"In the Light" by Fragile Gods

Lyrics:

These are the days 
Of broken promises 
Talking so fast 
But nothing makes sense 

These are the days 
Of lost connections
Living on islands
With bridges burned

These are the days
Of falling slowly
Trying to hold on
But going down

These are the days
Of repetition
Where every day
Is just the same

In the Light 
You are standing 
Glowing gently
Moving slowly


These are the days
Of pointless drudgery
Working so hard
But nothing achieved

These are the days
Of false prophets
Pushing superstitions 
And crooked schemes    

These are the days 
Of wildfires 
Polluting the air that we breathe

These are the days
Without a future
Heading straight towards catastrophe

In the Light 
You are standing 
Glowing gently
Moving slowly

Scraping back the layers
Peeling back the years
Nothing else remains
Except for my fears

I don’t know you
But I need you
Where are you?
Where are you?

In the Light 
You are standing 
Glowing gently
Moving slowly

In the Light

This piece has been made by slowing down a violin looping played by @stellato-strings and the background chat by her, me and @kate-gallaher. It's the response to this week's @naviar-records haiku challenge, here's the details on that:

'in pre-dawn darkness
the avant-garde soundtrack
of orchestral rainfall'

Elliot Carson is a teacher living in Japan who doubles as an artist/designer/translator in his free time. He writes haiku under the pen name EKC and is currently working to self-publish his first book of haiku.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
 
Deadline: 18th October 2023

Haiku by Elliot Carson https://www.instagram.com/i.write.haiku/

Small section of the picture used here is by Lazarescu Alexandra https://unsplash.com/photos/vRiylUiR6ew

Dawn Dark (naviarhaiku510)

Gargoyle’s Quest レッドアリーマー 魔界村外伝 Short Stage 耳コピー (Korg Gadget Remix)

Israel propaganda looks like a music video featuring children singing "we will annihilate everyone" in Gaza.

Palestine propaganda looks like an endless stream of raw video footage featuring children whose bodies have been ripped apart by Israeli military explosives.

Israel propaganda looks like a music video of Israeli women doing yoga on top of images of the Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Palestine propaganda looks like satellite images of entire neighborhoods that have been bombed into rubble by Israeli forces.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Propaganda Vs Palestine Propaganda

Naviar Haiku 515

Last bloom before autumn
Stares back at me with a smile
My younger brother

John Wright is a drummer, producer, and regular participant in our music challenge. A few weeks ago, John participated in our latest haiku workshop on Discord, and here’s one of the poems he wrote recently.

To participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Haiku by: John Wright  https://soundcloud.com/thgirwnhoj

Picture by: Katerina Kerdi https://unsplash.com/photos/silhouette-photograph-of-forest–YiJvbfNDqk

The Last Bloom

The Last Bloom (NaviarHaiku515)

A friend of mine shared my article about how the Biden administration is worried the pause in fighting will allow journalists into Gaza to show Israel's crimes to the world, saying he knows he shouldn't be surprised by how evil these freaks are but somehow he still is.

I told him I actually consciously cultivate the ability to stay surprised by such things. If you stop being surprised when you see the world's most powerful people always finding new and innovative ways to make the world a worse place for ordinary human beings, it means it's become normalized in your system in some way. It means that on top of all the other horrible evils they've inflicted upon our world, they've also managed to steal an important part of your humanity.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Never Stop Being Shocked By The Depravity Of The Empire

This week’s podcast features music made by Naviar’s community inspired by
Marco Alessi’s poem “Endless echo / footsteps on an empty house / once full of life”

Tracklist:

Audio Obscura - Echo Footsteps
noksidam - Empty House Once Full Of Life
Marco Lucchi - Once full of life (with Night Note)
Nadìr - Forgotten Games
Thoribass - Endless Echo

https://www.naviarrecords.com/2023/10/25/naviarhaiku512-endless-echo/

Credits:

music intro: “This ruined house” by Tuonela
voice intro: Ian Joyce
cover image: Peter Herrmann
voice reciting the poem: Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Naviar Broadcast is a radio programme curated by Naviar, broadcasted on Resonance Extra every Wednesday at 7pm UK time. Thirty minutes of experimental music made in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem.
To have your music featured on the show, you'll have to participate in the Haiku music challenge: https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku
support the show: https://www.naviarrecords.com/support-us/

Naviar Broadcast #292 – Endless echo – Wednesday 8th November 2023

Sometimes Israel's crimes are so horrific that at first you don't even understand what you're looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you're seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's Savagery Is So Shocking It's Sometimes Hard To Take In

I came across an interesting quote made last month by a retired Israeli major general named Yitzhak Brick about the ongoing IDF assault on Gaza.

"All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it's all from the U.S.," Brick said. "The minute they turn off the tap, you can't keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can't fight this war without the United States. Period."

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Horrors In Gaza Are Happening Because The US Empire Wants Them To Happen

But for all the efforts to spin, justify and distract from the mass atrocity Israel and its allies are perpetrating in Gaza, more and more people are opening their eyes to what's happening, and are ceasing to fall for the propaganda any longer.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Only Truth And Clear Seeing Can Lead Us To Peace And Harmony

Sample Challenge #328 Instrumental (BPM 84.00)

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.