My track “The Sign to Return is in the Earth’s Spin” is composed solely of sounds from Lebanese improviser Mazen Kerbaj’s trumpet. The album concept is collaborative (remotely, borne of lockdown and true internationalism) and provides exciting and at once contemplative results.
Thinking on my visits to Palestinian refugee camps, an attempt to visiti an orphanage in my last two visits to Kerbaj’s city of Beirut, I picked a tempo that might connotate a celestial turn. This turn, to me is reflected in humans’ own inner core, our cells are but a microcosm of the great heaving planet that hosts us. And to it we will return.
This track “The Sign to Return is in the Earth’s Spin” is a continuation of an idea, a place imagined on my solo album (as Bradley-Weaver) “Systems for a Score” on The Vinyl Factory, UK. The track “May The Future Keep Its Core” is an audio decription of the core of the earth, where we cannot go. It is a cry for integrity. Integrity in materiality, in our choices vis a vis the environment and what we understand of it, in our role in preserving it. It is a purring ode to slowness, echoing over millennia, cadences rising and falling in space, speeding up to the crashing, unstoppable ‘now’, forever becoming the future. Inevitability drives the return, a circular motion, truly planetary in its sonic scope. The Palestinian yearning for the right to return, is a microcosm of humankind’s innate need for circularity and closure.
Morphine Records in Berlin have dropped the massive collaboration as a CD, double vinyl or digital release. Featured are Muquta’a (Palestine), Dj Sniff (Japan), Microhm and many others of note.
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