Nkisi takes The Reclus Questionnaire.
Congolese sound artist @nkisiii joins @henrybrucejones to stage a “revenge of the anomalies,” conjuring the spirits hidden within colonial wax recordings in pursuit of music’s healing technology.
Read the interview at the link in our bio.
Against the pervasive Cartesian belief in a separation between humanity and nature, @laraaji_official offers the oneness: "a unity field that doesn't come in parts."
"If everything dissolved out of the thinking mind and just stayed in present time, I believe that unity would surface into the awareness. And the awareness might not have a language for it. It might just feel awe, or just wow, or stoned on the now. The best way to talk about the unity field is to talk as it. And to talk as it means to use a spontaneous linguistics—tone, color, and sound. Sound represents everything in the universe vibrating simultaneously. So in the simultaneity, in this vertical moment, there's no differentiation."
Our friend @_eddcarr_ explores this cosmic (in)separability over 180 frames of natural cyanotype, hand-toned with coreopsis flowers.
Read more from our interview with Laraaji at the link in our bio.
Laraaji takes The Reclus Questionnaire.
Ambient legend and studied mystic @laraaji_official joins our founder @russellhreed in his Harlem home studio to discuss the color orange, the fifth dimension, and the surrender of self in favor of the transcendent whole.
Read the interview at the link in our bio.
“When I go to Cyprus for The Watchman, in a buffer zone where the island has remained frozen in division since 1974, or to any other place, it is a way of saying that within all these different stories, these traumas, there is something still that can connect us. Something beautiful can come out of turning our attention to one another.
The forces creating the landscape of violence in each case are local, specific, political—but there is something shared about this condition. Not only for its existential resonance, but increasingly because, on a planetary scale, we face the shared horizon of climate catastrophe. So I deliberately play with these fragments, to try to make them connect. I try to make them stick to each otherand observe what might emerge from that closeness.”
Read the rest of our interview with @ali.cherri at the link in our bio.
Video from The Watchman, courtesy of Ali Cherri.
Ali Cherri takes The Reclus Questionnaire.
Lebanese artist and filmmaker @ali.cherri joins Youmna Melhem Chamieh to explore the secret affinities between body and earth, and the strange hope that persists past all points of no return.
Read the interview at the link in our bio.
In preparation for her 2015 MoMA retrospective, Björk sought Timothy Morton’s help to define her “ism.” In the (many) emails that followed, Morton toys with the possibility of a sticky paneroticism before offering only that “earth needs more magicians.” We’ve pulled some of our favorite excerpts for your reading pleasure.
Read our interview with Morton at the link in our bio.
Image: Still from “Black Lake” (2015) directed by Andrew Thomas Huang for MoMA. Courtesy of Wellhart and One Little Independent. Emails originally published in "The Huge Sunlit Abyss From the Future Right There Next To You."
Timothy Morton takes The Reclus Questionnaire.
The hyperobjects theorist joins our founder @russellhreed to discuss beauty, irony, and ambiguity. They explore the necessary conditions to transform hell into paradise—at once impossibly distant and yet only an epiphany away.
Read the interview at the link in our bio.
This Earth Day, we're excited to share our new website and the debut of our interview series, The Reclus Questionnaire. Named after the French anarchist geographer who once wrote that "humanity is nature becoming aware of itself," Reclus is a living archive of cultural responses to the climate crisis. You can read our first interview online today, featuring eco-heretic and Björk collaborator Timothy Morton.
Stand by for our next interview and the new edition of Club Eden. #heavenisearth
Design: Cleo Tsw @cleotsw
Web: Blaine O'Neill @buckmonster
Principal: Russell Reed @russellhreed
When we met Belém’s Miss Tacacá, we knew the series was not yet complete. Enjoy this eclectic surprise mix from the queen of Amazônia Electronica, who reminds us that even after world leaders depart another year of disappointing negotiations, the future is ours to build.
Thank you for tuning in to the launch of Club Eden — we’ll see you in April.
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Club Eden is Geographer’s music program. This series, 1992, invites a showcase of Brazilian DJs to reflect on three decades of false promises since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. Inspired by M.I.A.’s enduring line, they ask world leaders returning to COP30: “Where were you in 92?” Full series now streaming exclusively on SoundCloud.
In her Club Eden mix, Lyzza endeavors to “reconstruct a musical jungle,” exploring how rhythm can invoke "a feeling of wildness as both pulse and protest.” She ripped Amazonian birdsongs from the British Library Sound Archive, featured in chorus with a far-reaching showcase of South American music. She tells us it’s “a celebration, attempt at, and call to preservation.”
On the final day of a flailing COP30, her message is crystal clear: “Transformation isn’t a metaphor, it’s a demand. Every delay costs lives. If world leaders can’t imagine new systems, they should hand the reins to those who can — the ones already building them.”
Now streaming exclusively on SoundCloud. Follow along for our next drop.
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Club Eden is Geographer’s music program. This series, 1992, invites a showcase of Brazilian DJs to reflect on three decades of false promises since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. Inspired by M.I.A.’s enduring line, they ask world leaders returning to COP30: “Where were you in 92?”
Cashu brings Club Eden to the lush state of Pará, paying homage to the remarkable sonic diversities of the rainforest. A fierce advocate of music as resistance (and co-founder of the legendary @mamba.n ), she reflects on the ecological underpinnings of her sound.
“Brazilian forests have this insane natural chorus, especially from the birds and cicadas that create a whole symphony of meditative sounds,” she says. “That’s why I’m always drawn to sounds that are a bit dirty and textured; they bring me right back to that feeling.”
Now streaming exclusively on SoundCloud. Follow along for our next drop.
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Club Eden is Geographer’s music program. This series, 1992, invites a showcase of Brazilian DJs to reflect on three decades of false promises since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. Inspired by M.I.A.’s enduring line, they ask world leaders returning to COP30: “Where were you in 92?”
Slim Soledad enters Club Eden with an unrelenting intervention, as is her nature. Conjuring the myth of Drexciya—and paying homage to the iconic eponymous '90s electronic duo—she develops an Afrofuturist fantasy born in the club, but heard around the world. Rumor has it she also includes a few unreleased tracks, though you didn't hear that from us.
“Having respect for our ancestors and the people who inhabit this region is essential for maintaining the lungs of our planet,” she says. “Let’s take care of those who make life possible for us.”
Now streaming exclusively on SoundCloud. Follow along for more drops next week.
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Club Eden is Geographer’s music program. This series, 1992, invites a showcase of Brazilian DJs to reflect on three decades of false promises since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. Inspired by M.I.A.’s enduring line, they ask world leaders returning to COP30: “Where were you in 92?”
