Reverb

Abandon singing to itself, let it sing. Abandon the voice to itself. Why is it only in the act of abandonment that singing is given? Why only then, after abandonment, does it sing and sing of itself?

‘Itself’: in what corridors is it lost? In what dream? Because it seems to dream of itself. Seems to be lost in itself, with a reverb, now, that is internal to voice – it is not a treatment, but belongs to it already, as though it were always far away, even from he who has been given it. Far away: and with what does it echo? Where has it travelled, this voice that is as old as time?

Reverb before reverb, abandonment: Jason Molina’s voice. How can he entrust his voice to itself? How to give it to itself so that it can give singing in turn?