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Sinai

by Quidditas

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***Note: this album was recorded under Quidditas and resides on this page because it fits with the vision and ethos of what has become Usti Waya. More at quidditas.bandcamp.com

This is the second album recorded under the name Quidditas in 2011. This particular album is inspired by black metal and drone as well as recent reflections on the idea of returning to wilderness.

Sinai represents a longing for a return to wilderness. A longing that has been echoed by saints, martyrs, prophets, and ordinary people over the last 10,000 years since the dawn of agriculture. Deep down we long for a connection with the earth and each other. The indigenous way of life that we are yearning for is being swallowed up by civilization.

Fredy Perlman sums up this sentiment quite eloquently in the introduction to the monumentous essay Against His-story, Against Leviathan!:

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And we are here as victims, or as spectators, or as perpetuators of tortures, massacres, poisonings, manipulations, despoliations.

Hic Rhodus! This is the place to jump, the place to dance! This is the wilderness! Was there ever any other? This is savagery! Do you call it freedom? This is barbarism! The struggle for survival is right here. Haven’t we always know it? Isn’t this a public secret? Hasn’t it always been the big public secret?

It remains a secret. It is publicly know but not avowed. Pubicly the wilderness is elsewhere, barbarism is abroad, savagery is on the face of the other. The dry sterile thunder without rain, the confused alarms of struggle and flight, are projected outward, into the great unknown, across the seas and over the mountains. We’re on the side with the angels

A shape with lion body and the had of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs… (W.B. Yeats)

…is moving its slow thighs against the projected wilderness, against the reflected barbarism, against the savage face that looks out of the pond, its motion emptying the pond, rendering its banks, leaving an arid crater where there was life.

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released January 20, 2011

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