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A Conversation in the Casuarinas
It is a winter night on Wadjemup. I am walking through the back blocks of Thompson Bay, alongside the vintage bungalows and weatherboard staff accommodations that make up the forgotten side of the island’s main settlement. Here there is no view of the ocean, nor do the houses look out upon each other to create… Continue reading
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Seaward Village: No Map Completion
Each time I return to Perth’s Western Suburbs, I’m saddened to see iconic, older homes replaced with yet more square, glass-fronted mansions that have zero congruence with the natural beauty of the area. Entire streets are steadily being filled with oversized concrete boxes; houses that are at pains to appear striking and ‘contemporary’, but look… Continue reading
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The No Map Completion Project
How often do we navigate a new place without a map? These days I’d hazard to guess almost never. Even on the rare occasions we indulge ourselves in some aimless wandering around a foreign city, there’s almost always recourse to Google Maps sooner or later. Sometimes it’s to find a place but, more often than… Continue reading
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The Central Steppe
We are on the edges of Werrima, a dream-town in remote South Australia. Here there is a desert with no red earth or Shutterstock-ready sculpted dunes. It’s instead a low expanse of brown dirt, silt-like, in which nothing can grow but tussocks of dried plain grass. This grass is the reason why this place is… Continue reading
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Bottom Drawer Tapes: Taog Susej – FuneralMoonEclipse
Artist: Taog Susej (US) Title: FuneralMoonEclipse Label: Meurtre Noir Date: 2005 Taog Susej is ‘Goat Jesus’ turned backwards so, yeah, this is some real inverted crosses ‘n’ incantations black ambient; the first demo from a project which would go on to do a few splits before disappearing around 2007. At least one member was involved in Vrolok, which was… Continue reading
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