Something Like #36: A Resurrected Thing w/ Bitsy Knox
This episode of Something Like imagines dipping your fingers into a glassy subterranean river, impossibly still, ancient—a gradually collected, fluid experience. 9 September 2021

 

 

This episode of Something Like imagines dipping your fingers into a glassy subterranean river, impossibly still, ancient—a gradually collected, fluid experience. Jorie Graham’s 2020 poem Thaw—where the title of this episode comes from—draws on another image: a plot in the back of her building, a “green sensation” that pushes up, pushes it. She writes, ” . . . Our prior lives press on us. / Something with heavy re- / collection in it / presses. Not / history anymore of course but / like it. Is it five minutes or five hundred years. . . “

This is an episode interested in marking change, locating decisions, and witnessing shifts in spatial orientation, but it’s also an episode that calls on interior magic.

As ever, thanks to Roger 3000 for Something Like’s jingles.
The music under my voice today comes from John Chen (陈国平) and his album Songs From Within (心意), 1999.

You can read Jorie Graham’s Thaw here.

Tracklist

Jennifer Walshe, Epitaph of Seikilos, A Late Anthology of Early Music, 2020

Buffy Sainte Marie, God is Alive, Magick is Afoot, Illuminations, 1969

Ka Baird, Subration, Bespires, 2020

Folk Music At The Sibelius Academy = Kansanmusiikkia Sibelius-Akatemiasta (Melkutus), Taru Aaltojen Ruokopillistä, 1983

Don Cherry’s New Researches featuring Naná Vasconcelos, Elixir Repris – Witchi Tai To, Organic Music Theatre: Festival de jazz de Chateauvallon 1972, 2021

Jason Sharp, Blossoming Rest, The Turning Centre Of A Still World, 2021

Cole Pulice, Sleep Helix, Gloams, 2020

Michael Stearns, As the Earth Kissed the Moon (Excerpt), Planetary Unfolding, 1981

Sofie Birch & Johan Carøe, Calibrating Senses, Repair Techniques, 2021

Kay Hoffmann, Tempus Instat, Floret Silva, 1985

Mad Music Inc, 03, Mad Music, 1977

Alanis Obamsawin, Nziwaldam, Bush Lady, 2018 (reissue)

Alan Watts, Onion Chant, This is It, 1962

Master Wilburn Burchette, Raising the Pyramid of Power, Guitare Grimoire, 1973

David Bowie, Quicksand (Demo), Hunky Dory, 1971 (remastered in 1990)

Masma Dream World, Becoming the Magician, Play at Night, 2020

This Mortal Coil, Song to the Siren, It’ll End in Tears, 1984

L’Rain, Find It, Fatigue, 2021

Leslie Winer, Fragment #2, When I Hit You, You’ll Feel It, 2021 reissue