Retrogress Transmissions

by Van Orhari

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1.
Eventual Reforestation 03:21
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Mutation: Rounded Thorns 07:42
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3.
Reversed Reference - soft (Van Orhari Remix) 02:38
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4.
Plea for Eternal Return 02:59
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Old Window (feat. Lymphoplastic) 02:37
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6.
Into Extreme Radiance 05:23
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Whale's Forgiveness (feat. Geoffrey Deibel) 04:06
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The Florida Channel (feat. Lymphoplastic) 13:30
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Phantom Belts 03:06
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Resting in Exile 02:01
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Arkestral Reformation 01:35
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12.
Recalibrate 02:22
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about

Retrogress Transmissions is a series of broadcast excerpts, recorded in a hillside cabin in Boone, North Carolina. The audio was captured using a modified Neptunium radio capable of picking up progray waves. The exact date from which these “program ray” waves destiginate is unclear, but it has been speculated that they are to be sent back at some point between 2900 anno Domini and, more controversially, 350 I.M.E. (Interfaith Mountaintop Era). The space between these two dates remains undefined.

[Block quote from “Outsider Engineers: Ontological Ruptures in Electromagnetic Field Studies” by Frank Delany. MIT Press, 2017.]

…device’s inventor, who insisted on being identified only as the Califone Cowboy, challenged institutional theories of the audio’s nature. Citing numerous white papers on climate change predictions, lyrics by dub reggae band The Congos, long-term nuclear waste semiotics, and Revelations 11:15-19 (N.I.V.), Califone asserts that these “non-musics” are retrograde radio broadcasts meant to convey warnings and aspirations. Though he has no positivistic means of proving their intention, Califone insists that “media priests” residing in the future have sensed their existence fading from possibility. According to the Cowboy, these transmissions are either a desperate attempt to preserve the media priests’ existence, or a hopeless expression of love for their once-forebearers. If this is true, our successors have attempted to represent their soon-to-be lost version of modernity through sound and audio-image, in hopes that their designs prove archetypal.

credits

released September 20, 2022

All songs composed, recorded and mixed by Van Orhari

Mastering by Blake Bosarge

“soft” by Reversed Reference
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“Old Window”
Korg Minilogue – Barett DiMarco

“Whale’s Forgiveness”
Baritone Saxophone – Geoffrey Deibel
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“The Florida Channel”
Drums - Barett DiMarco

Album cover by Emma Pitot and Van Orhari

Cassette design by Lauren Olivia

Special thanks to Mary, Paul, Maxwell, Sandy, Herbie, Hannah, Sawyer, William, Savannah, James, Lee, Frances, Dr. Stricklin, Dan, Cait, Nick, and Vardui

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