E Ruscha V is the project of Los Angeles, California-based producer Eddie Ruscha. Ruscha has previously released electronic music as Secret Circuit, co-founded the 90s shoegaze band Medicine, and played in psychedelic rock band Maids of Gravity. Ruscha’s list of collaborators include Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, DJ Harvey, Luke Wyatt, Suzanne Kraft, and Tim Koh (Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti). Ruscha’s recently released 2018 album, Who Are You, is the first music shared under his given name. Atmospheric yet anchored by Ruscha’s analog touch, Who Are You resides in the transitional realm between calm and ecstasy, a meaningful moment along an artist’s transcendent path of self-discovery.
Before you listen to the original soundtrack created for Ears Have Ears, E Ruscha V has comprised some accompanying words below. Read below.
“Panning slowly across a frozen coffee table covered in crystalline ice particles as an unseen breath blows a breath of snowflakes that float through an out of focus house and make their way to a pencil sharpener mounted on the side of a shelf. As two of the flakes break from the others, they enter the sharpener and they plummet down the cylindrical hall in a graceful spiraling mathematical ballet. the gears begin to turn and the vibrations cause the flakes to dance and bounce off of the mandala of the whirling gears. We zoom in closer to the surface of a single flake and we begin to skate on the slick rainbow reflecting surface that becomes an endless landscape stretching to distant planes. But we soon see a bank of odd inconsistencies on a patch of this flawless surface. We see that someone or something has built a geodesic home and as we enter, we see that all of the furniture and living quarters are made of glass. There is peace and calm here. Automated Instruments of ice that reside in various areas of the main room begin to creak into motion and create a soothing song that no one but us can hear. We begin to scan the surroundings and see framed pictures atop an ice desk. A photo catches our attention and it shows a large windowed building on a hill of autumn and sun. We move in through the doors of the building and are brought into a vast space that seems to be a greatly sized greenhouse. The moisture in the air slowly fogs the lens and we can barely make out the exotic plants of vibrant greens and the various shades of flowers that are hinted in the focus spread. The precipitation builds on the lens until drips of water begin to run down and soon the drips build into a waterfall that creates a shimmer of rhythm and undulating pattern and soon the film equipment begins to become far too moist to continue working and thus breaks down to a blank screen.”
