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Love​/​Relic

by Algernon Cornelius

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Relic 01:22
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Tokyo 02:09
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Jettison Scoundrel 02:33
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4.
Lasting Memories 02:48
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Terminal 01:27
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Night On Treasure Beach 04:41
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TASY 03:00
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8.
I Like Pain 02:32
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9.
A Thank You 02:11
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In 2015 I completed what would be the third installment of a sci-fi music trilogy following the release of the 'Sarni Deli EP' and 'Botanical'. For 'Love/Relic' I wanted to go further and produce a visual counterpart to the music, a short-film shot by 9 different artists in an Exquisite Corpse-like fashion. I subsequently applied for funding to turn the project into a live cinematic event that would take place inside an abandoned swimming pool. Alas that plan never came to fruition. Some of the artists had already started working on their visual parts and I can only apologise and thank you for your patience. It's only since reading Rita Indiana's 'Tentacle' (published 2015) that I thought perhaps these ideas were relevant in the time they were conjured.

The music itself is stylistically far from what I produce now, and is best understood in the context of this aforementioned trilogy. The album begins (like much of Botanical) with some of the sounds that we're captured on a simple dictaphone during my trip to Jamaica in 2014, where we would also spend some of our last few days on Treasure Beach (after travelling down from the Blue Mountains). It was here that I found the fossilized coral that would in-part inspire the story and the music. The song "Night On Treasure Beach" was the final track to make its way onto the album and was written over the course of a night for a Volcom ad (youtu.be/p4NamO_WnWQ?list=PLQeQGJJEbmJnBOUp2npSKrXeFigvhaqST).

The cover art is a photo by Bart Pettman, which perhaps in retrospect I chose as a subconscious nod the The Prodigy's 'The Fat Of The Land' or Massive Attack's 'Mezzanine'. I had even gone as far as creating a Pintersest board to guide the aesthetic (www.pinterest.co.uk/Clarkus_Dark/loverelic/).

Below is the original text that accompanies the album. The phrase "Love Is Remembering" would later become the title of a poem featured in my poetry book 'Unseen, Unheard, Unknown...':



“Love Is Remembering”


‘Love/Relic’ began life as an album, a body of work that uses RnB samples warped beyond all recognition and laid over a pulse that evokes an ecstatic romance of uncanny nostalgia.The album gave became surrogate to a narrative that was dormant in my mind for some time, a collision of MDMA induced lucid dreams and a trip to a Jamaican beach scaling fossilized coral reefs.

Love/Relic is a sci-fi fantasy based on the idea of memories as a narcotic. The story begins with the protagonist discovering a coral reef fossil which triggers the discovery of a sub-aquatic alien civilisation that harvests a sacred coral reef made of crystalline ecstasy, in order to tap into a network of shared memories. Love/Relic is in fact a unique leisure experience that no other corporation can match. Love/Relic are pioneers in the Alien science of collective intra-memorial recreation. Please watch our short documentary on discovering the Love/Relic fossil before signing up for the full experience. Love is remembering.

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released October 1, 2016

Produced by Algernon Cornelius
Artwork by Bart Pettman

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