Music from Sea of Vapors

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	1.	Memory Voyage 12:10
	2.	Queen Wizard Moon Theme 13:00

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This music was written in collaboration with artist Emily Counts for her show Sea of Vapors.

In this immersive installation, Counts has masterfully staged a collective of female figures who are traveling by boat through a dream space to meet their venerated Queen. Each voyager’s physical features are playfully reimagined with abstract shapes, vibrant colors, and rich textures to evoke multi-layered portraits of the self, dear friends, and matrilineal heritage.

Scale, form, and color are experimentally emphasized in this phantastic environment. Ceramic facial structures are graphically sculpted and rearranged in surreal compositions. Nostalgic features of woven sweaters and expressive accessories radiate with colorful illumination to evoke a sense of the past with the futuristic.

Surrounding the sea-faring travelers are wilting flowers and rotting fruit. These sacred possessions were gathered for the extended journey and their presence conveys the magic of growth and decomposition. The organic materials in-turn reflect the beauty and strength in the transformation of aging human bodies. To Counts, this exhibition is deeply personal and rooted in a habit of navigating through memories. As a multi-sensory experience, the installation aims to be a platform for open-ended narratives for a viewer to consider their own relational perception of time—past, present and the future.

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released July 9, 2023

Recorded and Mixed by Party Store
Mastering by Cameron Elliott

Josh Machniak - Piano, Guitar, Bells, Cymbal, Processing

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Party Store Tacoma, Washington

Party Store is the recording and live performance project of multi-instrumentalist Josh Machniak. Embracing a minimalist approach, Party Store aims to capture and convey Machniak's own form of experimental songwriting, drawing from influences that range from ambient, shoegaze, slowcore, lofi and folk. ... more

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