be found associated with conifers from time to time. As early colonizers, they pave the way for a wider variety of wood-rotting fungi to take hold in novel environments. They are powerful decomposers of lignin, so they help to create the nutrients and space needed for new growth in a forest. Through decomposition, T. versicolor helps create habitat for cavity nesting birds and bugs. While they are considered inedible for humans, turkey tails are an important food source for fungus moths, gnats and maggots. 

Recipe: https://perpetuallydevastated.com/blog/turkeytailtea

Jasper Lee ~ December (Turkey Tail)

Rice Puffff

The Metaverse and How We'll Build It Together, 2022

Theo Triantafyllidis
Installation
Electronics in Stoneware, Audio
Sound Design by We Time Audio House
Presented by Meredith Rosen Gallery, NY

The Metaverse and How We’ll Build it Together

完美角色體驗 (Toiret Status Rem!x)

Track Premiere: 'Eco Fascist Dethroned' by @euglossine [@genotcentre]
Read more: https://paynomindtous.it/ecofascistdethroned-euglossine-genot
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The prolific composer and multi-instrumentalist Tristan Whitehill from Gainesville, Florida, also known as Euglossine, is about to release yet another formidable record on the Prague-based Genot Centre outcome. Out on October 4th on digital and C34 tapes (limited edition of 55 + on-body printing), Blue Marble Agony erupts Tristan’s typical jazz-fusion-chill weirdness and bright minuteness in a 33-minutes cauldron of conceptual elevator muzak, at times intense at times carefree, suggestive, and challenging, instant and precious.

Euglossine’s electro-exotica has been consistently perfected over the last years by steadily releasing rich albums of texture explorations, theatrical sound solutions, and suspenseful histrionics. Among his vast production, it’s possible to mention the three separate appearances on the seminal Orange Milk Records from the US with Canopy Stories, Sharp Time, and Psaronius (2016, 2017, and 2020, respectively), devoted to the artistic and poetic investigation of the possible meaning and use of Music in 2020 – mainly focusing on the relationship between digital abstractions and analog materiality. Tristan’s body of work features many other releases (such as the ones on Beer on the Rug and Hausu Mountain, just to name a few) that enrich his visionary and variegated take on modern jazz improvisation and library music, losing itself in the smallest composition detail and crafting the perfect, limitless sonic journey.

Blue Marble Agony displays Euglossine’s vision in its finest, defining a peculiar style that Genot Centre’s founders aptly label as “high-definition cyber-prog“. The artist’s wide sample banks are expertly used to offer multi-layered progressions and complex improvisations served with no frills, immediate and never inaccessible. From the encyclopedic sound palette employed in Blue Marble Agony, one could discern all sorts of string instruments, traditional and synthetic percussions, folk flutes and digital wind instruments, multiple nature sounds, all paired with the heavy use of processed, recontextualized samples.

The labyrinthic tracks exhibit titles that have reportedly been associated with a variety of pressing environmental themes, whose complexity and urgency have been addressed via endless harmonic transformations, grave arrangements, and a consistent portrayal of ethereal scenarios and elusive sensations. The record requires all the listener’s attention throughout all the length of the tape, as it’s basically impossible to foresee the next move in the cinematic grandeur of the compositions, which are at times so overflowing that it makes you wonder if an actual arcane alien message could have been encrypted in the sound textures.

Today, we’re honored to share with you the Eco Fascist Dethroned track, the 7th on the cassette. The delicate composition, featuring a marvelous melody, rich stereo panning effects, and a percussive crescendo, sounds to us like an affirming, heartfelt call-to-action to promote awareness and actively participate in the current fight against forces of power that systematically refuse to be held accountable, among the most memorable episodes in the whole Blue Marble Agony. The tape, mastered by Angel Marcloid and designed by Lenka Glisníková & h5io6i54k, will be out on October 4th on Genot Centre’s Bandcamp and it’s now available for pre-order. Make sure you check it out!

Blue Marble Agony

Euglossine - Eco Fascist Dethroned [PAYNOMINDTOUS Premiere / Genot Centre]

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Jasper Lee ~ December (Turkey Tail)

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