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Obscurer Subjectivity - 144CD (2022)

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1.	Our lives are not 03:33	buy track
2.	Chaos with equinamity 03:37	buy track
3.	Frack off 02:57	buy track
4.	Doors of deception 04:03	buy track
5.	Alternative pope 05:54	buy track
6.	We are not 02:47	buy track
7.	Chronological quantum jump 04:24	buy track
8.	We are not here 11:04	buy track
9.	Gravitons and phlogistons 07:04	buy track
10.	Obscurer subjectivity - full album, no track breaks 45:28	buy track

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"Wild, wooly, wet, wacky, and quite wonderful new outing from Discus’s primo sound-warping sextet, led by arch poet/spoken word maven Bo Meson. Eccentric is but one mild way to describe the spontaneous wordplay, improvisational acrobatics, and general weirdness to be found percolating across this bafflingly odd disc. Behind Meson’s stream-of-consciousness phrasing lurks guitarist Andy McAuley, synthesist Jez Creek, saxophonist Martin Archer, bassist Peter Rophone, and cellist Sarah Palmer, all of whom lend their distinctive talents forthwith, every bit the aural analogs to Meson’s otherworldly warblings. Channelling Mark E. Smith, Damo Suzuki, Captain Beefheart, Copernicus, and other like-minded vocal gymnasts, Meson’s cut ’n’ paste techniques surely echo that of Burroughs, Beckett, et al, but like those chaps he’s got some folks behind him with real chops...... Meson’s twisted tale of dank corridors and gothic travelogues accompanied by Archer’s strangulated cries and his cohort's similarly wrecked tones, constantly forming new shapes and colors right before your very eyes/ears. Black sonic magic, realized by a motley crew of sonic alchemists at the peak of their respective powers." - Darren Bergstein, Downtown Music Gallery NYC

It was mid-January and I learned that Sarah, whose strings I'd admired
but never worked with, was leaving Sheffield (and England) and we
would have only one chance for a chilly session at 77 Studios with
whoever else could make it on the day - this album is the result. I found it difficult to mix until Andy gave me a swift 'talking-to' to
the effect that I was being ham-strung by the fallacy that
consciousness is the decisive element that makes subjectivity appear
out of nowhere - well,, you would!

Traditional dualistic explanations are losing ground in some
communities in favour of the performative concept, which has the
unintended consequence of erasing any ethical distance between living beings and, eg, machines and this is why I feel it is necessary to
focus on the concept of subjectivity. Subjective embodiment is
stretched between ideative somatisation and the emergence of
singularity, the latter being understood as an identity that is
unrepeatable. Through embodiment — the body being understood as an experiential field — subjectivity is freed from the narcissistic self
and reaches out towards the other. The driving force behind this
process is desire, conceived as the “urgency of participating” and the
“hospitality towards the other”. We jam, play, tease..

Everyone improvised here. My ad-libbing was in the form of condensing lines of nuance suggested by the patterns produced by my collaborators and adding fragments, as I recall, from Ahlberg, Beckett, Thompson (Hunter S.) and, probably, from almost everyone else that I have ever read, listened to and/or met - you are all to blame and so I hope you enjoy this, responsively,, - Bo Meson

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released November 3, 2022

Andy McAuley, Bo Meson, Jez Creek, Martin Archer, Peter Rophone and Sarah Palmer contributed equally to this, obscurer, subjectivity.

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Discus Music was founded in 1994 by Martin Archer. The label releases leftfield rock music, free jazz, extended songform, electronics, improvised music, and other sounds which defy categorisation.

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