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1.
But Still 15:31
2.
From Real 07:56
3.
Bell Skin 14:46
4.
Moss Rock 08:40

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Candles Aren’t Water But Still: Drink Drink Drink

We want language to be real, or maybe we just want it to sound real.
Or do we want language to not sound real, but be real, or make real.
Real language is the stuff we hear, they say.
The sound makes it real.
When it goes from real – outside the body – back into the body, via earhair and fleshcushions, more realness.
Undulate with me, but preferably against me.
Reverberate like flesh.
Piano to double bass to vibraphone: which itch, what scratch?
Reverberant bell skin.
Tin rattle pitched to dent.
A new bell, a new skin.
Off-pitch dent muster, creeping plant vine.
Moss on rock.
Rock with moss.
Glow of moss on rock.
Race to slow down, longest.
Growth of fire from two stones.

Music as the ultimate time-lapse sequence.
Real-time zoom-in magnification of infinitesimal to durational.
Shimmering in thanks as response to doubt: now can walk further afield.
Finally unbaffled.

The fatally thankful clunderclap: now a single loose string to tauten or not.
Achieving inexactitude perfectly.
Measures and methods of perfecting inexactitude.
The just-so of an exact presence purring with immateriality.
Practiced polysemy, practical polyphony.
Make a sense to exercise the sensation of meaning.

The how? No please; no thanks.
Pleasure and gratitude are better than that.
Bones are made of flutes not the other way around.
Forget opposites, it’s contradictions in thirds, the better to stick and fit.
The strength of triangles for the ultimate supportive throb.
Candles aren’t water but still – drink drink drink
The moment of losing the intimidation of plants.
An angel made of water lighting candles.
Wilderness of detail delivered in static reframing.
Big, dark, open spaces illuminated with small, light, faint things.
A candle flame always roughly the same size.
But O the shapes.
Half human, half fire.
Half candle, half water.
The parabola of the vital thwack of life.

Andrew Choate, May 2020

credits

released May 1, 2021

1. But Still (15:32)
2. From Real (7:56)
3. Bell Skin (14:47)
4. Moss Rock (8:41)

Ingrid Schmoliner: piano
Adam Pultz Melbye: double bass
Emilio Gordoa: vibraphone

Released by Inexhaustible Editions

All music by GRIFF (Ingrid Schmoliner, Adam Pultz Melbye & Emilio Gordoa)
Recorded by Bernhard Rupprecht in Moers, Germany on 19 April 2019
Mixed and mastered by Alexander Yannilos
Liner notes by Andrew Choate
Cover and label artwork by Lena Czerniawska
Graphic design by László Szakács
Produced by: Ingrid Schmoliner & László Juhász
Special thanks to Moers Festival / Improviser In Residence 2019
Kindly supported by SKE – Soziale & Kulturelle Einrichtungen Der Austromechana

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