← more from
The Flenser
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Betty

from Light Mirror by drowse

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • "Light Mirror" LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Vinyl version of Drowse LP. Black vinyl and colored bone vinyl edition.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Light Mirror via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

  • Book/Magazine

    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.     ... more
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $16 USD or more 

     

lyrics

Betty you lived your life as an artist;
do you remember
showing me
where sky meets lake?
Watching you watch the light fade,
I knew we felt the same ache:

To see the through the mystery,
or maybe just get some insides out.

You never pictured you’d live to watch
your own body giving up.
Your hands shake too much to paint;
Alone at 93, all thoughts and memories.

Know that I found love,
she’s an artist too;
she faces the world openly,
shining through
just like you.

“Well just to do it, not to be recognized so much as just to get it out of my system. You spend a certain amount of time doing it, and it’s satisfying, but I’m not a true artist.”
“I dunno mom, you’re a pretty prolific painter, you painted an awful lot of paintings in your life--”
“--I was at one time.”
“--Thousands.”
“At one time.”
“Over the course of your life I’m saying there were thousands of paintings you know, probably.”
“Well I had children to raise.”
“Had you not had children, you might have had a whole different course in that regard.”
“Maybe.”
“It was a dream but I dreamt it was real.”

You are and you’re right here.
For a moment it’s bright here.

credits

from Light Mirror, released June 7, 2019

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

drowse image

drowse Portland, Oregon

Headphones.

shows

contact / help

Contact drowse

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

drowse recommends:

If you like drowse, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Attic frontman Meister Cagliostro talks heavy metal theatrics and the band's new album.
listen now