esoteric lover

by badorchid

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telly call 01:33
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of what is ephemeral and essential 05:35
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home is but a phantom edifice 01:51
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planetary folklore 05:08
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(i love you) 01:28
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Is our human project deeply entrenched in collective myth-making? Yes. Quite deeply; Myth-making is about existential survival.

Our realities operate on the endless tangle of narratives upon narratives upon narratives, which are constructed and re-constructed over millennia to fit a variety of evolving and often contradictory relational needs.

Building upon these ideas, this album explores what it means to be and call ourselves lovers of the stories we weave for ourselves, about others, and our world in the name of understanding "our place." The mystery (for me) lies in the magnitude of such an undertaking– we essentially cannot fathom *any* of this. And yet, myth-making has always been relevant and consequential, regardless of what is "real."

One effect of esoteric loving may be a complicated attachment to things and people, which harbors its own kind of sacred power (of nostalgia?).

Anyway. I hope you enjoy the noise. <3

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Composed, alchemized, and produced by Elise Mills. Recorded September 2021.

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released July 15, 2022

Notes:

"The things I like best are the ones that have no reason to exist."

I recently skimmed a silly book by Stéphane Garnier called "How To Live Like The Little Prince." It was an impulse purchase at my local bookstore, and I didn't realize that it's marketed as a kind of self-help book with a diary format. The book is underwhelming at best. However, this singular quote stayed with me. I can't find this exact translation anywhere else on the internet, so I think it is the translator of this specific book's attempt to anglicize the French of wherever the equivalent line shows up in the original Little Prince book. Wherever it comes from, it sure resonates.

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Elise is a queer experimental sound artist based in San Francisco. She has finally returned to basking in the warmth of pure synth-ful noise.

The sound universes of musique concrete, drone, ambient, soviet-era russian film, and experimental classical music inform her compositional practice. She is especially interested in the metaphysicality of sound. ... more

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