Scenes:
1. Highway 96 (0:00)
2. Paranoia Knows No (3:00)
3. 8 Hours to Chicago (4:20)
4. Vipassana (5:45)
5. Home is Where You're Sittin (7:15)
Dealing with themes of longing, loss, acceptance, and healing, NAUVOO is a soundscape mixtape inspired by journal entries eulogizing the year I co-inhabited a haunted house on an acre of haunted land off the Mississippi River in rural Illinois.
We rake the tangled acre daily as way of upending the negligence offered before. Gather and burn thousands of flame-red leaves. Eviscerate the nightly woven patina of Orb Weaver webs on the exteriors. Scrub every stone in the structure with blown-out toothbrushes. Wipe the insides of light fixtures holding decades-deceased critters from the attic that have trickled in. Create physical harmony.
Contrarily, our "home" is in a blur of emotional dissonance, oscillating between love, control, and rage. Unpredictability reigns. Through each fit of fury, it becomes harder to seek clarity. Focusing in, an essential voice beckons: I must leave this place to finally come home to myself again.
NAUVOO uses bassoon (ideé fixe), synthesis, affected guitar, field recordings, and processed vocals.
Co-mixed at Center for New Music and Audio Technologies with Nathan Corder.
