Sun Through Eyelids & Guan Yin, by Sun Through Eyelids, Guan Yin

Sun Through Eyelids & Guan Yin

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1.	Sun Through Eyelids - Emissary to the Stars 12:11	buy track
2.	Sun Through Eyelids - Cave of Bone Tapestry 08:38	buy track
3.	Sun Through Eyelids - Sumeru 06:14	buy track
4.	Guan Yin - Repentance I 06:30	buy track
5.	Guan Yin - Repentance II 11:04	buy track
6.	Guan Yin - Repentance III 08:01	buy track

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What we have here is the brand new split cassette from Sun Through Eyelids and Guan Yin.... and what a release it is.

Sun Through Eyelids is another amazing project from our dear friend and frequent label artist Meghan Wood (Crown of Asteria, Enon Chapel, many many more).

An expert collaborator, the first half of this cassette finds her paired with the equally talented and prolific Tom Necklen, who's lead the kaledoscopic, dark ambient, post-neo-folk outfit StE for half a decade or more at this point.

As for Guan Yin... normally I like to write the stuff that goes in this section, but the blurb the artists got me was honestly so much better than anything I could write I'm just going to let them take over from here:

Guan Yin: the Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, the Mahāyāna Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion, The One Who Hears the Cries of the World.

As the Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, Guan Yin can assume whatever form necessary in order to relieve suffering, including displaying attributes from either sex.

Guan Yin: a ritual ambient project from multi-instrumentalist Cicatrix (Nodus Tollens, Chernozem – they/them)) and vocalist Espi Kvlt (Seas of Winter, Apricitas, Nehushtan – they/he).

In much the same way that the duo’s other collaboration Exsanguinated Shade doesn’t fit neatly within the parameters of a single genre, Guan Yin doesn’t approach ritual ambient in the traditional way. For starters, there are no occult themes in the duo’s music - Espi Kvlt is a practicing Buddhist, and all of their lyrics come from Buddhist texts. From a musical perspective, Cicatrix draws as much inspiration from power electronics artists like Prurient and Theologian as they do from the ritualistic sounds of Corona Barathri or Emme Ya.

For the dark and frequently harrowing half of their split with cinematic ambient duo Sun Through Eyelids, Espi Kvlt took their lyrics from the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, specifically the section on Repentance. They chose that particular text because they were struggling with a mistake they made around the same time the duo were working on the split, and when dealing with serious life issues, the way they tend to overcome the pain and suffering from said issues is by making music. By focusing on the Repentance section of the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, they were able to heal through singing the words and forgive themselves for said mistake. While no amount of repentance can ever truly eliminate the pain caused to another, it can serve to spread good will into the world and bring loving-kindness to any beings we have wronged.

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released March 19, 2021

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