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Anamnesis

by Heavy Cloud

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Anamnesis is available from Human Geography Recordings on limited edition cassette and digital download.

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The two side-long compositions of Anamnesis attempts to capture the overflowing senses related to postmemory experience, across a migratory suite of electronic textures, musique concrète and turntable inspired manipulation.

Through a combination of prepared samples and repeated improvised performance, Anamnesis is a recollection of sensations that meander on a sonic current of unravelling memories and personal histories.

Anamnesis (or the theory of recollection) is part of Plato's theory of learning and can be summed up in a single phrase: learning (mathesis) is anamnesis (recollection). Anamnesis is a noun derived from the verb anamimneskein, which means “to be reminded”.

Side A's 'To Unearth the Layers of Forgetting' begins a journey through electronic tones, drones and radio frequencies. The piece is interested in the act of recollection and finds inspiration in the free improvisation of Keith Rowe, as well as the local geography that inhabits it. Memory fragments trigger associated memories, organically uncovering and revealing tactile pathways through interior and exterior landscapes, and in doing so, forming a collage memoria.

Side B's 'Spectral Landscapes Postmemory' continues the psychogeographic tour through episodic memories, inspired by and constructed from manipulated local field recordings (domestic interiors, rural town spaces, Cornish woodland, moorland and seascapes) and sound improvisations that features looped drones and processed synths and range from the percussive to the atonal.

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released November 24, 2023

Anamnesis | 2 sides | 30 mins

Performed, recorded and edited in spring 2023 in Cornwall.

Created with: tapes and cassette player, prepared samples, field recordings, voice and text, tabletop electric guitar, domestic objects, shortwave radio, Orba 2, singing bowl, kalimba, chime bar, pickup coil microphone, looper, virtual turntable, live performance.

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Thank you very much to Andrew Burge and David Jaycock from Human Geography Recordings for their support and collaboration.

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