Process of Elimination

by El Hardwick

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1.	The Queer Art Of Slowness (feat. Sasha Wilde) 02:50	buy track
2.	Dual (feat. Alex McKenzie, Memory Play & Sasha Wilde) 04:39	buy track
3.	Quantology 02:03	buy track
4.	How Do I Know What I Want When Everybody Is Telling Me I Should Want What I Don't Have (feat. Memory Play) 06:19	buy track
5.	Laying On The Floor Staring Up At Dust In The Air 01:32	buy track
6.	Breathing Room (feat. Laura Misch) 04:00	buy track
7.	Language Couldn't Say (feat. Laura Misch) 03:08	buy track
8.	Pataphysical (feat. Laura Misch) 03:27	buy track
9.	Wildest Imaginiation (feat. Laura Misch & Marysia Osu) 04:23	buy track

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Process of Elimination explores sickness as a teacher for anti-capitalist modes of being; a rewilding of the self. The product of an attempt to be indestructible, this sickness has an unknown diagnosis. The only route to determine the indeterminable is via a process of elimination. Eliminate the noise so it may quieten and make space for listening to what whispers underneath, allowing a return to the present moment. Slowness and queerness as technologies, questions as answers and mysticism as a path to healing when science alone does not suffice.

London-based multidisciplinary artist El Hardwick’s sophomore album follows their experience of becoming chronically ill after years of treating their body like a machine. El explains: “After failing to receive a diagnosis, which is only given via a lengthy process of elimination, I instead turned to autonomous modes of healing rooted in mysticism and herbalism; putting aside the need to be defined. My journey towards accepting my disability is told in parallel to my coming-out as trans. I also see my non-binary identity as a process of elimination: I am neither gender, both, in-between. It is through rewilding myself from capitalism and gender normativity that I learn how to connect to my body and the earth; no longer allowing either’s energy to be extracted from. The less I sought answers, language, metrics and analysis, the more peace I found.”

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released October 18, 2024

All songs written and produced by El Hardwick 2019-2022.
Mixed by Memory Play.
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux.
Sleeve design by Dimitri Erhard.
Cover image created by fungi and bacteria as they decay a sheet of linoleum, discovered by El’s parents in their garden shed.

‘The Queer Art Of Slowness’ features vocals by Sasha Wilde.
‘Dual’ features flute, clarinet & saxophone by Alex McKenzie, bowed saw & double bass by Memory Play, and additional vocals by Sasha Wilde.
‘Quantology’ features additional production by Memory Play.
‘How Do I Know…’ features additional production by Memory Play.
‘Breathing Room’ features saxophone by Laura Misch.
‘Language Couldn't Say’ features saxophone by Laura Misch.
‘Pataphysical’ features saxophone by Laura Misch.
‘Wildest Imagination’ features saxophone by Laura Misch and harp by Marysia Osu.

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El Hardwick London, UK

El Hardwick (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist living in London, UK. Their work weaves narratives between queer world making practices and how we can heal on a damaged planet.

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