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"The common cognomen of this world among the misguided and superstitious is ‘a vale of tears’ from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary interposition of God and taken to Heaven – What a little circumscribe[d] straightened notion! Call the world if you Please ‘”The vale of Soul-making” Then you will find out the use of the world (I am speaking now in the highest terms for human nature admitting it to be immortal which I will here take for granted for the purpose of showing a thought which has struck me concerning it) I say ‘Soul making’ Soul as distinguished from an Intelligence – There may be intelligences or sparks of the divinity in millions – but they are not Souls till they acquire identities, till each one is personally itself.
I[n]telligences are atoms of perception – they know and they see and they are pure, in short they are God – how then are Souls to be made? How then are these sparks which are God to have identity given them – so as ever to possess a bliss peculiar to each ones individual existence? How, but by the medium of a world like this?"

"I will call the world a School instituted for the purpose of teaching little children to read—I will call the human heart the hornbook used in that School—and I will call the Child able to read, the Soul made from that school and its hornbook. Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? A Place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways!"

-- from the letters of John Keats

These tracks were all concieved and recorded at my home studio in Poznan in October of 2022. Instrumentation: voice, synthesizer, clay tiles, feedback, radio, electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, melodica, zither, shortwave radios, field recordings, audiomulch live processing (track 3 and 8). Texts are by Stephen Ellis (7), William Blake (4) and myself (1). Track 8 is a composition for randomized replay of shortwave radio captures with live overdubbed improvisations based on considered tone sets for acoustic guitar, mandolin and melodica.
Pleased to meet you all in the sound and to, in pleasure and woe, rebuild the anima mundi--- .

Jeff Gburek, November 4, 2022

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AKASHIC RECORDS Poland

Guitarist, composer, sound designer, field recordist, shortwave radio poet, blending electro-acoustic, electronica, spectral comp., cracked circuits, sounding organic objects with an ear towards earth voices. Studied Javanese and Balinese gamelan and theories of Partch and Xenakis. Working with dance/theater/butoh co. Djalma Primordial Science. More than 400 concerts throughout Europe since 2005. ... more

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