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█▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Waking The Dreaming Body ▓▓▓▓█
████ GENRE...[ Folk CAT#....[ KS052 ████
████ LABEL...[ Keeled Scales ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████
████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████
████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████
████ PLAYTIME[ 40:46 REL.DATE[ 03.14.2021 ████
████ TRACKS..[ 08 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████
████ SiZE....[ 93,46 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████
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████ 01 Reconstellated 05:04 ████
████ 02 Softer 02:45 ████
████ 03 Interlude 02:27 ████
████ 04 Window I 08:53 ████
████ 05 Window II 02:38 ████
████ 06 Horizon, Harbor Resonance 13:11 ████
████ 07 Waking the Dreaming Body 02:34 ████
████ 08 For Heddi 03:14 ████
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████ TOTAL: 40:46 ████
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████ https://karimawalker.bandcamp.com/album/waking- ████
████ the-dreaming-body ████
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████ Tucson, Arizona interdisciplinary artist Karima ████
████ Walker walks a line between two worlds. Aside ████
████ from her long resume of collaborative work with ████
████ artists in the diverse fields of dance, ████
████ sculpture, film, photography and creative non- ████
████ fiction, Walker has long nurtured a duality ████
████ within her work as a musician, developing her ████
████ own sonic language as a sound designer in ████
████ tandem with her craft as a singer/songwriter. ████
████ The polarity within WalkerÆs music has never ████
████ been so articulately explored, or graced with ████
████ as much intention, as on her new album, Waking ████
████ the Dreaming Body. ████
████ ████
████ Waking the Dreaming Body was written, performed ████
████ and engineered entirely by Walker, with the ████
████ exception of some subtle upright bass from C.J. ████
████ Boyd on the song ôWindow I.ö Producing the ████
████ album on her own wasnÆt WalkerÆs original ████
████ intention, though; after flying to New York in ████
████ November 2019 to develop some home-recorded ████
████ tracks with The BlowÆs Melissa Dyne, a sudden ████
████ illness forced Walker to cancel the sessions ████
████ and return home to Tucson to recover, and soon ████
████ after, the COVID-19 pandemic ruled out the ████
████ possibility of a return trip to New York. ████
████ Instead, Walker decided to finish the album ████
████ herself in her makeshift home studio. She spent ████
████ the following months recording, processing and ████
████ arranging her self-described ômessy Ableton ████
████ sessionsö into densely harmonic arrangements of ████
████ synthesizer, guitar, piano, percussion, field ████
████ recordings, tape loops and her own dulcet ████
████ singing voice, allowing trial, error and ████
████ intuition to guide her way. The final result is ████
████ a 40-minute dream-narrative of her conscious ████
████ and subconscious minds that oscillates between ████
████ the rich textures of her ambient compositions ████
████ (as in the instrumentals ôHorizon, Harbor ████
████ Resonanceö and ôFor Heddiö) and the melody and ████
████ poetry of her melancholic, Americana-tinged ████
████ songwriting (as in the lyrics-focused tracks ████
████ ôReconstellatedö and ôWaking the Dreaming ████
████ Bodyö), their ebb and flow recalling liminal ████
████ states of half-sleep where images and emotions ████
████ are recalled and forecasted from the previous ████
████ night's dreams. Night falls in regular ████
████ intervals throughout the album, forming a ████
████ natural dialogue between waking and dreaming. ████
████ ████
████ Walker explains: ████
████ ████
████ ôI wanted these songs to stand alone as ████
████ complete worlds, and this required a shift in ████
████ my usual way of writing. I found myself trying ████
████ to escape from an excess of interiority by ████
████ exploring outward, by thinking about the ████
████ mirroring that happens when you seek connection ████
████ to others and to the natural worldùwhen you try ████
████ to bring the outside in. I sought to make ████
████ arrangements that swell at certain moments and ████
████ barely hold together at others, moving with my ████
████ breath and other rhythms connecting my body to ████
████ the natural world. Ultimately, I was seeking to ████
████ draw myself out, to reconstruct my personal ████
████ narrative.ö ████
████ ████
████ ôI see myself as an in between person I guess,ö ████
████ Walker continues. ôThough I haven't very ████
████ explicitly brought my own personal history into ████
████ my music, I think it's there, and it continues ████
████ to show up in its own ways and time. I am Arab, ████
████ half North African/Tunisian on my mother's ████
████ side, but was raised in a very white context, ████
████ with a lot of white passing privilege, ████
████ especially as I've gotten older. My mom came to ████
████ California as an immigrant to this country ████
████ after marrying my dad in the rural village ████
████ where she grew up. She came to Los Angeles and ████
████ was working at McDonaldÆs and different ████
████ Mediterranean restaurants around the city, and ████
████ was kind of discovered at one of these jobs. ████
████ The singer didn't show up one night, so her ████
████ coworkers told her to sing a couple songs she ████
████ knew. She only knew three by heart and she sang ████
████ them over and over again that night. That was ████
████ the beginning of her career, and she has worked ████
████ as a singer in Europe and North Africa for over ████
████ twenty years now. She's like a jukebox for the ████
████ Arab diaspora and beyond. I didn't grow up with ████
████ her, though, knew almost nothing about her, ████
████ except that she was Tunisian and was a singer ████
████ and that she left when I was little. I think ████
████ that planted a seed in me, even though what I ████
████ do is very different from her idea of being a ████
████ singer. She has this rich full big voice, she ████
████ listens to my records and then sits me down and ████
████ says, "You know Whitney Houston, right? Why ████
████ don't you sing like her?" The difference in ████
████ what we do is laughably different! But my ████
████ journey into making music was so different. I ████
████ kept falling in love with musicians and artists ████
████ for a while before I realized that maybe I ████
████ wanted to be so close to these people because ████
████ they were doing something that resonated deeply ████
████ in me. So there's a way in which making music ████
████ has been a way for me to overcome divides that ████
████ I couldn't quite articulate in other ways. ████
████ Maternal lineage, intimacy and connection, but ████
████ also, with this record, attempting to overcome ████
████ my own internal divides.ö ████
████ ████
████ Waking the Dreaming Body holds a deep ████
████ connection to the environs in which it was ████
████ created, and the mountains, rivers and starry ████
████ skies of WalkerÆs desert home are referenced in ████
████ nearly every song she sings on the album, ████
████ simultaneously grounding the action and imbuing ████
████ it with a sense of otherworldliness. ████
████ ████
████ Sonoran sky plays a movie ████
████ Draw a line to the stars inside of me ████
████ Write it down, tell your friends ████
████ I know where I am but I canÆt tell where I ████
████ started ████
████ ù ôReconstellatedö ████
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████ ôTucson is where I grew up, I moved here from ████
████ California as a kid,ö Walker recalls. ôAnd ████
████ after leaving for school and traveling, I moved ████
████ back about seven years ago. It's such a ████
████ distinct and notable place to folks not from ████
████ the desert, but this is my home. My formative ████
████ understanding of the natural world, aside from ████
████ the ocean, comes from here, so it always seems ████
████ to make its way into my work. I think that ████
████ porousness would be there regardless of where I ████
████ was, but I do think that the pandemic forced me ████
████ back into the desert seasons in a way that I ████
████ hadn't experienced since I was a kid. We had ████
████ one of our hottest and driest summers on ████
████ record, and I usually try to tour when itÆs ████
████ super hot at home. But this year I was kinda ████
████ stuck, the mountain where everyone runs away ████
████ from the heat, about an hour away, caught fire ████
████ and burned for weeks so there really was no ████
████ escaping it. I started thinking about our ████
████ rivers- they're called dead rivers or washes, ████
████ because they don't run usually, and our ████
████ watershed, all the plants that survive here and ████
████ the seasons that were still happening even ████
████ under all the stress of this summer.ö ████
████ Throughout Waking the Dreaming Body, WalkerÆs ████
████ uncanny sound design evokes the delicacy, ████
████ grandeur and terrifying enormity of the ████
████ American Southwest. Close your eyes while ████
████ listening to ôHorizon, Harbor Resonance,ö the ████
████ thirteen-minute instrumental at the albumÆs ████
████ center, and watch the shifting desert landscape ████
████ in your mindÆs eye; from the babble of flash ████
████ flood runoff to the slow parade of cumulus ████
████ cloud shadows across the red earth, cactus and ████
████ creosote, and then, moving backwards in time, ████
████ the thunderous eruptions of ancient volcanoes ████
████ that pushed the Tucson Mountains skyward. ████
████ ████
████ Walker continues: ████
████ ████
████ ôWaking the Dreaming Body was influenced by my ████
████ preoccupation with natural sublime phenomena: ████
████ tsunami videos and the dreams of ocean waves I ████
████ was having last year, large mountain ranges ████
████ that can only be seen by a plane or over the ████
████ course of a day of driving. These images ████
████ allowed me to think about immense horror and ████
████ beautyùsomething that overwhelms but ████
████ simultaneously is so hard to look away from, ████
████ something that holds violence but also reflects ████
████ a better understanding of ourselves in the ████
████ context of that immensity and scale. Looking ████
████ out and looking within, and knowing that the ████
████ divide is false, but feeling the pain of that ████
████ division nonetheless. ████
████ ████
████ ôWaking the Dreaming Body became an attempt to ████
████ break out of my insularity, wrestling with my ████
████ separation from the natural world. I write ████
████ about mountains and rivers but all through more ████
████ of a longing and detachment. Maybe thereÆs hope ████
████ in there? I made this whole record almost ████
████ entirely alone so IÆm actually not sure if I ████
████ make it to the other side.ö ████
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████ Waking the Dreaming Body is out February 26, ████
████ 2021 on Keeled Scales / Orindal Records. ████
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