music and lyrics by Arianna and Sundog

there are enough flowers in the drain to fill the water to the Great Bridge
where love twists its way into loose souls
where friends grow old, and glowing bones find holes

there's a girl swimming in murky metaphors
fixing the breaks in the eternal canal
sentimental sediment is obstructing paths of travel
Lag gets swamped and calls to Flo, "where do we go now?"

Ever Given to lost direction
Lags in time, a weak connection
but Flo always helps her through
by thought streams, thread, or a tiny canoe
Eternal Flow, Lag and Flo
2 kids riding on the silt road

what can she do in a tiny canoe?

if by thread...

Lag + Flo ~'+'~

"Dark Inez" is revisited.
The original appeared on "Dolores Starport" (2012) by Heaven's Gators/Bella Bacchae.
Lyrics are written by Arianna Sykes but for one line *translated from the Biblical Book of Wisdom, originally read by Monica Obezo, who partially inspired the 2012 song.
The base of this version is "ohmbeeaunt," recorded by Sundog on the "Opal" (OP-1) and other synths in 2021 in Tucson, AZ.
lyrics
when time changes into dark eyes for our coming demise
I just want to get lost somewhere beautiful

something squirmed inside me
not a soul moving with the wind
would be ancestor deity, or traveling friend
IS SHE STILL ALIVE?

I just want to get lost somewhere beautiful
beautiful, Dark Inez
And the whirl of desire transforms the innocent mind*

somewhere beautiful
like the phoenix, from the ashes
crosses her heart, and fades into sunlight
credits
from If by thread​.​.​.
op-1 synth - Sundog
Oscilab synth, beat, etherpad, Qbrd - Arianna
vocals (including po-speak) - Arianna and Sundog

Dark Inez, the Subtle one

Some things are better left behind, including bones, attachments to loved ones and items who no longer help us, and in some cases, the body itself. "Adoremus in aeternum/omne corpus fugiendum" (let us forever adore detaching from the whole body) - a crude variation on a traditional Catholic prayer.
Some lives are so broken that one may find peace upon leaving that life and its body. RIP Monica Obezo, a former bandmate, featured here in a vocal part.

lyrics are fragmental. "Blistered Lotus" is also in "Mushroom Mortuary" from this album.
lyrics
some things are better left behind...
and so she found the pandrogyne goat god

(blistered lotus)
the soul lies above the body

they cut out the heart, put them in bags to keep them fresh
and hid their bones inside a church
(blistered)
amor eterno...
your love
dig deeper
i'll be holding my breath
19th century archaeologists who were collecting human remains and human skulls to use for ceremonial purposes
(blistered lotus) .. in the oasis...
some things are better left behind..
.
Adoremus in aeternum
omne corpus fugiendum
the soul lies above the body

Adoremus in aeternum
omne corpus fugiendum
some things are better left behind
blistered lotus
amor eterno...
some things
in the oasis
credits
from If by thread​.​.​.
po speak, efdrone, samples, sounds - Arianna and Sundog
guitar, harmonium - Arianna
vocals - Arianna and Monica Obezo

the image shows a section of Arianna's altar with a memorial to Monica, Arianna as Persephone, a costume from Tucson's All Souls Procession, and the bones of Padre Kino in Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico (all photos and poetry by Arianna)

Blistered Eternal Love Lies Above (B.E.L.L.A.)

recorded in North Carolina, late December 2021, for a soundtrack to a journey into the lowland woods
synths and vocals - Arianna / Starriari
sounds - Sundog
"sunlight in a brown forest"

sunlight in a brown forest

ambient music distance collaboration with Arianna and Sundog, January 2022
'sic iter ad astra' translates to "so we journey to the stars" 
synths - Arianna, Sundog
vocals- Arianna
guitar - Arianna

english lyrics (at ~3:00)
"i desire to see a sky full of stars
and climb a mountain until i run out of breath
so water will drip to the valley"

photo by Sundog

SIC blIsTER ad ASTRA

a song about the dark goddess (especially the "crone" and "shadow" aspects) and Her place in the Appalachian mountains and the developed world in the current era

Recorded by Arianna in October 2018 at 4 pines hostel, Catawba, VA. Arianna plays guitar, banjo, samples, synth, and vocals
Rose Dearing adds viola and vocals from the Lehigh Valley, PA 
The song was composed at 4 Pines, Fancy Gap, VA, and at Raleigh, NC as the final  track for "no gap deep enough"

photo by OldSchoolHippie at 4 Pines Hostel, Catawba, VA, 2018

No Gap Deep Enough

Crossroads Lady

Crossroads Lady (2021 mix)

Key of D#
inspired by supplement websites and ads, especially those including vitamin D (the sunlight vitamin)
but also an experience to build energy together
Sundog plays Opal synth (the base) + made the song art image of a "dialated sun"
lyrics:
there's a supplement for you
it's time to reclaim your energy
modulate the D
swap cells
a wonderful tool to increase the blood flow
fermented for better absorption
a potent blend
modulate the D
take it
swap cells


sun dial-ated
your body is a temple 
your skin will glow
modulate the D, swap cells
your body is a temple
feel good again
it's time to reclaim your energy
feel good again

Supplements for modulation

Vitamin D# (+ Sundog)

From the upcoming song set, to be released fall 2023
Beats - Sundog / Vocals, PO synth, samples and effects - Starri Ari
Contains samples from "Machinettes" from "Sea Floor Spreading" by Teravioles (2003) including guitar by Ari and vocal by Adeeba Lodhi (approved)

some lyrics - 
tripping on objects in mirrors
looking at a face that disappears
painted faces walk behind that make me laugh and sometimes cry
blue drips from a governor's eye.. it's a drag
got a call from the NRA, they didn't have anything to say
but in wonderland it was doomsday
we just want to stay alive 
our bodies are bombs..
our bodies, our bombs

Bombless (with Sundog and Machinettes)

2023 remake/remodel of the Teravioles song "Any Minute Now" from "Sea Floor Spreading" (2003) with new lyrics and ambient recordings from the 2 tunnels (in the song of that title)

sweet summer rain comes into my lane
as we ride across the porous, the chorus absorbs us...
...so we can make a rainbow on the outro

vocals by Arianna

it's a piece of the upcoming song set revisiting "Tetraviolets"

The Porous Chorus (summer rain) (with Sundog)

This is the "pocket" remix of "Two Tunnels"  - the opening song on the "Tetraviolets" 2023 album - using the KO pocket operator synth and the water drops, vocals and ambience from the tunnels in California and Virginia. Sundog and Ari sing in each as if calling back and forth. Vocals from "My Spirit Haunts these Woods" (and therefore No Gap Deep Enough (2018) are also used here)
#tunnelmusic

Tetraviolets 

Two Tunnels (Pocket Remix)

It starts at an old rickety train crossing and goes deep into the woods, wet from recent rains the mushrooms grow in chorus...
interlude based on the spiritual folk song "Wayfaring Stranger" featuring Rose Dearing on viola. Arianna plays guitar and synth.
Train sounds are from Duncannon, PA and Nashville, TN and crickets are from Mills River, NC.
Rose's music: www.decemberlunamusic.com

Way of the faerie ring strangers, feat. Rose Dearing

Found Objects formed in Atlanta, GA in 2007 as an open band but mainly between Arianna and Melissa Lonely. After a long break, Arianna's project lives on with a new generation of "objects" but is always experimental, raw, and nomadic. Also check out my jewelry shop - see my links.

Found Objects of Desire

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