Acquiescence, by Jonathan Adjemian

Acquiescence

by Jonathan Adjemian

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Ayal Senior Sublime meditations in spacious bliss. To sleep, perchance to dream...

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1.	Constant streaming 06:23	buy track
2.	Acquiescence 02:29	buy track
3.	Off Lavender Creek 02:32	buy track
4.	Outside of Etchmiadzin 03:48	buy track
5.	Never meant to be a river 02:57	buy track
6.	For Nibesh and Nifty, somewhere north of Lawrence 09:34	buy track
7.	Komitas memories 03:44	buy track
8.	Earth words, for Ed Roberson 03:27	buy track
9.	Blessings for Eijaz Chaudry 02:35	buy track
10.	Bridle Path Resettlement Services 05:13	buy track

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cover painting by WOLF>R>N

recorded beautifully by Trevor Turple over two snowy days just on the Thornhill side of Steeles Ave

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they (largely adolescent and post-adolescent boys of all ages and genders) tell us about the human impulse to dominate, compete, maim; they mention also, but do not really incorporate into their economic, political, and social models, the great human attraction to cuteness, which I'd like to dwell on here (and most places).

apparently, this attraction keeps us from destroying our young, who are often unbearable in their behaviour but are also such squishes that we are strongly tempted to love, cherish, feed, stare, and make sounds at them.

that is, there is in a human an impulse strong enough to overwhelm all that violent stuff -- which is the impulse to stare transfixed in delight, swaying in the infinity of a fluid connection.

and it seems to me that without this impulse we would not have, among other things, music; or at the least we would only have those forms of music that premodern theorists explain lead to martial valour and dying young and valuing The Economy over the household (that is, the economy); those forms that the enlightened modern states doubled down on and turned into anthems and jingles and other modes of substituting jacking-up for nourishing.

I hope this music provides a certain delight and a slowing and stalling, and even a message to the folks of my city that the joy of, say, sitting and gazing at a puddle as some flakes of snow fall down and water seeps from the still-green around it can be even a greater joy than that of evicting the poor from your neighbourhood.

it is a long way from Small's Creek to Vagharshapat, and I have only been to one of those places. and when I see others around me I know they have been to other places I have not been; but here we are in the same place.

sometimes eyes are words, and sometimes eyes are sounds, and sometimes sounds are hearts, and I ask that all of this will be held forever in the hands of the merciful.

thanks to Hadar Nestel and to Paul Manhas for hearing this music much in its preparation, to Matt Smith, Fahmid Elahi, Ian Russel, and Victoria Cheong for playing early version of some songs, and especially to wolf for years of most precious friendship and inspiration and for letting me use his wonderful artwork to go with the music.

November 2020, Toronto

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released November 28, 2020

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Jonathan Adjemian Toronto, Ontario

Toronto-based keyboardist, composer and sound designer, frequent collaborator in music & dance. Also fond of education, food, municipal parks.

electronic work at hooverparty.bandcamp.com

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