Thin and white and kinky hair
A shadows climbing up the wall
Your letter lying near the phone
With honors for the patient one
I know your dark side is stronger than you think
You always were underneath
およそ半年前のはなしで恐縮です。
抱き合うハゲおっさんたちのストーナーや太めのバチェラーたちがいる米シカゴのレーベル、ポリ塩化ビニル polyvinyl は、ISOLATE な孤立のコロナ禍にあって所属４７アーティスト参加の特別コラボレーション企画アルバム、優美な屍骸 Exquisite Corpse を昨年発表してる。聞く前からぷんぷん腐ってるような名前。きいたら発酵してた。だけどコロナ禍の状況でレーベルは単独作業じゃなくて共作コラボでアーティストたちを繋げてるところが素晴らしい。そこがスゴイ。だから聞いてます。
2020 has been an intense year by any standard, with the first weeks of the global pandemic giving most of us feelings unlike anything we’d experienced before. Quarantine lockdowns and hovering dread shifted the fabric of time in a way that’s ongoing, but was at its most vivid in those early days when a new reality was sinking in. Before people eventually adapted and started using the newly mandatory downtime to learn new languages and bake bread, hours lurched by as the world sat restlessly indoors. All the shows were slowly cancelled one by one, the tours and recording sessions were scrapped, hangs and practices just stopped happening. Everything was on hold indefinitely, time lost meaning, every day felt unreal.
During the first days of lockdown, Rainer Maria’s Kaia Fischer came up with the concept of Exquisite Corpse by meditating on their perspective of the newly unfolding weirdness they and so many of their creative friends were going through. Obviously a deadly pandemic was wrought with negatives, and those in particular to independent music scenes were especially devastating. But could there be another side to what felt so all-consumingly terrible? “We know what the pandemic isn’t good for,” Fischer said, “but let’s find out what it is good for.”
Xiu Xiu, Squirrel Flower, Fred Thomas, The Get Up Kids – Do U Remember聞く前から腐ってる 発酵作品のなかではこっちも有名。Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Exquisite Corpse
そもそものレーベル名、polyvinyl ポリ塩化ビニルがプラごみ扱いで深刻な海洋環境問題である上に、刺さってくる棘のある深刻なおどろ作品が多いのが特徴。トゲが耳に刺さると、痛いですよね。
I don’t know the source of my faith
but I know I will be full again
Come on in and take a swim
I am a burning church
I am artifice and years collapsing
I have not yet become all that I will be
What were you doing there?
So un-anxious to be liked
Maybe because you were tired
And the world was in your way
I had walked them home
My only friend, my only love
There were none like them
None, none and none
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