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DEADTREES (CN) - Negate Me
Digipak CD / Lim.200
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Digital:
https://deadtreescn.bandcamp.com/album/negate-me
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire." --- Jorge Luis Borges
A distending luminous state, filled with your spirit’s spume spilled from the dissolving dream — its afterheat, a flowing metallic dawn, you woke into. Refraction of all five senses — an agnostic lume: your face is shaped and attached onto the Self like a mask, a husk of corrosive verses lining up with the metre of certain unfulfilled beauty: poetry -- or how you adjust the Light. Self-Effacing is far from just a choice.
Disconnected thoughts, poetic hexagon of fore-tongues, Post-Black or simply Ambience Impromptu? Negate Me, the latest EP from the Chinese one-man project DeadTrees, is indeed a monologue reflection of such abstract yet luminous state: consisting fully of free-flow and full-bloomed sonic expression that absorb various genre tropes: Violet Meditation. Everything that escapes the scope of languages needs no revelation.
Statement from the artist:
Borges tells me to escape, to be arrogant, to mock, to be acutely aware of everything I should hate. The world constantly changes, bringing with it an endless cycle of self-denial. War, war, war—distorted ideological battles and the gradual decline of human beauty—all are reasons for this continual negation. The Red Sea split in ancient texts, history’s endless repetition, the metal coins that have witnessed it all, the bodies sinking to the riverbed—all these chaotic, disordered elements of the vast flow of time should be denied—along with oneself. We are like sheep, driven and whipped by our own lashes, lining up to leap into the ever-recurring abyss of absurdity.
The inspiration for this EP largely comes from various scattered poems I have read, such as those by Yehuda Amichai, Qu Yuan, Borges, Hai Zi, Pessoa, and others. For example, the fourth track, "To a Coin," the title track "Negate Me," takes its name directly from Borges’ poetry, and the fifth track, "Miluo River," is undoubtedly connected to Qu Yuan. The EP also negates the pursuit of traditional arrangement and auditory habits, which of course, has something to do with noise/sound production—a return to the essence of sound.