The way the track builds up and how the voices and instruments interact with each other is really very exciting. Intense atmosphere! 🪐

Mesmerizing track. Perfect pacing with gorgeous synth textures. Great vocals too.

I can hear so many different influences…

Paul Amlehn - Text, composition, arrangement, production
Brian Eno and Paul Schmidt - Oblique Strategies
David Lynch - Visual art

Text:

"Run to me
Flee from me
Run to me.

Disconnect from desire
It's hard to hear the lie
When the liar 
Is so beautiful.

You can write
You can write
A thousand years
You can see
You can be
A thousand years
From now
From now.

Sentimental guises
Will come into fashion
Sentimental guises
Will cover their shame.

Run to me
Flee from me
Run to me.

You can write
You can light
A thousand years
You can see
You can be
A thousand years
From now
From now.

You're espying me
You're denying me
You're inside of me
From now
From now."

Run To Me

This is a windlass shanty (Text from "Songs of the American Sailormen" (1924) by Joanna C. Colcord).

The tune is attributed to Liam Milner in the collection "A Bonnie Bunch Of Roses" (1983)
by Dan Milner and Paul Kaplan.

It's a fine example of a work song exposing a bit of social history.

William Tapscott and his brother James were brokers for at least two packet ship companies
and would arrange passage across the Atlantic Ocean from Liverpool to New York.
 
Regrettably, their advertising was often fraudulent and overstated the quality and size of the ships. The poor emigrants were well and truly ripped off. On board the ships, 
the food and accommodation were inferior.

"Clarence Dock" in Liverpool opened in 1830. It received many ferry passengers from Ireland 
during the Potato Famine, when Liverpool Atlantic packet ship sailings were more frequent 
than those from Ireland.

"Waterloo Dock" opened in 1834. It was the major exit point from England for the NY-bound. 

"Castle Garden", in the last verse, refers to Castle Clinton in lower Manhattan (The Battery),
which was the forerunner (until 1892) of Ellis Island for receiving new immigrants to the
United States.

Tapscott

Monolake (Remix)

Rocktober day 17 and track 17.

I had 2 hours to make it and this is my "safe route to finish at least something" 😆
No dreamy tinkling pads and arps and sweetness, but something more energetic!

17 Phase Blossom

- Picture -
Art Cover Editor. Shyntwirl
Colorist Editor. Shyntwirl 
Quality Editor. Shyntwirl
Effects Editor. Shyntwirl
Lightning Editor. Shyntwirl

- Music -
Producer. Shyntwirl
Composer. Shyntwirl
Programmer. Shyntwirl
Structure. Shyntwirl
Developer. Shyntwirl
Synthesizers. Shyntwirl
Reverb. Shyntwirl
Echoes. Shyntwirl
Pads. Shyntwirl
Strings. Shyntwirl
Leads. Shyntwirl
Synths. Shyntwirl
Keyboard. Shyntwirl
Fx. Shyntwirl
Quality Audio. Shyntwirl

PROD. Shyntwirl 

Shyntwirl - Pollination

New Visions

Si l’on doit s’éloigner  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fait là  
Si l’on doit se quitter  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fout là  
Triste ou pas, ne me laisse pas là  
Triste ou pas, ne me laisse pas là  

Jamais sans toi, j’aimais te laisser  
Rien que toi, à moitié vidé  
J’avance d’un pas, petit à petit vers là  
Les larmes coulent et dégoulinent vers le bas  

Si l’on doit s’éloigner  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fait là  
Si l’on doit se quitter  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fout là  
Triste ou pas, ne me laisse pas là  
Triste ou pas, ne me laisse pas là  

Attendre et croire, les traces s’effacent  
Sur mes pas, je suis son chemin  
Petit à petit, on coule vers le bas  
Et tu arrives à temps, le verre à moitié vidé  
J’aimais sans toi, et jamais te laisser  

Si l’on doit s’éloigner  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fait là  
Si l’on doit se quitter  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fout là  
Triste ou pas, ne me laisse pas là  
Triste ou pas, ne me laisse pas là  

Si l’on doit s’éloigner  
Si l’on doit se quitter  

Qu’est-ce qu’on fout là  
On doit s’éloigner  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fait là  
On doit se quitter  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fout là  
On doit s’éloigner  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fait là  

Plus rien sans toi, les souvenirs s’effacent  
Rien que toi, avec le temps qui passe  
Je recule d’un pas, toujours plus loin de toi  
Sers-moi dans les bras, et finis le verre avec moi  
J’aimais sans toi, jamais te laisser  

Si l’on doit s’éloigner  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fait là  
Si l’on doit se quitter  
Qu’est-ce qu’on fout là  
Triste ou pas, ne me laisse pas là  
Triste ou pas, ne me laisse pas là  


Ne me laisse pas là

Ne me laisse pas la

Vocals and Production by "kammanuel"

Please don't touch me, with those soft hands 
of yours of yours of yours
it hurts it hurts it hurts it hurts 
me on the inside
i realize you’re too nice and i paid my price
i know why you’re not mine
im just another person you cant like
i understand 
i felt the same
so i guess im not that guy

i know u hate it when i stare
i show nothing to u 
but u still see behind my glare
that i really love you
(that i love you)
it makes you uncomfortable 
around me
thats the last thing i wanted 
thats the last thing i wanted

Soft Hands

Balloon Licking

Spaghetti Bolognese and Snickers Bars

shoes.. (prod.  mommasboy)

My name is Paul Amlehn. I am an artist working in the mediums of literature, music, visual art, theater, opera, dance, performance art, and film.

My poetry, prose, and texts for theater and opera have been published in literary journals in 23 countries, including Exquisite Corpse, the California Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Evergreen Review.

My paintings, photographs, music, and video art works have been exhibited throughout the world, including at Artist's Space, Luhring Augustine, the Chelsea Art Museum, and Tate Liverpool, and at festivals which include Art 42 Basel (with the Serpentine Gallery - curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist), documenta 14, and the 51st, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, and 60th Venice Biennales.

On my music projects I have collaborated with Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed), Chuck Hammer (David Bowie), Jamie Saft (Iggy Pop), Susan Stenger (John Cale), Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno), Michael Blair (Tom Waits), David Van Tieghem (Laurie Anderson), Michael Johnson (Joy Division), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Joe Gore (PJ Harvey), Terry Edwards (Tindersticks), Mick Rossi (Leonard Cohen), Jem Finer (The Pogues), Mark Egan (Arcadia), Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Jess Stewart (Psychic TV), Eberhard Kranemann (Kraftwerk), Thomas Stern (Einsturzende Neubauten), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Keiron Melling (The Fall), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons), Laurent Petitgand (Wim Wenders), Jen Baker (Werner Herzog), John King (Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Robert Black (Bang on a Can All-Stars), Frank Cassara (Steve Reich and Musicians), Andy Findon (Michael Nyman Group), Andrew Sterman (Philip Glass Ensemble), Jeff Zeigler (Kronos Quartet), and many others.

On my film and video art projects I have collaborated with actors, actresses, singers, and dancers, including Philippe Nahon (Gaspar Noe), Artur Barciś (Krzysztof Kieślowski), Anne Louise Hassing (Lars von Trier), Kate Moran (Peter Greenaway), Kate Fisher (Robert Wilson), Elisa Lasowski (David Cronenberg), Pamela Flores (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Stefania Casini (Andy Warhol), and many others.

I am currently working on an album of music which has texts and vocals by William S. Burroughs, in cooperation with the Burroughs Estate. I am also presently working on an album of music which reimagines the work of John Cage, in cooperation with the John Cage Trust.

Cover art for my albums has been provided by painter Gerhard Richter and artist, musician, and filmmaker David Lynch.

At the end of 2024, I worked on several re-creation compositions which utilzed sonic elements from pre-existing songs by Brian Eno and David Byrne, Nine Inch Nails, and Grimes, from their albums "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," Ghosts I-IV," and "Miss Anthropocene, combined with new music by myself and other musicians.

Earlier this year, I collaborated with painter Gottfried Helnwein on a short film called: Epigenetic Trauma Painting No. 1.

I'm presently working on a new music recording project. Musicians who have contributed to this project thus far are: Stan Harrison (Radiohead), Alan Splet (David Lynch), Ben Somers (Seal), Jarboe (Swans), Rob Burns (David Gilmour), Ben Holmes (Monsters of God), Nicholas Currie (Momus), RK Faulhaber (Nurse With Wound), Ann Kroeber (David Lynch), Peter Hess (Philip Glass Ensemble), and many others.

Soli Deo gloria.

Run To Me

Paul Amlehn

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