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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ Karima Walker - Waking The Dreaming Body ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ Karima Walker ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Waking The Dreaming Body ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Folk CAT#....[ KS052 ████ ████ LABEL...[ Keeled Scales ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 40:46 REL.DATE[ 03.14.2021 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 08 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 93,46 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 Reconstellated 05:04 ████ ████ 02 Softer 02:45 ████ ████ 03 Interlude 02:27 ████ ████ 04 Window I 08:53 ████ ████ 05 Window II 02:38 ████ ████ 06 Horizon, Harbor Resonance 13:11 ████ ████ 07 Waking the Dreaming Body 02:34 ████ ████ 08 For Heddi 03:14 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 40:46 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://karimawalker.bandcamp.com/album/waking- ████ ████ the-dreaming-body ████ ████ ████ ████ Tucson, Arizona interdisciplinary artist Karima ████ ████ Walker walks a line between two worlds. Aside ████ ████ from her long resume of collaborative work with ████ ████ artists in the diverse fields of dance, ████ ████ sculpture, film, photography and creative non- ████ ████ fiction, Walker has long nurtured a duality ████ ████ within her work as a musician, developing her ████ ████ own sonic language as a sound designer in ████ ████ tandem with her craft as a singer/songwriter. ████ ████ The polarity within WalkerÆs music has never ████ ████ been so articulately explored, or graced with ████ ████ as much intention, as on her new album, Waking ████ ████ the Dreaming Body. ████ ████ ████ ████ Waking the Dreaming Body was written, performed ████ ████ and engineered entirely by Walker, with the ████ ████ exception of some subtle upright bass from C.J. ████ ████ Boyd on the song ôWindow I.ö Producing the ████ ████ album on her own wasnÆt WalkerÆs original ████ ████ intention, though; after flying to New York in ████ ████ November 2019 to develop some home-recorded ████ ████ tracks with The BlowÆs Melissa Dyne, a sudden ████ ████ illness forced Walker to cancel the sessions ████ ████ and return home to Tucson to recover, and soon ████ ████ after, the COVID-19 pandemic ruled out the ████ ████ possibility of a return trip to New York. ████ ████ Instead, Walker decided to finish the album ████ ████ herself in her makeshift home studio. She spent ████ ████ the following months recording, processing and ████ ████ arranging her self-described ômessy Ableton ████ ████ sessionsö into densely harmonic arrangements of ████ ████ synthesizer, guitar, piano, percussion, field ████ ████ recordings, tape loops and her own dulcet ████ ████ singing voice, allowing trial, error and ████ ████ intuition to guide her way. The final result is ████ ████ a 40-minute dream-narrative of her conscious ████ ████ and subconscious minds that oscillates between ████ ████ the rich textures of her ambient compositions ████ ████ (as in the instrumentals ôHorizon, Harbor ████ ████ Resonanceö and ôFor Heddiö) and the melody and ████ ████ poetry of her melancholic, Americana-tinged ████ ████ songwriting (as in the lyrics-focused tracks ████ ████ ôReconstellatedö and ôWaking the Dreaming ████ ████ Bodyö), their ebb and flow recalling liminal ████ ████ states of half-sleep where images and emotions ████ ████ are recalled and forecasted from the previous ████ ████ night's dreams. Night falls in regular ████ ████ intervals throughout the album, forming a ████ ████ natural dialogue between waking and dreaming. ████ ████ ████ ████ Walker explains: ████ ████ ████ ████ ôI wanted these songs to stand alone as ████ ████ complete worlds, and this required a shift in ████ ████ my usual way of writing. I found myself trying ████ ████ to escape from an excess of interiority by ████ ████ exploring outward, by thinking about the ████ ████ mirroring that happens when you seek connection ████ ████ to others and to the natural worldùwhen you try ████ ████ to bring the outside in. I sought to make ████ ████ arrangements that swell at certain moments and ████ ████ barely hold together at others, moving with my ████ ████ breath and other rhythms connecting my body to ████ ████ the natural world. Ultimately, I was seeking to ████ ████ draw myself out, to reconstruct my personal ████ ████ narrative.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ ôI see myself as an in between person I guess,ö ████ ████ Walker continues. ôThough I haven't very ████ ████ explicitly brought my own personal history into ████ ████ my music, I think it's there, and it continues ████ ████ to show up in its own ways and time. I am Arab, ████ ████ half North African/Tunisian on my mother's ████ ████ side, but was raised in a very white context, ████ ████ with a lot of white passing privilege, ████ ████ especially as I've gotten older. My mom came to ████ ████ California as an immigrant to this country ████ ████ after marrying my dad in the rural village ████ ████ where she grew up. She came to Los Angeles and ████ ████ was working at McDonaldÆs and different ████ ████ Mediterranean restaurants around the city, and ████ ████ was kind of discovered at one of these jobs. ████ ████ The singer didn't show up one night, so her ████ ████ coworkers told her to sing a couple songs she ████ ████ knew. She only knew three by heart and she sang ████ ████ them over and over again that night. That was ████ ████ the beginning of her career, and she has worked ████ ████ as a singer in Europe and North Africa for over ████ ████ twenty years now. She's like a jukebox for the ████ ████ Arab diaspora and beyond. I didn't grow up with ████ ████ her, though, knew almost nothing about her, ████ ████ except that she was Tunisian and was a singer ████ ████ and that she left when I was little. I think ████ ████ that planted a seed in me, even though what I ████ ████ do is very different from her idea of being a ████ ████ singer. She has this rich full big voice, she ████ ████ listens to my records and then sits me down and ████ ████ says, "You know Whitney Houston, right? Why ████ ████ don't you sing like her?" The difference in ████ ████ what we do is laughably different! But my ████ ████ journey into making music was so different. I ████ ████ kept falling in love with musicians and artists ████ ████ for a while before I realized that maybe I ████ ████ wanted to be so close to these people because ████ ████ they were doing something that resonated deeply ████ ████ in me. So there's a way in which making music ████ ████ has been a way for me to overcome divides that ████ ████ I couldn't quite articulate in other ways. ████ ████ Maternal lineage, intimacy and connection, but ████ ████ also, with this record, attempting to overcome ████ ████ my own internal divides.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ Waking the Dreaming Body holds a deep ████ ████ connection to the environs in which it was ████ ████ created, and the mountains, rivers and starry ████ ████ skies of WalkerÆs desert home are referenced in ████ ████ nearly every song she sings on the album, ████ ████ simultaneously grounding the action and imbuing ████ ████ it with a sense of otherworldliness. ████ ████ ████ ████ Sonoran sky plays a movie ████ ████ Draw a line to the stars inside of me ████ ████ Write it down, tell your friends ████ ████ I know where I am but I canÆt tell where I ████ ████ started ████ ████ ù ôReconstellatedö ████ ████ ████ ████ ôTucson is where I grew up, I moved here from ████ ████ California as a kid,ö Walker recalls. ôAnd ████ ████ after leaving for school and traveling, I moved ████ ████ back about seven years ago. It's such a ████ ████ distinct and notable place to folks not from ████ ████ the desert, but this is my home. My formative ████ ████ understanding of the natural world, aside from ████ ████ the ocean, comes from here, so it always seems ████ ████ to make its way into my work. I think that ████ ████ porousness would be there regardless of where I ████ ████ was, but I do think that the pandemic forced me ████ ████ back into the desert seasons in a way that I ████ ████ hadn't experienced since I was a kid. We had ████ ████ one of our hottest and driest summers on ████ ████ record, and I usually try to tour when itÆs ████ ████ super hot at home. But this year I was kinda ████ ████ stuck, the mountain where everyone runs away ████ ████ from the heat, about an hour away, caught fire ████ ████ and burned for weeks so there really was no ████ ████ escaping it. I started thinking about our ████ ████ rivers- they're called dead rivers or washes, ████ ████ because they don't run usually, and our ████ ████ watershed, all the plants that survive here and ████ ████ the seasons that were still happening even ████ ████ under all the stress of this summer.ö ████ ████ Throughout Waking the Dreaming Body, WalkerÆs ████ ████ uncanny sound design evokes the delicacy, ████ ████ grandeur and terrifying enormity of the ████ ████ American Southwest. Close your eyes while ████ ████ listening to ôHorizon, Harbor Resonance,ö the ████ ████ thirteen-minute instrumental at the albumÆs ████ ████ center, and watch the shifting desert landscape ████ ████ in your mindÆs eye; from the babble of flash ████ ████ flood runoff to the slow parade of cumulus ████ ████ cloud shadows across the red earth, cactus and ████ ████ creosote, and then, moving backwards in time, ████ ████ the thunderous eruptions of ancient volcanoes ████ ████ that pushed the Tucson Mountains skyward. ████ ████ ████ ████ Walker continues: ████ ████ ████ ████ ôWaking the Dreaming Body was influenced by my ████ ████ preoccupation with natural sublime phenomena: ████ ████ tsunami videos and the dreams of ocean waves I ████ ████ was having last year, large mountain ranges ████ ████ that can only be seen by a plane or over the ████ ████ course of a day of driving. These images ████ ████ allowed me to think about immense horror and ████ ████ beautyùsomething that overwhelms but ████ ████ simultaneously is so hard to look away from, ████ ████ something that holds violence but also reflects ████ ████ a better understanding of ourselves in the ████ ████ context of that immensity and scale. Looking ████ ████ out and looking within, and knowing that the ████ ████ divide is false, but feeling the pain of that ████ ████ division nonetheless. ████ ████ ████ ████ ôWaking the Dreaming Body became an attempt to ████ ████ break out of my insularity, wrestling with my ████ ████ separation from the natural world. I write ████ ████ about mountains and rivers but all through more ████ ████ of a longing and detachment. Maybe thereÆs hope ████ ████ in there? I made this whole record almost ████ ████ entirely alone so IÆm actually not sure if I ████ ████ make it to the other side.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ Waking the Dreaming Body is out February 26, ████ ████ 2021 on Keeled Scales / Orindal Records. ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. G R E E T S .···. ▄▓▄██▀▀ │ ▀ . ▄▓▓▄ │ ▀▀▀█▄▄ ▄▄█▀▀▀ │ ▄▓▓▄ . ▀▀ ▀▀▄ FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET ▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄ ▄▓▓▄ ▀▄ RIP kHz ▄▀ ▄▓▓▄ ▄ . ▀ ▀ ▀▓▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄.···. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .···.▄ . ▀ ▀▀ ▀▓▀ ▀ .