Semi-blind

Waner

Timekeeper

Ought

Strassnaps

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29.10 Stutter

From "Cusp" out on Crash Symbols, 2020

Listen full/buy: https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/cusp

Mastered by t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 / Virtual Dream Plaza

Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsNA-GQotk

Cusp

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The Queer That Is The Night

From "Cusp" out on Crash Symbols, 2020.

Listen full/buy: https://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/cusp

Mastered by t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 / Virtual Dream Plaza


Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWP2wEwt4pU

Itch Itch

Wishful Hearing, Learning, Yearning

2019 marks a decade from the release of my forever-favourite song.

Scarlet Fields (the Horrors)

Dayblankets

If I Were (Vashti Bunyan)

You are not a special viewer, you. 
Eyes set on items make them not yours,
make them not special-er.
Your onlook gives nothing,
views do not cease to excist.


You are not a special viewer, you.
Your eyesight ain’t better than no-sight;
your gaze won’t burn or melt.

A spectatorship of no benefits;
in the seen, nor the see-er.




		I heard some stories of inaction,
		I heard some things that someone saw.
		Far away and from some distance;
		of no help,
		could not help,
		no.
	




You are not a special viewer, you.
The many stories since retold,
the moments of awayness;
closelessness, out of hold.


Leaving with some knowledge,
one wouldn’t dare to tell.
Living with the knowledge
you didn’t dare to tell.




Un-dare do;
the un-done dare.

			Un-dare do;
			the un-done dare.

Un-dare do;
the un-done dare.


			Un-dare do;
			the un-done dare.

Teach me the craft of
seeing through people,
and looking away;
I was once never gazed.


I’m bad sight reader,
in trouble with paper.
A lousy fortune teller,
reading playing-cards as games.




Can you kick an empty sack? I wonder?
I always wondered, my head of hay.


			That head in the clouds,
			and the nose on the ground.



A ripped thread and seam
placed on the un-bruise
or the other way around.




How hasn’t my writing bettered itself?
‘supposed to grow in skill
the more I have an awful time?
Or lawful time, is that it?
By law, nothing that is, is being harmful or harmed.


The things you own
are the same exact items
that someone envies you for.
Lacks are to be read out
and laughed at.
Presence forced to be unseen.

Prima Vista EP

Prima Vista

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Memento

What is this self-urgency, 
what's the weight on self reflection?

what's always great is the banality of things; 

Shadow half see-through.


And you're standing there with nothing to say,
or perhaps you are just feasting on your tongue.
A sticky mute mouth.
A sickly mute mouth.


A waste of bulging emotion,
another gaslighting uncaught;
with those self-made customs,
the eyes are only blue-eye closed
		pink-eye closed
a whole worldful of swollen eyelids.



And you won't say a thing
just chew on your tongue
with open palms.
closed lies

Chewer

Number One Thought (lyrics by sopoKash)

Idioteque (Radiohead cover)

You've been expecting all to be the same (impro session)

Out of Time (Blur cover)

Recorded in Frankfurt am Main, 2020. 
Original by Modest Mouse from "This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About" (1996).

Available on the compilation "Dayblankets": https://man-rei.bandcamp.com/album/dayblankets-covers-2017-2020

Dayblankets (covers 2017-2020)

Dramamine (Modest Mouse cover)

Shore

Shore (Fleet Foxes cover)

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Man Rei

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