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When You Look into a Hole the Hole Will Look into You

by Sheer Zed

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Drawing while in a state of meditational trance can yield interesting and unexpected forms. They speak to you their own special type of wisdom and can offer a glimpse sometimes of the wiring under the board of consciousness. The album When You Look into a Hole the Hole Will Look into You offers two examples of audio channeling using two different techniques. The first title track of the album takes its beginnings from a meditational trance drawing that was done some time ago. Looking at it in a ’say what you see’ way opened up the language to access the name of the track. Once this had been obtained I then looked further into the language and the drawings contours to speculate what was being said to me. Was this a portal to another dimension? An unborn child’s view of its slow but traumatic entry into being? Maybe this was a sight of what the group Coil would call ’The Anal Staircase’?

Or could it be someone travelling into a dense and impenetrable cave system underground to be met by some form of spirit presence? Maybe the resonance from my visit to the immense and awe-inspiring and beautiful Chiang Dao Meditation Caves in Northern Thailand have imprinted a tract of infinity deep within my isness. Is there an isness? Is becoming and un-becoming, a detachment from existence and materialism the ultimate thought here? All suppositions could be considered but none can be fully determined unless the viewer and what they observe concurs. Everyone has their own view of what is tentatively called the truth and there are as many truths as there stars in the night sky.

The second track of this album was created after an interaction with artist, author and animist Charlotte Rodgers (charlotte-rodgers-caya.squarespace.com). “Conducted a very interesting experiment with surreal results late last night. I actually pulled your book ‘P is for Prostitute’ off my shelf. I then randomly flicked through it quickly. I then put the brakes on a random page and placed at speed my finger on a sentence. The result was "Stand by the Piano and Sing Hymns for Them in My Distinctive Monotone" How bizarre is that? I took these words as instructions (as I saw them) and started to build up a track using piano and voices.” – 21st March 2018.

And so begins an experiment...After Charlotte posted on her social media page that she was producing work for an exhibition of her sublime and magnetic sculptures the idea immediately came into my mind that maybe I could possibly produce a piece of music inspired by her work.

The urge to re-read her excellent book ‘P is for Prostitute’ took hold and I allowed my instinctual side to guide me at which point the randomization technique of page flicking took place. During a conversation the idea that lead me to creatively channel the track ‘Stand by the Piano and Sing Hymns for Them in My Distinctive Monotone’ began to quickly transpire. The process was rapid. Indeed so rapid that I was standing outside of myself most of the time I was producing the work so that I felt as if I was allowing incoming movement and flow of spirit to engage more easily. In the space of a few hours this second piece had emerged. So here stand two tracks with two different techniques of approach on one album. This album was originally released in June 2019. There is a five page PDF that accompanies the download of this album.

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released May 7, 2021

Audio produced by Sheer Zed.
Hand drawn cover art by Sheer Zed.
Mastering by Steve Kitch Mastering.

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Sheer Zed Bristol, UK

Sheer Zed is a writer, Buddhist shaman, musician and artist who has published articles on his experiences in the occult ritualistic aspects of shamanism and Thai Lanna Buddhism in Indie Shaman, Rituals and Declarations and the Folklore Thursday website. Music reviews: "Extraordinary" "immersive" & "exciting" - Louder Than War. "A tour de force" - TQ. "A veteran Bristol noise shaman" - The Séance. ... more

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