MORO by THE FOCUS OF LIFE

Good evening!
I'm putting out several LP's I've had on backlog for a while on this page tonight. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, the broader ~internet music scene~ feels barren and hostile. Commitments in my personal life and issues involving the transformation of ideological consciousness into political consciousness seem to also only be ratcheting up with each passing year.
I don't imagine I will be anywhere near prolific as I have been since setting out on making music for you to listen to in 2011 - the 2020's have already seen not only my output dialed back considerably, but also opportunities to compose and record in the kind of leisure and focus the work deserves begin to disappear. Music as an individual affair confined to the bedroom and the portable workstation appeals less libidinally all the time, but no lasting ensemble of persons or adequate space for hardware has yet materialised.
I will try to leave little write-ups in individual track descriptions as presents for you.

To here knows when,
- E.B.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AHETSHeSCU

Tracklist

1.	EAI POLITESSE	2:57

2.	SCOPOPHILE	4:01

3.	VOYNICH	1:55

4.	NINTENDO	2:15

5.	MOON AUNG	3:35

6.	MOON AUNG II	6:09

7.	VCS	5:28

8.	SUBSTITUTE CONTEXT	3:02

9.	SUBSTITUTE CONTEXT II	4:17

10.	TRIAD EX	4:04

11.	CONTACT ZONES	2:06

12.	MORO	4:25

Credits

released September 23, 2024

(I've decided to not do individual track writeups for this one and instead just briefly discuss this LP as a whole.
This was made in a little under a month in Audacity mostly with refigured screen recordings from YouTube of the oldest or most idiosyncratic model of 70s and early 80s synth/electronic rig I could find, as well as some Casiotone stuff, some original in-browser tracker improvisations, some cassette and VHS vocal music and artifacting sources.
The product of a very intense friendship in which I was briefly re-engaged quite seriously with older 'hypnagogic pop' type concerns.
It's difficult to put into words the emotional/personal determinants behind the music, especially since it was recorded in such a flurry, other than the workplace situation was exceptionally difficult, and it felt like the succeeding year went by in a blur. I suppose I was listening to lots of Delta Sleep Inducing Peptide, Internet Club, early 0PN and Sky Limousine.
I was deeply depressed for the first time in a while, with not much of a good reason to pin that on. It was the first time in such a depression that I was able to 'reason through it', or experience it at some kind of remove.
Ah, well.)

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