Pre-order of bluelightnospaceflattime. You get 3 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Purchasable with gift card
releases June 14, 2024
$8USD or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Includes digital pre-order of bluelightnospaceflattime.
You get 3 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Subscribe
now to receive all the new
music
Flaming Pines creates,
including
20 back-catalog releases,
delivered instantly to you via the Bandcamp app for iOS and Android.
Learn more.
"you, in the metallic, liquid bubble of a chatroom, dreaming. flirting using little yellow circles.
Come out your room." - from Chat Bubbles / Ennervation - Tam Lin.
Chat rooms, emojis, dreams (recalled and forgotten), words and water, water and gloss and fizz and fuzz, glitches and loneliness.
The smooth and not-so-smooth online spaces of despair and connection, and their reverberations or otherwise. This is the material Tam Lin has worked and reworked to produce bluelightnospaceflattime.
From the word salads of online advertising, content creation, engagement and streaming, reactions and the shifting, sliding, restless and uncomfortable inbetweens of walking and doom scrolling, sleeping and dreaming of online spaces, and online lives not quite lived, not yet lived? Or not ever?
From these scraps and fragments, the searingly vulnerable as well as the infuriatingly and disturbingly trivial Tam Lin has composed seven pieces which could only be made now, in this time.
bluelightnospaceflattime is the online world made eerie, haunting.
Lin's half-voiced desires and despairs float amid the flotsam of online exhortations, products, hooks and bundles. Amid irony and diversions, digital shrugs and lols. In the blur and overlaps of our many online selves, in the blue light of the screen, in our unrecalled and unrecounted dreams of these imaginary spaces, and selves.
"you are sitting in a chat room. eyes unblinking, you watch the dot dot dot. dot dot. dot
stops. you hang. for a moment.”
(from Shiver - Tam Lin).
credits
releases June 14, 2024
Tam Lin is the musical moniker of Tam Lines, a London based multimedia artist with a special focus on online AV cultures, the politics of eeriness, and contemporary conditions of anxiety and isolation. Recent work includes “Crystallised Estate”, an audio essay for the Barbican show "What is Happening Inside?”; “Isolated Together: The Online Sound of Digital and Analog Haunting”, a practice research paper for Sonic Scope Journal; and “Nearly”, an EP released on the Hard Return label. Tam Lin is also the co-founder of Crossovers Collective, an ongoing art and music collective based in South London. The persona of Tam Lin acts as a reflection of our social media age, in which ‘real’ selves overlap uncomfortably with digital appearances.
All tracks by Tam Lin
Mastered by Nima Aghiani
Art by Tam Lin
Design Kate Carr
supported by 7 fans who also own “bluelightnospaceflattime”
A suite of ambient miniatures, each opens with a stereo panned glitch that loops before giving way to moody tones and fizzy circuits. Quiet, thoughtful and lovely. mikehoolboom
Visionist showcases vocals for the first time on his Mute debut, featuring collabs with members of Circuit des Yeux, Black Midi and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 5, 2021
Lebanese multi-instrumentalist deconstructs classical tropes through an eccentric array of instruments, including disassembled toy pianos. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 22, 2022
A collaboration between Devon Welsh of Majical Cloudz and Matthew E. Duffy, Belave is eerie, unsettling music that feels like a dark secret. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 22, 2017