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Interplanetary Machines

by Prince Nifty

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1.
… Experience is subject to the law of gravity with one great exception: the psyche, which as we experience it, is weightlessness itself. The psychic ‘object’ and gravity are, to the best of our knowledge, incommensurable. They seem to be different in principle. The psyche represents the only opposite of gravity… It is anti-gravity.
2.
I was going down the Champs Elysées in a bus with many other people, when suddenly the air-raid warning sounded. The bus stopped and all the passengers jumped out, and the next moment they had disappeared into the nearest houses, banging the doors behind them. I was the last to leave the bus. I tried to get into a house, but all the doors with their polished brass knobs were tightly shut, and the whole Champs Elysées was empty. I pressed against the wall of a house and looked up at the sky: instead of the expected bombers I saw a sort of Flying Saucer...
3.
A metallic sphere shaped like a drop. It was flying along quite slowly from north to east, and I had the impression that I was being observed. In the silence I heard the high heels of a woman who was walking alone on the empty sidewalk down the Champs Elysées. The atmosphere was most uncanny.
4.
I was walking, at night, in the streets of a city. Interplanetary machines appeared in the sky, and everyone fled. The machines looked like large steel cigars. I did not flee. One of the machines spotted me at an oblique angle. I think, Professor Jung says that one should not run away, so I stand still and look at the machine. From the front, seen close to, it looked like a circular eye, half blue, half white. A room in a hospital: my two chiefs come in, very worried, and ask my sister how it was going. My sister replied that the mere sight of the machine had burnt my whole face. Only then did I realize that they were talking about me, and that my whole head was bandaged, although I could not see it.
5.
She dreamt she was standing in a garden, when suddenly the humming of an engine became audible overhead. She sat down on the garden wall in order to see what was going on. A black metallic spider appeared and circled over her. It was a huge flying spider made of metal with great dark eyes. It was round in shape and was a new and unique aeroplane. From the body of the spider there issued a solemn voice, loud and distinct; It uttered a prayer that was intended as an admonition and a warning to everybody, for those on earth as well as for the occupants of the spider. The gist of the prayer was: Lead us downwards And keep us safe below Carry us up to the height. Adjoining the garden was a large administrative building where international decisions were being taken. Flying incredibly low, the spider passed along the window of the building, for the obvious purpose of letting the voice influence the people inside, and point out the way to peace, which was the way to the inner secret world. Lead us downwards Keep us safe below and carry us up to the height They were to take reconciling decisions. There were several other spectators in the garden. She felt somewhat embarrassed because she was not fully clothed.

about

Lyrics for songs in Interplanetary Machines describe a number of dreams which were told to Carl Jung by his patients in the process of psychoanalysis, and later detailed in Jung's pivotal book Flying Saucers: a modern myth of things seen in the skies (1959). Jung considers sightings of UFOs, whether in dreams or in waking life, to be a psychic phenomena, “visionary rumors”, a techno-utopian desire that manifests in visions, and a fantastic projection of salvation and meaning onto the unknown.

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released May 27, 2022

Anti Gravity: Music written and performed by Matt Smith I Prince Nifty
Flying Saucer 1: Music written and performed by Matt Smith I Prince Nifty
Flying Saucer 2: Music written and performed by Matt Smith I Prince Nifty with saxophones by Colin Fisher and additional vocals by Liz Peterson
Interplanetary Machines: Music written and performed by Matt Smith I Prince Nifty with acoustic bass by Josh Cole
Lead Us… Carry Us: Music written and performed by Matt Smith I Prince Nifty

All songs recorded at Dep. of Records and 6 Nassau in Toronto between 2013 and 2019 by Matt Smith I Prince Nifty
Mixed by Prince Nifty
Mastered by Robert Steenkamer

Personal thanks: I'd like to thank all of those who have listened and encouraged this project along its way, especially Alex, Robbie and Owen. And a special thanks to Liz, Colin and Josh who helped me in lending their sounds to this

This record was made with the generous assistance of the Ontario Arts Council

An iteration of 'Lead Us Carry Us' (then known as 'Flying Spider') was performed with the (The Choir of St. James Cathedral, under the direction of Robert Busiakiewicz) at AGO Live: Songs of Heaven at the Art Gallery of Ontario, curated by Owen Pallet and organized by Bojana Stancic

Record cover image: Sad Clown Anthem (2020) by geetha thurairajah, courtesy Unit 17 (Vancouver): Photo by Cemrenaz Uyguner
Cover art direction by Matt Smith, Julian Yi-Jong Hou, Xenia Benivolski
Design by Vicky Lum
Accompanying text by Fan Wu

Second spring is a loose affiliation of people who collaborate and organize the publication and production of art records on unceded Indigenous lands. This record was organized by Xenia Benivolski and Julian Yi-Jong Hou

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