Last week I sat down for a conversation with a good friend, Louis Bowes, with the intention to discuss our parallel paths in life that have seen us through the labyrinth to this moment of Revelation.
Our discussion took us from the early days of the LYF, across the Black-pilled Wastelands to a tentative approach to discussing the Sacred Heart of The Mystery.
I first met Louis back amongst those heady teenage dreams and restless yearnings of 2010, whilst recording Go Tell Fire to the Mountain - we then saw each other on sporadic occasion for a few years before our friendship really crystallised over a shared admiration of Toltsoy’s “The Gospels in Breif” (as a side note, Nick Cave’s response to my Question about this book in many ways clarified much of my own feelings towards the Christian question, and is inevitably one of my most treasured moments of online connection)
I have wanted to write on these themes for a while but have struggled to articulate in a way that feels truly true, maybe it’s a lifetimes project of becoming, indeed I know its a little early for my confessional memoirs, but to document my thoughts in this moment I figured recording a conversation with Louis would make a good start.
I always find conversation with Louis great council filled with mutual mirroring that leads us both to some novel insight, our private talks tend spiral around for hours as we track that elusive longing over a bottle or two of wine, so inevitably we only just began to scratch the surface in this conversation, After only discussing one of my proposed talking points we decided this “metanoia tape” should become a series, which I will continue on my own personal substack, so for those who are interested in hearing the conversation deepen; sign up!
There is also a video of the conversation, well of half the participants, Louis is a modest man, the thought of recording a conversation alone was enough of a concern, so me pointing a camera at him wasn’t going to happen.
He is also a talented Collage Artist, Graphic Desinger and I forgot to mention, played bass for us when we shot the live film last year.
In other news: once again it is Bandcamp Friday- that miraculous day where all of the profits of sales go to the artists.
Conveniently, we have just unearthed a box of old merch that we put together in 2019, its still fresh, some would say ahead of its time, and these are the last few items left, with limited sizes available, so once gone, then gone forever!
All purchases also comes with Free set of Patches and unlimited streaming of Alpha Omega … because that sleeper hit of 2020 needs some more love & attention.
So if your feeling it, please consider supporting the cause!
Much Love
Ellery
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