Azfarat - Shambles
(c) 2020 Self-Released
Artist....: Azfarat
Album.....: Shambles
Source....: WEB/MP3
Tracks....: 6
Genre.....: Ambient
Label.....: Self-Released
Encoder...: LAME 3.100
Quality...: 320 kbps / 441kHz / Joint Stereo
URL.......: http://deezer.com/album/157337702
Tracklist:
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1. Oxygen Tank Blues 10:00
2. Windmill Unfolding 7:56
3. Bad Light 8:15
4. A Unique Relationship With Entropy 10:16
5. Old Alma's Silo 8:52
6. Catfish 8:24
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53:43
Total:130.04MB / 53:43
Release Notes:
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Most of my life I've grown up in rural parts of the United States, first in
Vermont and for the last few years in Southern Arizona. There is a feeling in
these places of being left behind, as the people grow older and poorer, relying
on dwindling public assistance while the young become increasingly dispossessed
as jobs and opportunities become scarce. This is particularly stark in southern
Arizona, where people who's homes and lives and bodies are falling apart and are
juxtaposed with a government who seems endlessly willing to spend resources not
on improving our lives, but militarizing the place we call home to ôprotectö us
from other people who are seeking shelter from a place where their own homes and
lives and bodies are threatened.
This is an album about living poor in rural United States, about being tired to
the bone, about the unique relationship we develop with entropy when we don't
have the time or the resources to keep the things in our lives in perfect
working order. It's about the intimacy of a collapsing barn against the grandeur
of storm clouds breaking on a desert mountain and the creeping dread of a border
patrol helicopter hovering too low in your back yard.
The name "Shambles" comes in part from the obvious imagery of a run down place,
but it also is inspired by a kind of witchcraft practiced in books by Terry
Pratchet, where in a witch divines answers from a device made up simply of
objects found in their pocket. The people in my community practice shambles
every day.