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Tangled Clumps

from Excavations in Substation by Nigel Ayers

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“No,” I said.
A stream burbled away, twenty metres of moving, swirling speckles of scarlet, topaz, azure and violet, flickered and vanished flinging off swirling clouds of real books.
Hot hair curled into tight ringlets and tangled clumps; curved gracefully running down alleyways, and now weighed fifty pounds, twenty times as much as it should have .
In fact, I saw on her screen an image of huge hidden reservoirs that fell and fell. Next I saw some representations chosen at a car park thirty yards to the left. He shook his head: no. I pointed the remote control at the television and pressed the button in the corner repeatedly. The screen brightened , and rotated around and around , a flat black and white image appeared. It was soft and pliable, abruptly changing through ninety degrees, smudging and dripping. Without proper contrast, for a few seconds, then back to one shade of white and grey static and then it slid out of sight. Under my feet, three simple forty metre screens and two complex ones. Twenty metres from the ground, all these rain-scoured images that are treated with a light-reflecting paint, flapping around overhead, there’s no one looking. Such long, dark images filled the floors, unable to focus with a series of parts that when put together form a language. One by one, I peeled out the pictures, dripping rainwater, trailing a thick film of saliva behind scattered in huge, concave triangles.

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from Excavations in Substation, released February 2, 2024

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Nocturnal Emissions' Nigel Ayers has continued to work with a strong underground of cult support, avoiding music industry fashions, and following his own creative path he concentrated on creating a strong sense of a wilderness identity through sound.

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