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Relentless

by Darlene

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Part 1 08:36
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Part 2 41:04
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Part 3 29:28

about

'Relentless' is an attempt to express both an emotional response to the brutal and unceasing horror inflicted upon our internal and external worlds in the present moment by capitalism, technology and increasingly violent and fascistic colonisers, as well as attempt to provide a healing, soothing and meditative balm, in the form of one continuous sound recording all at the same time. Digital FM and analogue synthesis both compete and align to produce a range of frequencies from dissonant ear piercing and nauseating harmonics to meditative drones to intense throbbing sub bass, often overlapping and making it confusing to disseminate which sounds represent terror and which represent calm. 'Relentless' reflects my physical, mental and existential state right now, a state that is obviously in no way unique to me alone. Trying to find a way to insert calmness and respite into a life with chronic illness, pain and fatigue from disability is something many people know, and many people know it much more severely than I do. Many of us are being eroded from both the inside and out as we watch on and desperately find ways to intervene as genocidal states collude to rain bombs down on children and families, while back here we try to find ways to afford food while landlords forcibly remove us from our miserable mold infested shit hole homes owned by greedy fucking pigs (as I type this I look out my window at an application sign for demolition of my home to make way for a new mansion for the "owner"). We all try to figure out how to draw on the vapours of energy left over from trying to crawl out of bed in debilitating pain after night after night of insomnia to somehow, impossibly both care for ourselves and fight for others. 'Relentless' is how I express this paradox for myself. Relentless describes the unending avalanche of horrors inflicted upon us, and Relentless describes the resilience and courage required to keep pushing back. Relentless (this album) is a tribute to white hot rage, frustration, misery and defeat, and the almost impossible presence and focus needed not to succumb to it all irreversibly, but which we need anyway to somehow manifest for ourselves and to reach out and inspire in others, all the while with a boot on our fucking throats.

'Relentless' was partially conceived and programmed on Te Āti Awa Iwi land while visiting Te Whanganui-a-Tara in Aotearoa, and was completed and recorded on Boonwurrung country of the Yalukit-willam of the Kulin nation. I pay respect to Elders past and present and am grateful to be on this land that I am only and will only ever be a visitor to. It always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

Free Palestine, give land back to First Nations people and pay the rent.

Fuck so called “Israel”, Fuck so called “Australia” and fuck "AmeriKKKa". Fuck fascists and fuck all cops.

credits

released March 22, 2024

Relentless is programmed, performed, recorded and engineered by Darlene.

Performed on Korg MS-20, Pittsburgh Taiga and Korg Opsix.

Front cover artwork by Jassy Robertson, back cover title artwork by Darlene.

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