Beijo Café

Beijo Café

Creep (secret soundcheck recording)

06 Almost Time

7. - UN INVIERNO MAS RAYMUNDO AVILA CORZO

Milieu

Die Nachteile

Road Warriors

CHIEU TREN PHA TAM GIANG - master.wav

stick around

L'hiver à Loconville évoque un fait divers qui rappelle que se fier aux apparences n'est pas judicieux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkQr4eJFvA0

L'hiver à Loconville

“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. 
Website: https://www.tomeofstars.net/

In the classical margam of bharatanatyam, the varnam is the recital’s centerpiece, its longest and most emotionally charged performance. In “Tome of Stars“, the varnam appears as the twenty-nine-poem section “Senescence”. Following the exaltation of Anthesis, the beloved as a celestial goddess, love now descends from the stars into the gravity of human frailty. 

This sonnet laments the unique intimacy once shared between the speaker and his beloved, embodied most poignantly in her smile, and the profound pain of its loss. Through a blend of memory, metaphor, and cosmological imagery, the poem contrasts the radiant power of her presence during their time together with the barren desolation of estrangement that followed. It explores the agony of witnessing something once sacred and intimately directed toward him now given freely to a world that neither reveres nor appreciates it.

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Lyrics

Deep scholars’ shafts—we met entombed that day,
Her amethyst shirt, sultry and divine.
She lit the underground, a grinning fey,
Transforming shadowed corners with starshine.

Resplendent photo, treasured and embraced,
She blessed the garden; fertile flowers formed.
Her beam, the bloom that granted day its grace—
Creative glance, a galaxy newborn.

And now she gleams for all the world’s blind eyes:
In shops, on streets, her sun each stranger’s gains.
And I, her light in vain would memorize—
A goddess ghost whose visage ever wanes.

Unseeing swarms, a star you’re blessed to see,
Ne’er blinding more as when it shone for me.

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Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
https://archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: https://archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: https://archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: https://archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: https://archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

Smile

Bel my as hulle lyke sink hier in die hawe
Lees die nuus, kyk hoe die hoofopskrifte rou
Dalk vergeet ons waar ons in die water geval het
Waar woestyne groei as die oseane vou

Maak die oggend smaak na metaal, ’n dowwe sein
Honger voel soos die eenvoud wat verlig
Oorstroom my soos die oewers, voer my heen
Begrawe my onder jou gewig
O, begrawe my onder jou gewig

Ek word wakker in ’n kring van oë wat na my kyk
Naalde raak ’n wentelbaan om my vel
Hulle fluister deur die wrakke, tel al die nagevolge
Sê hulle weet, en dis ook al wat hulle my vertel
So oorstroom my soos die oewers, maal my stil tot niks nie
Was die merke af en loop my weg van hel
O, loop my weg van hel

Snikke val tot die grond, standbeelde by die bed se rand
Ek keer my hande, maar dit verbrokkel tot sand
Elke gesig word ’n monument van verlange
Elke asem ’n terugwysende gebed
O, elke asem ’n terugwysende gebed

Ek word wakker in ’n kring van oë wat na my kyk
Naalde raak ’n wentelbaan om my vel
Hulle fluister deur die wrakke, tel al die nagevolge
Sê hulle weet, en dis ook al wat hulle my vertel
So oorstroom my soos die oewers, maal my stil tot niks nie
Was die merke af en loop my weg van hel
O, loop my weg van hel

Moet my nie aanraak nie, moet my nie laat ontwaak nie
Laat die stilte my afdra
Moet my nie aanraak nie, moet my nie laat ontwaak nie
Ek het jou alreeds genoeg gepla

Bel my as hulle lyke sink hier in die hawe
Lees die nuus, kyk hoe die hoofopskrifte rou
Dalk vergeet ons waar ons eers in die water geval het
Waar woestyne groei as die oseane vou

Die Hawe

Described in print as “an ataxic Jeff Lynne with a mellotron,” “Nebraska's answer to Alan Parsons,” and “Ian Aiello.” 

Credited on over 500 releases.

Pro Tools for recording, Studio One for editing and mixing. 

Choice credits: Saddle Creek Records, Sony Latin, Lennon MX, Domino Records, NBC, HBO, Warner Brothers, NRG Media, and whatever Rilo Kiley’s label was called before it folded. There are others of course but this already feels a little gaudy. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this. 

Contact at: ianaeillo@gmail.com.

Creep (secret soundcheck recording)

Ian Anthony Aeillo

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