flow / in the midst

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flow / in the midst are released together with a collectible sculptural necklace edition made by visual artist Martha Hviid.

pendant : clay, silver, gold, saltwater pearl, vax, varnish
necklace : silver cable chain (925 sterling) 0,35mm/55cm

The shape of a drop calls on an ambiguity of water. Water that flows, rain that pours (rinsing off everything it comes into contact with), the ocean (symbolising life). Water also speaks to the act of crying, shedding tears, working through grief. After an explosion or collapse, the dust settles, and rain will come to sweep it away.

The drop-shaped pendants are covered in dust; something considered a remnant - a ‘dirty’ and superfluous by-product, normally not to be kept. In this case the dust comes from the precious metals involved in jewellery production. Silver, gold and pearl (which by the way grows slowly from just a speck of sand), together creating a textured surface on the pendants, somehow both grimy and glittery at the same time. The dust can travel on with these tears. Like a flicker of something precious and beautiful, almost unnoticeable but very much present in the drops, as a reminder of the ebb and flow in the two songs.

*All the dust has been collected from a jeweller working with ethically sourced saltwater pearls and with a general focus on sustainability. Thank you to STINE VESTEN JEWELLERY for dust and advice throughout the making of this project.

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1.	flow 02:12	lyrics
the wake is hard the fall is long to take innocent life anymore, life any more time anymore, time anymore the wake is hard, the fall is long, to take innocent life life life life life... [∞]
2.	in the midst 06:06	lyrics
bless the light of the day bless the open of doors bless the rain upon a dusty plain the place in which we met holds all of these things moreover the tidal wave of sentiment i could not say, i could not say, i could not say a no moments racing towards us in the midst of sun in the midst of sunlight in the midst of sun in the midst of sun where the light goes we will follow like the break of a cool wind, freshness before us with longevity, divine resource never forgetting any other name never forgetting responsibility, the blood and the muscle wood carving open realities making way for a new life making way for a new moment gaining closure spinning breathless into summer into sunlight into rainfall into snow capped mountains into all… moments taking over moments racing towards us moments gaining closure in the midst of sun in the midst of sunlight... [∞]

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these two songs mean a lot to me and i felt it was time to share ♥︎
they are, in a way, twin sides of a strange and precious coin: on one face, despair in the face of death -- dark, sad, yet revealed to be beautiful in its own way, because of how within those difficult emotions is an avenue for meaningful connection with something larger...
...and in this manner, despair and death can be transformed into life again -- a blossoming into something bright, warm, joyful.

thanks to dear kit records for taking this bb on;
in their words:
"Wisconsin-raised, east coast-based artistic polymath aden surfaces on London's Kit Records, following their acclaimed EP on Goldsmiths University's own NX (itself an offshoot of Matthew Herbert's Accidental imprint).

These two new pieces see undulating piano meet with carnatic percussion, contrails of brass and melodic bass, in increasingly uncategorisable constellations. aden's tenderly acrobatic voice is itself deployed as an instrument, earthly hums and stellar ad libs helixing ambitiously into the void.

Recommended if you like L'Rain, Francis Plagne, Tirzah."

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released February 4, 2022

credits:
track 1 ~ drum sample from bill mead (organic loops) ~ mixed by sam beste & aden at the arboretum
track 2 ~ mrudangam: rajna swaminathan ~ drum kit: linda-philomène tsoungui ~ mixed by richard greenan & aden

all tracks / otherwise instruments written, recorded, & produced by aden at home

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e by day, a by night

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