Forever Cloaked

Cheater with M.L. Mae

Cave

New September
Recorded at Secret Weapon Studio, Brooklyn, NY, Alan Labiner, engineer. 
Mastered by Shot Gun Audio, Tom Kee
Lisa Luciano - Vox, Guitar
Mark Wieczorek - Bass
Louis Iacobelli - Drums


New September

Christina Rubino (vox, guitars)
Mark Wieczorek (bass)
Wayne "Doctor Banner" Schneiderman (drums & percussion)
Christine Iovine (in spirit)
Recorded @ Fastlane Studios by Mike Ferrara
Mastered by Matt Brown

Pettycoat 1999 Toni

Aniara is a 1956 poem by Swedish author Harry Martinson, which was made into a greatly under-rated movie in 2018. It concerns a vast spaceship carrying several thousand refugees from an uninhabitable Earth to Mars which gets irretrievably knocked off-course out of the solar system and into intergalactic barrens. It's a sobering meditation on human nature and a shocking statement on our insignificance. 

It's also so, so, SO Scandinavian -- in it, a *machine* commits suicide out of sheer grief and ennui -- that I had to make a doom track out of it. Enjoy!

The Poem (translated to English): https://gsproject.edublogs.org/gs-texts/texts-used-in-2017/aniara-by-harry-martinson-3/

The Movie (seriously, watch it): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7589524/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Lyrics:
loss of light broke our minds thus
in boundless black, our home behind us
the harbor, just a thing of lore

onward we ride, through eternal space
in senseless blank, there is no trace
of where we fought the war

even tears bear no relief
and worse: borne away by grief
our goddess is no more

there is no return
to what we have destroyed
there is no return
from the endless void


the ship is cold, the lights grow dim
even the cults have ceased their hymns
the cosmic wastes are all we know

and Isagel, that splendid mind
to her demon she resigned
and went where none can go

our tragedy is done. in insensate silence
we drift, compelled by unseen guidance
from nothing to nowhere we flow

there is no return
to what we have destroyed
there is no return
from the endless void

copyright 2020 Acid Sommelier
cover image courtesy of IdunUmbra

Aniara

A simple study I recorded on an old (not very nice ) guitar.

Carcassi Study

Christina Rubino (guitar, vox)
Mark Wieczorek (bass)
Wayne Schneiderman (drums)
Recorded at Fastlane Studios by Mike Ferrara
Mastered by Matt Brown

Pettycoat 1999 Time Lights

A post-doom outfit currently sheltering in place in Portland, Oregon. We play weddings, funerals, bar/bat mitzvahs, you name it.

Aniara

Acid Sommelier

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