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about

I was a lonely guy. My quest to access the lonely thoughts of long-dead men began when I set Wallace Stevens’ "Blue Guitar" to music in Boston in 2001. One day here at home in the midst of a month-long session of writing I jumped up from the couch and inserted this relic from my past life (as a lonely guy) into the midst of what I thought was a newly completed Sleepytime song. The earliest lyrics heard in this song are written by Carla, and are meant to conjure the loneliness and isolation of a Grendel or sasquatch-like character. —mb

lyrics

i can see them from here
glistening and bright
night is here at my side
helping me hide in shadows
this is the only
dance i remember now
tom tom c’est moi
the blue guitar and i
are one
the orchestra fills the high hall
with shuffling men
high as the hall.

credits

from In Glorious Times, released May 29, 2007
words: Carla & Wallace Stevens 
music: Matthias

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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.
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