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Babushka Noir

by Harpo Jarvi

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TheEliteExtremophile This guitarless St. Louis-based trio plays a jammy, psychedelic variety of prog replete with a wide array of keyboard tones. The songs may have extended instrumental passages, but smart structures and artful composition keep them in line.

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1.
Lamplight, shuttered eye Reveal, conceal, show the night Drive-by, gleaming knife Make haste, erase, fight or flight A stark, careful arc Against all sense, torn apart A dark, cold remark Violent suspense, harrowing art Caress of request To feed a need of an interest The rest made to confess And bleed from clean eager fists Excused from the ruse Of law that crawls from the noose Shown truth by a muse That calls from the long burning fuse Once was the undying drive Once was the suspended life Once was the untempered will Once was commands unfulfilled Once was the façade unknown Once was the unconquered home Once was the procession's sign Once was an empire of mine
2.
Rose and lilac may distract you But the night shade invites me to something more Close your eyes and then it's act two In which my sense of time goes right out the door Forgetting everything that I knew before No reverse for a thirst too real to ignore The moonflower girl beckons me into Life anew in a world only known to few Out of all the strangers I see She's the one who's undone my reality Now the pupil looks on ready With a mind open wide for any clarity To begin the course in its entirety She's pulled taut every thought towards sincerity The moonflower girl beckons me into Life anew in a world only known to few So the moonflower girl beckons me into Life anew in a world only known to few
3.
Breeders 07:38
Not yet the hour of two Lay bare a hundred cubes God spoke unto the rube Go forth and multiply the flock Were one to dock their pay One might not feed the stray Seems management's okay With breeders fucking on the clock Oh dear Saint Valentine You've gathered up the swine Nine becomes ninety-nine Two by two breeders interlock
4.
For an idle more Let me go To the time before All we know To the heights restored In full view Take the ancient form Pull me through Bringer of a prayer Heed me well The senseless affair I've been dealt Has poisoned a place That once held A familiar face Now expelled Why would you care Why so wide-eyed on the island of disrepair Why so eager to believe in an eden existing somewhere Why would you look down On the man in the planet throwing switches around Shattering the remnants of histories that will never be found What would you know About the crevices inside the exile's home And all the decisions charting course towards vertigo Where were you When the formlessness spoke words of an endless view When panes of existence fractured into a million untruths For a second more I might stay For an hour more I'll obey For a century more I won't stray For an eon more Cast away
5.
I know that you've traveled far From the fire-lit caves of youth And though a scholar you are There'll always be a home for you As the fault lines break And sickness falls You'll know where it is that you belong Here in the firm embrace of a nature that cares Far from disaster it is Here where where you will know what it means to be Here in the quiet wake of a nature that's shared Outside the castle it is Here where you will know what it means to be loved Just when your ambitions rose The way ahead was swallowed up by the tide And then you came to know I want nothing but for you to be satisfied As the fires awake And thunder calls I think you'll realize where you belong Here in the firm embrace of a nature that cares Far from disaster it is Here where you will know what it means to be Here in the quiet wake of a nature that's shared Be free from your masters disappear Into the world that lies waiting so Near and you will find what it means to be loved

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released July 22, 2022

Lyrics by Jim Miles
Music by Dan Ilges, Nick Johnson, Jim Miles except for:
Yakuzapalooza - Dan Ilges, Nick Johnson, Jim Miles, Devin Rojas
Moonflower Girl - Jim Miles

Recorded and Mastered at 24bit/96kHz at Starhenge II
Performed by:
Dan Ilges - drums
Nick Johnson - Bass, synth
Jim Miles - vox, fender rhodes, hammond B3 organ, synth, alto sax, flute

Tenor and bari sax on Forest Mom, Part II performed by Dan Johnson
Album art by Ethan Meyer and Devin Rojas
Album name by Nat Reisberg

More copies available at starhengerecords.bandcamp.com

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Trio performing ritual prog jams to awaken Groovthulhu

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