Metaphysics of Autonomous Shadows, by Thomas Bey William Bailey

Metaphysics of Autonomous Shadows

by Thomas Bey William Bailey

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Nearly 50 minutes of new, deeply immersive music handsomely packaged in high-gloss, full color digipak with clear tray and brightly colored on-screen disc print. Expertly designed by Susana López. Purchase includes digital streaming and .pdf booklet of detailed track notes.

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1.	The Place Where The Poet Last Stood (Katabasis) 05:59	info	buy track
2.	A Vicious Circle of Passive Acceptance, A Passive Acceptance Of A Vicious Circle 09:56	info	buy track
3.	Inmingled With Ashes Of The Sun 07:45	info	buy track
4.	Luna Moth Serenade 10:40	info	buy track
5.	Epic Nobody 12:50	info	buy track

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A completely new, original album from me - available on CD and streaming / downloadable audio. This is (I mean it this time) one of my best works overall. Almost totally abandoning the frigid digital textures of its distant ancestor "Strangelet," this one aims for an almost unsettling intimacy with which to accompany a noir-drenched journey into songs of unstable identity and uncertain final destinations.

While "Metaphysics..." features many elements that will be familiar to my supporters, there are some wholly new sonic colors in the palette: emphatic choral voices, ringing metallic percussion, various Moog growls and murmurs. In many places you'll encounter a (for me) atypical "old school" musique concrete feel, in terms of the rapid instrumental interchanges, and this is meant to provide a sense of contrast and continuity with other segments of strange, spectral, "post-industrial" ambience.

We talk a lot in these unpleasant days of sound and music as therapy (don't forget Albert Ayler: "music is the healing force of the universe"). So, in an unorthodox way, this is my contribution. Much of my personal frustration with life comes from an inexplicable, perpetual need to be Somewhere Else, and with this album I hope to conjure up a virtual space that will be just that for its listeners. It is meant to be that Somewhere Else, but not a virtual space to be "escaped" into so much as one that reflects back aspects of existence in a vividly distorted way that will illuminate what is meaningful and what isn't.

Influenced / guided by (and therefore probably appealing to fans of) Giacinto Scelsi, Francis Dhomont, Iannis Xenakis, Sonic Arts Union, Coil, Nurse with Wound...

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released October 6, 2023

Thomas Bey-William Bailey - modular analog synthesis, granular synthesis, digital sampling, shortwave radio, location recording

Susana López - graphic design and layout

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Thomas Bey William Bailey is a researcher and author of several books (e.g. "To Hear The World With New Eyes," "Micro Bionic," "Sonic Phantoms") as well as a dedicated sound artist and editor of the Fifteen Minutes of Anonymity label.

His work explores issues of unstable identity, post-industrial technology, and the hidden wonders at the edges of perception. ... more

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