Mexico - Playa del Carmen
2.4.21
Cuyabeno - Provincia de Sucumbíos
The humid, fecund and bewildering Ecuadorian Amazon. Fed by the Aguarico River, later flowing into the Napo River and lastly the Peruvian Amazon, before its winds another 3,000km into the Atlantic Ocean.
Once travelled by Francisco Pizzaro and Francisco de Orellana, before a quarrel separated them. Orellana made it to the Brazilian coast on his first expedition.
He was lost on his second, his body never found.
13.1.21
Las Islas Galápagos
16th September, 1835
"The next day we ran near Hood's Isd & there left the Whale boat. In the evening the Yawl was also sent away on a surveying cruize of some length. The weather now & during the passage has continued as on the coast of Peru, a steady, gentle breeze of wind & gloomy sky. We landed...on the N.W. end of Chatham Isd. These islands at a distance have a sloping uniform outline, excepting where broken by sundry paps & hillocks; the black Lava, completely covered by small leafless brushwood & low trees.
The fragments of Lava where most porous, are reddish like cinders; the stunted trees show little signs of life. The black rocks heated by the rays of the Vertical sun, like a stove, give to the air a close & sultry feeling. The country [is as] we might imagine the cultivated parts of the Infernal regions to be."
17th September, 1835
"This day, we now being only 40 miles from the Equator, has been the first warm one; up to this time all on board have worn cloth clothese [sic], & although no one would complain of cold, still less would they of too much warmth.
These islands appear paradises for the whole family of Reptiles. Besides Turtles, the Tortoise is so abundant that [a] single Ship's company here caught 500-800 in a short time. The black Lava rocks on the beach are frequented by large and most disgusting, clumsy Lizards. They crawl over the porous volcanic rocks & seek their prey from the Sea. Somebody calls them “imps of darkness.”
They assuredly well become the land they inhabit."
The Diary of Charles Darwin - On the voyage of H.M.S Beagle, 1835
27.12.19
May 2019 - Sawan Studios, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
After playing the main stage of Jai Thep Festival 2019, they sat down with producer Bruno Gsell to record their 5-track EP.
Based in northern Thailand, The SUBTERRANEANS formed in September 2018 through their shared love of making loud, guitar-driven music in damp and dimly-lit rehearsal studios.
After playing the main stage of Jai Thep Festival 2019, they sat down with producer Bruno Gsell to record their 5-track EP.
Taking its name from a National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recording of deep sea ocean noise of unknown origin , the album is a nocturnal, brooding and introspective journey to the roots of mountains, the floors of oceans and the heart of old feelings.
UPSWEEP EP is available for free download and streaming.
Sacha Beazlewitz - Guitar & Vocals
Matt Welling - Bass
David Lloyd - Keyboard
Jared Howells - Drums
29.5.19
20.6.18
Sicily
Palermo - Capo d'Orlando - Mongibello - Taourmina - Tindari
It is unknown to you, that country
where each day I go down deep
to nourish secret syllables.
A different light strips you, behind
the windows
clothed in night,
and another joy than mine
lies against you.
Return, serene Tindari,
stir me, sweet friend,
to raise myself to the sky from the
rock,
so that I might shape fear, for those
who do not know
what deep wind has searched me.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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