From the liner notes, by Jakob Kullberg

"The exploration of the darker emotional hues continues as the three tracks in this final offering are curated in reverse. Still is The Firebirds’s reaction to Xavier Bonfill’s modernist string quartet, titled Still Life, itself a product of adaptation processes. Using samples from At the End of the Road, Bonfill has manipulated these excerpts electronically only to further transmediate the result by making a notated instrumentation for string quartet. Whereas Still Life, with its painfully slithering microtonal glissandos , can be experienced as an ominous large-scale conflict seen microscopically from deep orbit, Still is like a quiet life-affirming confirmation. With a touch of imagination, one can read these two titles as a question and an answer: Still Life? … Still!"

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