Syncretic Offering

by NNN Cook

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1.	An Offering 01:09	buy track
2.	Syncretism (Chant) 03:41	buy track
3.	Empty Vase 03:13	buy track
4.	Kneeling 06:47	buy track
5.	Interior Lacuna 04:42	buy track
6.	objet petit a 03:56	buy track
7.	Teeming 04:50	buy track
8.	Humilitas 01:27	buy track

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A distant call
Dissolving of the foreground
An offering turned away
A rhythm for the globe
Chanting in digital pidgin
Syncretism
A chime for the arousal of spirits
Rain drops in an empty vase
An infinite longing—
staring into the horizon
Kneeling in prayer
A chorus of grotesque yawping
No lull within earshot
A swim through liquid borders
Interior lacuna
Oil and water in limbo—
leaking through threaded fingers
objet petit a

—NNN Cook, 2019 C.E.

Cassette Gods review:
"Merriam-Webster defines “Syncretism" as "1 : the combination of different forms of belief or practice” and "2: the fusion of two or more originally different inflectional forms”.

NNN Cook’s “Syncretic Offering” meta-re(de)fines itself as a blend of the two, a sprawling cinematic journey across, to name but a few elements: synthetic and organic tones (and overtones), a fleeting, danceable beat, a handful of disembodied soundbites, persistent lush and haunting swells, and a chaotic avian/amphibian field collage toward the end, all these (and more) working in concert to enchant and entrance the listener into a heightened meditative state.

These are gloriously bewitching sounds to make art under, while getting lost in the mix, with tons and tons of layers and nuance. Good headphones are a must, for maximum effect, but it’s also surprisingly pleasant as a background soundtrack, too!"

—Jacob An Kittenplan

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released December 15, 2019

Originally released on cassette by Close/Far Recordings, 2019
Pro-duplication and imprinting with full color double-sided J-cards
Design by NNN Cook
Edition of 100 on C456

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NNN Cook St. Louis, Missouri

Sound & visual artist. Concerned with proximity, psychodynamics, psychoacoustics, geometry, mysticism, identity, & the primeval.
Runs the Close/Far experimental music label. Select commissions include: Laumeier Sculpture Park, World Chess Hall of Fame, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Radius (Chicago), High Concept Labs (Chicago), Experimental Sound Studios (Chicago), & Alarm Will Sound (NYC). ... more

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