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No joke with Gods

God Spell

Renaissance (2025) Remastered

Part 2 of the final track of Then She Reaches For The Gun's 2nd Album
released in Jan 2025 - nomatesensemble.bandcamp.com/album/i-am…m-with-you.

Then She Reaches for the Gun was formed in 2021 by Mat Ward. At its essence is sound collage, Ward invites musicians, sound artists, poets and anyone interested to send him files to be used, abused and showcased ‘as suggested by the work’. They are not always musical but field recordings, spoken word, engine noises and drunken rants. Animals participate a lot too! The raw material is arranged with one phrase asking for the next in an alchemical and intuitive process that will most often feature dozens of tracks weaving in and out of each other, colliding, harmonising, arguing and laughing along the way.

Both the aesthetic and the compositional methods use what Frank Zappa called Xenochrony - the mixing together of separately recorded and rhythmically opposing musical phrases to create polyrhythmic and polytempi compositions.The work also features fragmented story telling with the human voice (in many languages) appearing unannounced throughout the tracks offering up snippets of thoughts, conversations, jokes and existential angst. The absurdity of humanities desperate claim to have any real understanding of its place in the universe is revealed through the recorded follies and genuine emotions of the artists. The project is a celebration of chance, diversity and community. It pays homage to all musical tastes and genres whilst maintaining a sense of humour and irreverence that is needed to stay sane in the climate of 21st Century contemporary culture.

Then She Reaches For The Gun is

Humans

Adam Meredith - Ford XD with XF front mods/Voice
Ambient Annie - Electronica/Field Recording/Voice
Andrew Harper - Field Recordings
Angostura Elwar - 2 x Behringer CRAVE analog synths/Yamaha P200 electronic piano
Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi - Text/Voice
Ariad Music - Clarinet/Percussion/Piano
Axel Weiß - Electric Guitar/Robot Voices
Banalytic - Experimental Electronics
Belial Pelgrim - Digital Strings/Electronica
Brendan Corey Benson - Electric Guitar
Carolyn Wigston - Voice
Chicago Word Brigade - Electronica
Dan Hewins - Bass Guitar
Dane Renshaw - Drums/Voice
Dani Kirby - Keyboard/Piano/Voice
Dylan Banks - Intonarumori/Voice
Frank Wilke - French Horn/Trombone/Voice
Garbage Truck Disco - Drum programming/Electric Guitar/Joyous Pop Punk
Glenn Ward - Electric Guitar/Skyhooks
Hakan - Moog Voyager XL
Hverheij- Drums/Electric Guitar/Synth
Johnny Python- Bass Guitar/Drum Programming/Electric Guitar/Text/Voice
JZsuperstar - Electric Guitar/Field Recordings/Keyboards
Lady ElectroTrek - Organ
Libby Laksmi - Jazzy Loops/Synth Bass
Loop(c)y - Electric Guitar
Malo Bernard-O’Meara - Drums
Maxx Black - Guitar/Ukulele
Minimal Drone Girl - Cat Wrangling/Field Recordings
Oberlin - Eurorack/Piano
Paolo D’Emilio - Electronica
Paul Miller - Electronic Percussion/Keyboards/Phat Electro Bass
Phil Bywater - Saxophones/Voice
Raul Mainer - DAW Programming/Heavy Metal
Robert Jefferson - Akai Rhythm wolf/GakkenSX-150 ll/Korg Kaosilator/Percussion
Rosin Dust - Violin/Field Recordings
Sarah Megahertz - Speedway Noise
Scratch Kelly - Beats/Electronica
Stan Magendanz - Electronica
Ten Atmospheres - Field Recordings/Synths
Texmex Shaman - Electric Guitar
The Windscale Blues Experiment - Clarinet/Flute/Saxophones
Timothy Korstad - Demons/Electronica
Thomas Bergheim - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar
Tobias Schmitt - Electronica/Processed Organ/Text
Tuonela - Demons/Electronica
Vartch - Drones/Things/Trousers (not T-shirts)/Voice
Widar’s Spiritual Front - Electronica/Ms Pacman
W:I:L-o’ the-wisp - Bass Guitar/Electric Guitar/Electronica
Wivresse - Electronica/Voice
Zanshin - Acoustic and Processed Drums

Mat Ward - Arrangements/Bass Guitar/Double Bass/Field Recordings/Intonarumori/Marimba/Noise/Percussion/Piano

Dogs
Boogie
Brophy
Buddy
Hancho
Jack
Momo
Neska
Poldo
Senna
Shyamsundara
Star
Oily (cat)
And many cows from Milis, Sardinia

Cooking Hard Boiled Eggs in a Cheap Motel in Adelaide Part 2 (Yahtzee with Mackerel on the Bed Mix)

Watching my life line slip from my grasp
And knowing I'm just someone, someone from your past.
Like a solitary traveller on a never ending track. Lost in the echoes with each beat I want you back. 

The lonely, like a bird with no wings,
On a wire longing for flight.
Looking out at the vast sky
no destination in sight. 

Oh the weight of sorrow 
lies heavybon my soul
In this world of hollow
Will I ever again feel whole. 

The river flows so gently
Carries away my pain

But it always comes back again 
Like the never ending rain. 

I Search for your light in the darkness
But all I find is despair
I cry out for some solice
But it's like there's nobody there. 

Lost in the Echoesof our love, with each beat I want you back. 



The Echoes

Just in time for the pre-Christmas season, we have prepared a little gift🎁 for you.
We've written a new, funny little Christmas song for you! 
Enjoy listening!😻

Merry Christmas to everyone!
        Love & Light 
      ✨🌟❤️🌟✨

Merry Christmas 2025

Amanitalinda in Elfin´s Winterland (New Song 2025)

The Four Noble Truths

Then softly he spoke
The Fourfold Light
The medicine for the 
World’s long night

First, he said
Understand this pain
Birth, aging, death
Loss, and gain
Separation, longing
Fleeting delight
All is dukkha
Shadows in light

The five heaps we cling to
Body and mind
Are impermanent rivers
To nothing confined

Second, he said
The cause is known
Craving’s seed that 
We have sown
Thirst for pleasure
Thirst for becoming

Thirst for non-being
The wheel’s endless running
From craving’s fire
Arises sorrow’s smoke

From craving’s fire
Arises sorrow’s smoke
The chain of becoming 
Never broke.

Third, he said
The end can be
The flame goes out
The heart is free
When craving fades
All grasping ends
Peace unfolds
Where nothing bends

This stillness is 
Nibbāna’s shore
Where birth and death 
Touch no more

Fourth, he said
The path to cease
Is the Noble Way
The road of peace
Follow the Eightfold Path sublime
And cross the river
Beyond time

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The phrase “five heaps we cling to” (Pāli: pañcupādānakkhandhā) is one of the core teachings of the Buddha, directly connected to the First Noble Truth of dukkha (unsatisfactoriness or suffering).

Let’s unfold it clearly and deeply:

🌿 The “Five Heaps” — The Khandhas (Aggregates)

The Buddha described what we call a “person” not as a fixed self or soul, but as five dynamic processes or “heaps” (khandhas, often translated as aggregates).

These are:

Form (Rūpa) — the physical body, matter, all that is material and sensed.

Feeling (Vedanā) — sensations: pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral.

Perception (Saññā) — recognition, labeling, memory of what we sense.

Mental formations (Saṅkhārā) — intentions, thoughts, habits, reactions, volitions.

Consciousness (Viññāṇa) — the knowing awareness that arises when there’s contact between senses and their objects.

🔗 “We Cling To” — The Source of Suffering

In the lyric, “The five heaps we cling to” refers to how we grasp at these five processes as “me”, “mine”, or “my self”.

We identify with:

My body, my appearance (Form)

My feelings, my pleasures, my pain (Feeling)

My views, my memories (Perception)

My thoughts, my choices, my will (Mental formations)

My awareness, my consciousness (Consciousness)

Yet, as the verse continues:

“Are impermanent rivers / To nothing confined”

— this shows that these heaps are constantly flowing and changing, not static, not self-contained.
They are like currents in a river, forming what we call “self,” but in truth, there’s no solid entity — just movement, interdependence, and flux.

🌊 The Insight

When the Buddha said that dukkha arises because of clinging (upādāna) to the five heaps, he meant:

Suffering comes when we grasp impermanent processes as if they were permanent, controllable, or truly “I”.

The lyric captures that beautifully:

“Body and mind / Are impermanent rivers / To nothing confined.”

It poetically expresses anattā — the “non-self” nature of existence — and how liberation (Nibbāna) arises when one ceases to cling to these transient heaps.

✨ In short:

“The five heaps we cling to” =
Our mistaken attachment to body and mind processes as “me.”
When we see their impermanence and stop grasping, suffering dissolves — and the heart awakens to peace.
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The Four Noble Truths

This is for everyone fighting a battle they feel they can't win. "Christ Redeems" is the sound of that final, desperate surrender -the moment the love of Christ steps in to restore everything.  Here's a link to the video. Viewer discretion is advised.  https://youtu.be/ISch-KumhRw
Verse1
No more drought 
Beneath our feet
Searched for grace
Where waters meet
Hope endures 
Pain repeats
Hearts run dry but still believe
Tag
Paise God to be reborn
Chorus
Desire falls 
No strength or gain
Form is still
No will sustains
That final breath surrendering
Christ restores
CHRIST REDEEMS X3
V2
Hunger swells the heart was dead
Hands reach out to what they're fed
Path was wide
Pull was strong
Cure starved out 
All that was wrong
Tag
Praise God to be reborn
Chorus
Desire falls 
No strength or gain
Form is still
No will sustains
That final breath surrendering
Christ restores
CHRIST REDEEMS X3
Bridge Romans 12:1
Present your bodies holy to the Lord 
All earthly gain 
Count as loss
Renewed in mind each day 
His mercy leading on, His grace sustains

Christ Redeems

Cast of Characters:
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals, lyrics, acoustic guitar and composition
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- VST strings and mellotron 
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – upright double bass, plucked and bowed
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – piano
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson custom T model electric guitar, Danelectro baritone electric guitar, and e-bow
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – production, mix, and mastering
 
Carl came up with this song at the beginning of November on his acoustic guitar, and shared it with the rest of us shortly after. Carl is a songwriting supernova, in case you're unfamiliar with our newest addition to the team. We're always excited and grateful to get to work on his music. 
  Mark was first to add his parts, although he tweaked them throughout the process. His work can be heard in the dramatic string arrangement and mellotron at the crescendo. Josh was next to jump in, adding his new upright bass to the song. He played not only the plucked part, but the bowed part in the strings section, too. Ken came along next with his perfect drums to complete the rhythm section. JJ wanted in on this, too, so he added the foundational piano you hear throughout. Last, but not least, Stephen dropped in his electrifying guitar solo and the accompanying textural chords using is Danelectro baritone guitar, followed at the very end by his magical e-bow part. 
  Once it was all in the bag, we asked Tez to produce and mix it for us, which he did in his always expert fashion. 
  This is our latest song of which Carl is the author. He's been making music with us for the past half a year now, and we can't get enough of his abundant creativity. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.
  Also, Carl had this to say about his lyrics, "Labels and putting each other in a particular box is causing big problems on the planet. The song's meaning is born from trying to take labels out of our lessons. In a polarized world, the song pines how we will likely learn lessons properly if we leave ego out of what we are trying to learn. Maybe our art has more relevance for future generations if we do that instead of bolting it to the current people or ideas causing us problems."
Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

Let's play cards
You lying runt
Word poker perfect
A joker to hunt
Motor makeup mouth
Dadless brain itched
Orange sith can shout
Cycle of old child bewitched

Leave out the names
Remove their power
Lessons find refrain
Fake turned to flower

All liars die
'As honest tongue
Dinnseanchas signs our true right and wrong
Transmutation
Time understood
Truth trump card for hate
More blossomed love

Leave out the names
Teach tomorrow's hour
Lessons find refrain
Pure honest power

Lies from power
Carry hidden agenda
Justice can save us from these malady members
Unless they break our sacred norms
They've changed the game with iron fisted porn

Leave out the names
Control our stream
Lessons mute ego
Brutes turn to dream

The system protects us from crazy one
One system collective
Agreement by sum
Normals described
Standards of power
Transmutation of evil
Never named gives real flower

Let's label our love
Let's teach that today
Let lessons of dove
Show us our way

Leave out the names
Remove their power
Lessons find refrain
Fake turned to flower

Leave out the names
Teach tomorrow hour
Lessons find refrain
Pure honest power

Leave Out The Names-Eclectic Collective-ft The Beautiful Dark

words by Pierre Louÿs, adapted by Assurbanipal Babilla
live performance, Joe's Pub, 14 Feb 2005
Eve Beglarian and Kamala Sankaram, vocals
Margaret Lancaster, flute

Yesterday (from The Story of B)

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