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WHITE POPPY THE PINK HAZE OF LOVE LH001 - 07.14.17

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MAGIC FEEL HYPNOTIZED LOVE MOLECULES RED FLAGS LOVE POTION BY MY SIDE THESE WALLS PINK HAZE

Music and Art by Crystal Dorval Mixed by The Backhomes Mastered by Jordan Koop at the Noise Floor Love Potion mastered by Andrew Lee

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HUSH PUP FLOWER POWER LH100 - DIGITAL RELEASE - 09.20.18

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BODY OF WORK/RITUAL CHAIRY DAHLIAS FLOWER POWER LEMON

Written, Produced and Performed by Hush Pup Ida Maidstone - synths, vocals, beats Fizzy- Bass, beats Engineered, Mixed and Additional production by Jordan Koop at the Noise Floor Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering Art by Ida Maidstone

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FROM THE ALBUM XIPHOID PROCESS

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A JOURNEY INTO THE INNER & OUTER COSMOS OF LINDA FOX

Though we were unable to reach Linda Fox, we managed to get a hold of a long term client and comrade of the sleep therapist / new age pop singer to discuss the making, meaning and musings of her first official album available for public consumption ‘Leopards Break Into My Heart’. Join us as we peer into Linda’s elusive world of dreams and nighttime existentialism.

“I think Linda encourages us to witness the Tragedy Of Being™ while we are awake, and then dream up a corresponding wealth of hope and courage while we are asleep.”

How do you know Linda Fox? What is your relationship to her?

I first met Linda when I was just ten years old. She was my sleep therapist. What happened is that I’d gone away to scouts camp in ’95, it was a winter camp at Manning Park, and we slept in snow caves, and when I returned home I was incredibly feverish and sick. One night I fell into a deep delirium and ran around my house screaming, a nightmare hallucination kind of an awful ordeal that my poor brother had to bear witness to, and then after that I had these crazy nightmares every night and would sleep walk. It got really bad so my parents eventually took me to a sleep therapist, Linda Fox, and she made me a personalized cassette with a guided meditation on it to help get into a good sleep state. It worked! After that I had NoMoreNightmares™.

How would you describe Linda? What is she like?

I haven’t seen her in person for quite some time. When I was young I remember she was incredibly gentle, she could maintain eye contact indefinitely which always pulled me into her energetic field. Basically contagious vibrations of pure goodness. I remember she was so calm and intense when dealing with dream stuff, but then when we’d be talking about normal life she would get super playful and goofy, make jokes and impressions like she didn’t really care about things outside of dreams, like it was all just imaginary stuff and dreams were where the real important things in life took place.

Was it an intentional decision to stay out of the spotlight or is she just reclusive and hard to reach?

When I tried to reach Linda for the first time eleven years after our therapy sessions (2006) I was unable to get ahold of her. I assumed she had moved away or something. Then I received an email about a year later from a company called LEP-E Alternatives© who said they were contacting me on Linda’s behalf. All of my contact with Linda since then has been mediated by LEP-E Alternatives©. I believe she’s most likely not interested in the spot-light as it exists now in relation to the commodification of lifestyle. Her interest is in the collective unconscious and how dreams can gain access to this realm of human experience. I believe that Linda remains in the spotlight of the collective unconscious. If you look you’ll see her center stage, maintaining eye-contact with anyone who’ll dare to look.

How did this album come to be? what inspired the creation of it?

From what I understand Linda began to add ambient synth sounds to her guided meditation tapes that she was giving to clients, helping guide them into sleep. I think she started singing her words more and more, adding more and more layers and rhythm sections, until the tapes were no longer guided meditations. They were pop songs with a Meditative Twist™.

“The heart must be cracked by life, it’s a fundamental quality of life to chip away at the heart”

What is her creative process like? how are the songs created? how was the album recorded?

Leopards Break Into My Heart is her first official album for public consumption and it is essentially a best of from all her personalized guided meditations. All the ones that were just a little too poppy to end up on a sleep tape for a traumatized client.

Does she have any favourite or integral pieces of music gear? What’s the set up?

Definitely the Korg M-1 Music Station. It is jam packed with the best in synthetic world music sounds. Linda is drawn to artificial sounds, because through the artificial one can gain access to the ‘real’. If the right combinations of artificial elements are organized together they can cause a sort of short circuit in the listener, which jams up the artificial façade that stands between them and the chaos of reality. Similar to the way a zen koan uses words to collapse the mediating powers of language, leaving us in the immediate presence of ThatWhichStandsOutsideOfLanguage®™.

So Linda uses the Korg M-1 with a loop station, creating loops that repeat endlessly during jams. Linda spends hours listening to them and slowly adding to them, building a sonic environment whose boundaries meet and blur and become seamless.

Is ‘Leopards break into my heart’ a concept album? How do the songs relate to each other?

The main theme that underlies the songs on Leopards Break Into My Heart is a conceptualization of time that is non-linear. This non-linear temporal frame is present in the content of songs, like Strangers for example, where Linda asks “who were those strangers in my dreams? / Their symptoms are the cause of my disease/ who were those strangers in my dreams? / They’re symptoms of my cognitive disease”. It’s an order of time that characterizes feedback loops, where effects cause their own causes, like the symptom of a disease that is also what caused the disease. This temporal logic seems to be primary in dream consciousness. Things are constantly happening because of themselves

Similarly, there are two songs on the album that were sampled by electronic bands, The KLF and The ORB. Linda’s songs are the originals, but they were made 15 years after they were sampled.

The lyrics evoke much curiosity, what are the songs about? Do you think there are any messages or sentiments she wished to convey?

“Hope is the sun of tomorrow’s cold embrace”. I think Linda encourages us to witness the Tragedy Of Being™ while we are awake, and then dream up a corresponding wealth of hope and courage while we are asleep. She is a nighttime existentialist, perhaps.

“It's like surfing waves of ontological uncertainty, if you swim too far out you might get sucked out past the break and not make it back, but if you do it right you can find your way back to the shores of stability.”

What does it mean for a leopard to break into ones heart?

Leopards represent a kind of change from the outside. Kafka wrote an aphorism that goes like this:

“Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry. It keeps happening. In the end it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual”

There is a certain quality of change that cannot occur from within a system, be it biological or cultural. This kind of change comes from the outside, and for Linda this change is represented by the leopard. Linda sings “There’s a crack in my heart where the Leopards get in”, which addresses her vulnerability (and I think a collective vulnerability) to changes occurring within the boundaries of our deepest source of identity. The heart must be cracked by life, it’s a fundamental quality of life to chip away at the heart, and it is also a fundamental quality of life to bring forth agents of change to infiltrate those cracks, aspects of the environment that enter into our deepest sense of self and reconfigure it. And we can’t fight the leopards. We Are The Leopards™.

Can you talk about the album art?

Linda rides a 1988 Suzuki Katana. It is a means by which Linda can find the cracks in the heart of this city:

Vancouver, BC, TheMostBeautifulCityInTheWorld™.

Once inside the heart of the city Linda can smile at the mayor, Gregor Robertson™, and say “you’ve gone too far”.

Are there any specific musical influences that informed the sound of this album? what music inspires her?

Enigma, Julee Cruise, Opus III, Future Sound of London, Harold Budd, The KLF, Orbital, Seefeel

What does it mean to be 'Horsin In the Void'?

Horsin in the Void is when you get outside of the stable. The endless task of conscious beings is probably to negotiate with their environment and maybe try to extract stability out of the chaos(!) This process leaves us worn out to say the least, and here's why: Chaos is unrelenting. Chaos has a multi-dimensional configuration, so its like, we finally stabilize things and then what the heck (?) here comes chaos from a dimension we didn't even know existed, so here we go on and on adapting to the new dimensions of instability that haunt us in Sisyphean fashion. Tiring stuff. So sometimes you relax and wander out of the stable, like a horse without a home. It's like surfing waves of ontological uncertainty, if you swim too far out you might get sucked out past the break and not make it back, but if you do it right you can find your way back to the shores of stability. Horses Surfing in Waters of Madness.

Will Linda's guided meditation tapes ever become available for public consumption?

Linda's guided meditations are strictly for those in need of her patented SleepCorrectiveTechnology™. That being said, there is a small section on Leopards Break Into My Heart that uses a sample from my original sleep meditation, and when I first heard that section I flashed back to a recurring nightmare I used to have where I was in an infinite black, empty space, and there was a giant, green, weightless cube that I was passing back and forth with an unknown opponent. It was a sort of game we were playing. At some point in the game I lost my focus and the cube drifted past me, out of reach. And as I watched the cube fade slowly into the endless dark abyss I realized all at once that by missing my chance to return the cube I had lost the game, and by losing the game I had ended the world. An enormous sense of guilt and dread filled me at that time. Enormous. I looked over at my friend who was listening to the album with me and she gave me a big thumbs up. Gosh that felt good to see that thumbs up symbol, and to know that the Green Cube Delirium (GCD) was long behind me.

Do you think we will hear more music from her in the future?

I'll be sure to pass your inquiry on to the customer service desk at LEP-E Alternatives™ for a comprehensive answer (within 10 - 12 business days[!])

Where do you think she is right now? What do you think she is doing at this very moment?

I don't know where exactly but I'd bet a horses handful she's sitting on a bench in one of Vancouver's fabulous public parks. I know she's been working on a groundbreaking cosmogony and that takes up most of her time so she's likely busy piecing that together. From what I understand she posits that the universe that we inhabit now is hollow, the only real part of the universe is the outer most boundary, the skin. By her logic, it is self evident in the concept of a universe that the only thing that could be said to truly exist is the boundary that separates it from the non-universe. But Linda's cosmogony also suggests that the boundaries of the universe are porous, open to exchange with the non-universe, like any functioning membrane must be. And that's why the universe is expanding, because non-universe is always sneaking in. THIS IS GREAT NEWS, because so much for entropy, the universe is an open system. And anyway here we are, probably just off shoot pieces of non-universe trying to fit in, and I'd guess that's where Linda is too.

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