"Redshift" is the debut album from "Temple Garden"

Temple Garden is a psychedelic rock band from Austin, TX that formed in 2019. Their debut album, Redshift, is a sci-fi concept album based on  "golden era" radio shows, such as "X Minus One", and broadcasts by Orson Welles. 

The Albums release is slated for April 2021 and will be accompanied by a radio drama, animations, and virtual reality listening videos across various social media platforms.

I am chameleon
made of language,
made of sound
drowning in the sea of voices
heaped in electric mound
for now I am blessed that I possess transparency
but I may become the knave who is a slave to pellucidity
and shout the mantra down
so none may ever sing
and rave against the wind
that howls louder than you can scream
I found a place to hide
turns out it’s in plain sight
but my voice ain’t loud enough
to rally anyone to fight.
I am chameleon
made of language,
made of sound
drown out electric voices
that are heaped in shouting mound
for now I am blessed that I possess transparency
I am the boy who can enjoy invisibility
but I may become the knave who is a slave to pellucidity
my bucking tongue refuse the fate of trepidity
Slow change the river’s flow
disjointed choir singing eight billion different songs.
Slow change the river.

Redshift

Chameleon

Come now, little child.
For a while,
take a load off among our branches.
Theres no need to do, only be -
Rest is responsibility
Its a matter of perspective,
concentration
taking time to wander
and dwell among the dreams you had when you were young
and finding freedom in fancy.
But did I go wrong?
oh what did I do
and fight off fleeting feelings that distract my every move
Have I been seen?
Can you teach me to conceal?
Put an ending to this
running from my own past now.
Breathe now, close your eyes
feel the vibe
hear the light inside
its a power like invisibility
the power to be
not-a-thing
but did I go wrong?
oh what did I do
and fight off fleeting feelings that distract my every move
have I been seen?
can you teach me to conceal?
put an ending to this,
running from my own past now.
Just as learning gives birth to knowing
Just as dreaming gives birth to growing
Just as empty gives birth filling
Just as silence gives way to teaching
Just as justice gives birth to penance
Just as Isis gives birth to Horus
Just as three gives birth to four
Just as one begets more and more and more and more and more and more

The Elders Of Tunkasilan

"I’m alone here, starting to get the feeling this whole goose chase is strictly from Dixie.  Some of the trees secrete a tempting blue sap. I find that it’s sweet. Nightfall. Something beckons me into a Grove of Sequoia. A blue light sways gently against the
breeze, waving for me to follow. Blazing threads, interwoven into spirals of dazzling iridescence gilded all my sight. Upon the ground, moonflower and Indian pipe, Cool to the touch. There is no longer a path, but a tunnel. No longer a forest, but a gleaming city of giving wonders. No longer silence, but clamoring."

I Left My Marlboros On A7C

"The only escape from the megalithic space prison was through a platform that lay far above them, in the tower of infinity which stretched up and up from the pinnacle of the ziggurat, acting as a barrier between this world
and the dimensional rift at the apex of the tower.
Reaching the exit would be no easy task. Standing between our hero and his salvation was an immense labyrinth, built millennia ago to keep the eldritch, demoniac drifters from the dimension beyond from creeping into our world.
Staircases into infinity gave way to dark chambers of unfathomable horrors. There, chimeric space beasts stalked the halls, with serpentine hisses and venomous claws. Hitting dead end after dead end and facing trials untold, he was filled with more strength and resolve than ever before. One after another, the beasts fell, howling at the final sting of his laser gun- but with the death-gasp of each haunting monstrosity came yet another fiend, flocking frantically towards the fearless patrolman, only to be stricken down in his sights. Incensed with the might of the fiery archangel below, he reached the final chamber of the tower of infinity.
The veil between worlds became thinner still, and apparitions of many-mouthed faces and eyes looking in every direction at once peered at him through transparent membranes of unseeable colors and unhearable sounds. Fearless, though trembling, he took his final steps past the rift-walker, and claimed his prize of fair passage, setting off for the green planet of Tunkasilan."

The Tower Of Infinity

Heat, god of flame
Devour my body of light
Olibanum smell,
tongue lashes hell
with sword of flame
expunge my aura
black ziggurat
unseen by god
obsidian core
climb towards it
Heat, God of Flame
Devour my
Body of light
“I am heat, God of fire”
I’ve come to beg you humbly,
hide me from those who hunt me
keeper of the sixfold mystery
I implore your light protect me
I am an innocent man
Marked for death and on the lamb
for a crime I didn’t commit
Victim of circumstance
My name is Mr. Mikey
what is this that bows at my feet?
you are an insect to me
yet you dare make demands of me?
you are insolent man
my might you cant understand
this power that you demand,
your fear cannot withstand

Mr. Mikey's Megalithic Ziggurat

Elation
wind blowing
carry me along
like a wordless song
Trapped in a vacuum sky
saw the spirit fly
come to save my life
I thought I lost my soul
but I lost control
I leave it in your hands now
out of the vacuum of this no mans land
a sylph arrives and takes my hand
and on the solar wind, I’m carried ever deeper
Into myself, into the other
conversations wander
Trapped in a vacuum sky
saw the spirit fly
said it’s come to save my life
I thought I lost my soul
but I lost control
and it’s in your hands now.

Vacuum Sky

I saw my home world ending
I watched her body starving
1000 year explosion
lost to the radiation
It was so far away
Rejoining all my raveged requiems
concript conspiracy while I’m dining on delerium
I lost my hope and lost my innocence
This ocean swallows me and I never will come home.
A passion play - I’m scouring every seed I’ve sown.
In light of circumstance I dream the dream mechanical.
A secret martyr, electric ardor
an endless emptiness to skim with rations quartered.
Now lost in open star sea
drifted so long we might be
free of the weight that’s on our souls.
My eyes open
I lost you too.

Patrol Log 2393: Approaching orbit around A-7-C. Thats her, Luria. Well, that used to be home..

Now lost in open star sea
drifted so long we might be
free of the weight that’s on our souls.
My eyes open
I lost you too.

Starsea

I had one choice I had make,
be a slave or run away now
I took my chance and hit the speed of light
I ran away into the sky
All I know is it’s not fair
what I have gone through
All I know is I don’t care
I get stronger as I go along
You can’t turn back
you’re never welcome back
So long memories
I shut em down,
red-shifted to the past now
A change in me
A new movement
a new someone to be
All I know is it’s not fair
what I have been through
All I know is I don’t care
I get stronger as I go along
All I know is I don’t care
what happens to me
and all I know is I don’t know anything.
All I know is I don’t know
I don’t know is all I know

Galactik Kommandoh,
eater of worlds
just like your home
He loves his genocide
servitor of the mind
the size of solar mass
maps out the universe
in light and code
Now you’re trapped
nowhere to go
you who crossed me
exile or die
Off ya go, eternally
show your face
and dead you’ll be!
Running start into the void
play my game
of hide and seek.
Revenge for
bride you stole
death and doom
an even score
“blah blah blah
whaa whaa whaa”
big mouse trap
drunken rat
man overboard
bite my tongue
take my leave
into void all recedes
Tit for tat
absent tat
scar my fate, strip my honor
nowhere to run in this universe,
I lost my certainty
doomed to live 1000 lives
in this endless starry sea.
Now I lost everything
is this how my story ends?
All alone with no home
and nowhere left to go.

Temple Garden

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