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RETOUR

by Elliott Wall

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Simon "Psymon" Ring Retour is a compelling journey that deserves the listeners full attention. This isn't going to be to everyone's taste and definitely not an album for the casual listener, but those who are willing to step outside their comfort zone and try something new it is a rewarding experience. Favorite track: “Never say, ‘I have lost it’”.
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1.
μηδέποτε ἐπὶ μηδενὸς εἴπῃς ὅτι ‘ἀπώλεσα αὐτό,’ ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι ‘ἀπέδωκα 02:49
2.
Time is running low… let's just spit it out 00:10
3.
Art is what we turn to for what can’t or shouldn’t be said out loud 00:49
4.
Time passes 00:37
5.
Often in attracting a glance 00:17
6.
You will see what a palimpsest my memory is 00:32
7.
There was a film I read about once 01:13
8.
Retour, as the title of this present exertion 00:35
9.
Art isn’t description 01:24
10.
To get the expression right, the artist must make the face 01:30
11.
What would these associations mean, being more or less than we are 01:22
12.
Elevation by Gaston Lechaise transfixes me 00:37
13.
There is no knowledge 01:21
14.
The proverbial vessel refurbished gradually until nothing original remained 01:38
15.
Around us is the ideal open landscape 01:49
16.
Artists should be secular priests, the tellers of tales 02:48
17.
Bad artist statements begin with, “I am attempting to create a dialogue.” 02:46
18.
Perennially spotted in art, from poems to still lifes 01:24
19.
Zoe and bios are two Life terms, for what we live in or what lives in us 01:49
20.
It should be somewhere 01:21
21.
The Universe 01:00
22.
X 04:00
23.
It begins with seed 01:59
24.
Bach’s Prelude BWV 846 tells the whole story in only about two minutes 00:27
25.
Beneath these terms Lower, Higher, inferior, superior, better or noble, is a comment on vulgarity 00:51
26.
I made a beacon for that, a fullest body burning a fullest corpus of clichés 01:24
27.
The ear I’ve heard is a microcosm of the body, upside down in utero 01:57
28.
Religion, reason, philosophy, couldn’t be the cause of opinion 02:18
29.
Unity of Virtues, Beauty, the illumination we come to see, quite real, substantial, Truth and Soul embody 01:30
30.
I can’t stop thinking of gifts left behind 01:15
31.
There was a note about Nothing and Nullity, but much is omitted or missing 00:59
32.
To be a Stranger is my home position 01:06
33.
All I was taught is wrong, or learned, I keep finding 01:17
34.
Empathy is not taught 00:55
35.
“Humanity” is borne of soil 01:50
36.
Retour is my epic last digression 00:44
37.
Like the film mentioned earlier, it also doesn’t seem to be 00:37
38.
“You are here.” It's midday, fourteen hundred hours 00:07
39.
Robin of Oakwood, with the vast interocular span 00:07
40.
Traversing a space and taking the general survey with the usual blunt metaphors 00:34
41.
I've made a lot of art and words as an excuse to talk about how art and words never suffice 00:24
42.
Written with extreme haste from a hole in the ground 00:10
43.
“Never say, ‘I have lost it’” (free) 07:00
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A letter found pressed into an old lexicon, read aloud as 24/96 binaural spoken-word guided visualization or meditation on the conflicted motivations, sensibilities, and misgivings of… an Artist? "Resources" contains the end notes to this audio tour release date TBD. Perhaps file under "Difficult Listening Pleasures". Sehnsucht.garden ~ publisher of` engaging activist educational materials.

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released July 6, 2023

Conteuse: Nadège Préaudat
…?: Elliott Wall

Photography: Myles Katherine
Piano: Veronica van der Knaap, Christchurch
Saw: BeCe

Much Thanks to Eric Tessier

Dedicated to Statch' Lib'ty

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Elliott Wall Portland, Oregon

Elliott is a Portland, Oregon-based artist. "For at least twenty years now I have always wanted to have an audio tour experience— like with those museum "phone" things— for guests at my art shows. Since for the foreseeable future I'm taking a break from painting, I might as well just make audio tours instead." ... more

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