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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.
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lyrics
I want to fly so far away that I’m forgotten,
to remain impressed in those I never knew.
Magic glue,
disappearing and cementing,
strong and hidden: self-extending.
It’s easy:
“I know no one
and no one knows me.”
Is knowing actually a real thing?
Is it all just thought and feeling?
In aging our memories shrink,
in others our memory grows.
Early 2010s:
I didn’t live in Bellingham;
his broken nose: a rhizome root.
My crooked face is ash in wind.
I didn’t blackout each weekend,
no tears in soup or oldest friends,
no life before this moment,
a memory of a memory:
a story of self controlling me.
In aging our memories shrink,
in others our memory grows.
I’d be devoted to distance,
if not for aging parents;
boxes in the attic,
mold forming in absence.
credits
from Wane into It,
released November 11, 2022
Lula Asplund (vocals), and Taylor Malsey (violin)
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