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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
19, Washington, hungover all the time.
Parker sent a creation:
Italics, Veritas Veritatum,
and showed me Ableton.
Guitar met computer,
obsessed with Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never.
MDMA, mood stabilizers, whatever.
I moved home to
Portland,
wrote a comic and songs to sleep on.
Sometimes it feels like I’m done:
I was Drowse
before 21.
“I have some memories, a few memories. One was a car accident I was in. We were in the rain going to Kansas, just back from South America, and I was climbing from the back seat to the front where my parents were, and it was raining, really raining. There was a truck up ahead of us in the rain at night and my father went right into it. And so I was in the top of this middle…partition, and I went flying through the windshield. Everything was muddy and I was in this muddy ditch. And I remember my father calling for me ‘cause he couldn’t see me. So he found me–I must have been the only child in the car at that point. Someone on the road stopped and took us into the nearest town to a doctor. My father sat out in the rain in that rumble seat while they looked for a hospital. They took me in, and they brought the doctor to the home, and I had this cut on my forehead and I guess they had to sew it up or something. And they promised me if I’d just shut my eyes…”
credits
from Wane into It,
released November 11, 2022
Featuring Betty Bates (memory)
and a small ensemble from Mills College:
Chari Glocovoc-Smith - synthesizer
Matthew Ka Git Wong - clarinet
Donggnuk Kim - violin
Michelle Moeller - piano
Samuel Regan - guitar
Kelp speaks to me. Sad and experimental like Drowse. Musical freedom. I teared up during the chorus of "Falter" while watching them play last week: "you are changed." drowse
August creates slow, warm songscapes. He has released a wild amount of albums since starting the project last year and I'm in awe of his work ethic. Also, my friend Alex from Sprain plays on this. drowse
Portland shoegaze that plays, as the best representatives of the genre do, with huge, hollow atmosphere against intimate observations. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 23, 2016
