Really like the lyrics (I think that in many ways we are a lot like ants) and cool chord progressions and production.

You are highly inventive, very few impress me to the extent your creativity does!

It is amazing how dense your sonic constructions are yet the mixes are always perfect and everything is clear. Technically impressive production. Another great track.

This is really cool and well made! The sound of this track reminds me of Army Dreamers by Kate Bush, this comparison should be taken as a compliment! Very nice!

they eat your legs first

Floating

While we wait for BARDS: Of The Shimmering Seraphs to finish physical production, in the meantime we are forging ahead with a new crop of songs for the next album. The next album will serve as a continuation of the oracle deck concept, featuring songs about "objects" - the first of which be this little song about the magical horn of the elusive and beautiful Aardvark Girl. It is also about a recently discovered strange dwarf planet at the farthest reaches of our solar system.

Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà  was discovered on 19 Oct 2007 at the Palomar observatory in California, at 9:09 UT. Gkunhomdima is a member of the extended scattered disc and is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Its orbit is inclined 23° off the ecliptic and is quite elliptical. It was knocked out of a normal orbit early in the history of the solar system, probably as Neptune migrated outward to its current position, which gives the high  inclination of Gkunhomdima’s orbit. However, there is no known orbital resonance with any other planetary body, except for its binary companion. Its ‘moon’, or secondary is called G!o’e !Hu (pronounced GOH ay KOO). Goeku means ‘horn’, or Oryx horn. And that takes us to a bit of mythology.

Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà is also the Beautiful Aardvark Girl of Juǀʼhoan mythology, who sometimes appears in the stories of other San peoples as a python girl or elephant girl; she defends her people and punishes wrongdoers using gǁámígǁàmì spines [devil’s thorn plant], a rain-cloud full of hail, and her magical oryx horn.

Drums and percussion, keyboards, backup vocals: R Thomas
Guitars, Mandolin, Melodica, Bass, Lead vocals, backup vocals: PS Perkins

LYRICS:
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Aardvark girl, come trumpet your horn
Bellow your clarion call
Summon your dark and impenetrable cloud
And let your hailstones fall

Are we just ants crawling around on the ground
Are we just termites in a crumbling mound

Scatter the poisoned thorns in their lane
May they tread upon those in their path
The stinging in their feet shall remind them
They’ll be dead before their next bath

Aardvark girl burrow down in your den
The night will be ending soon
The Oryx are gathered at the watering hole
And your face is in the moon

Are we just ants crawling around on the ground
Are we just termites in a crumbling mound
We are just ants crawling around on the ground
We are just termites in a crumbling mound

The Oryx of the Aardvark Girl

Played Myself To Sleep

Inspired by seven weeks of constant rain
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Speaking in Dreams

Today's Lamentations

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The ether is on the other side

Dark Continent is the last of the tracks from my world percussion album "Skin & Wisdom" to be posted on Soundcloud.
The final destination of this global drum journey is Africa.
Thank you to all that have liked, commented, and reposted any these tracks from the album. This was a joy to create, and I hope these tracks have given you a sense of adventure and worldly travels.

Now that I have released 2 full albums of world percussion, it will be a LONG TIME before I return to this genre. 

https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/skin-wisdom
https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/vibrations-empowered-within

Always more explorations and different moods of sound to come!

Skin & Wisdom album

Mood Exhibit - Dark Continent

The Beatles were a profound influence on so many of us that grew up during the 60’s, musically, culturally and emotionally. The frenzy they stirred while somehow mostly evoking a certain playful joy will never cease to touch my memories of growing up with hope and enthusiasm. This song covers one of their beautiful old-school ballads, written by John Lennon, and providing a bit of a contrast to their signature rocking hits. It was released in 1963 as a single that ended up on their 1964 album, “Meet The Beatles”. I’ve always loved how it pulled together a bit of the 50’s slow-dance beauty with John’s emotive vocal delivery and the groups tight harmonies and overall Beatles vibe. Happily, Nat was glad to give this cover a go as we revved it up with a somewhat country-bluegrass feel while trying to hold onto some of that Fab 4 charm.

Craig Durgy: vocals & guitars 
Nat Daniels: vocals, organ, dobro/synth, bass, percussion
Mixed & produced by Nat Daniels / Gentle Rain Records

Deja Views

This Boy

This Boy (Beatles cover)

Alien loves Echoes

Orchestral Moves

6. VampnB 2 interlude! (only one way!) [prod. by kenny302]

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Please consider supporting our project and helping us complete the work. We make books and cds that go with them. We also have a graphic novel and a custom oracle deck in the works. All part of the story.

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