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Stay​-​At​-​Home Monk

by Killick

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    Lots and lots of poetry on the jacket and insert and record label. Art by Dale Inglett.

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about

Last year I created my first vinyl LP, a collection of preordained miniatures in the style of improvisation, plausibly performable in a single pass. It is a meditation on difficult-to-extract information from the vibrating strings of my instruments coupled with extensive poetry on the jacket sleeve and insert and it is called Stay-At-Home Monk. I didn’t realize how prescient the title and concept would be through the lens of 2020. So much of my practice has involved long stretches of solitary activity, the woodshedding a necessary component of eventual public display; and now nearly everyone, musician and otherwise, is confronting mutual shared interiority. At the same time as very real suffering and hardship there is a chance for growth and renewal, a fresh flexibility to “givens.”

The work I’ve undertaken in 35 years of making music is a look at the parameters of an aesthetic situation (perceived or concrete) and how to achieve escape velocity beyond them. It is often expanding the timbral possibilities of guitar with implements and microscopic amplification and typically involves a blurring of genre confines. Hand-in-hand is a nonlinear recontextualization of words to highlight the semiotic qualities within and beneath. I start with specific inspiration (my proclivities and home of Athens, Georgia) and attempt to universalize, minimizing the me about it in favor of us. All of this is in service of pointing towards a path of open dialogue and curiosity, hopefully edifying in even small amounts.

Although much of my output is at least nominally solo, collaborations are a cherished component of my artistic life. I’ve been fortunate to create with hundreds of intrepid souls across many disciplines over the years. But the distinction between solitary and group creation is porous. Solo indeed is never really solo, as it requires the labors and support of family, friends, programmers, luthiers, airline pilots, galleries, among many others, and, most importantly, it is only possible because of kind listeners everywhere.

I hadn't thought to release Stay-At-Home Monk digitally since it was tailor-made for the vinyl format. There are advantages to streams and downloads: you don't have to flip a platter halfway through, and you don't need a turntable at all. But you'll have to get a copy of the LP for the extensive poetry which makes the set complete. It's available here, through Squidco.com, and someday, once again, through me in person. I truly look forward to seeing you. Be well in peace and love.

Thanks as always for listening.

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released April 30, 2020

recorded, mixed, & mastered for vinyl by Killick Hinds at H(i)nds(i)ght Studio, Athens GA 2019; mastered for Bandcamp 2020
cover by Killick Hinds (photograph taken on a hike with David Lobato with an added hint of Dale Inglett's art from the LP cover)

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