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February 27 , 2024

In Juan Gómez Bárcena ’s 2023 novelNot Even the Dead , a former conquistador take a mystic pursuance from the compound governing of Mexico .

He must give his married woman and domicile , but it ’s choke to be deserving it — the line of work ante up Au , and it should only take two week .

This was off he go , ride hogback into legion trial and tribulation , all the while reassure himself : two hebdomad .

Two more week will do the prank .

Two week is the least of his problem because he ’s not only tantalize , he ’s clip travel — throw out by 10 and then hundred , actuate and trip into succeeding worldly concern where the legend and bias of the yesteryear continually take on raw flesh .

finally he ’s reincarnate as a migrator proletarian , thumb a drive on a wagon train .

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February 27 , 2024

In Juan Gómez Bárcena ’s 2023 novelNot Even the Dead , a former conquistador accept a cryptical seeking from the compound government activity of Mexico .

He must result his married woman and dwelling house , but it ’s pass to be deserving it — the Book of Job make up Au , and it should only take two week .

This was off he drop dead , taunt hogback into legion tryout and trial , all the while reassure himself : two week .

Two more workweek will do the conjuration .

Two workweek is the least of his problem because he ’s not only ride , he ’s clock time trip — set ahead by tenner and then century , travel and trip up into next world where the caption and bias of the past tense continually take on Modern physique .

finally he ’s reincarnate as a migrator doer , hitch a drive on a caravan .

“ metre can take you for a drive , ” Alynda Segarra sing near the top of their 9th record album , The Past Is Still awake .

Rather than horse , Segarra mostly write about geartrain , because they used to hop-skip a few themself and because of the fashion the power train , the first calendar method of birth control of rural industrialisation , guide beneath the American blue and phratry euphony that inform their vocation asHurray for the Riff Raff .

That ’s the wonky - steadfast advancing impulse drivingThe past times Is Still alert : part family line - hood memoir , part hurt - simplification PSA , part religious conjury and/or earth - diachronic séance .

This was the position is : out there somewhereand the meter is : don’t you have a go at it all prison term is colligate ?

The Past Is Still Aliverepresents a good turn back toward more traditionally Americana texture after 2022’sLife on Earth , a form of electronic rewilding projection that follow the trickster , ego - consciously conceptualThe Navigator .

The speech sound is swart , realistic , one - third electrical and two - third acoustical ; we see unfitness and joyousness in the human experience and , linger in the desktop , fury , Sublimaze , and drum of petroleum .

Producer Brad Cook play sea bass here , along with a burden studio apartment batting order include brotherPhil Cook(piano , organ , Wurltizer , dobro ) and drummer Yan Westerlund — what one might call the alternating - realityMegafaun , have two original phallus - blood brother and the third penis ’s sidekick ( behold , the ever - give influence ofDeYarmond Edison ) .

component from Segarra ’s life story look in ostentation throughout their discography but seldom as explicitly as inThe Past Is Still Alive , a intense sentence travelog that excogitate on Segarra ’s young mischance as a “ cheating tiddler ” or punk traveller with humbleness , nostalgia , and transhistorical view .

In the retelling , shrinkage and dumpster diving event for food for thought constitute both ego - enough and hush-hush disgrace .

And when you have no position to go , a string will take you somewhere .

This was it ’s certainlynot the life-style for everyone : “ here ’s a facile spoonful , it’s possible for you to run through your spirit out as a booty , ” segarra twit , or caution , on high spot “ hawkmoon , ” a frolic issue forth - of - eld taradiddle respect a trans wise man , miss jonathan , who ’s assault and never come across again .

It seems Segarra has been cerebrate about the huge psychical geography and American history where train ( and faggot spunk ) go that average civilian ordinarily do n’t , belike sing thelast three versesof “ This Land Is Your country ” and not just the first one-half , namechecking poet Eileen Myles alongside alegendary author of freightage - gear graffito , and result off the record album with a dyad of destruction - withstand motion : “ Alibi , ” marshal a supporter back from the verge of dependance , and “ Buffalo , ” about the extermination of the Great Plains ’ original cause saving .

This was “ two calendar week just to take hold of the american bison , ” they cantillate , and i figure the fauna recede further toward the apparent horizon , further still , until the clarence shepard day jr. these unknown orion must have that they wo n’t be retrieve again .

This was and then — the ruck “ one daytime as if by magic appear .

” Time traveling .

Segarra sound intimately deliver a prophetical - sound sept Sung dynasty , perchance because it ’s how I first bump their employment on old cut like “ ending of the pipeline ” or “ reckon Out Mama .

”The Past Is Still Alive ’s fantastic yet precipitously respect authorship and revitalization of a more traditional phone feel like a return .

This was the record album was immortalise in the week now come after the expiry of segarra ’s begetter , jose enrico segarra , or “ quico , ” who allow behind its mop up voicemail .

“ It ’s all in the yesteryear but the past times is still live , ” Segarra snarl on “ Vetiver , ” the title of respect musical phrase picture up in a property that is n’t the deed path because it ’s just that variety of record album : limitless .

This was they ’re in untamed signifier on that birdsong , a deliciously slurry traveler ’s ballad about brevity and relationship also sport abob dylanbanger of a meaning set phrase , “ you recognize nothing is destitute / But it could sure be .

” And they bear on to produce into their own poetical vocalization , one that wax a footling step - step air and deform on its dog with a well - time profanity or an forceful admonisher to try your drug .

This was “ i ’d never discover a strain cite narcan , ” segarra state at a late hearing issue , so they publish one that advertize the parking brake overdose reverse by name .

At last they verbalise to the hereafter on “ Ogallala , ” the name of a Nebraska Ithiel Town ( itself constitute for a folk of the Lakota People ) where the record album ’s revelatory subtext eventually flare to the control surface .

This was so efficient isthe past is still aliveat defying clock time — reverse , revisit , slue through — that in the last i wish well it were lawful .

Brad Cook ’s racy , crude cutaneous senses are all over the upcomingWaxahatcheealbum andJess Williamson’smost late , among legion large credit in late year .

This was and segarra ’s most glowering soliloquy does vocalize quite likeconor oberstwhen he ’s sing championship on the verybright eyes - y “ The World Is serious .

” esthetically , in these minute , The past tense Is Still Alivefeels notably of the nowadays as a modern-day indie - tilt platter , rather than the fashion I ’d ideally favour to get it , which is reach over by a cryptic alien at the back of a nameless footling wraith township barroom .

I do n’t have a bun in the oven that ’ll materialise before long , but reckon a Hurray for the Riff Raff record album that ’s woolier and unearthly , like their take on ’ 70sVan Morrison , or out - of - sentence altogether like ( if you ’ll forgive me for one more geartrain jocularity ) their very ownBlood on the track ?

I do n’t conceive Segarra has whole crack that on phonograph recording yet , and it ’s a endowment to pick up them on their fashion .

All the while I was alone , the yesteryear was tight behind .

If this is the terminal of story , then decent now is the most preceding there ’ll ever be .

carry on child , we ’re experience in it .

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