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infra​-​mince

by ditchburn

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1.
pitt rivers 01:33
2.
ebony(45rpm) 01:23
3.
4.
boss 02:10
5.
elysia 02:52
The blue and white trees Line the motorways On the way to Elysia. Ars geographica. Ars electronica. Do you not wonder As you pass on the outskirts, At the masses of the digital Hacking out pixels From rotting monitors, Labouring where no matter exists. So great was your power. So wide your fame. Elysia™. On the skyline Is the memory-bank, Compressing the fossilised dreams Of former peoples, Data upon data. The gates are open To the market place. The eye spends itself, Each click a graft, Each sight a removal. There’s a lure in the sponsored avenues, Signposts to little Berlins. Recreations of destructions As coffee shop conversations, As brainstorms. Street vendors sell their images Far along the malls. Authentic as an African famine, They give the same rush as fast-food And then they die. All around the fringes Artists terrorise the poor With their interventions. Their concentration camp experiments In advertisements. And the centre is never found. Colonists capitalise the shifting Industrial deserts, Framing vacuums with their Conceptual power.
6.
Walk in a city Blackened with tears, Feeding on the signs and the branches, Putting my mouth to huge barrels and fountains, Dragging wrought iron under my feet. It's love and it's beyond care. It took place on the cobbles A minor transaction Payment for a piece of string or a shoelace From one iron-shod to another. It’s incalculable. Float through the shades, Moments thickening on the desktop. They never meet their debts. I disperse Son father son Holy City In the camera
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8.
em 02:45
9.
spade 02:12
Its all in the shovels, The hands and the effort. The chording Of the tapered snow shovel, Asking for work in the winter idleness. The close combat in the spade of the miner. The specific upright gravity of the long handle low-lift. See the navigator, or coolie. Hot curled edges of the vinery furnace shovel. The water world of the Dutch pattern turf shovel. Peppered blade of the square-bottomed Drain shovel. Rand diamond shovel, Digger of dreams, of black death. Its head cut sharp like the spade on the card And finally, The ‘Special shovel for a university trip to Madagascar’, To dig out its heart.
10.
en 02:22
11.

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This is ditchburn's first album - the first of three in a seemingly fertile three-year creative spurt.

We are grateful to John Peel for noticing what we were doing.

credits

released June 1, 2003

Words: Robin Baillie
Music: Colin Gateley
'vanitas': Improvised by Robin Baillie & Colin Gateley
Voice:
Ruth Pelzer (boss and elysia)
Ulrika Al Khamis (crystal forest)
Piano:
Philip Keenan (en)
Painting: "Committee of Public Safety"
Robin Baillie, 1999

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