Sister Time by Amy Cutler

"I thought you were an anchor in the drift of the world;
but no: there isn’t an anchor anywhere.
There isn’t an anchor in the drift of the world. Oh no.
I thought you were. Oh no. The drift of the world."
William Bronk – The World

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SISTER TIME is a tape-work collaboration between Cutler now and herself as a child. All cassette samples are from mixtapes originally made by the artist in the late nineties on her first Hi-Fi (bought with the prize money from winning a children’s drawing competition). Between vaporwave and a child’s hyper-focus on a looped chorus, the album draws on growing up as a girl listening to a canon of male singers, bearing their souls against the ills of time.
Cutler’s practice is not just in the tape-stretching and manipulation, but also in the original heavy listening patterns and fascinations which produced these muffled elegies. The mixtapes and their psychedelic idealism-slash-existentialism were also resonant to revisit during lockdown years of lost time and losing touch.
Instruments beside tape include synth, hourglass, and a run-down VHS of The Land Before Time. For the full intended listening experience please use a cheap pair of headphones in the backseat of a car, bus, or in your bedroom.

Tracklist

1.	it is only a dream of the grass blowing	4:05

2.	sad and unfinished (the swirl of the wind)	3:51

3.	sleeper train to nowhere	6:07

4.	broken trust loop	2:24

5.	it’s okay	0:56

6.	lost field, empty reins	5:52

7.	tears of dust (tape cassette 1997)	1:23

8.	sister time	1:04

9.	I’ll be that man	2:07

10.	dear phantom	4:15

11.	the swirl, reprise	1:55

12.	fog tape	2:58

13.	where are the lost summer days	2:08

14.	wolf tape	3:34

15.	we sang a song in the radioactive chamber of decay	5:18

16.	the inanity of distance	2:23

17.	agents of time	1:18

18.	the drift of the world	1:20

19.	I covered my love	2:43

20.	go live in the woods or something	6:31

21.	did you miss me	1:44

22.	until (anthropocene hearts)	2:00

23.	her face at first just ghostly	1:19

24.	(...)	1:32

Credits

released May 26, 2023

Cover artwork by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.