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In 2016, I was privileged to visit the Martu in Parnngurr, a remote West Australian Indigenous Community located 370kms East of Newman, on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert. The Martu I met changed the way I thought about life. One elder there, Nola Taylor, told me that after we die we ”Go Back to Country”. She seemed to be suggesting that we remained in the world in some form, and that we do not leave upon death, challenging ideas I had learned as a child that our goal as humans was to escape the cycle of creation. That desire for escape from Nature seems dysphoric to me now.
Dec 26, 2024
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Etta’s family is from a small town in Nevada called Yerington (population ~3,000). We try to make trips as often as we can. There’s not much to do besides drinking, gambling, shooting guns, riding a mule, and exploring the desert. Every time we go we feel really inspired and creative and at this point it feels like a second home to us. Shotout Marg, Serg, Bret and Mare <3
Jan 31, 2025
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i am feeling gold-miner-esque tendencies lately to escape new england and go to the desert……one day
Feb 13, 2024
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I’m back at my very rural childhood home for a quick visit. i choose not to live out here for lots of reasons, but there is something special about sitting by the open window in the morning, the dog resting his head on my lap. I can hear clearly the conversation between three or four different types of birds, the methodical hum of crickets and grasshoppers in the background, the sound of the occasional car or truck passing by. Yesterday I walked through some of the fields out back, and with every step I took, insects and frogs jumped away from the tread of my feet. The sky is clear and cloudless today, and the trees on the hills are thinking about changing their colors soon for fall. I’m not ready to come back full time but I’m grateful I get to visit and remember how special it is here.
Sep 10, 2024
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She recorded this song by George Harrison and improvised new lyrics. She addresses the state of the world in a heartbreaking way. The recording just shakes with feeling. I saw Nina Simone the first time she came back to NYC at Carnegie Hall in about 1992 and it was only half sold. I clung to the balcony rails and cried for 2 hours.
Dec 26, 2024
Billy’s is my favorite music in the world. His whole catalog is immortal. He just released a new piece called September 23rd. It is a loop based ambient work comprised of a piano melody cut up from the early 80s that has been treated and processed. I always say Basinski’s music is the most helpful artwork I have ever known. I must have listened to his records for tens of thousands of hours. I am playing it before my concerts.
Dec 26, 2024
Buffy is a remarkable song writer and activist. To me she is one the great American song writers of the last century, and she identifies the crisis of capitalism and the cruelty of these structures we are all beholden to in such a visceral way; her artwork is singular. I will always be grateful to her for her vision and her generosity as an artist.
Dec 26, 2024