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by Travis Wyche

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SOLEN aubade flare morning mindmare streamed sheen pearled nadir Smelted scenes hot morning sheen Sweltered lumen beams singing sol celestial cinder chorus coal Waning orb mercurial photon phantom lore Brilliant seed Perspiring Seething solar rings lantern lace cresting singed blaze flush out my malaise Glimmer glow glinting high flow towing all below haloed eye white solstice tides frothing cup of light crown my mountain mind SKOGEN Woodland wild chopped and piled shadowed shroud dimmed surround i hear your drone in monotone timbers blown cold bloodstone oh grisly grove of barren loam obfused sloe hear my poem let mine alone so i can hum your onyx song and reform what you've shown inked milestone moaned through bones STENER abysmal molten hall ancestral enamel sagittal pedestal epochral mineral formed from all hear my call stannic wall midnight shoal sea of coal we've grown cold dim and dull lapsed from all purling drawl hold my tone calcium bone sombre plume deafened poem match my groan before i'm blown and make known we're both alone
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HAVET Waves on a gray sway Of death and decayed salted cliché My feet follow your curves As you relay my grisaille haze Today is just like yesterday One moment appears then fades away Today is just like yesterday One moment a pier then only the waves NORRA STRANDEN So I say to myself saying Sway with the clay Be like the stones being softened to shape Be the sea and see myself singing The song of the long winding waves SÖDRA STRANDEN Serpentine streams Leaves leavening the dough of the path Silver fools pool Swollen wet room mercurial loom I look into the brine and remove all her kind Words with no meaning I cross both sides Baring no hides to hide My knowns are blind
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Guitar, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Organs, Custom Analog Electronics, Vocals, & All Recording Production by Travis Wyche.
Written & Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden 2013-2015.

"Ö is an elegant pictogram, a signifier that formally represents the physical geography it references. Ö is a parsimonious integer, representing a wondrously poetic meter & deepening metaphor for isolation in a single word-glyph. This letter is not used in the English alphabet, but phonetically the pronunciation takes on an affect of disgust & exhaustion, exasperation & disappointment, a gentle melancholic exhale that so succinctly describes the gestalt of a single wave differentiated from the sea. This semiotic & expressive elegance is the inspiration for the album. Recorded slowly over the last 2 years of living in Sweden, I have attempted to translate this glyph into a series of psychic islands & situate them within a black ocean of ceaseless churning, an archipelago of gray shades & dark tones. I worked on the islands while they worked on me & delineating the differences between the meandering shorelines seems less significant than the tracing conducted with feet & mind over space & through time."

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released January 1, 2016

All music written, performed, recorded, and mixed by TW in and around Stockholm Sweden and Seydisfjördur Iceland circa 2013-2015.

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Thickly layered superimpositions of fuzz soaked open-tuned guitars, subharmonic bass, and reverb drenched vocal harmonies are off set by spine tickling shakers, ethereal drum machines, rippling tape loops and shimmering oscillator diatribes.

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