Etterath by PUSCHA
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Written across 2020-2021, this album encapsulates a sample of mental and emotional spaces experienced throughout the pandemic, a time spent largely in isolation.
In an attempt to feel something in a time of dwindling experiences and inspiration, these recordings perpetuate a tension and a yearning for catharsis. A quiet revolution could be felt in my spare room studio while I became familiar with temporality and transience.
Where do we go when our lives feel as if they’ve evaded continuity and linearity? What do we conceive of lost time? Has something remained within, untouched by borders and sacrifices? Many existential thoughts and questions were prompted by these last two years. Something became smaller yet clearer as the months went by.
Listening back and remembering where the last two years left me and where I came, I am surprised that I could put together enough material that I believed in enough to release. Life was a long and arduous routine, yet slipped by as a strange, nightmarish dream. I was left with a vague memory of who I was before it all. These recordings were created as an attempt to hold on to an identity that I felt was fading, to create a memento and feel something beyond mundanity. Life never stopped, even if it sometimes felt as if it had. I wanted to make sense and meaning of these stuttered states of limbo.
Tracklist
| 1. | Sonder | 9:38 |
| 2. | Etiolate | 7:17 |
| 3. | Miscellany | 6:52 |
| 4. | Eschatolalic | 9:00 |
| 5. | Arboreality | 8:04 |
Credits
Artwork: Natalie Kay-Thatcher
Mastering: Ashley Cadell
