#ghold

Olga de Amaral, "Estela 56," 2015,

Gold leaf and gesso on linen,

“The agency of ‘Bludgeoning Simulations’ unfurls before you as a proboscis - coiled, serpentine and inquisitively searching for a saccharine hit of nectar. Instead, one’s taste buds are coated with the worryingly familiar ferric tang of blood. This album denies poetic revery yet delivers a kind of scorched catharsis - ill feeling, malintent and hopelessness are set ablaze and allowed to run free with reckless abandon. One’s arms flail as if preaching heresy, one’s ears sing with baleful howls, one’s eyes become dull, cloudy vessels for half remembered visions of calm.”

Fraternity Of Sound Festival, Athens Greece 28/10/17