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FULL TRACK LIST

✶ Space Afrika – Version 1 – Untitled (To Describe You) [OST] (Sferic)

✶ Olli Aarni – Ilma koskettaa ilmaa – Yö näkyy (Dauw)

✶ Angela Winter – AAASMR: Spell for Liberation

✶ zakè ft. IKSRE – Tranquillitas – Silentium (forthcoming on Zakè Drone Recordings)

✶ Patricia Wolf – A Conversation With My Innocence – See-Through (Balmat)

✶ Mount Shrine – The Silence Between Our Houses – Winter Restlessness (Cryo Chamber)

✶ Angela Winter – AAASMR: No Words

✶ Requiem & Simon McCorry – Class; War – Critical; Mass (Hush Hush Records)

INSPIRATION & WORKS CITED

✶ Bartels, Meghan. “Election grief is real. Here’s how to cope.” Scientific American, 11/6/24. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/election-grief-is-real-heres-how-to-cope/

Excerpts from Bartels’ interview with psychotherapist Pauline Boss: “A higher tolerance for ambiguity is related to lower susceptibility to fascist ideologies.” —Ed.

Pauline Boss: There is, in fact, a tolerance for ambiguity scale. It was born out of a scale now called the authoritarian personality scale. [Editor’s Note: That scale was originally developed in the aftermath of World War II by philosopher Theodor Adorno as a response to Nazism. A higher tolerance for ambiguity is related to lower susceptibility to fascist ideologies.]

Change is necessary. If a system of human beings doesn’t change, they die. And right now I think we’re on the precipice of not wanting to change, and that’s not a good thing. That’s going backward. I think we should work toward bringing about change now at the community level, wherever you have power and agency, whatever level you have it at. Maybe it’s just in your family, maybe it’s just in yourself, or maybe it is in your community or state or nation or globally. But work for change—because change is the one thing that will keep us going.

✶ “AAASMR: No Words” is a field recording of ocean waves that I captured at Carolina Beach, NC, on January 6, 2021, just before I learned that the U.S. Capitol was under attack by an armed mob of Trump supporters.