โSkin-grafting โ a process of making an opening in the skin, in two places, and holding the wounds together. The supple skin of an inner arm heals to the sore on the cheek or neck, replacing cursed tissues with the untarnished. The difference of texture is visible for life in both places. A kind of scar, but built from the healthy body, a transferal of a wound from one place to the next; healed, at the price of a permanent disfigurement.
Skin-graft a wry smile onto a laugh bridging mirth and mourning, and you're entering the territory of ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
2020 the Merciless โ its dangers were clocked ahead of time in a sarcastic prelude text to an album which couldn't know the venom of its own truths.
Chaperone grasped at the future in '19 with fingers bluntened by exhaustion, and God only knows how much was shrewd foresight, how much was heaven-sent premonition, and how much of reality was forged from the sacrilege of looking forward with such a scornful gaze.
Was it the dream of one, or of many? That future was shaped somehow โ is collective pessimism to blame for the inevitable and colourless future?
๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐ bears its scars in static. Some seem old, personal, borne on the body, while some seem to be phantoms of pain not yet felt by anyone. "Yet", the inevitable; "yet", the certainly uncertain. "Yet" will come for us all.
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Excerpt of writing by Freddie Hudson (April 2023).
David Coccagna (Chaperone) is a Philadelphia-based writer and musician focusing primarily on transgressive human behavior, poverty, class division, and addiction. Born and raised in Philadelphia, the principle imagery and sonic influences of the depressed Northeast neighborhood Lawncrest has served as the palette and canvas Coccagna works upon. He has worked with labels Great Circles, Jungle Gym, Con.apt, and Minor Adjustments, with more recent focuses leaning into repetitive sound and theme. He is an avid cyclist and has two cats.
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released February 2, 2024
Recorded in Philadelphia, Montesportali, and Richmond by David Coccagna (๐ข๐ฏ๐น๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ written in collaboration with Andrรฉ Altrez) between 2017-2019
Remastered by Glyn Maier in 2023
Artwork by R. Inez
Design and layout by Joe Bastardo
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all proceeds to MAP (Medical Aid for Palestinians) - www.map.org.uk
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