jhaffur khan azad darakth: drums, trombone, trumpet, voice
Joel Banner Baird:celeste/organ/piano, acoustic bass and slide guitar
coagulate this instantaneous composition as an exploration of typography in severed movements including the premier spoken word component of Her Grand Design:
How can one explain to the uninitiated
The range of her volcanic iconography?
How tamper down the lava long vitiated
By eruptions undirected by geography?
Icelandic indecipherability in the legend
With inscriptions worn by fissure and flow
Her landscape cuts internally as mountains bend
With thick descriptions of both end and glow.
How can one retain without eviscerating
Memories of quakes that bear her name?
With a jagged signature of wild commiserating
The rugged anger of her inundating flame?
Wild ashen plumes flung skyward veil the future
Disrupting patterned flights of ill launched minds
The roiling thunder stitches lightening sutures
All matter inundating glimpses of her grand design.
Jhaffur khan azad darakth - roll and thunder 2022
