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West Corazon Peak

by A Queer Creature

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Back in 2017, my partner and I traveled to West Texas. We stayed in a casita that sits facing West Corazon Peak.
Waking up every morning, we were greeted with this imposing yet gentle figure. I was immediately captured and entranced with it, and I remained so throughout our trip.
I decided to pay homage to this transcendent feeling and spirit of this peak with music. Recorded in the late afternoon, I took direct inspiration from its looming and grand presence and transformed them into an evocative ambient meditation.

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More information regarding the Corazones Peaks, taken from Texas State Historical Association's website.
"Corazones Peaks is a pair of extremely steep and jagged mountains on the northeast edge of the Christmas Mountains seventy miles south of Alpine in south central Brewster County (at 29°30' N, 103°26' W). The peaks are part of a series of residual topographic highs developed on a single large Tertiary Age igneous intrusion into the Upper Cretaceous Boquillas formation. Their summits are about 1½ miles apart on an east-west line and rise in forbidding, near-vertical rock faces and broken inclines some 1,500 feet above the surrounding desert floor. At its summit the western peak reaches an elevation of 5,319 feet above sea level and the eastern peak 5,045 feet above sea level.

"The peaks owe their high topography to the fact that they consist of rather dense, resistant igneous rocks, while the surrounding terrain is composed of the less resistant, flaggy Boquillas limestone, which is removed during weathering and erosion. Although the peaks themselves, especially at their upper elevations, are almost entirely bare rock, the lower slopes and the surrounding desert lowland support a sparse growth of Chihuahuan Desert scrub, including such characteristic species as lechuguilla, creosote bush, ocotillo, and sotol. The origin of the name Corazones ("hearts") is obscure. A popular explanation is that a cleft in one of the mountains makes it resemble a heart."

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there's something here
in the soil
in the rock
in the sky

reaching towards the mount
I see your spirit fly around this place
swift and porous
seeping into every crevice
soaking the land in light

heart of mine
hear the call of the dirt
dust, ash, and bone
and give me to corazón

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released July 24, 2020
Feherlo Gortva for his endless love and support.
To all my friends and family that believe in me.

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Stephen Ian Savage Austin, Texas

Clarinetist, turned composer/producer with a knack for the (super)natural.

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