Name: "Ballad of the Warrior in the Sands of Time" (2025). by The Strange World of A.J. Kaufmann
Duration: 3 min 53 s
Description: Brand new track based on 2002 lyrics. Enjoy.

CHOKE ON FORM

Liner Notes by the editors:

Little is known about the band that has created this song. Most of this little information can be gleaned from the website of FMT, whom a previous SHELLF LIFE release can be attributed to. We caution that  we do not know if any or all of this information is outdated: https://furicomusicteam.blogspot.com/p/shellf-life-interview.html Unfortunately, the Furico Team was not available for commentary, since they are launching quite a different kind of historic project on kitchen label.  

Some questionable facts regarding STRANGELOVE’S BRAIN’s release are related in quite a verbose and unreliable way tinged with judgemental interpretation and interspersed with pseudointellectual preconceptions here:   https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/shellf-life-paraphernalia-and-parerga-2025 (German original, as far as we can discern). According to that ‚account‘, the recording of STRANGELOVE’S BRAIN was found on a self-burnt disc (ha, that ancient Nero joke!) in a forgotten chest. The poem used in this recording is the only item that can be traced to an author (jo richter) who was kind enough to allow us to reprint here. Obviously, the references to the war-inflicted tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki make it of  special importance at this moment in history, not only because of current tensions, but also because those two catastrophies happened about 80 years ago in August 1945. We therefore decided to release the two versions known thus far as a vinyl single to the general public, accompanied by an image attributed to the same author as the poem.


Strangelove's Brain

another pensive pariah
spotted on the outskirts
of Hyperbolea, Parolia
avant, avant, sempre vorwärts

keeping the obvious captive
locked in a by a reverse smirk
another dementia denier
Hiroshima, where shadows lurk

and the moon keeps rising, rising
every other day, socializing
with singed hands on bare rocks

iron out unseemly locks
to keep face, straight, straight
little boys take progress' bait

B: Strangelove's Brain (brain, blood and bone mix)

Hi friends i want to say have a nice time! I'm on holidays for 3 weeks now in Austria! So no new stuff from me for this time...I try to catch up your works from there. The new page 21 will be born when i come back from the mountains...

FAREWELL FOR A SHORT TIME excerpt

Feentanz

elequles

Hey I did a mix of my friend @ipg1 cool rap back for more using the classic Eric B and Rackim  - Eric B for president ! https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/welcome-back-for-more-vox-93?in=ipg1/sets/vocals 
Enjoy!
Dx

WELCOME BACK FOR MORE **IPG1 & RICØ**

X-Balba

Brand new track based on 2002 lyrics. Enjoy.

"Ballad of the Warrior in the Sands of Time" (2025).

For my beautiful little granddaughter just over 2 months old.

Vocals - Ivy Rae
Guitar - Me

A Little Tune for Little Ivy Rae

pop that pill girl

With all that's going on, sometimes the heart just wants to flee to a place of innocence. Maybe we could meet there...

Return To Innocence

Since 1998 I made and released lots of sound art, music, and noise, and wrote and published lots of poetry. You can find most of it online, in record stores, and in bookstores. On May 28 2025 I returned to my roots, and started working low profile on new folk music, like in 1998. Inspired by Syd Barrett, Robert Calvert, Chris Karrer, Peter Hammill, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Richard Hell, Daniel Johnston, Roky Erickson,  Dave Bixby, Jandek, James Douglas Morrison, jazz, modern poetry, and painting I set on a trip that knows no end. Hope you're with me.

"Ballad of the Warrior in the Sands of Time" (2025).

The Strange World of A.J. Kaufmann

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