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And You May Find Yourself Living In An Age Of Mass Extinction

by Audio Obscura

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Tabula Rasa 03:28
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Dear Life 05:55
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Resolve 06:01
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In Passing 02:12
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about

In October 2020, Audio Obscura released 'Love In The Time Of The Anthropocene' an album which was a culmination of around three years work about the family unit, parenthood and awareness of climate change. The intial idea, which formed in early 2018, was simply to create an album of 'spoken word' pieces. I had the idea that different tracks would feature different forms of writing. I knew I wanted to use words from science, academic writing, fiction, prose and poetry. I got permission from Professors Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin to use text from The Human Planet: How we created the Anthropocene which was published in 2018. I was interested in the concept of the Anthropocene - a geological term to describe the most recent period in Earth's history when human activity started to have a significant impact on the planet's climate and ecosystems - and crucially these impacts will be impressed for ever more in the earths crust.

Adventures In The Anthropocene - released in March 2021 was a follow up to this album and featured a 28 minute 'Live' performance, originally broadcast in January 2021 of which key parts of the original album are reworked in new ways. The album also included remixes, alternative versions from the first album and brand new tracks.

Shortly after this release a decision was made to create a final album and thus completing what Audio Obscura refers to as the 'Anthropocene Trilogy'.
And You May Find Yourself Living In An Age Of Mass Extinction is a whole new album created between Spring 2021 and Summer 2022 and features a whole new collection of spoken word pieces.

The triology of albums reflect what it means to be alive at this moment in time, at the dawn of environmental collapse.

Many thanks to all the writers, musicians and narrators for contributing to this work.

Special thanks to David Barrington for the amazing design work and to James Edward Armstrong of Rusted Tone Recordings for his magic mastering ears!

The album is dedicated to my family, my partner Susila Subramaniam and our children Arlo and Zadie with peace and hope for your future.

Track Credits.

1. Tabula Rasa
Text: Richard Ward.
Narration: Bob Corrigan.

2. And You May Find Yourself Living In An Age Of Mass Extinction

3. Dear Life
Text: Julia Steinberger.
Narration: Susila Subramanian.

4. The Noise and The Signal
Text and narration: George Monbiot.
Additional modular synthesizer by IK Joyce.

5. On Our First Date
Text and narration: Ian Macmillan.
Cello: Simon McCorry.

6. Siberian Wood
Voice and ukulele: Tay_ploops (Jessica Gabriel).
2nd voice narration: Susila Subramanian.
Guitar: Robert Jefferson.

7. Spooky Action At A Disco
Text: Spencer Tromson.
Narration: Innes Smith.

8. Resolve
Text and narration: Rhian E Jones.

9. Semaphore Trees
Text and narration: Julia Blackburn

10. Long Geology
Dialogue sampled from BBC radio.

11. In Passing
Text and narration: Nigel Mellor.

12. Silent Spring (for Rachel Carson)

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released September 27, 2022

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Audio Obscura. Norfolk, UK.
-- melting the wide spectrums of electro-acoustic music, musique concrète, idm with occasional field recordings & post-classical ambient minimal leanings.

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