Clear, but without anything personal, except attachment.

A remembrance is lacking a simple disdain, and discarded, yet still resplendent.
There’s little cause to be excited, and even less for enthusiasm, but bitter.

Quietness isn’t left untouched, yet yearning, and willing to be somewhere,
but there’s little hope for that where to be anything, and less to give back,
even with the slightest touch of goodness.

Warnings and milestones became both the same, and within it, we found
more of a purpose.

We were there.
It was clean,

and warm.

Until the night,
in a dreamed new home,
daydreamed collection of pictures,
an orange bedside lamp..

If we were there,
and warm..

A private twilight,

it could be ours.

Precinct

Communication, replies, and half

a prologue.

A few minutes,

or hours this morning –

awake but dreaming, from sunlight to contrasts

Except this morning, you were looking straight at me –

Set your heart on something, but what if it is too heavy?


This has to be one of the most singular designs we’ve featured on Hard Format. There are three releases here: the first contains four 3″ CDs, the second a standard CD and the third a 7″ single. The twin pyramid shapes tied together by a slender thread are deliciously mysterious, they were hand painted by Dani. Between 200 and 250 of them were assembled since 2007. Will wrote to tell me that this is one of the last four Dani made. She died suddenly in her sleep in July. I confess I was extremely reluctant to cut the thread to see inside – I really wanted to leave them unopened, but ultimately thought it best to document them here. You can judge their size as one of them is cradled in my daughter’s hands.

The images used for Brittle and Mane Bloom might pass unremarked but that the emptiness of the unpretentious farmhouse and the strangeness of the man recumbent behind the mound of earth is subtly bewitching. The 74 minute Brittle is hauntingly ethereal, it seeps into the room like dawn or dusk, suspended.