EP, zine and print

Greetings from the Canadian we(s)t coast.

A couple updates before the year fades:

Ash

I’ve been sitting on this collection of photos for about a year and finally decided to put it into zine format. This project started in earnest in October 2024 with a trip to Joshua Tree, California. Obviously, the desert makes for an alluring photographic subject and, naturally, I collected quite a few photos during my time there. But touring a live AV incarnation of my 2025 album, Lake Fire, compelled me to explore in print some of the visual themes from the video. What emerged was a hybrid project, Ash, which threads together a collection of images from the desert along with the blackened wood, ghostly limbs and charred forests of BC.

Musically, Ash falls into a family of more sparse and somnambulant works in my catalogue like stases, coast/range/arc// and Umbel. It embodies the feeling of stillness of a forest after a wildfire. There’s a similar feeling in the desert. Life at its arid edge. But what also exists in both of these fragile landscapes is life’s emergent potential and its inclination to persist.

Ash is available on bandcamp as either a combination 40 page zine and CD or digital download. It will find its way to streaming eventually. As a offering to mailing list subscribers please use the code ‘smoulder’ for 10% off.

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Iona

I had an opportunity to contribute images to a book by Vancouver publisher Heavenly Monkey who specializes in hand-printed, hand-made, limited edition books. I provided two images which were printed by New Leaf Editions using a polymergravure process on Barcham Green’s Royal Watercolour Society handmade paper. More info on the process and books can be found on Heavenly Monkey’s Blog.

All the books are spoken for, but there are individual 10 X 15 cm prints of Iona, in an edition of 10 on offer. I donated one print to my alma mater, Simon Fraser University, as part of an art auction to raise funds for the School for the Contemporary Arts. The remaining 9 are available direct for $200 CAD each (numbered and signed). If interested, please email me directly at info@loscil.ca with ‘Iona print’ in the subject line and we can work out availability, payment, shipping, etc.

warm regards,

-scott