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the long white seam

from nonbinaural by rachel underspoon

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this was the very first track I composed that really gave me confidence that I could craft something that people actually wanted to listen to. I placed it up here in the album because it's largely the reason why this album exists.

as for the spoken-word portion: I was looking around for public-domain audio files to incorporate into a dance-rock track when I stumbled upon the titular poem. I couldn't get the idea out of my head that the tale being told here was a ghost story, so I read portions of it as such.

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no wave the land-lock’d water stirr’d
the crags were white as cream
and I mark’d my love by candle-light
sewing her long white seam

I climb’d to reach her cottage door
o sweetly my love sings
like a shaft of light her voice breaks forth...

for o, for o, with brows bent low
by the candle’s flickering gleam
her wedding gown it was she wrought
sewing the long white seam

for o, for o, with brows bent low
by the candle’s flickering gleam
her wedding gown it was she wrought
sewing the long white seam

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from nonbinaural, released January 5, 2023
contains excerpts from 'the long white seam' by jean ingelow (copyright public domain)

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rachel underspoon San Diego, California

Deep in the heart of San Diego, a non-binary trans woman frantically pecks at a keyboard. These are the sounds that she generates.

she/they : synths, guitar, vocals and samples : no gods, no masters, no genres

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