Sounds Coming Out of the Land #4: Where the River Burned
New episode of Sounds Coming Out of the Land, review of latest Saloli album for Resident Advisor, and the arrival of Summer 2023//it's a rainy day, sunshine girl
Hello! I’m very tired from my new job and very sad about Sinead O’Connor and Paul Marotta and Robert Griffin are about to arrive any moment, so I will keep this brief:
This Sunday, at 10:00 am Land Time and 16:00 ‘Dam Time, the next episode of Sounds Coming Out of the Land will drop on Echobox Radio. I’ve taken it upon myself to make it extremely easy for anyone to access all the shows—including the new episode ahead of the broadcast—in one place, by creating a page where you can download each one directly from me, with no issues created on the broadcast side of things, as they were all intended to be heard. The latest episode is called “Where the River Burned” (the title of a book about the urban crisis of the 1960s leading up to Carl B. Stokes becoming the mayor of Cleveland in 1968) and it covers the emergence of an artistic counterculture in Cleveland and the rise of Black political power in Cleveland in the wake of enormous racial and economic tension in the mid-to-late ‘60s. I’ve also added handwritten track lists of each episode at the request of a few people and some photographs either from the history vault or from my own research efforts.
After a lot of consideration and trepidation, I have chosen to share my originally intended Summer 2023 mixtape, It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl. It exists close to the surface of my formative trauma, but that’s where that trauma itself lives now: close to the surface of my life. But it’s not a bad thing: there’s a lot of healing going on in my new house and in creating a new Cleveland life for myself. I haven’t had a lot of opportunities to share the new life I have been building in Cleveland, because the demands of building it have simply been too great. It is my hope this is a way I can share it with you. I’m certain it’s my greatest work yet! I’m also about to start work on the next Mercury Retrograde Sanity Mixtape Series tapes, which I will use to develop my fall tape, so hit me up if you want a tape from me. I’d love to make you one.
Lastly, my first review for Resident Advisor dropped today! It’s on this wonderful new experimental, ambient synth album by Saloli. It pairs fantastically with my new gig being a guardian of the deer and the bunnies while I deliver newspapers overnight. Publishing days have become increasingly rare for me as I turn my attention to the book I am writing, but it was honestly kind of refreshing to just create a concise, tight thing in comparison.
I hope you are doing well and that this content improves your life in some way!
Forever committed to being a Sinead,
EMD