All My Time Is Wasted

Bangkok Balter Club

Softly Spoken

Golden Hour

Young Man

Glue

Kite War

Do Nothing

Cathy

The Pit and the Dust (Dub Interlude)

Cultural Identity Adaptation. Examines how personas vary across cultures, revealing identity's fluid yet persistent nature across diverse social environments. From my upcoming book "Breakfast with Jung" - Chapter 4: The Persona.

MASKS of the WORLD

In New York's glass canyons
I wear ambition like a tailored Armani
My voice a razor-edged saxophone
Cutting through Manhattan's vertical dreams
Some nights, loneliness echoes between towers

Tokyo wraps me in layers of keigo
Each bow origami-precise, perfectly timed
In subway silence, I fold myself smaller
Until my Western edges disappear
Still, my laughter sometimes breaks protocol

Lagos embraces me in Ankara rhythms
Air thick with diesel dreams and palm oil
Here, even silence speaks in proverbs
While my tongue learns to dance between
English proper and pidgin truth

In Delhi's ancient-modern maze
I dissolve into family's warm ghee
Where "I" means "we" means centuries
Of aunties measuring love in chapati
Yet sometimes solitude calls like a copper temple bell

Melbourne catches me between hemispheres
Part London formal, part Pacific ease
Here, my persona sports board shorts and thongs
With theoretically infinite irony
While belonging slips through gum-tree shadows

In Māori marae, I learn to wait
My Western rush dissolved in ritual
Pōwhiri protocols reshape my edges
Until I know my place in the spiral
Though my bones still hold foreign rhythms

Each culture's mask fits differently
Some loose as silk, some tight as fate
All me, none me entirely, these faces
I gather at identity's bazaar
Each one teaching me how to be strange

Masks of the World

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Kate Bollinger - Vocals, Guitar
Chris Lewis - Lead Guitar
Jacob Grissom - Drums
Jimmy Trussell - Bass
John Trainum - Keys
 
Written by Kate Bollinger  
Produced by John Trainum and Jacob Grissom
Mixed by John Trainum
Recorded by Jonathan Corey at White Star Sound
Mastered by Joey Messina-Doerning
Artwork by Lorena Rivega
 
Lyrics:
Je ne pense pas
Je ne suis pas certain 
Je ne sais pas, je ne suis pas sûr
 
Que quand tu pars
Je resterai dans ton coeur 
Oh tell me I will stay
 
Quand tu vas
J'espère que nous resterons toujour en contact
Je penserai toujour à toi
Je rêverai toujour à toi

I Don't Wanna Lose

Je Rêverai à Toi

Do Nothing

혁오 (HYUKOH)