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Ceremonial Drift

by Sister Atlas

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drain 10:28
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con 03:38
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am51 06:05
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evil eye 06:36
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drift 05:26
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back 04:15

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Ceremonial Drift was recorded between March 2020 - February 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, Canada. Having not visited my home country and family for more than a year and watching life and death from a distance, recording this album became part of my recreation of memories, re-living of experiences and oblivion. Leaving Athens, as most people of my generation, leaving family, friends and community behind, I discovered Toronto as a city of strangers, grey skies and reluctant faces. I wondered how all the women in my family had felt when they left home for a very different place, as I did, across the world, across generations. In the blur of oblivion and the distortion of isolation the sounds of everyday life, the sonic memories of home, songs, voices, the news, all became one, in between dreams and panicked awakenings, the agony of belonging and finding ground. Between dreams and reality, Clarice Lispector’s words stuck in my mind, while listening to the sounds that lived in my recording gear, in my mind and imagination: “A note exists between two notes of music, between two facts exists a fact, between two grains of sand no matter how close together there exists an interval of space, a sense that exists between senses”(Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.). Ceremonial Drift is the product of slowly getting lost in the practice of memory, desire, in between hypnotic states.
Field recordings from Athens, rural places on the West Coast of Greece, recorded during 2019-2020, as well as sounds from construction sites, a/c systems of residential buildings, street sounds, little things of everyday life recorded right before and during the pandemic, along with samples of greek traditional folk music, form this ceremonial drift into memory, (distorted) reality and dreams.

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released October 1, 2021

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