Vinyl version of Drowse LP. Black vinyl and colored bone vinyl edition.
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Overcasts contains four short stories and an essay written by Kyle Bates of Drowse between 2019 and 2023. The stories trace the boundary between solitude and self-isolation. Reclusive, occasionally semi-autobiographical characters wander through movie theaters, lakesides, churches, and unfamiliar cities. They drift in substances, thoughts of family and death, and reflections on artists such as Low, Tsai Ming-liang, Max Neuhaus, Louise Glück, and more. These ruminations are frequently punctured by sublimely eerie events.
The essay, initially written as a graduate thesis while Bates studied at the renowned Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, continues the theme of being alone. It addresses works by experimental electronic composers Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, and Éliane Radigue, examining the various forms of memory at play in self-recording. While often bleak, together these writings reveal an always curious experience of the world through slippery contours of self.
Overcasts includes the stories “Cloud Light Over Obsidian” and “Second Self” that were originally only available with limited editions of the Drowse records Wane into It and Light Mirror.
Available as a printed 166 page perfect bound paperback. Also available for Amazon Kindle.
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lyrics
In silence thoughts are born,
stories that die with us:
gates to the internal world.
Let them open up.
Why do we fear our selves,
muffling silence with cold blue light?
Who are you
without the things you buy,
and the posts you like--
without the people you love,
alone in bed at night?
Projection,
story of my life:
silent judgement,
waisted insight.
Waking up
warm in the morning to
images
pouring down from the sky:
they’ll fade out when you die.
March 2016,
Haystack Rock in cold air,
high on ecstasy.
Seagulls in rain,
you didn’t want to see
your parents:
the love would be too great.
Dad’s getting
into boxing,
mom’s got cancer on her lips, (“the way blood is shown”)
sister’s depressed in Canada,
I’m right here:
just mind and this.
Old pain in the family:
fresh paint on the canvas.
Tears freeze on the mountain:
avoidant attachment.
Waking up
warm in the morning to
images
pouring down from the sky:
they’ll fade out when I die.
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