A song based on a famous poem by a Lithuanian poet Paulius Sirvys dedicated to the city of Vilnius. Recorded during a half year bike trip through South East Asia in 2009 with JHNO

Nemunu (pagal P. Širvio elėraštį)

An old recording based on a polyphonic Lithuanian folk song (sutartine)

Obelela (interpretation of a Lithuanian folk song)

Rūta (interpretation of a Lithuanian folk song)

A sketch to a poem by Roberto Bolaño "El Nómade". Strings - a Georgian panduri, wind - Armenian duduk.

El Nomade (a song to Roberto Bolaño poem)

A sketch with a cicada in a temple and wooden bells of cows in the fields in Cambodia, Armenian duduk and Georgian panduri.

Direction to the North

Recorded in 2009 during a bike trip through South East Asia with JHNO. Music, lyrics, vocals - Cactus. Arrangement and all kind of mysterious instruments - JHNO. An instrumental beautiful version is also to be found here: http://jhno.bandcamp.com/track/jei-paklaustum-instrumental-mix

Jei Paklaustum

Improvisation to an Indonesian poem by Puisi Chairil Anwar translated with google translator. With Steven Kovar (computer, https://soundcloud.com/sleepsignal) and me (vocal and piano): 

AT LONG ISLAND love 

My love is deep in the island 
Sweet girl, now yogi own 

Boat launch, the moon shone 
kukalungkan neck goodies for the boyfriend 
help wind, sea bright, but feels 
I do not 'get it right 

In calm waters, the wind melancholic 
the feeling of finishing all drove 
Doom throne, saying: 
"Point the boat into my lap time." 

Wow! Road kutempuh for years! 
The boat with the 'right PALOPO 
Why Doom calling ago 
Before she could embrace with love?! 

Much sugar in the island, 
if 'I die, he died yogi himself.




Sugar On The Island

Cactus - vocal and piano. Steven Kovar - computer, looper https://soundcloud.com/sleepsignal. Improvisation with Indonesian poetry & google translator series continued: 


MY HOUSE 

My house of bed-piled rhyme 
Clear glass from the outside everything appears 

Kulari of gedong page width 
I can not get lost road 

I erected the tabernacle when the twilight 
In the morning fly off somewhere 

My house of bed-piled rhyme 
Here I berbini and childless 

It felt much longer, but the arrival come 
I no longer grab pm 
Let dripping honey sweet words 
If the charge is a

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RUMAHKU

Rumahku dari unggun-timbun sajak
Kaca jernih dari luar segala nampak

Kulari dari gedong lebar halaman
Aku tersesat tak dapat jalan

Kemah kudirikan ketika senjakala
Di pagi terbang entah ke mana

Rumahku dari unggun-timbun sajak
Di sini aku berbini dan beranak

Rasanya lama lagi, tapi datangnya datang
Aku tidak lagi meraih petang
Biar berleleran kata manis madu
Jika menagih yang satu


Puisi Chairil Anwar
27 april 1943

My House

Improvisation to an Indonesian piece of poetry by Puisi Chairil Anwar translated with google translator, creating a bizarre text.





A token AND FINAL 

Dim and the wind mempesiang myself, 
Menggigir also the space where he is kuingin, 

Eve added penetrate, jungle so semati monument 
In Rubber, in Rubber (territory yard) until even the roar of the cold 

I am unwavering in the room, if you come inside me and I could again miss a new story to you; 

But now only the hand moving vocal 
My body still and own, stories and events gone by freezing.


by Puisi Chairil Anwar

YANG TERAMPAS DAN YANG PUTUS 

Kelam dan angin lalu mempesiang diriku,
Menggigir juga ruang di mana dia yang kuingin,

Malam tambah merasuk, rimba jadi semati tugu
Di Karet, di Karet (daerahku y.a.d) sampai juga deru dingin

Aku berbenah dalam kamar, dalam diriku jika kau datang dan aku bisa lagi lepaskan kisah baru padamu;

Tapi kini hanya tangan yang bergerak lantang
Tubuhku diam dan sendiri, cerita dan peristiwa berlalu beku.

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A Token And Final

Excerpt from a long trance-like live session experimenting with Indonesian poetry by Puisi Chairil Anwar translated with google translator, creating a bizarre text.  

I 

If it comes my time 
'I want one' right to woo 
Not you 

Needless to snivel that 

I'm a beast bitch 
Of herd wasted 

Let the bullet penetrate my skin 
I'm remains inflamed crashing 

Luka and I can carry run 
run 
Until lost poignant fairy 

And will be less concerned 

I want to live a thousand years


AKU

Kalau sampai waktuku
‘Ku mau tak seorang ‘kan merayu
Tidak juga kau

Tak perlu sedu sedan itu

Aku ini binatang jalang
Dari kumpulannya terbuang

Biar peluru menembus kulitku
Aku tetap meradang menerjang

Luka dan bisa kubawa berlari
Berlari
Hingga hilang pedih peri

Dan akan akan lebih tidak perduli

Aku mau hidup seribu tahun lagi



https://sleepsignal.bandcamp.com/album/puppenruhe

An improvisation with Steven Kovar @sleepsignal to a poem of a Lithuanian born (1932) Berlin poet Aldona Gustas: 

in the horizon the peace of dolls is reigning
the middle of the day lies in quite beasts
women let
on their backs
the sun breathe
blackberries rippen 
i eat butterflies 
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im Horizont herrscht Puppenhruhe
die Tagmitte liegt in schweigsamen Tieren 
die Frauen lassen 
auf ihren Rücken die Sonne atmen 
Brombeeren reifen
ich esse Schmetterlinge

Puppenruhe

Improvisation to the text from the Homer's Odyssey about the sea monster Charybdis. Here with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuyWS5IshGw&t=12s

Charybdis

A live session to Medea theme with Sleep Signal and Eos, an Airedale Terrier. 

invoke my name
pilots steer according to my eyes
builders grow dizzy listening to me
architects leave for the desert
murderers bless me
flesh quivers at my call
the one I love does not listen to me
the one I love does not hear me
the one I love does not answer me 

(Robert Desnos) 

Flesh Quivers At My Call

Letters for Oneself: An old song from 2005 discovered in the archives. The lyrics are by H.Radauskas, one of the best Lithuanian poets. 

Laiskai Sau

https://sleepsignal.bandcamp.com/track/under-skin

A song with remaining fragments of a poem by Sappho:

no speaking 
is left in me
no: tongue breaks and thin 
fire is racing under skin
and in eyes no sight and 
drumming 
fills ears 

and cold sweat holds me and 
shaking 
grips me all, 
greener than grass
I am and dead - or almost 
I seem to me

Here is the mastered version of it: https://sleepsignal.bandcamp.com/track/under-skin

Under Skin

A famous Brazilian song interpreted in a dark way - with Armenian duduk and viola. Viola, mixing and arrangement by a Californian nomadic musician JHNO (delicateear.com)

Agua de beber

(un)Known Artists of Huerto de Carlos. You can download full album Grana DADA for free from here: www.candycactus.net/granadada.zip



Mama Yala Ye

Recorded some years ago with jhno on the long bike trip in South East Asia. 

Nomadic Garden

A simple 'one-take' cover of a song "Hotel Supramonte" by Italian singer Fabrizio de André

Hotel Supramonte

Prieblanda

Soundtrack for Non-Existing Theater Piece. Recorded with Mari Rebelo in Lencois (Brazil, Bahia) at the Lapao river. Main instruments - Armenian duduk (CandyCactus) and caixinha, which is a box with strings, an instrument constructed by Mari.

Caixinha

Audio sketchbook. Vocal, flute, piano, duduk, kalimba and all kind of objects. You will find here field recordings and  improvisations with people in different parts of the world - Brasil, Berlin, Spain. Also my songs and reposted stuff of our acousmatic music project @sleepsignal

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