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Sunshine and Dust

by James A. McDermid

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Paris, 1972 04:47
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Madrid, 1960 02:33
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Sofia, 1992 04:59
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Rome, 1978 05:38
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Riga, 1947 01:43
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Berlin, 1984 09:54
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Prague, 1950 03:40
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Lisbon, 1969 03:35
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Label: Cathedral Transmissions
Cat: CT50
Released: March 2018
Mastering: Angel Marcloid

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About the album:

"Sunshine and Dust: The store opened in the 60s I think and closed at some point during the 90s. It hadn't seen life for over 20 years - no graffiti or signs it was perhaps some vagabond's temporary home. I crept around the fallen brickwork and dust; looked passed the old cash register and decades-old canned food. In the corner was an old chest of drawers. It was badly damaged from the ceiling which had partially collapsed on top of it. I managed to move some of the debris which revealed the middle drawer of the chest. I positioned my lamp carefully above me so I could see better, leaving both hands free.

The drawer was empty, apart from a small book. Its cover was made of what looked like Hessian Burlap. I brushed off the dust and cement which revealed the book's title: 'Like Kisses of Thread'. Strangely, the pages were numbered but blank; however, wedged between page 72 and 73 were 10 photographs bundled together in an elastic band. The photos were of various European capital cities. They had the city name, followed by a year - presumably the year they was taken. In the photos were four young girls (about 16 or 17) standing next to each other, arms by their side. They didn't look alike, but they all seemed to be wearing the same type of gingham dress. They weren't smiling, but they didn't seem miserable either.. they looked scared. Who were they and what was the purpose of these photos? Who took them? The timeline of the photos range from 1947 to 1996, but the girls neither alter their position nor their expression; moreover, they don't age.

I put the photos in my pocket and decide to leave, but I clumsily knock my lamp over and watch it crash to the floor. I'm now in complete darkness. For the first time I notice how silent it is; I stand absolutely still.. considering my next move wondering how I'm actually going to get out of this place. I start to walk forward, feeling my way through the dark... shuffling through the rubble".

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released March 17, 2018

Everything by James Alexander McDermid

REVIEWS:

"...passing through the dust of time and the eternal light of images, McDermid frames them in a solemn sound material, in which abstract and sometimes slightly dissonant frequencies coexist with quivers and acoustic fragments not without moderately harmonious features. The spectral and alienating ambience that results from the split of a peculiar electro-acoustic "hauntology", articulated through the combination of images and sounds"

- Music Will Not Save You (April 2018)

"2018 was a full year for McDermid which included the second & third volumes of his deeply personal triptych dealing with the terminal illness and passing of his sister Harriet (Tonal Glints on Krysalisound and Kern-Host on Whitelabrecs). Not to be overlooked is also this beguiling narrative which imagines an eerily abandoned shop containing a mysterious book hiding photographs of seemingly ageless young women appearing in capital cities around Europe over a period of decades"

- Stationary Travels (December 2018)

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James A. McDermid Lisbon, Portugal

Experimental music artist

Albums on:

Polar Seas (Canada) / Shimmering Moods (Netherlands) / La Petite Chambre (Brazil) / Whitelabrecs (UK) / Krysalisound (Italy) / 1834 (Germany) / Cathedral Transmissions (England) / Herhalen (Scotland). ... more

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