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Backwards Snatch

by Grove of Whispers

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Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual, for the ideal: that longing which draws people to art. Modern art has taken the wrong turn in abandoning the search for the meaning of existence in order to affirm the value of the individual for his own sake. What purports to be art begins to looks like an eccentric occupation for suspect characters who maintain that any personalized action is of intrinsic value simply as a display of self-will. But in an artistic creation the personality does not assert itself it serves another, higher and communal idea. The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of the self can only be expressed in sacrifice. We are gradually forgetting about this, and at the same time, inevitably, losing all sense of human calling.

Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time (1986)

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released April 1, 2016
Performed live on stillstream.fm February 10, 2016
Cover adapted from an image of a Venus flytrap by Mark Freeth:
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Grove of Whispers Orange, Texas

Immersive dark ambient soundscapes. The struggle between the ghost and the machine.

Grove of Whispers airs live several nights a week at stillstream.com.

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