Eric Angelo Bessel

*300 copies limited edition* Looking up from underneath, there is a watery peace. A settling as the light sifts downward, refracting the sights above, now wavering into pieces of the world as it was. An accordion of a sigh releasing its weight forever. Little snow globes of living. A tin soldier army marches towards us from an unknown distance. Someday their armory will glint in the sun upon the hill, but it is not today. And the expanse is staged. Hands arbitrarily moving about in space. To grasp, to reach for atoms nodding, agreeing to be solidity. To suspend the vibration of being. A nostalgia just out of reach. Wrapped with blankets in the other room, salt lamp glowing, a little less red. To think we could ever look back on these times with such favor. A kindness, bending nearer.

"I started making music in a purposeful way in late 2011, when I formed Lore City with my wife Laura Mariposa Williams. That’s when the real writing / producing started. Going back to my earliest influences, I played guitar in high school and also took photographs of hardcore bands when they played concerts in nearby towns. The bands would let me backstage to photograph from the musician’s point of view, which established connections for me between music and visual art. The music I make doesn’t really sound like the hardcore music that I listened to back then but those were my earliest passions – playing guitar and taking photographs. I think what drew me to that scene was the overall energising effect of the driving guitar chords and the fervor of the crowd.

My compositions are layered with many instruments playing simultaneously and modulating rhythmically, so as I’m composing, I’ll listen for the spaces where the next instrument reveals itself and feels right in the way it affects everything else.” - Eric Angelo Bessel