NEW HEROES 2021

Building Up

"The boredom of the rich produces monsters-and-this-shitty-music" is an intense and provocative track with  gloomy and compelling sound

The Boredom Of The Rich Produces Monsters - And - This - Shitty - Music

Paul Amlehn - Text, Editing, Mixing, Time-Stretching/Vocal Sculpting, Arrangement, Production
Kevin - Artificial Intelligence Voice Actor
Dimitri Vassiliev - Music Composition, Electronics
Iakov Chibinin - Music Composition, Electronics
David Lynch - Visual Art

From the multimedia art project: Tasmantis.

The knife is now an erogenous zone. The knife is now a stainless steel archipelago. Omnia and I wander the length of the metallic shore, it gleams from deep within, its contours at the outermost edges blending with the tumultuous sea. Colliding, enmeshed, corroding. Omnia and I feel no desire. We make love like the dead. She is wearing a wedding veil and exhaling iridescent bubbles from the hissing vent between her tautened thighs. I can’t tell if I love her or hate her. “I’ll cut you,” she says to the knife. “And then you’ll know the difference.”

Tasmantis (The Knife)

Lost Audio reel tuning into Syd

MMXXIVIXVIIDPND

nachts im Wellenhafen II

Made with Forester 2022. https://leafcutterjohn.com/

over easy

"Tears" Subway-Remix https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/tears
Featuring an improvisation by SnowOmen: Glasswork - Improvisation for water, four hands, eight glasses and one table (excerpt): https://soundcloud.com/snow_omen/glasswork-nr-2
Music VSS & SnowOmen; Remix VSS; Lyrics VSS; Field Recordings VSS: On the escalators/ In the shower; Image VSS: Kottbusser Tor Subway-Station, Berlin

There are these mornings
I open my eyes 
just to cry

There are these moments
right before dawn
when I die

There are the days
all I can say is
let it rain

There are the nights
I pray to sleep
not to wake
not again

But then there's you
there's only you
who makes me feel

Yes there is you
there's only you
makes me wonder

An I'm not
going under...

Morning

Retro pop, my lyrics, Peter's music/vox. Copyright 2024 Jay Rich and Peter Davis. Lyrics below:

            Ninety-Nine Degrees

V1:

Volcano, furnace, you're a blend
Excitement round you is never-ending
I'm stoked up, my fire is lit
You're like Clara Bow so oozing "It"

V2:

I'm entranced, it's like a spell
With other men the same as well
I advanced, could not retreat
And found myself swept off my feet

Ch1:

The temperature is soaring
Over ninety centigrade and more
My throat is tight my pulse is racing
Being round you is so bracing
I'm light-headed, what you said
Has made me weaken at the knees
The heat is reaching ninety-nine degrees

Bridge:

Force of nature, what a taste of the dark side of life you were
Many days have passed since then
And still my senses in a stir
You're like a burning building
One that's blazing up in flames
My temperature's been raised
Right through the scale and out of range
My life was on hold
And I'd known icy cold damped down to freeze
But you amped it up
To fully ninety-nine degrees (ninety-nine degrees)

*****Break*****

Ch2:

The temperature is soaring
Over ninety centigrade and more
My throat is tight, my pulse is racing
Any time now, I'll be shaking
I'm light-headed, what you said
The way you made those guarantees
The heat has peaked at ninety-nine degrees
The heat has peaked at ninety-nine degrees
The heat has peaked at ninety-nine degrees


Ninety-Nine Degrees (Peter Davis music/vocals)

Remember (Remix)

Hi. My name is Paul Amlehn. I am an interdisciplinary artist, working in the mediums of literature, music, visual art, theater, and film. I am of Italian, Irish, and Maori descent. I am currently based in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

My poetry, prose, and texts for theater and opera have been published in literary journals in 23 countries,  including Exquisite Corpse, the California Review, the Salzburg Review and Evergreen Review. My visual art and sound art works have been exhibited throughout the world, including at Artist's Space, Luhring Augustine, the Chelsea Art Museum, 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, and 58th Venice Biennales.

On my sound art and music projects I have collaborated with Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed), Chuck Hammer (David Bowie), David Van Tieghem (Laurie Anderson), Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno), F.M. Einheit (Einsturzende Neubauten), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Mick Rossi (Philip Glass Ensemble), Jeff Zeigler (Kronos Quartet), and many others.

I am working on an album of music which has texts and vocals by William S. Burroughs, in cooperation with the Burroughs Estate. I am about to embark on a new 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 and filmmaker David Lynch.

I am presently undertaking an artist residency at The Exchange art space in Christchurch, New Zealand. In October 2024, I will be performing music and sound art at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale courtesy of the Italian arts organization Moving Lab. In late December 2024, I will be undertaking an artist’s residency at the Kunstmeile Krems, in an der Donau, Austria.

Tasmantis (The Knife)

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