Mutualism by Filterbeds

More Secret Remedies.

When the marks made and the traces left are this strong and ignite warm light glowing beneath the tangled timbre of story, we go in to be drawn. Go in to find the heat. And to feel.

Gradual and Sudden.

Great weightlessness.
Inner concept of solidarity, I hear calls and I reach.

How to Forge an Iron Face.

Unity in work rate. The workplace choir in concrete harmony.
Hammered marks. Sculpted traces. I don’t need to look down.

Video tape fluttered in the trees.

Me, I spool and play presses me.

Suggestions for Breathing.

Hear for life’s vitality in a scraped note.
Reminder.
Of light.

Best Geometry is Pointless.

Let’s unplan. Point and go and repoint and go again.
It feels magnetic.

Unstutter.

This trace is elastic.
And I hold as each bounce is a dip.

Bones of Birds.

I fly with this. I am also in the dirt in
this building story with fallen crumb,
with morsel that speaks to the wisdom of bones of birds.

Nine Nickerbocker Glorys.

Treated and full.
Sometimes we are afraid to move and have the sound work our bodies.
Some work has a luminosity within that can speak in a text
like the beauty of broken monoliths
like a duty to a landscape.

Filterbeds forever

mutual

with light.

Words - Kevin Hendrick

Tracklist

1.	More Secret Remedies from the Silver Pitch	8:22

2.	Gradual and Sudden	4:18

3.	How to Forge an Iron Face	5:22

4.	Videotape Fluttered in the Trees	2:16

5.	Suggestions for Breathing	5:06

6.	Best Geometry is Pointless	3:58

7.	Unstutter	2:04

8.	Bones of Birds	2:44

9.	Nine Knickerbocker Glorys	4:42

Credits

released March 22, 2025

Filterbeds was Jim Whelan, Natalie Williams and Mark Courtney. I have typed this first sentence out so many times in my mind and broken down. Left wondering the incomprehensible fate of friendships; the loneliness of death; the staggering shock of grief. And then there’s the sheer marvel of sharing, caring, crying with laughter, revelatory joy, smiles, dancing, hugs, trips and….and….creating something from ordinary nothing.

This release comes with the heaviest of hearts. The exhilaration matched by agony.

If Mutualism can tell us anything, it says ‘whatever you have planned, do it NOW’. We couldn’t have done this without Jim and now we must do without him.

Mutualism is where sounds bend, blur and bind. Melody is whispered like a secret, Rhythm broken and unrepentant. These pieces are singular but derive from a mutual assent.

In Loving Memory of Jim Whelan 1963-2024

Special thanks to Carim Clasmann for Mastering (The Fishtank, Cologne) and Test Pressing approval (Real Leyton Library, London)

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