"is a hum of spring, static and flowering, resting in the palm of the warming months. is a bowl, emptied and floating downstream, amid sticks and leaves. is an open field, with sunlight squinting back at us, us not knowing we’re about to change. is a scattering of stars in the heart, windblown like dust onto a piano’s strings. is a glimpse of the spitting light that trails the ridges of my fingerprints. is an echo of footsteps, soaked in a new day, kicking against nostalgia’s depth. is a vessel overturned, surfacing gradually, slowly, gently, on a pure blue horizon. is a vivid presence, is of all pleasure, of all pain. is no place at last, at last, no place."
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credits
released June 9, 2023
Del Stephen & Heart Loft Group:
Patrick O'Reilly - electric guitar and pedals
Michael Lynn - electric bass and pedals
Jeffrey Sinibaldi - samplers, recorders, tapes, and effects
Andrew Finlay Stewart - violin and effects
Del Stephen - keyboard synthesizers, tapes, sampler, voice, and pedalboard
Recorded live in The Southern Cross at TRANZAC (Toronto, ON) November 13, 2022 (courtesy of Jeffrey Sinibaldi).
Photograph provided by Joe Strutt (Mechanical Forest Sound).
Liner Notes by Eric Schmaltz.
Compositions and creative direction by Stephen Del Duca.
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