Andrew Weatherall - Qualia

In uscita il 29 settembre 2017 sull’etichetta di Gothenburg Höga Nord Rekords, Qualia è l’album di Andrew Weatherall che segue a distanza di un anno Convenanza (che a sua volta segnava un ritorno sulla lunga distanza del producer ad oltre un lustro dalla prova precedente). Il disco, pubblicato ancora una volta con l’aiuto di Nina Walsh (che ha contribuito ad engineering e missaggio), vede inoltre la collaborazione del compianto musicista francese Erick Legrand. Di seguito la nota rilasciata dall’artista mentre trovate per l’ascolto l’estratto Evidence The Enemy.

«Mr Brackstone, my psychic shepherd, when confronted by the facts would probably say it was cosmic synchronicity but then again he would because he’s Jung at heart,” writes Weatherall. “Others may cite mere coincidence. These are the facts. I’ll leave the metaphysical debate for another time. It’s all about the black notebooks as memorial device and ‘The Black Notebook’ and ‘This Is Memorial Device.’ At the same time as reading Mr Modiano and Mr Keenan I was ensconced in The Woodleigh Research Facility investigating a method of composition sparked by a random event too prosaic for the telling; unless of course we go back to ‘The Red Book’ and see the hand of Jah [the D.M.T molecule that steers human existence] at work. After all it was him/her/non-binary that sent me the ‘shave your beard off’ message. And the ‘don’t buy any more drugs’ one. Whatever your leanings, the music on Qualia is the result of images, feelings  and thought processes stirred up by Monsieur Modiano and Mister Keenan channeled through the medium of a sonic notebook—in itself the memoir of somebody else’s life/fiction. My own black notebooks, like Jean’s [Modiano’s protagonist] stir the silt of memory and birth as many mysteries as memories. They also provided the track titles»·