Earwitness on Trial, by Odonian Drifts

Earwitness on Trial

by Odonian Drifts

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1.	Volcanic Lavender 06:22	info	buy track
2.	Ahriman the Seducer 04:27	info	buy track
3.	Split Boot and Strange Ointment 03:45	info	buy track
4.	Maldoror Redux 07:40	info	buy track
5.	Black Mere 03:43	info	buy track
6.	Promethean Lag 08:17	info	buy track
7.	Ractor’s Kin (know not of mereness) 05:26	info	buy track
8.	Simona (animating negativity) 04:01		buy track
9.	A Borderland Espousal (for Ida) 10:00	info	buy track
10.	Half-life: Unknown / Location: Sensitive 05:12	info	buy track
11.	Spectres of Landauer 07:20	info	buy track
12.	Now: Zero (Aftertones) 05:12		buy track
13.	Xsufflation (dance like there’s a cytokine storm coming) 05:26	info	buy track
14.	On This Day (recovering askesis) 04:46	info	buy track
15.	It Only Takes One Ghost 06:39	info	buy track

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Odonian Drifts is the project of Iain Rowley, one-fifth of post-punkish outfit Spirits in the Pillar, whose EP 'Scaled-down Expectations' was released on AnalogueTrash in 2022. As an evolution of the late modernist poetics that informed his 2017 collection of writings, 'The Undeliverable', Odonian Drifts' FM-synth-heavy, sprechgesang-laced hauntronica marshalls an assortment of influences — magickal, folkloric, cosmopolitical — in the effort to become a fitting vessel for that which survives in the interstices of the hyper-capitalist necropolis.

A loft flat in the East Midlands is a long way from the early basilica crypts below Rome, but during the viralspiral, Odonian Drifts was impelled to fashion an altar for their remote devotional practices: Leonora Carrington’s lactating hyena, A.O. Spare’s ‘satyrised’ Cockney workmen, Rosaleen Norton’s Lilith, Madge Gill's Myrninerest – these are just some of the imaginal figures illegitimately present to aid a minor occultation amplifying muted howls of resistance against an ontological mutation the human is expected to undergo to become a mere activator of serial positions – operative, though not alive. On some level, each Odonian Drifts piece is an incantatory gesture cracking and straining to engage the solemn resolve for rigorous artistic play; to encounter a love that’s denarcissifying, not debased by nihil-hedonistic calculation; to locate forces of re-enchantment in the hinterlands of grief.

‘Earwitness on Trial’ gathers together tracks from two albums released via Odonian Drifts’ website, under the titles ‘Prelest’ and ‘Serotinus’.

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released November 3, 2023

I.S. Rowley: Instrumentation, vox, production for all tracks except 'Xsufflation' (produced by Alistair Lax)

Photo: Fikret Kabay

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Odonian Drifts Nottingham, UK

Just an(other) effort to orchestrate a withdrawal from futurelessness without recourse to faticidic guruism or modish agitprop. Via a floundering in theurgic processes, the ritual body is constructed, dismantling what Jack Spicer called ‘the big lie of the personal’. ... more

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