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FULL TRACKLIST

✶ Gylden – Witch’s house – Island Friend (Seil Records)
✶ Ian Hawgood – where I went – well, here we are (Quiet Details)
✶ Michelle Cassandra Johnson – AAASMR: Swarm dreams
✶ Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee – Case Study 5 – Re: Case Studies (forthcoming on Dauw)
✶ J – Make believe me – Little Lock (se Dessaisir Publishing)
✶ Mask – In and Out – Disk Musik: A DD. Records Compilation (Phantom Limb)
✶ Michelle Cassandra Johnson – AAASMR: Portal
✶ Almost An Island – Quadrivium – Almost An Island (forthcoming on Past Inside the Present)
✶ Benoît Pioulard and Viul – Canaan – Koselig (Zakè Drone Recordings)
✶ Michelle Cassandra Johnson – AAASMR: The sting
✶ Angela Winter – Prosperity – Sonic Essences (self-released)
✶ Ben Shirken – Chimera w/ Scott Li – H.D. Reliquary (29 Speedway)
✶ Michelle Cassandra Johnson – AAASMR: Phoenix
✶ Taylor Deupree & The Humble Bee – Case Study 7 – Re: Case Studies (forthcoming on Dauw)
✶ Gylden – Fram – Island Friend (Seil Records)

ALBUM LINKS

✶ https://gylden.bandcamp.com/album/island-friend
✶ https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/well-here-we-are
✶ https://taylordeupreethehumblebee.bandcamp.com/album/re-case-studies
✶ https://sedessaisirpublishing.bandcamp.com/album/little-lock
✶ https://phantomlimblabel.bandcamp.com/album/disk-musik-a-dd-records-compilation
✶ https://pitp.bandcamp.com/
✶ https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/album/koselig
✶ https://angelawinter.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-essences
✶ https://benshirken.bandcamp.com/album/h-d-reliquary
✶ https://www.soundstrue.com/products/the-wisdom-of-the-hive (audiobook)

INSPIRATION & WORKS CITED

Johnson, Michelle Cassandra and Amy Burtaine. The Wisdom of the Hive: What Honeybees Can Teach Us about Collective Wellbeing. Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2025. https://www.michellecjohnson.com/wisdom-of-the-hive

“... Our entire life on earth is one of endings and beginnings, and I believe our constant entrance into different portals of experience is meant to change us in some way. At this time now—when so much is being stirred into the cauldron of our adventure on earth, in this time that some call apocalyptic—we are living in a portal, traveling between death and creation, sometimes many times in one day. There is chaos, destruction, death, darkness, uncertainty, and beauty as we cross the threshold into the unknown—into a space of trying to decipher what the future will look, feel, taste, smell, and be like. Many people talk about an apocalypse as a time of endings, but the root of the word, apokalýptein, means “to uncover” in Greek. This uncovering allows us to see more clearly, the veil lifted to reveal the dynamic tensions that plague and fracture us. This is a time of uncovering and a time of revelation. This is a time of deep discomfort with what is being shown to us. ... While this is a time of revealing and unveiling, a time of change and travel through many portals, this is also a time to gather wisdom and connect with our higher intelligence and the intelligence of nature—including the honeybee—to support us as we journey into and through the many portals of experience.” —Michelle Cassandra Johnson, pp. 203-204

Scranton, Roy. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishers, 2015. https://royscranton.net/books/learning-to-die-in-the-anthropocene/

“...Over time, a single dance grows more and more popular, until a majority of bees are doing it. The swarm has made its decision and takes flight. ... Politics, whether for bees or for humans, is the energetic distribution of bodies in systems. This is where the ideas of the vote, the town hall meeting, and the public debate get their power: humans come together to resonate at one frequency or another. Arrangements of bodies in systems don’t arise from ideal notions of how governance should work, but rather emerge out of the vibrating bodies themselves, the systems they inhabit, and the interactions between the two. The key is energy: energy production and social energetics.” —Roy Scranton, pp. 55-56

Seeley, Thomas D. Honeybee Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691147215/honeybee-democracy