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Down Fruitvale

by The Neighbourhood Character

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Tender Blooms is a work I made back in 2016/2017 with the intention to recapture the nostalgia and evoke my own emotional landscape around childhood play. It's a jam I made thinking back, for instance, to the feelings of half-awake morning car rides to school as a kid.

To me, reminiscing on such fragile (yet vivid) memories in a present, or future moment feels like a radically act in our current climate, as we all work to understand and accept the reality that there is clearly "no going back".

The cover artwork is an image taken at Los Angeles' Woodlawn Cemetery in January 2020. Somehow it represents the simultaneously (sub)-conscious feeling of actively trying to remember, to be hold and be held by long past, fragments of our own experiences.

It's as if you've been given a window into another reality that is at once concrete, and obscured. In a way, I've always felt cemeteries are like that (as I'm sure many others do, and have written about); with death and transition and regrowth converging in liminal space.

The other images I chose to represent this project depict actual places I remember feeling most embodied; most imaginative; most playful in my youth.

It feels hopeful and empowering to me now, in this moment, to listen back to this piece and remember the beauty of my Black Joy; the limitlessness of my own imagination; the energy in my spirit.

Whatever lies beyond the Point of No Return will be bearable as long as we remember Who We Are.

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released November 6, 2020

produced by The Neighbourhood Character
remix by Laurel Halo
mastered by the Kick Drum Is Default

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The Neighbourhood Character Berlin, Germany

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