Subconscious in Silk

> "Don't bring me to the benthic zone."
> The Benthic Zone
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Subconscious in Silk is the forty-second I Remember 2006 album, and it starts off Era Eight. Rafe was suffering from the return of night terrors, as well as noticing his dreams getting darker than usual, so the IR06 duo made an album where every song, bar one, was about his nightmares and night terrors. Nothing here is really important to the IR06 lore at the moment, for it's a pseudo-biographical album. That doesn't mean this won't change in the future, however, if inspiration strikes.

Speaking of inspiration, a big inspiration of the sound for this album is the band Swans, specifically their early era, like Filth, and Cop, as well as a later album, Soundtracks for the Blind. You can see this inspiration in the tracks Don't Speak and Branch, as well as the drone tracks, We Saw the Inferno Climbing Through the Torrential Downpour, Your Last Day in Dystopia, Inside of the Machine, Moth Cocoon Prison, and The Ground and Sky Were Silky Clouds, and That's All We Could See.

\_, or (Underscore), is a song fronted by Wilbur, that was heavily inspired lyrically by Tool, and also inspired instrumentally by Black Country, New Road. One interpretation could be that it is about talking to inter-dimensional beings. It is also the longest song on the album, clocking under eighteen minutes.

## Tracklist

Hex

Binary Night

Cameras, and Their Purple Eyes

We Saw the Inferno Climbing Through the Torrential Downpour

Don't Speak

Suspended in Air

Your Last Day in Dystopia

The Benthic Zone

Lightning Coming Down

Inside of the Machine

Branch

\_

Moth Cocoon Prison

Sighting of the Mind Taker

The Ground and Sky Were Silky Clouds, and That's All We Could See

The Breach

## Rafe's Dream Log Excerpts

### We Saw the Inferno Climbing Through the Torrential Downpour

August 19, 2020

I think in the context of the dream I was living with my father. I also had the dog, Zeus. I believe we were living in an apartment in possibly a city like Grand Rapids. Or maybe we were living in the new apartment "high-rise" (really, just six floors) apartment building that was being constructed in Ludington.

A really bad storm had hit. I remember looking out of a window and seeing I think a house on fire. It was a raging inferno too. The earth shook. Lightning was striking. I remember Chip running in and yelling something. I remember yelling back "Fire!" I was commenting on the house I saw burning down. I ran out of the living room. I grabbed a few items. We ran up a flight of stairs to get to another apartment, Lauren's apartment. Their door was already opened. Cas and Lydia seemed to be how old I remember them being. We got Lauren, Cas, Lydia, and I think Ben to go with us as we got out of the apartment complex. I remember saying something to Lydia down the lines of "I saw this coming."

The storm was violent. It was a torrential downpour. Lightning struck every few seconds, and with massive amplitude. And that house was still ablaze somehow in this torrential rain. I've never seen anything like that.

### Your Last Day in Dystopia

March 12, 2021

A different dream time. I was walking around this city. I was going to someone’s house. I saw two massive mansions. In fact, there was one behind the house I was going to. The other mansion was enormous. At the top it was spewing something that didn't look like smoke into the sky.

I eventually figured out what house I needed to go to. I was welcomed in by a man maybe in his late thirties. He had already prepared something for me to eat. I asked about the enormous mansion, and of what it was beaming. He explained it was something to control the town. We were then shortly after attacked. The dark, comedic timing.

### Inside of the Machine

April 21, 2020

Alright, so, I wasn't expecting this. I had a dream about "Welcome to the Machine". The song "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd. I had a dream specifically based on the music video.

It played out normally, until the end. Instead of the sea of red hands grasping at a building before the building blasts off into a sphere in the sky, it goes back to the beginning with the mechanical beast. Like the beginning of the video, the mechanical beast approaches me. Unlike the music video, where it fades into a shot of a city, the mechanical beast drags me towards it. I see as the world fades to black. I guess the mechanical beast had claimed me...

April 23, 2020

The mechanical beast came back into my subconscious. It brought me to a location. Like a terminal. I had to do something, but I don't remember what.

### Moth Cocoon Prison

September 14, 2020

And I like moths. I really like moths.

In the dream, Aiden was at my house. We were playing probably Call of Duty: Zombies. The game was paused at the moment. I looked through the blinds and out the window. There was a bee resting on the screen outside of the window. We both looked at it. Then came a moth. It straight up attacked the bee. The bee stopped moving shortly.

We thought it was dead. It was attacked by a white and blue moth. The moth itself seemed abnormally big for it size. It was taller than normal.

The bee then started to spring back to life. It was struggling to move. Then in came back the moth. The moth proceeded to rip off the bee's antennas. It was fucking brutal to watch.

I made a stupid split decision. "I'm going outside to see this," I said to Aiden, followed shortly after, "get out of the house." I ran outside but slowed down as I approached the backyard. I turned the corner to the backyard. I saw as a cat fell to the ground. I turned around and proceeded to walk to the porch. I saw Aiden walking down the steps. "Don't get out of the house. It metamorphosed," I ordered to him.

We went back inside. I locked the door. I ran to the other door, the one that opens up to the fenced off backyard. While I was doing that, I got a glimpse of a huge moth. It had metamorphosed into a tall, humanoid moth. I saw it open and close its mouth. It was very slimy, and it seemed like something was in it. I locked both the screen door, and the big, heavy, magnetic, metallic door. We then proceeded to run back into my bedroom. We could've chosen the master bedroom. We could've chosen the attic, but who knows what's up there. I've never been up there, and there's not a window up in the attic. There's also holes that lead into the roof, and therefore, the attic. We've had birds get stuck inside the walls before because of this. We could've gone in the crawlspace, which I have been down in a couple of times, but sense the entrances are accessed from outside, that's off limits. Hell, we could've gone into Courtney's room, for how much I hate that room.

There are two bins underneath my bed. They are long enough for you to lay in them. I helped Aiden to get into one, then I pushed the bin back underneath the bed. I proceeded to lay down in the other bid, and once I got settled in, I kicked the back of the bin many times to get the bin back underneath the bed. I knew that this was doomed to fail horribly, but I just needed a few minutes of denial.

The moth creature got into the house, through what I assume a hole in the roof and flew into the master bedroom via the closet in there. Where birds got stuck was in between the master bedroom and the bathroom, and Allan had to make a hole for the birds to escape. That's where I'm guessing the moth flew into. The master bedroom door was unlocked, and I believe it was opened anyway. I don't know what happened to the dogs. The moth could've killed them after it flew into the room.

Eventually, it would get to my room. It got the door open, somehow by not busting the door down. I knew at that moment we were fucked. And, lo and behold, the bins were pulled out from underneath the bed. We were both grabbed and carried outside. I don't know what happened to Aiden because the moth creature put me inside an open cocoon, and the cocoon closed up. That's where the dream ended.

### The Ground and Sky Were Silky Clouds, and That's All We Could See

April 1, 2021

There was a group a people staring at this thing. How I would describe it is a cloud on the ground, stretched out over several yards. (Gah, I'm American.) Or, stretched over several meters. (Hopefully that's better.) People started walking through it. I was hesitant. I knelt down and felt the object. It felt silky, I guess.

## Trivia

* The dreams behind Binary Night, The Benthic Zone, Lightning Coming Down, and The Breach, are what inspired the album.
* The album title is allusion to the dream behind Moth Cocoon Prison, where in the dream, Rafe and another one of his friends, Aiden, were trapped inside giant cocoons by a massive shapeshifting moth.
* Branch and Don't Speak were the duo's first foray into making No Wave. This would later spawn an I Remember 2006 spinoff known as Vrishika Closing, a No Wave project with currently one album, Lost Wreckage.
* The album cover is a manipulated image of a fort Rafe found in a massive patch of woods behind his house.
	+ Subconscious in Silk actually has an unused version of the cover that was not used because of the detail of the original image being too stripped away, and too blinding to the eyes.
* One of the, well, two of the nightmares explored on the album were caused by a Pink Floyd music video.
* Rafe's dream log can be found here. Michidreamer, the Dream Log.

## Artists' Notes

### Rafe's Note

The idea to make this album came to me because my dreams have been recently getting really dark, to the point where I've had night terrors, and also waking up in pain, and having a literal fever dream. I decided to make songs about my darker dreams and nightmares. Also, I was influenced to make this because of Sleep Well by Electric President, which was based on dreams/nightmares as well. It ended up being a two hour album.

We were really inspired by Swans, er, SWANS, when making this album, that quite a number of songs on here are No Wave tracks. Like "Don't Speak", "Inside of the Machine" and "Branch". You can even hear Swans influence in "Binary Night., but not with their No Wave stuff. This album still holds our I Remember 2006 style, no doubt. "The Benthic Zone", "Suspended in Air", Lightning Coming Down", "\_", "Sighting of the Mind Taker" and "The Breach" are a return to the sounds on Downfall of Reality, Rifts Take Over, and Obelisk God. "Sighting of the Mind Taker" experiments with that sound to make something more uneasy. "The Benthic Zone" gives you this crushing wave of sound, as if you are truly miles underneath water. "Don't Speak" is the most aggressive we've made to date. It is crushing, with our bass and drum playing, and our growling, shouted vocal performances, that are demanding and brutal.

And then the instrumentals, which sample tracks from the album itself, take the style of the instrumentals from Astral Paralysis, and crack the eeriness to absolutely terrifying. "Inside of the Machine" is an insane wall of grueling noise that makes you feel like you are trapped inside of a moving machine. "Your Last Day in Dystopia" paints an image of you dying in a dystopian world, finally being free from a hellish world. "Moth Cocoon Prison" is the most terrifying track I've ever made in my opinion. "We Saw the Inferno Climbing Through the Torrential Downpour" is a somber track of watching a storm destroy everything. "The Ground and Sky Were Silky Clouds, and That's All We Could See" is the penultimate track that gives off a feeling of uncanny worriment that something beautiful is hiding something sinister.

The album ends with "The Breach". This is a really depressing song, in lyrics and sound, and I knew I instantly wanted it to be the closer.

With this album, we managed to push our sound to even further horizons. I really love this album. We are very proud of what we were able to create.

-Rafe (RonZak) LaNore [1]

### Will's Note

With this album, we kind of reverted back to our roots as a band with the space rock sound with certain songs.

Many of these songs have influences of the band SWANS, specifically early SWANS. The songs “Branch” and “Don’t Speak” are very notable examples of this.

“\_” is a song I wrote for a different project, but I decided not to let them use it. Instead, we recorded it for IR06. I had a lot of influence from the band TOOL with the way I wrote my lyrics. With the style of how I played guitar, I wanted to do something similar to the English band Black Country, New Road. This is the longest song on the album, and I’m really proud that I finally wrote an epic.

My closing statement: I’m proud of this album. I want to thank God, my grandparents, those who hate me, and anyone who cares enough to listen to us. Most of all, though, I want to thank Rafe for sticking with me through this hell of a ride called life. This year and a half would’ve been even more shitty if I never started releasing music, so thanks. I appreciate those of you reading this and listening to us.

I love you,

-Wilbur Bullara (I Remember 2006, Rexton-Garnet Reels, and Sputnik Collective)

1. ↑ https://ronzak-michigander.neocities.org/Michidreamer.html
https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/track/we-saw-the-inferno-climbing-through-the-torrential-downpour
2. ↑ https://ronzak-michigander.neocities.org/Michidreamer
https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/track/your-last-day-in-dystopia
3. ↑ https://ronzak-michigander.neocities.org/Michidreamer
https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/track/inside-of-the-machine
4. ↑ https://ronzak-michigander.neocities.org/Michidreamer
https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/track/moth-cocoon-prison
5. ↑ https://ronzak-michigander.neocities.org/Michidreamer
https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/track/the-ground-and-sky-were-silky-clouds-and-thats-all-we-could-see
6. ↑ https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/album/subconscious-in-silk
7. ↑ https://iremember2006.bandcamp.com/album/subconscious-in-silk