July 24, 1984

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    MYSTERYSEVEN enlists their newest member, collaborator, and shop assistant; a promising ICS freshman who -due to university undergraduate policies- has chosen to remain anonymous; an apprentice operating under the designated codename : MX7

     Inspired and enthused by the first course dissertation of MX7 entitled Letters From The Void, MYSTERYSEVEN commissions  the inspired work as their flagship micro-album release, catalog no. MX7001 

     Formulated in symphony with his Far Eastern Studies, MX7 offers this  passage, taken from a discourse delivered by the eminent Dr. S. Suzuki-roshi, as a revealing key in expounding the approach, design and overall effect of this work in depth :

     "We have a term, shosoku, which is about the feeling you have when you receive a letter from home. Even without an actual picture, you know something about your home, what people are doing there, or which flowers are blooming. That is shosoku. Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going on in that world—and that is, you might say, enlightenment. When you see a plum blossom, or hear the sound of a small stone hitting bamboo, that is a letter from the world of emptiness."
LETTERS FROM THE VOID by MYSTERYSEVEN