Today has been rough. And while the Fox has faded away from being my place to go into personal stuff, I wanted to leave a mark on this day.
I needed a song and a track from Kelela's TAKE ME A_PART, THE REMIXES (2018) felt like the only track I wanted to listen to. Nathaniel W James and David Quam have gone beyond to create a beautiful ambient-driven take on the original and this is soothing, and warm, and sad.
For almost all oral cultures, the enveloping and sensuous earth remains the dwelling place of both the living and the dead. The “body” — whether human or otherwise — is not yet a mechanical object in such cultures, but is a magical entity, the mind’s own sensuous aspect, and at death the body’s decomposition into soil, worms, and dust can only signify the gradual reintegration of one’s ancestors and elders into the living landscape, from which all, too, are born.
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