February 14 (home demo)

Rashed Arafat - vocals, guitar, bass
Alex Craig - cello
Ian Rose - drums

recorded @ Vista Point Recording in Pittsboro, NC with Mike Nicholson

mixed by Rashed Arafat, Leites Chiong, and Mike Nicholson 

LYRICS:

The halls into which I'd flow,
With wooden floor
Enthralled, you raise your thin eyebrows,
By lovers not as poor

Try and try my best to not reveal
How I keel
When I recall this curse
So few can feel...

"Inside me I feel alone, and unreal..."

Would you decide with hands swollen and tied
With woolen sighs?
Maybe revise the script, so you might cry
Another line?

Neither aboard, I'm nor weed in the sea --
I cling vigilantly
To your long pauses,
My reverie

No Reflection (unmastered)

Rashed Arafat - vocals, guitar
Recorded by Leites Chiong
Mixed by Rashed Arafat

LYRICS:
Blow-out, strike, so you might flay
These unknown spies with wedding rings.
Flaccid smile, and a weighted stare --
An inch off the mark, and you must care.
Throwing out files don't ease the pain...

You don't need a fire --
It's warm and a free beer
Can't cease to feel a spire
Through "I'm stuck -- you can't steer"
Why I stay poised to... why I stay poised to hear
A mote you swipe off dyed hair?

Step outside, and block her estate
Floorboards creak, oh, hence I skate
Longing greyed, see roles I played
Body's your grave, with the heart in a cage

Wood Stove Blues (creekside solo demo)

Rashed Arafat - vocals, guitar, bass, "jingle bells"
Alex Craig - cello
Ian Rose - drums

recorded @ Vista Point Recording in Pittsboro, NC with Mike Nicholson

mixed by Rashed Arafat, Mike Nicholson, and Leites Chiong

LYRICS:

There was an only one
Who held a flame so bright, I've run
Down the reaped fields
We saw standing peeled

The mask she wore, well,
I removed mine --
With eye-slits too thin for wide-eyed
Trust in her brave
Words to enslave...

Once you're even in the slightest sick,
You're alright.
Throughout three summers you've climbed
The heights of Mount Sinai

The man you were,
Reaching through much grime,
To touch the same in her as you'd find
Within the heartbeat
Of every sowed field

Please say,
Why capture something
That you won't slay?

"You got away, did you not babe?"
Would you not stray?
Am I braving the cold winds,
A slave to my brain? 

I must say,
Why capture something that
You would never slay?

"You got away, did you not babe?"
Would you not stray?
Am I braving the cold winds,
A slave to my brain?

I'm insane

Field Visitation (unmastered)

Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley cover)

This track is by Shadow Play, the former brainchild of Rashed, the mastermind behind Harlem Insect Laws.

Reverie (studio demo) - SHADOW PLAY

Another SHADOW PLAY track, with a different line-up featuring Leites Chion on bass (and production), and Thomas Whitmire on drums.

The Weight (studio demo) - SHADOW PLAY

Psychedelic art-rock informed by the blues.

Harlem Insect Laws

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