Artist: Trevor Dunn
Album: Séances
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Year Of Release: 2022
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
1. Secours Meurtriers (7:25)
2. Saint-Médard (5:55)
3. Restore All Things (6:53)
4. 1733 (9:08)
5. The Asylum’s Guilt (7:02)
6. Eschatology (6:07)
7. Thaumaturge (4:57)
Personnel:
Trevor Dunn bass
Mary Halvorson guitar
Ches Smith drums, timpani, conga
Carla Kihlstedt viola, violin
Oscar Noriega clarinet, bass clarinet
Mariel Roberts cello
Anna Webber flute, alto flute
In order to bear witness one must believe what one sees and belief, of course, is subjective. Knowledge is essentially faith. And the flexibility of human memory, our blind spots (whether empathetic or optic) and our great imaginations don’t make truth any easier to contain. This becomes more evident over time as the pages of history weather and the cataracts of progress cloud our collective “knowledge”. Humans love to forget and to repeat. We fall subject to confirmation bias, sway to suggestion, take the easy way out and allow ourselves to be governed while adamantly broadcasting our independence. Naturally it takes followers for a leader to exist, but like anomalons or quantum particles that change when being observed, the psychological battle within each of us changes depending on who is bearing witness. We are the worst portrayers of truth as we have no idea what it is. Everyone is a hypocrite. Everyone is wrong.
