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We Chose The Wilderness

by Damselfly

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Sentience 04:57
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Undersong 05:40
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about

We Chose The Wilderness was the 3rd album proper in the Damselfly series and remains my favourite to this day. Originally released (only) two-and-a-bit years ago, listening and thinking back now to the time it seems like a different world. It was a different world. The title was in a small part a comment on the impending post-Brexit landscape, but mostly it was a personal mission statement, a call to arms to find the wilderness and magic within and without, to try and seek out the places (mental, spiritual and physical) where there is still space and wonder. It's an album of anti-cynicism, of strange stories, of nature and of enduring humanity. Thank you to David & Andy TQN-aut for agreeing to re-release the album here. I hope you enjoy it and find some part within it to escape to your very own wilderness. See you there.

Darren j Holloway (Damselfly)

"Another Damselfly release stomps towards us! Watchful, measured, and switching between states of seen and unseen, this is the soundtrack for the gleeman who's standing at the edge of the communal fire, or the pissed afternoon drinker in the park. Right from the opener 'Sentience', which rolls in like a sea fret, this is a record of MOODS. Possibly the toughest - or taciturn - of Damselfly's releases, there are a number of sharp corners to cut yourself on. Maybe it's The Iron Man dusting off his Gabber chops at 17rpm. Steady beats and atmospherics abound. Sometimes the sound sits above you like a drunken gasbag or fellow Sussex raver, Edward Burra's Blue Baby. At other times we get a sound of a fully furnished Bronze Age burial mound with all the mod cons too. What more could a Modern Human want?"

Richard James Foster (Louder Than War, The Quietus)

credits

released October 2, 2020

Music - Darren James Holloway
Cover artwork - John Lymer
Cover design & graphics - Jack MacRae

Originally self-released + digital-release only on Smikkelbard Records, November 2018

(c) Damselfly Music

More Damselfly stuff at:
damselfly1.bandcamp.com
smikkelbaard.bandcamp.com

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Since meeting in 2017, TQ Zine's Andy Wood and N-aut tapes' David Howcroft have been actively supporting each other's work and that of the 'No Audience Underground'.

The TQN-aut label promotes sounds we believe should have a wider audience, making available tapes, CDs, downloads and related merchandise at minimal cost to the recipient, with fair and considerate treatment of the artist.
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