Tracklist:

Tomoko Sauvage - Salt Spell (Spell By Benjamin Kilchhofer) 

Museum Of No Art - Textile Trance (Spell By Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh) 

Gavilan Rayna Russom - Shadows Cast By Moonlight (Spell By Dani Spinosa) 

Felicia Atkinson - Enter The Memory Of A Crow (Spell By David Horvitz) 

CR Gillespie - Invitation To A Clog (Spell By Andrew Zukerman) 

Idris Rahman - Incanti Jazz Score 1 (Spell By Bill Bissett) 

Scott Gailey - Ginger Soy Milk Pudding (Spell By Yu Su) 

Beverly Glenn-Copeland - A Spell For The Present Moment (Spell By Adrienne Maree Brown)

Concept ambient-based LP curated by Seance Centre - taking you into a deeper and meditative realm.

"A collection of sixteen visual and sonic experiments centered around the idea of score as spell".

A spell and its incantation are distinct, but conjoined by a symbolic, almost umbilical force. A spell is a totem text, a material call for change — a seed, a recipe, an instruction, a potential. The incantation of a spell gives it life, brings breath to body, raises hairs, moves minds. For this project, eight spell- scores were created by visual/text-based artists for a musician/composer to incant. Taking a wide interpretation of what can be considered a score, these works include concrete poetry, collage, painting, drawing, spell-poetry, instructional art, and recipe. The resulting sound works give voice to these evocative “texts”, residing in the liminal space between musical form and magical utterance.

Creating what became the cover artwork for this release, musician and artist Benjamin Kilchhofer conjured salt paintings reminiscent of ancient runes and salt circles — improvised talismans of protection. Translating these expressions into sound using a hydro harp (water drops hitting tuned water-filled porcelain bowls), musician and artist Tomoko Sauvage evokes an embryonic environment, the cleansing and purification of saltwater oceans. Artist Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh created a piece that arose from a drawing ritual — a meditation on textile, pattern, and code. In response, Museum Of No Art (Mona Steinwidder) worked her composition by “weaving the piece, layer by layer”. She was “particularly interested in the state one achieves when one works repetitively, stoically and excessively towards a form. Which leads to trance or meditation and creates its own immaterial energy.”

The eight spell cards, inspired by the format of oracle and tarot cards, are invitations for further interpretation and play. To be under a spell is to be lost in a transformation, an alternate reality, to be in collaboration with an unknowable and powerful force. The works in this collection have created a spontaneous and ludic alchemy, courageous attempts to catalyze and spark in our present moment.