The year I grew older than my mother and thought about Theo Parrish mixing Loleatta
Holloway’s song Catch Me (on the Rebound)Anacrusis
Ugly edits, Theo brings disco’s ravished heart, his white labels smudged with handwriting,
Loleatta’s name on his tongue. Another rhythm spectre, drum ghost. A sound to guide every murky
divinity ever loved to this dance floor, their feet kicking ashes in the air.Rebound London
Loleatta promising we’re delusions hoping to happen
nights crushed between fingertips ourselves dismantled
burning eyes, scratched voice, I’m listening a slipping grip, in front room duskRebound London
bodies swirling smoke we forget what the ocean implies
haloed in strobe, flashing and in fell darkness
permanence, I remember everything we are every separating vocal, loopingRebound London
wooden tongue, silk gums snares in our coffin chest
shoes as they blister feet bass line tendons on the floor
hi-hat beneath each footfall entreaties mottled in the airRebound London
for ten minutes we bend in time trying to cradle our dead
on this dance floor my mother is still alive
glass eyes stare the edges hold usRebound Sydney
we’re packed tight staring at the the back of her hand
on this dance floor, it’s possible an abraded patch
the outer edge will cradle us her left forefinger teasing flakey skinRebound Sydney
this is before, but not long strange pallor against her tan
she sings a slipping grip, dark-light how it meant something
hours until another edit we failed to understandRebound Sydney
elk’s glass eye stares from the wall until it was too late, the first thing
enamelled, hunched, drug-rubbed she said to me, when she knew, was
white label this is not hereditaryRebound Sydney
ugly edit, fader she shouldn’t have had to ask
and my mother is still alive sprung board beneath our feet
nothing dies here another ReboundRebound London
icy after the century turn nothing disappears
dawn below the horizon ugly edit, fader
a mini-cab from safety vinyl press, white label, another ReboundRebound Brussels
Loleatta is singing again, like in the time since she died we have become
a knowing echo people talking with ghosts
nights that listen one-sided conversations walkingRebound Brussels
burning eyes, scratched voice even now she is attached to a cord
the end and beginning seem the same sitting in the leather chair
who knows where our fingers land beneath the wall phone, afternoon tv playingRebound Brussels
all our sleeping bodies I don’t know how I will
need other choices stand in a hospital room and hear
Catch me, catch me apostates counting each ReboundRebound Sydney
looping messages through space the groove
the mix never ending the groove
coiled around the vocal and how it is possibleRebound Sydney
and in these seconds each question has an answer
there is only the diva’s love, nothing greater — do you hear the echo
in all the places we could name in which it livesRebound Sydney
with the riding bass let yourself discover
the mix, origin snare, a never-ending shiver
another Rebound a final ReboundCoda
There’s no food in my fridge. It’s cigarettes at dawn. Do you remember that time in London when I
was fading, with a whole night trapped and stomping in my skull? In the cafe, patchy sun, tea and
water. Rebound, hauntings, empty zip-locks. And the waiter looked at us and no joke said, that’s a
way to live. Mostly all I could hear was the dance floor echoing, she was a whisper. Of course you
don’t remember. No one remembers, not even me. These things only live in the dark now, you
know, all the Rebounds. This aura, after the remains of who we were. We stand, hand out, as we
wait for taxis to appear, pull to the kerb, take us.
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones