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The Book of Trinkets

by andrew sherwell

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This is an awkward album. Some of this awkwardness is unconscious and unplanned, the by-product of lo-fi techniques and studio ineptitude. Some is planned and conscious, the product of searching for rifts, of searching for the symbols of the divine that show up in the trash stratum, to misquote Philip K. Dick. Through awkwardness and juxtapositions, glimpses of something else can be seen, a something that is lost in the polished, the tuned, the smooth. Partly because I believe ‘better’ works often come with their own inbuilt responses, by engaging with them they engender a set reaction, so there is simply no room nor stimulus for the listener/reader/viewer’s own interpretation and thoughts. The art has become artifice – merely propaganda or pornography.
By embracing the rifts, the imperfect, the awkward, and the juxtaposition, we turn our backs on works that are apparently perfect reflections, as comforting and numbing as they are, of a reality that doesn’t really exist anyway – it’s again propaganda and pornography. To push further, alongside art, we need other, obsolete modes of thinking, approaches that, well, capitalism has forced out. We need more magic, more religion. Through art, magic, religion, we can push back, think for ourselves and finally see the radical mystery, the Other, the divine behind everything and that makes life, and by extension, us anything but irrelevant.
All that from some static and too much reverb.

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released June 25, 2022

Music & Artwork by Andrew Sherwell
Mastering by Stephan Mathieu - Schwebung Mastering

With thanks to Paul SMR and Stephan for keeping the faith and staying in the circle.

Originally released October 8th, 2021 on Shimmering Moods Records.

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"As the shadows closed in, the stars came out"
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