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"Inspired in part by the weeks I spent in a castle in Umbria last summer in the generous company of eight fantastic and inspiring artists, all from different corners of the world. The conversation between us (sometimes purely gestural) often turned to cultural differences, and human similarities. Language separates us, dreams and instincts unify us. On a hike in Oregon, as we clamored up a slope of mossy boulders, Dan explained that this was the “angle of repose” of these rocks. I imagine that this is what will be left when we are gone…an enormous and gentle compost heap of all that we have done, all that we have made. Not such a tragedy, really." —ck

lyrics

I am made of tons of tiny countries
with closely guarded borders.
Each country has a castle,
each castle has a throne.
You are the tiny king of your very own.
I sneak across at night
when the crossing is easy.
I watch and I wonder
at your curious customs,
but I forget them all by day.
Did the night invade the day?
Or was it day invaded night?
Were you among the last to be found?
Did you have your hands in the ground?
I buried the dead and they came stories,
I planted the stories, they came up singing.
I planted the song and it came dancing,
I buried the dance and it came up facing home.
I buried the dead and they came laughing,
I planted the laughter, it came up singing.
I planted the song and it came fighting,
I buried the battle, it came up facing home.
I buried the dead and they came up laughing.
I buried the laughter and cried.
This garden we’ve planted will come up around us
and take us all down in a great big avalanche
of useless things, of persistently plastic things,
of things that cost us this tiny world of tiny kings.

credits

from In Glorious Times, released May 29, 2007
words & music: Carla
( The “night/day” lyrics are borrowed from Louise Bourgeois.)

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Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Oakland, California

Perhaps we can call them Avant-Prog Metal, or Grindcore Funk Theater, or in the words of one
particularly rapt concertgoer “Satanic Anarchic Viking Shit."

Regardless, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum indoctrinates their audiences with circuitous melodies, unnamable harmonies and gleefully dark, evocative sounds emanating from an array of voices and instruments, many of them homemade. ... more

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