Peregrinations, by Wilson Shook

Peregrinations

by Wilson Shook

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	1.	To see this evil from its core 20:19
	2.	He spent himself on margins 06:05
	3.	Crystal edges umbra-ed and broke 08:46
	4.	horizonless 08:30
	5.	depthless 08:00
	6.	whose wails you dream 04:44
	7.	obliqued and vanished 08:50

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Peregrinations continues saxophonist Wilson Shook’s focus on resonant site-specific improvisations, a practice which converges with his interest in urban exploration and the geography of forgotten places.

The sessions which, presented in their entirety, make up Peregrinations, took place in a semi-abandoned Oakland warehouse, converted into a kickboxing gym before ultimately shuttering in the early days of COVID-19. Vacant space is all too common in the midst of the Bay Area’s sky-high rents, crashing economy, and critical levels of housing insecurity. Shook inhabits this tenuous landscape with sensitivity and strident imagination.

Peregrinations picks up where 2015’s Straying Echoes left off: intimate, expansive, vulnerable flights of wounded virtuosity. Halting attempts at a new language for soprano saxophone. Recorded alone, in the dark, amid the nascent ruins of the American metropolis.

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released April 5, 2024

Wilson Shook – Soprano Saxophone

Audio mastering by A.F. Jones, Laminal Audio
Recording, design, and photography by Wilson Shook
Titles adapted from “To see this evil from its core” by Philip Lamantia, 1955.

1-4 recorded 1/28/24
5-7 recorded 11/16/23
on Huichin, Ohlone land
Oakland, CA

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Other Ghosts Oakland, California

Other Ghosts is a collective alias for the creative work of saxophonist, improviser, and multidisciplinary artist Wilson Shook.

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