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The visceral stage is proud to present:

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the single "Unharmed" from the album
In Memory's Bend

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This vessel I was given
Unharmed
Buoy
The risen (A lonely moment)
The whole we cannot see
Face to face
Six fifteen
The risen (They are everywhere)
Best left in memory's bend
Dirge for three

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the single "Yellowknife" from the album
Saturnine

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Knot
Saturnine
Untitled eight
Yellowknife
Ok
We Are But a Flicker of Light
Thoughts unwind
That I wished away
A waiting game

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The single "Closed or Open" from the album 

Umbra
 

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For You and I
Aperture
Umbra
And You're Not Here
Closed or Open
Port of Milwaukee
When It's Quiet Inside
Corners
(No More) Flowers
Outro

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The single "That time I photographed the storms approaching Montfort Wind Farm" from the album 


Just Ghost Stories
 

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That time when memories became ghost stories
That time we dreamt of becoming the sky
That time we realized we bear the light
That time we stared out windows counting mile posts
That time I felt weaker in this skin
That time we wished upon swirling stars
That time you said you felt the same
That time I photographed the storms approaching Montfort Wind Farm
That time it seemed all had fallen to us
That time I couldn't be left alone
That time we disappeared like stills in shadow

 

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The parting of  is Curt Emmer playing treated piano, cello, various percussive and atmospheric samplers.  Singles and albums written, produced, and mastered by Curt in the attic.  

 

Cover designs for In Memory's Bend and Unharmed are wet plate collodion images on aluminum plates by Curt, digitally manipulated for use on the single and the album.  Design for Yellowknife is a digital photo from an aircraft as we approached the city of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, digitally manipulated for release.  The Saturnine cover is a highly distorted image of a digital photograph.   Closed or Open  is a digital photo negative taken from Governor Dodge State Park, Wisconsin.  The image for Umbra is a cyanotype print, digitally color shifted to shades of grey and the blackest shadow.  Montfort image was taken as the storms approached Montfort Wind Farm.  Just Ghost Stories is a digital manipulation of a photograph of a fabric and epoxy sculpture by Curt.

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© 2023/2024/2025  thevisceralstage.com  23 June, 2025

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