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Before Common Era

by Chester Hawkins

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Patricide 10:39
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Nucleus 06:24
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Heterotopia 08:45
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Blood 03:33

about

Photographs taken before a tragic incident often feel heavy with mystery, as if there were molecules of terror in the air--invisible at the time, but foreshadowing the tragedy to come.

Thus, BEFORE COMMON ERA is a study of audio sketches recorded in 2019, in the months just prior to the coronavirus pandemic. With the benefit of hindsight, a narrative thread was revealed in these recordings that perhaps wasn't evident before.

So, rather than contribute another "covid album" to the world, it seemed worthwhile to revisit that material from The Before: material never meant for release, and examine it like pre-tragedy photographs. 2019 on the autopsy table feels very different now.

Detailed notes are provided for each piece. Thank you for listening.

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released February 18, 2022

Hawkins: all sounds & graphics. Cover photograph "A Bold Nutrient" (capybara skull and videotape, 2019). Audio mastering by Mark Beazley.

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Intangible Arts Tucson, Arizona

Headquarters for all things nil., Chester Hawkins, and Blue Sausage Infant. Heavy drone. Texture-musik. Krautrock-school. Experimental electronics. Kosmische. 1980s cassette-culture archival noise. Glacial imperatives.

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