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OLYMPUS

by Lou Barnell

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Featured on Earlid's annual Liminal Sounds Listening Vault 2020.

Last month, I found my old Olympus Dictaphone. Inside it I found the contents of my 19-year-old brain and the rucksacks of my twenties that went around the world. Bus journeys in London collided with dawn in Kolkata. I unearthed rejected song hook-lines that had kept me up all night, until I had exorcized them by recording them furtively in a sung whisper walking around supermarket aisles and parks.
The sounds of my old Walkman that insulated me from the rain-streaked windows of the number 21 to Lewisham melted into moments of waking up in far-away places to the call of muezzins, or children singing hymns in the open air. A conversation in a village with a church. Long forgotten fragments.
Amongst the recordings, I found an old test file describing the origins of the name Olympus. The home of the gods. An opulent place that mortals may only imagine, but never enter. This somehow felt like an apt description of my vivid rush of memories. Remembering and dreaming on the tantalising cusp of waking but never to relive or return.

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released April 12, 2020

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Lou Barnell London, UK

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Lou Barnell is a London born movement and sound artist. An explosion of material sonic experimentation, intense visuals and brutalist visceral movement.

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