Promethean Lag (Fractured Tale #1)

by Odonian Drifts

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Drawing on English folklore around the green children of Woolpit and drowned town of Semerwater, the song welds traces of old balladry and hauntological electro to re-charge the cultural archive in the face of a digital ontology that would reduce it to a plenitude of dead letters.

In keeping with the wider Odonian Drifts project, ‘Promethean Lag’ engages with the question of how ethical responsibility and hospitality towards others might abide amid the wreckage of austerity 2.0, while attesting to the priest and philosopher Ivan Illich’s warning, back in 1982, that the “sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical.”

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released December 20, 2022
I.S. Rowley: Instrumentation & vox

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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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