New Zealander Derek Pearson suggests unflinching focus with his project
Silence and the Unwinking Minds, a solo endeavor even though it sounds like a
band name, one of those “Paul Revere and the Raiders” type dealies. In pure silence
the mind centers itself, “unwinking,” solely attentive to the object or task on
which it’s directed its concentration. Derek Pearson in the same way hones in
on a distinctive mood with Ephemeral,
arching his eyebrow and staring into the heart of the void in order to pierce
the darkness within.
But of course, as it usually does
in these kinds of circumstances, the void stares back, and Derek Pearson is
forced to forge an uneasy truce with all that internal unknown and proceed as
best he can. He proceeds well, as Ephemeral
pieces together a collection of low-key instrumental meditations, all falling
easily within the post-rock/electronic/ambient hybrid idiom and taking cues
from modern classical. Basically, you could easily find Ephemeral nestled in the Erased Tapes catalog, or, uh, the Do You
Dream of Noise? catalog, into which it actually
nestles. So, really, it’s exactly where it belongs.
Ephemeral suggests the
fleeting nature of everything and packages that disillusion and impermanence into
bite-sized nuggets of emotional engagement, forcing a reckoning between oneself
and the motions of existence. Sit up, stand back, take notice! What elements of
life are relegated to the edges or corners that should be foregrounded instead?
Silence and the Unwinking Minds suggests that the path forward is hidden within
the subtleties, but in plain sight – just pay attention, that’s all. It’s easy
to pay attention to Ephemeral, and
equally easy allow that focus to burn right down to the center of what matters.
https://silenceandtheunwinkingminds.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/doyoudreamofnoise/
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