Blood High Star (Burnt Harbors) (Cassette)

C40 cassette
Transparent smoke-coloured shell 
White silkscreen lettering
Clear case
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Edition of 25

Further dispatches from CF Moore, this time under the pseudonym Burnt Harbors — the name change signalling a shift of focus away from the Imperial Valley region of Southern California.

Side A’s ‘Notes on another requiem’ ventures northwards into the deserts of Nevada, culminating in snatches of a speech recorded at the first ‘No Kings’ protest on June 14, 2025. The recording ends with the lines ‘authoritarians are never satisfied with the power that they have, and so they test the bounds, they push the limits, they break the law.’ 

​Side B’s ‘En el valle, las sombras’ journeys south of the US border and into the Chihuahuan desert. It closes with the voice of Chihuahuan poet Gaspar Orozco, reading from his work ‘Hojas de un cuaderno Híkuri’. In it, Orozco recalls his own journey into the wilderness in search of híkuri (peyote) — a plant with deep spiritual significance for the Rarámuri and Wixarica Indigenous peoples of Mexico.