WICCA PHASE REMIX

From La Société Expéditionnaire:

GothBoiClique founder Wicca Phase Springs Eternal remixes Lewis & Clarke's elegy to Elijah McClain, a black American murdered at the hands of Aurora Colorado authorities. 

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Wicca Phase recasts Lewis & Clarke's slow-burning chamber-folk into uncharted territory. Stripping away orchestral elements, he conjures an atmosphere both deliberate and meditative. The dirge resonates on dark open waves of synth, propelled by syncopated percussion. His mix underscores floating vocals, swept forward through dream-like layers of heavily processed Tibetan throat singing. 

An unbearable lightness of being permeates not only the track, but the through-lines of both artists.  While each embraces his own respective brand of introspection and melancholia, Aurora 15:34 is an outward-facing call for change. The remix will release on Feb. 24, the eve of what would have been Elijah McClain's 27th Birthday. The original version was released on Aug. 30, described in detail on Folk Radio UK.

Lou Rogai (Lewis & Clarke) and Adam McIlwee (Wicca Phase Springs Eternal) first crossed paths some 18 years ago in the eclectic and fertile DIY community of Scranton, PA. They corresponded early on via US mail, sharing music and typewritten letters. Years later Wicca Phase would reference
Lewis & Clarke's second album on Pictureplane's “Black Chardonnay” with the prophetic line: "Absorbing the Blasts of Holy Birth I explode".  Explode he has, indeed.