it is a video: https://youtu.be/sbWArLfPsbE

lyrics:
I started from the beginning
But I knew it all along
I heard it all before
But never settled to listen along
To the song of every siren's last call
played-out in the mother tongue
There is a time for everything,
But order hasn't found its place

If I fell in love I held it back
Until it spoke for itself, and shouted back
I had to build a building
To house its longings
Its ceiling was to block out the sun
Now I'm sitting in the shade and it's getting cold
There is a time for everything,
But order hasn't found its place

You didn't think to tell me
You saw the meaning face to face
We could have drawn it out
By simply tracing straight
But who can keep track of all these faces laughing
Mixing jokes with distractions,
A pile of masks extracting
There is a time for everything,
But order hasn't found its place

There's a time for curves
And twisted branches pursed -
Like lips last night inviting,
Tomorrow's heartbreak binding -
The straight and narrow can bring
The slant and winding plane
Of a crowded mezzanine
Holding up an encore that feeds itself
There is a time for everything,
But order hasn't found its place

I don't know what to do with myself
Clearly I've been forgetting
That faith I put up on that shelf
I could barely reach for my notebook
Never-mind write you with grace & humility
There was nothing left but mistook apologies
and throw-away analogies
There is a time for everything,
But order hasn't found its place

If lonely is the way to Heaven
Then call me only
I promise to never answer back
There is no easy way
The path is long and backwards
But still I started from the beginning
Though I knew it all along
I heard it all before
But never settled to listen along
to the song of every siren's last call
played-out in the mother tongue

There is a time for everything,
But order hasn't found its place

Time In You

Track appears on Phinery's Somehow Commissioned #2: Texture (http://www.phinery.net/ph017-sc-2-texture/)

Girl you are rich even with nothing
And you know tenderness comes from pain
It's amazing how you love
And love is kind and love can give
And get no gain

It's down a rugged road you've come
Though you had every reason
You didn't come undone
Somehow you made it to the other side
You didn't suffer in vain

You forgive those who have trespassed against you
And you know tenderness comes from pain
It's amazing how you love
And love is kind and love can give
And love needs no gain

You didn't suffer in vain
You know it's only love
That gets you through
Only love, it's only love
It's only love that gets you through
~Sade

It's Only Love Sade

From new album & 68 page book In A Dream Interrupted: https://cosiecosi.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-dream-interrupted
Music video: https://youtu.be/wxj6d8FxEKE

In a dream interrupted,
I give you the title of my longest poem.
We decided to meet on the opposite ends
Of an unhinged pendulum.
You will break my heart and I will love it,
An interruption to the formation of a whole,
But a full,
Full heart.
You remind me of the words I have read,
And the words read by my mother.
You remind me that somewhere there is someone knitting a blanket
From the torn threads in my lifeline
To cover the rips in your clothing
That were given to you prior.
You remind me of the poems I have written,
And the poems I’m still writing.
I give you the title of my longest poem in process.

In A Dream Interrupted

From new album & 68 page book In A Dream Interrupted: https://cosiecosi.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-dream-interrupted
Music video: https://youtu.be/wxj6d8FxEKE

Lyrics:
Dreams are made of almond clouds

Almond Clouds

From new album & 68 page book In A Dream Interrupted: https://cosiecosi.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-dream-interrupted
Music video: https://youtu.be/wxj6d8FxEKE

Without burning when learning firelight
In your clothing without dressing
No pages addressing the smoldering
mass burning

A whole book written on the topic of silence
Yet next year's novel a hummingbird’s echo
When the end is near the end is here
Swim backward

“Hey Modì, my little musician
How I wish I could hold you, but off you go
Harmony in alimony, grace matrimony”
Swim backward

Alimony

Yellow Bloc Nights

Found faith a placeholder pedestal for the weak and thoughtless
Respect. Beauty like one petal off a rose in a meadow
Truth never turns to stone, but honesty's a boulder thrown
At petals and pedestals
Today I'm throwing rocks, and tomorrow I walk the meadow
To see what remains

And although it will be impossible to recognize, I will believe
I've found that petal once again - holstered by past beauty known
Pushed further by peculiarities before unknown
What remains can grow

Yea going it alone, but what worth is that when always searching
Other meadows and never your own
Just because we boned don't mean we got a home:
But I'm no stone, I'm malleable -
Mindful of mirages, pick a point on the horizon, expect nothing but direction,
I'm already home

And although it will be impossible to finalize, I will believe
I've built that home once again - holstered by past beauty known
Pushed further by peculiarities before unknown
What remains will go, will grow, will go

I'm hard, but this ain't the hardcopy, copycat of the love made in other flats
Baby if this is survival surviving's a lie, resorting to be taken by new illusions
Only because I'm looking in the wrong places, copping out, glorifying cravings
Put them all together, fuck em' all to make one, to be one, to be with you again
Save them all up, but there's no saving - It's spent, but I'll keep spending
Embrace impermanence, though we fell into the pattern of abandonment:
Human action and affliction - try to turn instability into renewability
Gotta know yourself, but it's not enough, Gotta believe in yourself & all your faults
Because fuck if I'm not failing I wouldn't be trying -
My failures are what make good relatable art

I wanna create, not deflate like rusing & fucking to re-create
And left with an art like a wall with too many paint overs
These devices for the emotionally unstable, exercises for the desperate survival
A plea for attention, meta like detention, call yourself out to make yourself out
But don't drown out the valid voices by making so many noises
Making songs up like making hope up, another effort to get you back
But there's no getting, only making, gotta create not deflate
By over-thinking, over writing, over-preaching, over controlling

Scrape it off, tear it down, pull it down, rip it up
Tear it up, burn it down, get back down,
Get back to the hardcopy

Hardcopy

From upcoming collaborative double album release by
Ylang Ylang & Così e Così

No Exist 2016

Ylang Ylang & Così e Così - Hypothesis

Samples from "Slanted" by YlangYlang off their album No Exist (Feel Special)
Video: https://youtu.be/WwPkA0diFrs

Galleria

Happening, Ever After

Hourglass

Single from the debut 2xLP 140g album release by Così e Così on Euphonic Rec & No Exist (Ltd 200)

https://cosiecosi.bandcamp.com/album/impermanence-in-the-time-of-heavens

After a series of cassettes and one self released CD Così e Così has honed the dense and gritty textures of his deconstructed pop forays and sound experiments into a collection of poetry awash in subdued synths, bending tones, and sometimes frantic rhythms. Its efforts to dissect the constructs of time to overcome fleeting ideals in life and love make 'Impermanence In The Time Of Heavens' at once far-reaching and overwhelming, yet cathartic; a romanticism for an era of fragmented identities.

Music and extended poems throughout IITTOH sample from Vincent’s personal audio and lyrical collections dating back to 2004. Reworking the same loop in nearly every song until it's unrecognizable, and referencing other passages within, creates a work cut and scattered, yet bound by repeated motifs and moods of memory, loss, and rebirth. Recorded primarily in a log cabin in Manitoba, Canada, IITTOH was also recorded on a deserted beach town in Montenegro and a lakeside apartment in Macedonia, and completed in Montreal, Canada.
Additional mixing by Jesse Ledesma
Mastered by Sandro Perri

Impermanence In The Time Of Heavens

Like Ghosts Stepping Over The Moon

First track of "Knife Times" EP out August 6, 2019
Produced with T. Funk

Reworked and reimagined; an exercise in the boundaries of attachment; a love letter recontextualized

https://noexist4vr.com
noexist4vr.bandcamp.com/album/knife-times
cosiecosi.bandcamp.com/album/knife-times
euphonic-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/knife-times

Knife Times

Knife Play Forever, 2019

Video: https://youtu.be/OWo_dagpz70
From "Water Fragments In Ghost" LP
Out Oct. 1st, 2020: https://cosiecosi.bandcamp.com/album/water-fragments-in-ghost

Chaplain Of Solitude

nomadic canadian-born poet, performer, crooner, musician, videographer, birdwatcher, etc.

Live:
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Feb. 17. 2024. Athens, GR @ KET (TV Control)
Feb. 25. 2024. Athens, GR @ P6
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Mar. 09. 2024. Turin, IT @ Asile *as E.A. Ltd.
Mar. 10. 2024. Milan, IT @ C3
Mar. 13. 2024. Nice, FR @ Villa Arson - afternoon terrace
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