"Declaration of Human Independence"
Your persecution has leant a meaning to my movements that I would never have otherwise attained, for your stagnant strictures taught me my own lack of limit, and my feet now fall with the weight of destiny, my words welling in the heart of man like a spring of truth whose virtue is terrible to behold...
Your condemnation has taught me forgiveness... for only in your third degree did I glimpse the first impression of my second chance. So let my tears now be as diamonds in the light, for in your blinds of darkness did I learn to hear, and in your deafened muting did I learn to see...Surely I have grown strong in all the place you have broken me...
Your oppression has made me free... for your hatred has burned away all false friendship and standing all alone did I find true love, glowing in the lonely flames like iron forged in fire...you shall NEVER break it...
I call your sadism weakness, and this weakness did teach me true strength, for through the hurting did I learn endurance, through the pain did I come to know resilience: the path of patience...long have I walked it...
...until my hope grew greater than your fear, for its faith is forever and your fright a flickering phantasm...until my generosity grew greater than your greed, for this poverty has taught me the true wealth, and its seed was planted in me by the saints and seers and poets and prophets, then fertilized by their blood which you have spilled for so long....
You have no one but yourself to blame for what is about to happen...
For the noon-tide of the new man will overflow the dam you have set and flood your tepid garden of weeds...
..the past has passed...I come bearing the present of the present...


"Sol-Etude"

Whose helping me harness my faith to my doubt?
 Solitude my sufferance, my drawn draught of drought,
 here hidden I'm bidden stay within without,
 for hither I wither, with her my devout,

Solitude my succor, my dew dappled dawn,
 with all the draws blind, and with all the blinds drawn,
 here winsome I lose some, for no one will knock,
 on doors of rapport that I can't help but lock,

Abridged on a bridge of my purest intention,
 paining abstaining in absent abstention.
 when I reach for my true love, they call it dementia,
 and terse is the curse as I'm hung in absentia,

Solitude my sweet, she will never betray me,
 a loan all alone, she'll be-nighting me daily, 
 and she will never leave me, I will always be lonely,
 my whisper well wailing an ailing if only,

If only I looked in the mirror without seeing,
 mechanically separated human being.
 if only my creed wasn't always decreeing,
 my yes and my know forever disagreeing,

Solitude my sweet, she sings me to sleeping,
 for her it is sure I won't give way my keeping,
 my footfall is felled upon quelled living water,
 my sweet isolation, so glad that I've got her,

My sweet Ice-elation, so cold are the crypts,
 of this solar eclipse, ellipsed twixt her lips,
 where I shiver me down, haunting silence with sound
 precision of vision, by beauty I'm bound,

For my love is a lawless perfection enfolded,
 and the ideal is flawless, but I can't seem to hold it,
 when I try to embrace it, it circles my square,
 "Be ye breathless and deathless and lighter than air?"

"Just how long is your longing? how low is your lonely?
 would you be long in belonging, if you owned your if only?
 does the weight of your waiting incense you incessant?
 for your past it has passed, yet your present's not present"

Her words were welling up in venerate violence,
 that spoke and then spoke till those spokes wheeled a silence,
 a silence endowed in a lauding so loud
 I did plead 'neath the need of the oath I had vowed",

"Well..."

"I have thought with my heart, I have seen with my mind,
 I have turned blank pages to benefit the blind,
 a moot muted song to the deaf did I croon,
 as I ran through the land of the bland noon-tide moon"

"I've had smoke on my mirror, I have swallowed my sword
 and I'm light as a feather and stiff as a board",
 I've not lain with the lyins... I've not gone on the lamb,
 as-in-nine I have been exactly who I am"

"a black circle of salt was wound into my wound"
 and my orchid was orced, and my sun it was mooned,
 and my breath it was baited till my death was assured,
 and not once did this dunce ever slur the pure word"

... Breathe...

Pill Grimmage

minko@minkomusic.com
www.minko.bandcamp.com
www.minkomusic.com

Minko is a singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Cornwall. In her garret by the sea, surrounded by a plethora of acoustic instruments, she vanishes for periods of time and writes and records. Her haunting melodies and weaving bass lines wind themselves around peeling glockenspiels, ukuleles, flutes, and subtle rumba rhythms. All tied together with Minko's distinctive voice.  All with a low-fi recording sensibility that harks back to bands such as The Young Marble Giants. 

Before this she had a period of producing electronic tunes, including some remixes for Rephlex artist Global Goon. But she decided to leave behind the samplers and synthesisers, move to Cornwall, and immerse herself in an acoustic sound; rewinding to core childhood influences – French pop, post punk, 1960s psych folk.

Minko also still works periodically with Rephlex/Planet Mu artist Global Goon, recently providing vocals for his avant grade brain dance albums Quonk and Plastic Orchestra.

“This is a lovely jewel of an EP from beginning to end. Minko has clearly soaked up her surroundings, and knows how to pour them back into her music..
“For Folk’s Sake review of ‘Songs 1-4 Sybil of Delphi’.

“Minko is obsessed with “amalgamating sounds”, setting a clear, insouciant voice against cool, softly-layered backdrops of multiple instruments.. and her arrangements show a subtle experimental bent reminiscent of Julia Holter, Gainsbourg and Andrew Bird.”
For Folk’s Sake, New Bands Panel.

“With her captivating voice and obvious skill at combining instruments to compliment her desired theme, Minko has brought us a mesmerising record.”
Aurally Yours on ‘Songs 5-8 Creature’.

“‘Songs 1-4 Sybil of Delphi’ – a beautiful thing it is for Minko blends French chanteuse pop through a myriad of dream woven soft psych centred folk mirages, wistfully pastoral and lightly crushed with a becoming sensitivity that’s lilts with a distinctly alluring faraway framing which to these ears at least fixes like a spectral Serge meets Komeda cutie.”
Mark Barton, God is in the TV (former editor of the legendary ‘Losing Today’).

“Minko’s music draws its inspiration from a diversity of musical idioms but it is unique in the way it always finds the gaps between the genres, constantly steering off the grid.”  Nick Duffy (The The Lilac Time).


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Hello, just to let you know my house is covered in dust, but I am feeling GOOD.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzD8J4RcyrM&list=PLb-u1b__8kVS9GQDs6kS5ZgPRMiavVD9q&index=14

Scottish Loaf - Dream of the Blue Prince - just released on Submarine Broadcasting Company - free to play or money goes to MIND - https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/scottish-loaf-dream-of-the-blue-prince
I've got a toon on this!  https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bivouac-of-the-avant-garde-contemporary-minimal-electronic-and-experimental-music-vol-2
Bandcamp - download albums pay what you want - https://declanrandulphowen.bandcamp.com/
Say hello on Twitter - @DeclanROwen
YouTube - new video for Blind Jet - https://youtu.be/UzD8J4RcyrM 
Bandcamp - Songs of Loss and Beauty.
https://declanrandulphowen.bandcamp.com/releases

GOATS' 2nd album - FAR OUT: 
https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/far-out
https://submarinebroadcastingco.bandcamp.com/album/goats
Soul Farmer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcxtws8OARs&list=PLb-u1b__8kVS9GQDs6kS5ZgPRMiavVD9q&index=2
Brewing Up a Storm - Jamming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-z4r7KRxQ&index=1&list=PLb-u1b__8kVS9GQDs6kS5ZgPRMiavVD9q
Sweetheart -the trippy video - https://youtu.be/-sMiB5PXJC0
Vitality - the moving picture - https://youtu.be/LF_bzfAQGvw

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