Chaperone - Emotion Hospice

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Emotion Hospice
by Chaperone

╬ type I cassette professionally dubbed at a carbon neutral facility

╬ 6-panel fold-out j-card printed with water-based ink on recycled paper

╬ UV-etched cassette shell

╬ edition of 125

“Skin-grafting — a process of making an opening in the skin, in two places, and holding the wounds together. The supple skin of an inner arm heals to the sore on the cheek or neck, replacing cursed tissues with the untarnished. The difference of texture is visible for life in both places. A kind of scar, but built from the healthy body, a transferal of a wound from one place to the next; healed, at the price of a permanent disfigurement.

Skin-graft a wry smile onto a laugh bridging mirth and mourning, and you're entering the territory of 𝑬𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆.

2020 the Merciless — its dangers were clocked ahead of time in a sarcastic prelude text to an album which couldn't know the venom of its own truths.

Chaperone grasped at the future in '19 with fingers bluntened by exhaustion, and God only knows how much was shrewd foresight, how much was heaven-sent premonition, and how much of reality was forged from the sacrilege of looking forward with such a scornful gaze.

Was it the dream of one, or of many? That future was shaped somehow — is collective pessimism to blame for the inevitable and colourless future?

𝑬𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒆 bears its scars in static. Some seem old, personal, borne on the body, while some seem to be phantoms of pain not yet felt by anyone. "Yet", the inevitable; "yet", the certainly uncertain. "Yet" will come for us all.

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Excerpt of writing by Freddie Hudson (April 2023).

𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘫-𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘗𝘋𝘍 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥 (𝘻𝘪𝘱) 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘦.

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David Coccagna (Chaperone) is a Philadelphia-based writer and musician focusing primarily on transgressive human behavior, poverty, class division, and addiction. Born and raised in Philadelphia, the principle imagery and sonic influences of the depressed Northeast neighborhood Lawncrest has served as the palette and canvas Coccagna works upon. He has worked with labels Great Circles, Jungle Gym, Con.apt, and Minor Adjustments, with more recent focuses leaning into repetitive sound and theme. He is an avid cyclist and has two cats.

Recorded in Philadelphia, Montesportali, and Richmond by David Coccagna (𝘢𝘯𝘹𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦 written in collaboration with André Altrez) between 2017-2019
Remastered by Glyn Maier in 2023
Artwork by R. Inez
Design and layout by Joe Bastardo