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Dewi Ratih

by Moon Wheel

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Dewi Ratih is the Balinese lunar goddess worshipped on the day of Purnama, the full moon.

The Prophet synthesiser is from a live recording of a full moon ceremony in Bali, Indonesia, with I Nyoman Mariyana, Made Aristanaya and Kim Herben in November, although their sounds were not recorded.

The tuning is by Werner Durand and is based on seven.

The thunderstorm was recorded during the night of a coronal mass ejection in Babahan at the beginning of the monsoon season.

The faint voices whistling and calling for Rain are my neighbours who are looking for their dog, who ran away because of the thunder.

The frog chorus was recorded in spring by a cabin in Mt. Batukaru.

The photograph is from the temple Pura Puncak Adeng on Mt. Adeng.

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Once, before light
Was domesticated and forgotten,
I would pour out the shadow bath
And seed the forest mind.
There was a dark retreat in living
Off the land. The birds were mad
With flight.

My nursery still crowds with wind,
My memory with colored earth,
But in the mouth of Time, it seems,
All prayers melt to breath.

Rivers tell the ice-clean truth
Of it: Everything intersects,
Root and branch, wolf and dog.
The fat moon turns to sickle and back.

A lack of windows is not a lack,
Is what is
Before it is a thing.

—Jacob Bromberg

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released December 3, 2023

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London 2015

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Habitat Tapes
Melbourne 2015

"For S.M.J."
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Not Not Fun
Los Angeles 2013
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Berlin 2012

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