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  Cassette in the Linear Obsessional Cassette Imprint - green shell, full colour card insert, clear case and download coupon which allows access to the PDF booklet.
  
  Cover image by Lou Barnell, design by David Little.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of What Came Before This via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more
  
  London based sound artist and performer Lou Barnell presents two new extended works, "Takis" and "What Came Before This" in the Linear Obsessional Cassette Imprint.
  
  SIDE 1
  TAKIS
  
  "We have chased the sacred symbols from the desert and replaced them with electronic eyes"
  (TAKIS Telelumiere No. 4 1963–4)
  
  A brutal, dream-like hypnotic soup of sensory tests, voice, wearable sound-material sculptures and augmented electronics. Written in homage to the late artist TAKIS to explore social structures and their relationship with sound, environmental and biological energies and material. A complex web of control and power that is played out upon the human body.
  
  
  SIDE 2
  WHAT CAME BEFORE THIS
  Is a composition for clock recordings, mixed electronics, vocals, melting ice and harp.
  In January 2020 I had the privilege of being invited to record the collection of clocks owned by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers at The Science Museum with Ian Thompson.
  The museum began to open at the stroke of ten just as all the clocks had begun to chime.
  
  The sounds of daily life bled into the strict sonic architecture of the clocks as they sounded. School children, cleaners and café staff made the Museum into a breathing entity.
  Listening back to the raw sound files during lockdown you can hear society drift in through the door. I felt an intense grief for losing time and space as we once knew it. Precarious futures await us. It feels as though we have been submerged in curious new structures of labouring, creating and waiting that constantly shapeshift. These unstable formations seem as though they are restless- trying to settle comfortably back into time and space as it once was.
  
  Your face
  Pushing through
  Is it though
  Because I can hear your heart.
  A distant churn and turn
  Of earth
  An opening
  Tiny furrows ploughed by
  Earthworms
  Who remember your forehead
  Almost as I do.
  Now Unlined
  For but tiny bone marrow sutures
  Now smooth
  Plate to plate
  Now Under
  A spray of pink
  The blooms fall rotting
  Into the dew
  Back into you
  
  Now unlined,
  Now Smooth
  Now Under
  
  Now unlined,
  Now Smooth
  Now Under
  
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  Written, recorded and produced by Lou Barnell. Clock recordings by Ian Thompson.
  With thanks to curator Anna Rolls and The Science Museum London, and The Worshipful Company of Clock Makers.
  Album Artwork by Lou Barnell.
  released March 30, 2021
  
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