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moment: us by Mike McCormick

From the album

Album Title: Proxemic Studies: Volume I
Smeik
Released: 2020

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About the Album

In the summer of 2016, McCormick decided to address his performative limitations by composing a set of personalized technical studies for the electric guitar. Exploring the physical and practical distance between him and his instrument encouraged him to examine other “distances” in various aspects of his life. This lead him to compile a collection of saved letters, emails, and electronic messages sent to him from partners with whom he had been previously intimately involved in order to examine the emotional “spaces” he had created in his past. Spanning a lengthy period of time (the earliest letter is from 2009) and a variety of relationships, these correspondences reveal the complex nature of human intimacy – some messages show the unabashed beauty of unconditional love, others reveal the bitterness of heartbreak, and still others expose the volatility of passionate lust.

Tracks

triptych: I; alvorada; in|takt; triptych: II; madness; moment: us; delicate matters; triptych: III; isaac

Personnel

Mike McCormick

guitar

Additional Personnel

Laura Swankey: voice; Emily Denison: trumpet; Mike McCormick: electric guitar; Knut Kvifte Nesheim: drum kit, vibraphone

Date featured

February 24, 2020

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