world island, by monastics

world island

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1.	I Come From Nowhere 02:15	buy track
2.	Contactless Delivery 03:38	buy track
3.	Taste the Blood 02:46	buy track
4.	World Island 02:13	buy track
5.	Eons of Night 07:06	buy track
6.	Zorlac 05:02	buy track
7.	MJ-12 03:42	buy track
8.	For K (parts I and II) 14:30	buy track

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Monastics was active in New York City in the late 2000s / early 2010s. While the trio of EJ Fry, Don Chase, and Jeremy Hurewitz have scattered to different parts of the country, they have remained close and during the pandemic connected through the isolation of quarantine and began swapping tracks. With tape loops, beats, electronics, and guitar (which listeners might recognize from Jeremy’s Rootless project), “World Island” reflects a changing world that is being eclipsed by darkness but where fragments of light emerge, beguiling and beautiful. The voices of south Asian children on “I come from nowhere,” the soft rain loops recorded on a hutong on Beijing on “For K, Parts 1&2,” and the stark ache of “contactless delivery” strangely offer a feeling of global solidarity for a moment in time when everyone was experiencing some version of the same thing, a “World Island” that we were all temporarily placed on.

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released January 12, 2022

monastics is don chase, ej fry, jeremy hurewitz
mastered by conrad burnham

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