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Butterflies, Birds, Rainbows and Wind Turbines

by Sheer Zed

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This album of two long form experimental ambient pieces is inspired by the random event of happening upon an unfamiliar place. The tracks feature electronic and organic elements therein. In her paper Geography and the Visual Image: A Hauntological Approach by Elisabeth Roberts she states, “Like ghosts, visual images have an undecidable, ‘in-between’ status, haunting between material and immaterial, real and virtual. Both are theorized as dead and alive, representation and presentation, as deadened, flattened copies of reality or animate, affective, transformative, having a ‘life’ of their own.” These wind turbines are indeed alive and in their swirling and vortexing sounds speak to us in a new language of air currents and hidden whistling messages.

Butterflies, Birds, Rainbows and Wind Turbines was meant to be released in a limited-edition cassette run on a small cassette label on the 26th of November 2021. A photograph of myself reading a copy of Phil Hine’s chaos magic book The Pseudonomicon was a part of the publicity package for this album along with a quote from the said book in an accompanying essay that comes with the album. The photograph of myself reading The Pseudonomicon was then subsequently printed as small cards without my permission by the label. It was then inferred by the tape label owner via email very close to the scheduled release date on the 16th of November 2021 that "someone" had told the label owner that the photo could seemingly in some way support the racist values of H. P. Lovecraft and his similar sounding book The Necronomicon and could in some bizarre and weird way be interpreted as being the values held by the cassette tape label. The Pseudonomicon is not a racist book and the label owner hadn't even read it. Over a number of emails I stated emphatically that myself, the book and Phil Hine were not supportive of racism in anyway whatsoever.

The label owner wounded by a number of emails by my assertive, logically reasoned argument and the occasional withering put-down then decided to not release the music and stated that they would destroy and “repurpose” all copies of the tape release in what can only be seen as a mindless act. This release contains a seven page PDF essay on the subsequent fallout and genesis of this now physically aborted release. A full blog on the controversy surrounding this release can be found here ☛ sheerzed.me/2021/11/18/wind-turbines-racism-and-phil-hines-the-pseudonomicon/

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released November 26, 2021

Sheer Zed would like to thank Phil Hine, Mum, Mr. Zenon Rayter, John Conway, Kristian Pont, Mae Surasatee, Insulate Britain, Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace, Shelter, Andy Wood at TQ zine, The Thai Occult, Rituals & Declarations zine, Paul Watson and Hookland.
Audio production and mastering by Sheer Zed.
Photographs by Sheer Zed.

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Sheer Zed Bristol, UK

Sheer Zed is a writer, Buddhist Shaman, & musician. He's published with Indie Shaman, Hadean Press, Rituals and Declarations, Folklore Thursday, Salt & Mirrors & Cats. He contributed to Bristol Museum's exhibition Do You Believe in Magic? Music reviews: "Immersive" & "exciting" - Louder Than War. "A veteran Bristol noise shaman" - The Séance. "Complex, beautiful and intelligent" - At The Barrier. ... more

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