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Absence of Invocation

by Janis Lago

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When Faced With Seal Liver Georgian Winter Will Quiver 11:12
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Royalty Abhor Me: the inspirational journey of one distastefully pompous Middle American woman into the abyss and beyond sanity, the search for wasted time in an industrial landfill 19:56
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a Song for everyone who has projected onto me 14:14

about

original description:
"finally recorded this album after having the cover in the Next Year's Snow drafts for months. it was originally intended to accompany 3000 Rivers by my dear friend OMS (please listen immediately if you haven't already), but it didn't initially materialize because i ended up making however many other things in the span of time in which i would've originally recorded Absence of Invocation. all this goes to show that you can't predict your artistic trajectory and trying is a horrible idea.

horrible ideas are out of fashion. i say we should be out with those and in with believing everything in the art world is worth a try, for we don't have to worry about reputations when you have only 500 twitter followers and are mostly known as a striking oddity without exact compare. no matter how many correct comparisons to influences there are for people to make to you, it will remain that way. however, the trick is deciding that you're gonna keep doing what you do when you don't have 500 twitter followers anymore, when you're either famous beyond belief or trapped in the abyss of perpetual obscurity for another year or two longer. do what makes you happy.

what makes you happy, i have discovered, is highly variable, at least for me. i'm happy knowing i've made a contribution to broader existence in the present moment and that the recording process can turn the present moment into something diffuse across what is continuously becoming the present, the future. i was not invoked to create this work, it's just something that struck me as intriguing to make. there is no divine inspiration here, just the joy of continued existence, and that's beautiful in and of itself.

that said, enjoy the record."

originally released on Next Year's Snow (NYS#166) 2024.03.06
nextyearssnow.bandcamp.com/album/absence-of-invocation
re-released on this page 2024.03.09

just giving this a prompt re-release before i drive back to my university tomorrow. i don't really have much else to say about it that isn't already in the description. hope you enjoy...again!

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released March 6, 2024

Janis Lago: production, laptop, vocals, sound design, processing, Konzertzither, piano, synthesizer, effects, H4n recorder, mixing, mastering, cover art

Recorded 20240305-20240306

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