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Natalie Mering of Weyes Blood photographed by Kathryn Vetter Miller

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Jim des Rivières aka James des Rivières (Canadian, 1953-2019, based Ottawa, Canada) - Winged Tapestries, Hong Kong Moths At Large, Photography

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the feminine urge to go missing

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Mary Oliver, from Devotions //Mitski, Pink in the night // Joanna Newsom, Jackrabbits

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“sapokanikan” by joanna newsom + paintings referenced

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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972) dir. Sergio Martino

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Joanna Newsom trans(cending)itioning from harp to piano

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this is how the final part from ‘the things i say’ sound reversed

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Joanna Newsom - Divers (2015)

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“I like the fact that it’s not clear whether they represent a period of time before humans, or a period of time after humans, the post-apocalyptic thing, or whether they represent just a part of the world where there are no humans, or whether they represent an iteration of Earth within the multiverse where humans never evolved to exist,” Ms. Newsom said. “And I like that the landscapes are viewed from a great distance in most cases, which is an image that comes up for me a lot in these songs, viewing things from above, speeding over landscapes.” - Joanna, NYTimes 2015

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Sapokanikan - Joanna Newsom

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“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!” Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

- Ozymandias  by Percy Bysshe Shelley 

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this is how the final part from ‘the things i say’ sound reversed

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The Perfect Loop in Joanna Newsom’s Divers

In a previous post, I showed the harmonic and chordal links between many of the songs on Divers, including the awesome ‘trans-’ + ‘sending’ = ‘transcending’ that forms a loop from the end of Time, As A Symptom, the final track, to Anecdotes, the first track, in the lyrics and the music. But I was listening to Divers today, and I noticed that if you listen closely to the end of Time, As A Symptom after the clipped final word, you can hear the same bird call that is heard at the start of Anecdotes. 

So, of course, I edited these two parts together so the bird calls sound at the same time, forming what I now believe to be the true loop in this album. What’s more, there’s a sustained E♭ note that hangs in the background of both of these samples, so it makes the loop completely seamless. 

It’s fascinating just how much detail is put into Divers - I could write an essay on where reverb is applied and how the songs are mixed so meticulously; it’s truly a masterpiece. (In Anecdotes, the bird call has some reverb applied to it, but in Time, As A Symptom, it doesn’t - which possibly brings up themes of transformation that links to the album, but maybe I’m stretching that a bit - and that’s only one example of how reverb is used on this album.)

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Joanna Newsom photographed by Annabel Mehran

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Joanna Newsom by Annabel Mehran