The Guide who Walks Through Worlds

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This is the sonic part of a multimedia project around this character that emerged through me in automatic drawing, wanting to become more real; until finally, it was invoked on canvas - into the painting you see as the track artwork.

It was made during the very first lockdown of 2020 - an appropriate time for invoking guides if ever there was any.

The creative process was documented on film. Then the sound came.
Then the words came... the communion.

Find the film here: vimeo.com/499395315
And on my website the full collected material: www.alice-karveli.co.uk/the-guide-who-walks-through-worlds

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The Guide who walks through Worlds

Stalks…
as Light-surrounded Darkness.

Translucent and sinuous
its transcendent nature
extends dendritic tentacled horns
to feel into the next world
The one that knows and
shows
the way
through veils of noise and silence
alike

trance-like

crashing, gliding, flowing thrashing
growing its feelers out…
yet always with the movement carries
its stillness Within

Through morphing fields of unknown worlds
devoured by time
devours the yearning
wherever it goes…
It takes you with it

and shakes you…
to a core unknown to you
before the spirit took you

Hand and hoof and antler held
wings and heart and breath propelled
with both eyes drawn, sucked into
the cyclone-cyclope portal well
the fountain long now longed for
a funnel into to which to pour
your subtle substance

It glides
skeletonised, in its disjointed flowing
one limb in one world, another in another
another in another and another in another….
galactic vortex spinning mind
and branching horns, curved sharpened thorns
tear into SpaceTime-fabric
a trail of nebulae streaming in its wake

Pushing the precipice of understanding
into dimensions before unknown
and then beyond

u n k n o w a b l e .

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released January 30, 2022
All sounds by Black Arrows.

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BlackArrows London, UK

Black Arrows is multidisciplinary artist Alice Karveli, tearing rips through the fabric of Spacetime with sonic implements, sometimes gently, sometimes harshly, at times solo and others collaboratively.

London based from Athens Greece. ... more

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