Crossroads of Dusk, by Jerry Gordon

Crossroads of Dusk

by Jerry Gordon

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1.	Invoking Things Here But Not Here 05:48	info	buy track
2.	For Three Brief Bubbles 07:22	info	buy track
3.	Ambitious Bright Poisons: Poetry Machine 09:12	info	buy track
4.	Things Forgetting Can Fix 04:38	info	buy track
5.	Stink of Ink: Poetry Machine 02:17	info	buy track
6.	Echoing Choices 05:35	info	buy track
7.	Whisperings Beyond Walls 06:04	info	buy track
8.	Fragile Rub of Wind: Poetry Machine 03:43	info	buy track
9.	Comforting Distances 06:19	info	buy track
10.	Folded City: Poetry Machine 07:29	info	buy track

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This music is a commitment to memory. In improvising these pieces, there are moments that enfold specific secrets for me, moments when specific thoughts, feelings and mutant emotions find a brief shape in the breath or in the vibration of a length of wire or in the shift of voice/word. You will never know which, what or where. They are open secrets that only I (and maybe one who may never listen) can hear. So, feel what you can. Use these durations of shift and twist for stowing away your own secrets. Listen selfishly. Inject your own pollutants. That is a very important function of art and all other forms of lies: to show truths we can't utter; to face what is too close at a comforting distance.

Go ahead. Let these pieces host your parasites.

As for tracks 3, 5, 8 & 10, you'll see that they are dubbed Poetry Machine pieces. That is because the poems they contain were improvised via a paper-based method I have of generating poetry called "Poetry Machine." Each Poetry Machine is a piece of paper folded into small squares. Each square houses a phrase or word. By letting my eye jump around the various "houses," trajectories get ignited and adjusted. Lines congeal. Images take form. This Poetry Machine method is largely about stimulating shifting responses, as is much of everything we might call culture.

Enjoy to the degree you can. What you can't--endure.

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released November 11, 2022

Jerry Gordon (contra bass, tenor sax, poetry machine & voice)

Recorded in late October 2022
at MIIT House
Konohana-ku, Osaka, Japan

Cover Image (and its IKEBANA)
by Charles-Eric Billard

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