the portal, by afternatural

the portal

by afternatural

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1.	between one world and the next 05:36	buy track
2.	the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred 03:38	buy track
3.	avarice 04:06	buy track
4.	data banks and dead ideas 02:31	buy track
5.	dead rivers and smoky skies 04:14	buy track
6.	another world 04:22	buy track

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"Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.

We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it."

- Arundhati Roy

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released August 17, 2020

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afternatural Brighton, UK

afternatural is the abstract improvised solo electric guitar outlet of Jamie Matthews, refined during lockdown into a psychedelic amalgam of unsynced decaying loops, Frippian leads and monolithic drones.

discography

palindrome

Dec 2021
unsunset

Nov 2021
the portal

Aug 2020
ten twelve

Dec 2019
neck of the woods

Mar 2019
december

Dec 2018
zero

Aug 2018

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