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Jebanasam, Paul - mātr
Jebanasam, Paul - mātr
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Paul Jebanasam’s third studio album draws from a sonic exploration of ecological and material consciousness, bringing together narratives of human and geological time in the face of a planet traversing crisis and emerging cataclysm.
The title, mātr, takes a dual meaning from the Sanskrit for ‘mother’, and a deviation of the Western word ‘matter’, positing the dialogue between human relations and material existence via a deep time centering of their duality. Through a questioning of the impact and custodianship of the material world, the album evokes the mother figure as both a nurturing embodiment and a planetary witness to humanity’s capacious strengths and destructive tendencies.
The compositions consider Earth’s grandeur and precarity from superimposing timelines spreading chronologically forward and backwards, looking for the ephemeral human voice and transcendent possibilities within nature’s cosmic journey.
The material takes inspiration from the eco-poetic writings of Jorie Graham, considering how current scientific understandings of the world and scales of crisis bring up vast and spiritual questions that traverse themes of time, mortality and faith. At its core the project meditates on the premise that in order to reconcile this moment, humanity is called to shift its understandings of time, scale and material responsibility into an as yet unexplored paradigm.
The title, mātr, takes a dual meaning from the Sanskrit for ‘mother’, and a deviation of the Western word ‘matter’, positing the dialogue between human relations and material existence via a deep time centering of their duality. Through a questioning of the impact and custodianship of the material world, the album evokes the mother figure as both a nurturing embodiment and a planetary witness to humanity’s capacious strengths and destructive tendencies.
The compositions consider Earth’s grandeur and precarity from superimposing timelines spreading chronologically forward and backwards, looking for the ephemeral human voice and transcendent possibilities within nature’s cosmic journey.
The material takes inspiration from the eco-poetic writings of Jorie Graham, considering how current scientific understandings of the world and scales of crisis bring up vast and spiritual questions that traverse themes of time, mortality and faith. At its core the project meditates on the premise that in order to reconcile this moment, humanity is called to shift its understandings of time, scale and material responsibility into an as yet unexplored paradigm.
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