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The Western Lands
Tiago Sousa →422 listeners5,560 plays
resting bellexperimental00snetlabelbest of 2008
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Release Date 10.04.2008 Author All songs written and recorded by Tiago Sousa based on the book with the same title by William S. Burroughs Thanks to: friends and family, specially to Ritinha, Carlota and Christian Artwork done by Carlota Sanches Description The Western Lands, the western bank of the Nile: The frontier to a vast and inhospitable desert, today as in ancient times – but also, in Egyptian mythology, the Land of the Dead: A space open to be filled, just as William Burroughs work published in 1987, with meaning, an ‘open book’ in many ways, readable from all possible angles, strung together by an ambience which transcends the limitations of chronological ’storytelling’: Juggling with atmospheres, real and unreal memories, and steeped in occult symbolism. The road which leads to the Western Lands, Burroughs tells us, “is devious and unpredictable. Today’s easy passage may be tomorrow’s death trap. To reach the Western Lands is to achieve freedom from fear.” Far more than an interpretation of Burroughs’ text, Tiago Sousa’s “The Western Lands” retraces itself the journey of an artist towards an unknown territory, aiming not at a ‘conclusion’, but a transition: Just as Burroughs intersects the present with an hallucinatory ‘beyond’, subverting our common notion of ‘reality’, Tiago Sousa’s seven compositions draw upon both the noisy and the melodious, loose rhythms as well as hypnotic repetitions, parallels of equal value which never converge to one simple truth, o
