Name: Dispossession
Brand: Mike Wexler

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MEX1042

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-07-26

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Supplier GB

The Orchard

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Standard:20

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MEX1041

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Black

2012-04-02

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Mike Wexler

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Mexican Summer

<p>Mexican Summer is an independent record label based out of Brooklyn, NY. They release the work of adventurous musicians without the limitations of genre or form. Mexican Summer operates in tandem with Anthology, a book publisher and archival record label. Anthology focuses on responsibly licensed material, compelling design, and definitive presentation.</p>

'Dispossession' is the second full length from Brooklyn's Mike Wexler, and his debut for Mexican Summer. An artist who defies easy categorization - a songwriter / guitarist without a traditionalist bone in his body, with an ear for far flung sound-worlds and sonic atmospheres both high and low, Wexler brings all of his manifold interests to bear in carving out a space for a singular vision uniquely attuned to the present moment. 'Dispossession' is the product of over two years of intermittent recording. The basic band tracks were recorded live, at more or less the moment when the arrangements first crystallized, so there's a bedrock of spontaneity and a free feeling to the proceedings, complicated by the highly mapped-out nature of the subsequent orchestration, synth washes and overdubs. It's a record that fits the broken mold of auteurist songwriters who nod to the ideas of forward looking writers and artists in their work, a loose lineage that could include musicians like robert wyatt, scott walker, or richard youngs. A few words about the title: 'Dispossession', a word that has a foothold in both the spiritual and material worlds. A rite of exorcism, a casting out of spirits; but also a state of extreme economic marginalization, of being set adrift in the world with nowhere or nothing of one's own. In mythic terms, humans are the dispossessed - this tribe cast out of an edenic paradise. And in another cosmology, to live in accord with the truth is to acknowledge that ultimately nothing is ours. Back in the here and now it's a state much of the world is in, and one the rest of it may be headed for, barring we find a way to cast the 'demons' out.

Dispossession

Music GB