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The glow

by ruddaring & Un Ciego

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    cassette with hand-stamped recycled chipboard cover and insert. 32 page 5 x 7 inch 100% PCW perfect bound poetry chapbook with 8 pastel drawings. with tall tale insert. enclosed in recycled black envelope silkscreened by alan sherry at siwa. numbered edition of 50.

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prologue : only soft throat 04:01
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the glow : nothing beats pelting rain / we rest in garbagehills / listen ( ) this morning / we shift (together / vituperous haunt / we disappear into the woods / but you were different from before, spectral, as though drawn with chalk against the dark, and you fell 16:14
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the glow : as long as we cling I know / medianoche / this place is for chloroplasts / it's a victory for the heart everytime / sleep is a double ritual 14:55
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epilogue : coyote hole communiqué 07:58

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The glow is a memory forest, a collection of poetry by stepph sharpe and its companion cassette by ruddaring & Un Ciego. Twelve poems unravel into an obsessive synthesis of eulogy and elegy for irretrievable experience. Flora/fauna are conjured only to disappear, compared to loved ones against the unattainable green of the jungle and woods — The sprawl of sorrow. What’s left is a feeling that beauty is irresistible, tragedy is relentless. The glow ends: an uncanny aphorism concludes that “here is just a place / that holds parts left after the whole / is gone.” Absence can be its own form of access.

Letting the form suggest itself, ruddaring & Un Ciego put the collection of poems to music : Glimmering twins. So the glow is not a monument built, but the traces left – audio, psychic, imaginal, spiritual – of the events that pass through us and we pass through. Un Ciego’s lysergic synth secrecy levels the electronic with the biological. His piano improvisations, laid down blindly without reference to previous takes, create discordant ropes of competing notes spread across the stereo field. Together these are the sedimentary rocks upon which ruddaring constructs a coral reef of sonic memory from an archive of field recordings dating back fifteen years. Her obsessive cut-up and post-processing collide with nebulous vocals and languid lapsteel, stringing a path through a perpetually shifting river of environments.

Guatemalan jungle gives way to Yosemite backcountry, coruscating synth fire resolves into tropical birdsong. The boxy fidelity of an hourly practice space is filled with digital crickets. Humming bees circle the microphone; pianos ascend to smoky-cloud. Night embers spit as loops dig a tunnel where the past pours in. Collage stranded on the receding tide of memory. Leaves blown and caught. Footprints filling with snow. There is strange comfort in leaving traces.

For fans of ketamine & Lynn Margulis.

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released July 3, 2020

(each note felt)

ruddaring is stepph sharpe. Un Ciego is andrew scott.

mixed by stepph sharpe and mastered by benjamin court
recorded winter 19/20 on the russian river


released by big brass bed bigbrassbed.bandcamp.com/music

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ruddaring California

she had / discovered / a short cut / into / the / forest

ruddaring lives along the russian river, northern CA. find bedroom writings and recordings here.

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