Track By Track: Primitive Motion

Brisbane duo Primitive Motion return with their second album Pulsating Time Fibre. Instrumentalist LEIGHTON CRAIG and SANDRA SELIG gives us the track by track rundown.

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'Bodies of the Placid Furnace'

Dark landscapes. The oneness. In tilted hands
Shown how to make something appear in the space between two particles.
Twin arcs of synth and bass dance around the placid furnace.
Mystery of the flower’s inner edges.

'Audible Darkness'

Ascending scale. Two chords. Two voices. One is the image of the other.
Flying further into the shadow behind a bird's wing.
To know that lightning is generated here.
Forming today and from no beginning.
Pulsating time fibre = our lives.

'Golden Light Clinic'

The big Dream Float. Through the walls into light. Travel with even beats of four, standing in the shape that is generated.
Find your eyes looking back at you from inside your sunglasses!
To drive with the window down. Tall trees and the smell of camphor laurel.

'Complex Plane'

Climbed onto the roof and heard something beating in the distance.
Stood up to get a clearer sense of its origin, head reaching above the canopy of stars to look across the surface of time.
Angels in the architecture.
The theory of chaos.

'Nebula Lagoon'

Floating, ears under the water, hearing descending notes.
Listening deeper - someone is singing very high, deep below. (Haven't been able to repeat the high singing since.)
Big wide universe outside. Quiet earth within.
Real time arpeggio (couldn’t figure out the sequencer).
Starry winter nights.

'Same In The Same'

Nudgee Beach, a white butterfly flutters out over the sea.
It flew further away and became smaller.
I couldn't tell if I could still see it or if it was just the gently sparkling sunlight on the surface of the water.
Dance to the Elastic Division of the Luminous.

'Slow Motion Time Release'

Casio Dinger under slow-mo vocal.
Time follows itself into the present.
A mobius strip. Perpetual motion.
To be continued - ad infinitum.

'Kaleidoscope'

Collide-o-scopic chug along.
One turn of the circle
Changes everything.
Words cut from the page of a forgotten book.

'Du Hättest Gerne'

Nothing to do with riding a bicycle in the breeze.
I’d like to.
But don't forget the umlaut.

'River Flow Your Face'

Breath of night remains behind the waterfall.
A subterranean river constantly flows beneath our feet.
That's where the songs are, before they become audible.
Edmund Xavier deep channels beats from Bolinas, across the Pacific Ocean.

'Question D'

Flood the starlit plain in the wind of ghosts. Dark electric blood.
Drumming separately, woven together later.
Could be that drumming makes time seem malleable.
Turns it into the unanswered question.
The synth knows the answer, but isn't telling.

'To Shape A Single Leaf'

Sub-aquatic dreams of the mandlebrot set.
Invisible city falls into the ocean.
Some music sounds different every time you hear it, even though you made it.
Morphing into itself in new patterns and repetitions.
Live forever inside this song.

'Plant Me Deep'

Return of the Dream Float. Lots of love for Harold and Marion. Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahim.
A melody to momentarily replace breathing.

'Coronet'

Dispatches from the outer zone.
Hold the line with an audible pendulum. Keyboards adrift in solar flare.
Clarinet in the electrical socket.
Voice through the vertical line transmitter.
Wave patterns through the Coronet.

'Spring Sky Window'

Open the spring sky window into the next galaxy.
Stylophone comets.
Sandra trips the Spiral Ascension button.
Edmund Xavier bounces the crew into the next beyond.

Goodnight to all.

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Pulsating Time Fibre is out now through Bedroom Suck.