I have to make some noise about this fantastic little world of its own – hiding on the internet among 10000000000000000000 other “interesting” things. But this is really great I must say.
Its one of these things that really stands out – in my opinion anyway.
Its called “Weird tales for winter”, and obviously as we are now aproaching spring, its a bit too late to call it news but hey… its still fantastic. A collective hauntological radio series curated by Johnny Mugwamp.
As part of his exotic Pylon radio show. And Vanessa Daou tapped into a veine of beauty, melancholy and mysterious words and voices that are sure to inspire a thirsty soul. She calls her tale “Love among the shadowed things”.
Other artists that contributed to the radio show are:
Moon Wiring Club
West Norwood Cassette Library and Matthew de Abaitua
Dolly Dolly
Belbury Poly and Lawrence Norfolk
Radio Joy
Mordant Music
John Foxx
Yyou can listen and download Vanessa Daous winter tale here.
I have taken the liberty to copy what she has to say about her “Love among the shadowed things”,
Here goes:
there are 4 themes i’ve explored for jonny’s “hauntological” project: dreams, snow, shadows & night. lyrically & sonically, i touch on the overlap of sleep and waking life, coherence versus disintegration, the conflation of hope & despair, love & lust, the expression and withholding of desire. winter serves as the metaphorical, psychological & emotional backdrop. i tried to distill my impressions of winter’s ephemeral essence in these poems & explore harmonies which evoke some sensed or intuited spiritual realm.
i’ve conceived the first poem as a kind of dream or opening, after which I/the narrator navigate my way through one particular december night and reflect on passing things: the secular and temporal, the familiar, the mystifying, universal and eternal.
the 4 poemsongs address a relationship to or search for some universal understanding, moving through various phases of insight and (dis)illusion, oscillating between belief (in something greater, not necessarily Divine) and doubt, exploring the idea of omniscience (God-like in a way), and the idea of absence up against the fact that we are here and very present in this moment -
my guiding inspiration is t.s. eliot’s ‘love song of j. alfred prufrock‘, edgar allen poe’s ‘the raven‘, allen ginsberg’s ‘howl‘ anne waldman’s ‘flame‘, & tom chivers’ ‘the terrors‘
for those of you who’ve been following the exoticpylon, you can expect further explorations into those electrically charged edges of music, sound & poetry. for those new listeners, expect only the unexpected…
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