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ThisMomentAgainAndAgainSail On, SailorA track from our new album This Moment Again and Again Go to the Beach!
2014-03-1402 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainBig SurThe debut track from our new album This Moment Again and Again Go to the Beach!
2014-02-0602 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainIf You Don't Break Your Ropes While You're Alive(do you think the ghosts will do it after?)when I am dead, it won't matter
how hard you press your ear to the ground
no one knows our name until our
last breath has gone out
the old dog bends his head listening
I guess the sound of the earthworms get to him
we look to the end of the tale
and find black marigolds and silence
and if you don't break your ropes while you're alive,
do y'think the ghosts will do it after?
I think of you walking along
a headland of green oats in June
so full of repose, so rich with life
I see...
2014-01-0902 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainThe Oldest Wordsthou
not
that
we
to
give
who
this
what
man
ye
old
mother
to hear
hand
fire
to pull
black
to flow
bark
ashes
to spit
worm
This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett, Jim Harrison, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Walt Whitman, and others.
credits
released 24 December 2013
Written and performed by Ari Gelardin and Jacob Palmer with Jason Slota on drums and Jay Pellicci recording at Tiny Telephone Recording Studio in San Francisco, California. (October 2013)
2013-12-3101 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainHazelwoodI went out to the hazelwood
because a fire was in my head
light was the wood, light and green
and what I saw, I had not seen
the bark of the tree
a place where a fire had been
the prickly water lily
the chestnut and the burr
a man with thick hair
who washes it and dries it bare
the little monkey looks at me
he wants to tell me something that he has forgotten
stone flowers, diamond fire
and incandescent fruit
the dog barked talking to the stars
the rattlesnake coughed up my scars
I saw the...
2013-12-3102 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainHappiness Is A Hologramsuddenly you're in a different place
where things seem to happen in waves
rounded eye is delighted by foam
and a blue suspicion of the sea
so green the fire in leaf and grass
half a summer he paid the last
led down a path by the lunatic fringe
could see the city from the crater's rim
lovers loitered on the porch
that dazzled yesterday's touch
happiness is a hologram
my cup is full, so let it spill
a figment of something said
worn out of my mind
This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works...
2013-12-3101 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainOceantime to start concentrating on which way I would turn after I locked the front door, what shop signs I would see, what bridges I would lean on to watch the broad river undulating, like a long-playing record under the needle of my eye. time to stand dripping wet and wonder about the hoards of people I would pass in the street, mostly people whose existence I did not believe in, but a few whom I would glance at and see my whole life the way you see the ocean. (Billy Collins)
I have a feeling that my boat
has...
2013-12-3103 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainThe Love CookLet me cook you some dinner.
Sit down and take off your shoes
and socks and in fact the rest
of your clothes, have a daquiri,
turn on some music and dance
around the house, inside and out,
it's night and the neighbors
are sleeping, those dolts, and
the stars are shining bright,
and I've got the burners lit
for you, you hungry thing.
"The Love Cook," by Ron Padgett, from You Never Know
http://www.ronpadgett.com/
This self-titled debut album incorporates both original phrases and fragments of works by various poets and mystics, including Billy Collins, Ron Padgett...
2013-12-3101 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainFrail Engines of LoveIt was a lady
'companied by goat men
Her hair held up the earth
her eyes were dark then
Wandering and loneliness
through switchbacks and history
These frail engines of love
bound to a mystery
where are you now?
I'm falling down
You've led me to a field
Under a widening sky
From time to time the mind runs out
of steam lacking in energy,
These frail engines of love
bound to a mystery
unexplained in the meadow
lay the dead bird
the wind fluttered its wings
mountains are just mountains
the rain dismantles every night
the great wink of...
2013-12-3101 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainCome Walk With Mecome walk with me
through a field of fennel and clover
three weeks ago
you threw them wildflower seeds down
the fog has burned away
laying in the sunshine
rolling around like worms
and spilling some hitching post wine
come walk with me
through a field of fennel and clover
watch out for the thistle
and the nasturtium flowers
the mysterious grove
stands with knobbly knees
the house next door
has seen better days
come walk with me
through a field of fennel and clover
three weeks ago
you threw them wildflower seeds down
Come walk with me
through a...
2013-12-3102 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainJust Like Honeyhow many things have I looked up
in a lifetime
of looking things up
a silent prayer just the moon on the road
I will never wake up
and play the piano
the days are stacked against what we think we are
it's nearly impossible
to surprise ourselves.
I've decided to make up my mind about nothing
I've decided to finish my life
disguised as a creek
I swam in the river and then I forgot
it was water. I'm just trying
to unlearn the Universe
how easy it glows, how easy it dims
the firefly, the night in your...
2013-12-3103 min
ThisMomentAgainAndAgainThe Streets Remember They Once Were Fieldsthe fog flows into the house
through the steep and narrow driveway
the endless night, it is now
nothing more than a sweet decay
hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by what I do not know
my eyes will burst when hit
by the blades of the coming sun
the radio blares from the corner store
the streets remember they once were fields
the radio blares from the corner store
the streets remember they once were fields
gone are disorderly avenues
of eucalyptus and beaten paths
it is the dream I sometimes forget
the endless night, nothing more than a scent
...
2013-12-3102 min