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EL HAMBONG

by ELKA BONG

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Blurred Borders 10:31
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Shifting Identities 11:12
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Strange Odors 10:44
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4.
Zen Peacefulness 10:41
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“On an ordinary day, the human ear is bombarded with sound - anything and everything: the whine of the mosquito, the neighbor’s lawn mower, the ratchety clock movement, sirens, seagulls, an old dog’s snoring, car engines, and the popping roll of tires on hot pavement. Our minds, of course, automatically filter much of this hubbub. But at what cost? What happens to the unfiltered material? Cleaning the filter in my clothes dryer yields fuzzy bedding of dog hair, threads, shredded Kleenex, and once, a striking black-and-white feather, small and striped, cleaned and surely destined for more than the trash. I run my fingers across the lint trap, gathering the clean down. Scraped and softened linen like this was once used as dressing for wounds - a buffer between raw wound and a barrage of bacteria. Too much buildup of lint, though, and the wound can’t breathe, the dryer will catch fire, your house will burn down. Does the human mind work the same way? Are there long screens we need occasionally to pull from our heads, run our fingers up, gathering into a pleated, linty accordion the excesses of noise we haven’t processed? Do we need occasionally the silence of refuge for the way it lets our minds breathe more easily?”

~ Barbara Hurd, Stirring the Mud, pg 49

credits

released February 3, 2023

Al Margolis - acoustic guitar, objects [1]; bowed electric guitar, ARP 2600, objects [2]; trumpet, ARP 2600 [3]; viola, objects [4]
Walter Wright - amplified drum kit
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Tom Hamilton - electronics, mix

Track titles from a review of Barbara Hurd’s book in the New Yorker.

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ELKA BONG Chester, New York

AL MARGOLIS
“... is some sort of evil genius working with sources radically altered up to an utterly unrecognizable state, anarchic manifestations moving in compact determination.”
~ Massimo Ricci

WALTER WRIGHT
is an interdisciplinary artist, his practice includes computer programming, music, and video performance. His focus is on “improvisation as a way of being present in the world.” ... more

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