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unfinished self

by mandala eyes

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  • Digital Album
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    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

    Bonus track: "Heartbumps," an acoustic guitar experiment with glitchy editing and polyrhythmic layering.
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  • Homemade Cassette
    Cassette + Digital Album

    The artwork for each of these cassettes is hand-drawn in white ink on recycled paper. The tapes themselves are cream-colored and were dubbed one-by-one in real time on my personal tape deck. Includes experimental polyrhythmic bonus track "Heartbumps".

    Includes unlimited streaming of unfinished self via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Homemade CD (2nd run)
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    These CDs are packaged in recycled cardboard gatefold sleeves. All the art on the package and disc is hand-drawn. Includes experimental polyrhythmic bonus track "Heartbumps".

    Includes unlimited streaming of unfinished self via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Homemade CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    These CDs are packaged in recycled cardboard gatefold sleeves. All the art on the package and disc is hand-drawn. Includes experimental polyrhythmic bonus track "Heartbumps".

    Includes unlimited streaming of unfinished self via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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about

originally planned as a collaboration that didn't work out, this record is about embracing things as they are, learning to not define things as failures just because they didn't unfold like you imagined they would, and about finding a paradoxical peace within the relentless unpredictability of life. the title "unfinished self" comes from that, and also from the raw, unpolished textures of the sounds. this album's process helped me to accept more deeply the truth that the self is a work in progress, always growing, dying, changing, learning, emptying, filling, and never finished.

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released August 31, 2015

songs written, acoustic guitar & hand drums (& almonds-in-a-glass-jar shaker) recorded in a tiny apartment in Winter Park, Florida during late summer - early fall of 2014.

electric guitar written & recorded, songs edited & mixed & mastered in a cabin on Sweet Pea Farm, Mt Desert Island, Maine during summer of 2015.

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mandala eyes

i use music/sound to digest & share my experiences of life, and to cultivate the spaces, feelings & meanings i want to keep around.

my name's alex. call me they / them (i'm nonbinary)

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