Blowing on the Knots
- 1. Awake (Reasons for) [9:03]
- 2. Interlude 2 [1:43]
- 3. The Swarming [7:41]
- 4. Blowing on the Knots [5:16]
- 5. Interlude 1 [1:03]
- 6. The Way Things Seemed to Slip Through Fingers [8:12]
- 7. Intimate Undertow [6:33]
- 8. Anthem [3:36]
Viv Corringham: voice and electronics
Gianni Mimmo: soprano saxophone
All compositions by Viv Corringham and Gianni Mimmo
Recorded on June 19, 2025, at Interplay Studio, Milano, Italy
Sound engineering, mixing and mastering: Lorenzo Sempio
Cover photo: “Secret perspective” (2021) by Hank Quinlan
Graphics: Nicola Guazzaloca
Production: Gianni Mimmo for Rosebud Relevant records
“Blowing on the Knots” is an expression that appears in the Sura of the Dawn in the most ancient Qur’an. It refers to a practice of enchantment, of casting spells. Yet it also carries a certain ambiguity — blowing to loosen, or blowing upon what is bound so as to entangle it further…
I’m not entirely sure, but I think that as we began to move, we soon realized we were already inside a kind of tale — one that unfolded through scattered fragments, seen each time from shifting, perhaps uneven perspectives.
The way certain elements returned along the way — recalled or only hinted at — seemed to deepen this sense of being within a story quietly taking shape.
I also had the feeling of laying ideas down slowly, calmly, with the quiet confidence that there was time enough to let them breathe.
And something else strikes me: in this music, things — the sonic objects — that can pause long enough to be noticed, that seem to hold a certain authority, do so with restraint, and
then, almost immediately, they begin to tremble, as if eager to dissolve.
They stay only as long as needed — just enough to suggest.
Gianni Mimmo