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diaspora

Diaspora (dai?aespere) n 1. The dispersion of the Jews from Palestine after the Babylonian captivity. 2. (often not cap.) a dispersion or spreading. 3. a refugee element forced to exist outside its original context.
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Describing the sound of Diaspora as music is rather like classifying the complex dance of neurons associated with our existence as simply, life. A gradual process slowly illuminates the patterns that betray our reliance on the symbiosis of accord and dischord. The listener is drawn into the dark spaces where ceremonial pain is but a stepping stone to transcendence. Isolating the ritual in the religious and resituating it within a tabula-rasa, the audience is inspired to touch their own spirit, find their own gods, worship their own life as the holiest of sacraments.
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Inspired by a devotional minimalist aesthetic often visited by the likes of Arvo Part, it also seeks to be sound that transcends time and space and in this way also owes a debt to both Coil?s Time Machines project and The Residents ?Eskimo?.
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Diaspora was formulated by Lloyd Barrett (Brainlego, Poota, Secret Killer of Names, Bourbaki, Pop!), right, in the year 2000 as a conceptual project working within and without the confines of Dark Ambient. In order to further promote the notion of ritual (and perhaps force the listener to use their imagination), all titles are represented as glyphs. )+( is the most commonly used glyph: historically representative of the Ummo, an extraterrestrial race thought to be the airborne gods of Aztec mythology. In this case it refers to the divine spirit of illumination which courses through the bodies of all musical contributors to the Diaspora legacy. After initially releasing a 3" CDr through label:Kettle, Lloyd arranged, conducted and recorded an band of homunculi featuring Joe Musgrove (Unhappy Bee Person, Thin Air, P.E.A.T.T.), right, Andrew Thompson (Dzo, P.E.A.T.T.) and B.W.Bird (Distorter, Negative Trio, Conscience Quartet, Serbsky Insitute). This full length CDr release, subtitled ?The Unknowable?, is available through Brainlab Systems.
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Answering the call to worship echoing through the sacred spaces, the fellowship bow their heads in a solemn prayer for their dead, their loved, and their own protection. Genuflecting before icons of hope, they lift their voices and spirits to the air. Now floating beyond the material plain, their spirits access regions of pleasure unimaginable to us of mere bone and flesh. Yet while the spirit may be strong, the soul is weak: without discipline it quickly disintegrates. These little rituals allow our minds limited freedom from the yoke of our oppression.
This, the third live incarnation, mirrors the first. Performed at Small Black Box on 27th January 2002, Diaspora featured Lloyd Barrett and Joe Musgrove: utilising a variety of digital and analog tools they will attempt to channel the will of UMMO through sound and visual components.