Always near the end but never quite there. Whatever else it might mean, Moribund Mantras, in its pluralization, suggests a continuation, an ongoing effort, a more. These are chants, incantations, calls to prayer that we wail together in the stultifying yet also maybe electrifying moments of dying off, passing away, of living with, in, and towards the end. But if we are moribund—and, make no mistake, we always already are, born astride the grave as we all are—then we are always incanting in the ever-nearing face of death. It is not a state of extinction but rather the state of … Continue reading Track Premiere: Moribund Mantras – “Shore of Knowledge”