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Witness draws from the entire history of Ron Athey’s performance texts, starting with 1981’s PE - “pure love is a death wise” and going through the 90s pandemic inspired torture trilogy, up to current use of French-to-English translated and appropriated texts for Acephalous Monster. Athey and David Harrow have a collaborative history going back to the mid-90s London, when Athey’s ICA performances were balanced out by midnight shows at techno/fetish clubs such as Torture Garden and Hollywood Moguls where Harrow provided and performed the musical accompaniments This relationship continued to Harrow’s relocating to Los Angeles, where they have been recording these texts over the last year. Some were only ever written, others performed in a gusto of movement and louder backing track. These recordings, more in a clearer spoken word format, while dislocating them from their original source, offers them up fresh as a new dialogue within Harrow’s analogue modular experimental compositions.

Witness is taken taken from the Jean Genet conclusions to his memoir, Prison er of Love. Currently (meaning abu Ghraib scandal up to the cheetoh), somehow we cannot believe this moment is without precedent, historic references are seeded the logic. I’ve always needed to understand where issues sit in history. Issues of perversion, contagion. PE starts it with a cycle of life and death and perhaps that just continues 40 years later with the inclusion of queering Georges Bataille essays. A through-line, the religious lens is never far.

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released December 13, 2019

special thanks to Juliana Snapper for her essential vocal contributions
thanks to makenoise and intellijel

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David Harrow Los Angeles, California

going deep into dub and experimental electronics as part of the On-U Sound house band, through the dirty rave haunts of London with Andrew Weatherall, through a huge pop smash with BRM, through his live drum’n’bass extravaganzas as James Hardway,on through the Californian bass and weird-beat scenes as OICHO, to the esoteric ambient soundscapes and percussion soundtracks he releases today ... more

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