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Three​-​Crossing River / Intro

from Three​-​Crossing River (after YOKAI) by Laura Sampson

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The beginning of a journey through images from Maurer and Moore's YOKAI, through the image of a mythical river of Buddhist tradition, and the formulaic structure of ancient Japanese dance-drama, noh.

The images in the exhibition can be viewed at www.maurer-moore.com and at White Conduit Projects gallery, London, until 27/2/22

lyrics

Between the world of the living and the world of the dead, there is a river with three crossings. Source at one end, mouth at the other.

Between the world of the actor and the world of the noh, there is a brigdeway with three pine trees. Curtained-off mirror room at one end, audience - congregation? - at the other.

A river flows in one direction.
A river has two banks.
Wherever you are, those banks sit opposite each other.
Which one is ‘here’ and which one is ‘there’, depends where you’re standing.
Or where your priorities are standing.
Or which way the light skews the shadows on a journey of further-than-far and no distance at all. It always starts like this:

After a long journey, a traveller meets a stranger. Before long, it is revealed that the stranger is a spirit, or a grief-stricken mother, for whom this place is the most important thing in the world. In either world. They disappear. Someone pops up and tells their story. The traveller waits, and the stranger returns, seeking relief for themselves or a loved one, release and rest on the opposite riverbank.

It isn’t always clear which bank, or what state is which - dream, waking, sanity, madness. In certain lights, one becomes the other.

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from Three​-​Crossing River (after YOKAI), released February 15, 2022
Laura Sampson: Words, Vocals
Sam Enthoven: Sounds, mixing
Stephan Barrett: Sounds

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Laura Sampson is a storyteller and writer from London, UK, inspired by world myth and folklore.

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