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IV - Tardigrade Bouncing

by noemienours

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Bear Market 05:17
“Shrinking from the insincere, could any self-esteem do anything but decrease your chances of survival? Shrinking from the Holocene, could any clarity help me to see through this?”
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Slow Walker 04:56
“I have ever been a slow walker Ever been fast at going slow Is it water keeping me slow? Is it the shallowness of things speeding up your decay? How long will I stay death-like at the bottom of the seabed? I have ever been a slow walker each time your life has failed to reach any meaning I have ever been a slow walker Ever been fast at being slow I might be eager to reach some purpose.”
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Cryptobiosis 05:31
“Time stood still Adaptive termination Safe from metabolizing Adaptive termination”
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“Forms might not be made to preserve their meaning, but their intent might still. The informed, the preformed, the under-formed might be closer to its truth as it has remained untouched by this big-scale vagueness.”
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“Hidden in the moss does not feel like we should ever meet again No one wants it anymore might be the most obvious escape Will I keep bouncing back With no remaining escape Is this all that’s left: Sounding a better onset? Will I keep bouncing back With no remaining escape?”
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Tidal Molt 07:40
“Some species, not being extinction-prone, is not their scene. How much insignificance should I face For the time this tidal molt keeps me away from being? Some species, not being extinction-prone, is not their scene. How much insignificance should I face To find my way back? How much insignificance?”
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Anoxybiosis 05:23
“Staying around was no place to breathe anymore Breathing through my whole body, being whole, breathing whole. There is room to breathe where moss is standing tall. Being whole, breathing whole.”

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All proceeds of digital sales are donated to Greenpeace.

Recorded in Stockholm on Fostex R8 reel-to-reel 8-track, except Wasser Bärchen I and II, recorded on Marantz SD-53 tape deck.

"Many years ago I discovered and listened to Windswept Trees & Houses, the first compilation by the Jewelled Antler Collective, and since then life has never been the same. Through the wide-eyed, wonder-filled woodland warble of bands like The Family Apostolic, Thuja, and The Knit Separates I gained a new appreciation for nature that far surpassed the simple acknowledgement I’d always held; the outdoors became not just a place to be but a place in which to do, to make and collect and listen. noemienours hails from Stockholm, many miles from the JAC’s home base of the sun-drenched west coast (although Kemialliset Ystävät were featured on Heat & Birds, the follow-up to Windswept Trees), but the sublime, artfully naïve reverence of these “all-ages bear-saving non-ideological vegan drug-free home-recorded lullabies from the forests of Sweden” gives me that same childlike burn for adventure, possibility, and harmonization. Carefully laid to tape using an 8-track reel-to-reel, the delicate meanderings that comprise Tardigrade Bouncing are speckled with the dusty brightness of tape hiss; clean, plucky electric guitar; and gentle, often barely audible percussive backing that imbues many of the tracks with motion simultaneously driving and lethargic. But while these soft serenades bolstered by noemienours’ haunting vocals and sparse, elegant piano are sunny enough to make you smile, they also hold a deeply elegiac current that only reveals itself upon repeated listens. This artist has a profound love for living things of all forms, and any such empath has plenty to lament in the twisted world we’ve built—we’re quite lucky that they chose such an unforgettably gorgeous way to do so." (Jack Davidson, noise not music)

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released April 10, 2021

All music, lyrics, artworks, layout, mixing, mastering by noemienours 2020.

This is noemienours records #6.

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noemienours records Norrbotten County, Sweden

All-ages bear-saving non-ideological/de-anthropologized, vegan/drug-free/alcohol-free, endangered, human-free, non-profit, sentient home-recordings from the forests of Sweden. Spiritual ancestors of noemienours’ aristocratic tradition include F. Rabelais, R. Burton, C. Mouton, F. Couperin, L. Sterne, L.-F. Céline, the Care Bears and Herta Müller. ... more

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