Broadcasting a transmission, out and into the ether, live from the stage, from the microcosmic amphitheater. On the shores of the river, the audience lingers, sculling the wake in skiffs. The station operators cluster about the temple’s fells, and shivering slightly ankle bells. Silken flutter and spinning narrative web around and about. Puncturing the atmosphere, the dome, with a message of varying clarity, but a promise. The signal from the crystal set claims to herald from Yialmel …
… But from here, across a barrier, through a window or a screen, in a dream, receiving the transmission with a diode sheen:
of cooking fires
klongs of yesteryear
shocking pink umbrella
of forested mountains
drying in the afternoon
for pedestrians
blued and engraved silver
at an enormous bazaar
the images
in a coffin shop
-- we're all toured out
on stilts
learn to swim
porch holds
fishing the waterways
you name it
the boom was stirring
it was very hard to stay clear
boats tied up
the temple of dawn
It’s unclear if the signal means, but certainly the beacon sings.
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Diva is the meditational healing and inter-dimensional pop project of Los Angeles-based artist Diva Dompe. Her work has taken various form since Pocahaunted days, recently over a series of tapes on Leaving Records, and currently through tranquil Yialmelic explorations via Dublab. Diva’s latest album, Divinity In Thee, is out on Stones Throw imprint Circle Star.
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