Noisy Blue, by Xaghra

Noisy Blue

by Xaghra

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1.	Maia 04:35	buy track
2.	White Noise 02:09	buy track
3.	Silenn 03:36	buy track
4.	Fourth Recitation 04:00	buy track
5.	Tortoise Shell 02:39	buy track
6.	Gnostic Hymns 03:56	buy track
7.	The Noisy Blue 05:22	buy track
8.	Mute My Ears 02:48	buy track
9.	Pink Noise 03:08	buy track
10.	A Thief at the Gates 03:39	buy track
11.	Unstrung 02:24	buy track
12.	Sheep Gut Blues 06:06	buy track
13.	Blue Noise 01:52	buy track
14.	Violet Fade 05:28	buy track

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On Noisy Blue, Xaghra digs up the past. Scavenging through old improvisations and recordings, Xaghra treated this raw material as a foreign object to be reprocessed, recontextualized, and destabilized.

The debut album fuzzes the boundary between acoustic and synthetic sound, drawing inspiration from the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, the colors of noise, and Xaghra's struggles with tinnitus.

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"The British scholar R.F. Willetts wrote that 'in many ways, Hermes is the most sympathetic, the most baffling, the most confusing, the most complex, and therefore the most Greek of all the Olympian gods.' If Hermes is the god of the mind, then these qualities appear in an even more meaningful light. For is the mind not the most baffling, confusing, and at the same time the most beguiling, of all the attributes of life?" gnosis.org/hermes.htm

"The brain, so the theory goes, then over-compensates for the missing input, in the same way that amputees experience phantom sensations from a lost limb. Tinnitus has been called 'phantom auditory perception.'

So, while it might seem like a problem with your ear—and it usually begins there—tinnitus actually resides in the brain..." ra.co/features/2985

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released December 10, 2021

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