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01. Rachel Shearer - Waha
02. Rachel Shearer - Pounamu Becoming Crystal Part I
03. Rachel Shearer - Pounamu Becoming Crystal Part II/Wiriwiri
04. Rachel Shearer - Ao
ARTIST
TITLE
Te Oro o te Ao
FORMAT
LP

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TW W-LP TW W-LP
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RELEASE DATE
10/3/2026

Rachel Shearer's Te Oro o te Ao ("The Resounding Of The World") is a bold work of sonic dreaming and remembrance. As a sound artist and composer from Aotearoa, New Zealand, Shearer has long explored the Māori concept of whakapapa; embracing the belief that the whole of creation, past/present/future is a dynamic interconnected movement. With field recordings, electronics, and voice, Shearer creates immersive analogs of earthly processes that move like tumbling avalanches and crashing waves. Subterranean volcanic activity transmutes into super-heated air rising into frequencies beyond human hearing. Shearer posits that consciousness, like the environment, is not a closed system; that the mind is an ecosystem where our thoughts are the "flora" and "fauna" and the perception of sound vibrations in the material world is a gateway to metaphysical realms. Te Oro o Te Ao was first realized as an immersive eight-channel sound installation made in response to a close listening to the earth. It was also released as a limited artist's acetate edition of 10. Thin Wrist presents Te Oro o Te Ao in a vinyl and digital edition mastered by Rashad Becker, Clunk Berlin. Housed in a tip-on gatefold jacket with embossed black paper stock, ink pigment foil stamping, with a mounted booklet in the inner gatefold and printed inner sleeves. Pressed at Optimal, Germany. For over three decades Rachel Shearer has investigated sound as a medium through a wide range of sonic practices -- installations, composing, recording, writing, as well as collaborating as a sound designer and composer for moving image and live performance events. Shearer's work builds on her research which explores practices related to a listening to the earth through Māori and Western frameworks. She has received numerous public commissions for sound art including the permanent nine-channel sound installation The Flooded Mirror on the Auckland waterfront. She has been active as an experimental musician since the late 1980s and has released material with labels Xpressway (NZ), Flying Nun (NZ), Ecstatic Peace (US), Corpus Hermeticum (NZ), Family Vineyard (US) among others. Waha voice performed by Cathy Livermore (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe, Waitaha).