9 tracks by The Ginger Twins

1.   Yet Again
2.   Derivative
3.   The Model Citizen
4.   True Regret
5.   The Lesson 
6.   Something Amiss
7.   Obsoletion
8.   Shattering Me
9.   A Shimmer in the Darkness

Vacancy

Song by The Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
A hard, hard lesson to learn
A crossroads for you and me
What a hard, hard lesson to learn
Facing down reality
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
A hard, hard lesson to learn
A crossroads for you and me
What a hard, hard lesson to learn
Facing down adversity
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
A hard, hard lesson to learn
A crossroads for you and me
What a hard, hard lesson to learn
Facing down reality
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it
Don’t stop, don’t look back
Wait for it, brace for it

The Lesson

The world's largest iceberg, A23a — equivalent to the size of Rhode Island- is endlessly spinning near the South Orkney Islands, about 375 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Its dance is caused by a phenomenon in fluid mechanics known as a Taylor column. It's essentially a rotating cylinder that forms when there's an obstruction in a flow. The A23a is trapped in a kind of ocean vortex, a Taylor column.
There are many paths a collaboration can take you down. Although the typical one tends to be shaped as a kind of dialog or turn-taking, I like the most those that, instead, become as sawing a seed and watching what happens then, including some active intervention: somebody tells an idea, or provides some materials or tracks to you and they start a self-organizing process in one's DAW. That's what happened here: @user-737426987 Ambient Annie provided some tracks that made some musical sense by themselves, but I used them as seeds for something different though related. Another of Ambient Annie's relevant contributions to this track has been in providing a concept, even though this was originally unintentional: some of our email conversations deal with natural phenomena, and therefore Antarctica, its fauna and icebergs gracefully popped up. Some months later, the seeds swelled, stems grew and leaves appeared, giving way to the flowering that you can now listen to.
During the final mixing rounds, Nyarlathotep, the three-lobed burning eye creature from Lovecraft's cosmogonies, passing his crawling chaos through the throat of @lhtrah Lht (another SC artist you should listen to), unexpectedly contributed with some primordial chants to this track: my degree in Miskatonik studies allowed me to decode the singing as "I will die and nobody will remember me", which is quite appropriate for an iceberg that is slowly melting. As far as I could find out this song was first featured in a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky, "Fando y Lis" (1968).
Ship bell by Mateusz_Chenc @ freesound.

A Taylor column

Song by The Ginger Twins….
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven….

Lyrics:
Free from independent thought
Loved only by the things you’ve bought
Trained since my life began
To be the model citizen
To be the model citizen
The model citizen
Gone is any choice to make
Free from any risk to take
Programmed and retrained again
To be the model citizen
To be the model citizen
The model citizen

The Model Citizen

Song by The Ginger Twins…
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven…

Lyrics:
Brand new initiative
Somewhat prohibitive
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative
Like a dog fears thunder
The thumb I’m under
Brand new initiative
Somewhat prohibitive
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative
I once knew what I wanted
I pursued what I wanted
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative
Like endless hunger
The spell I’m under
I once knew what I wanted
I pursued what I wanted
Vulgar and primitive
Yet still derivative

Derivative

Song by The Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
True regret
In this life
True regret
In this…
She lies awake at night
Haunted by that day
The price forever pay
Alive but dead inside
True regret
In this life
True regret
In this…
Greeted by the face of truth
Can’t deny mistakes we’ve made
Defined by careless youth
Now until the grave
True regret
In this life
True regret
In this…

True Regret

Additional sound manipulations by Stan Magendanz, based on the original demos, and from the original recording. Re-Recorded February 2025.

Lyrics:

Replentess romoclon
Renalaynomis aclon
Relenis satreelinus tremoly
Ramiclon
Clantiantis laclon
Amasanetreelinus,
Relane,
Tranclomolontis,
Clantiantis laclon,
Amasanetreelinus,
Reytriomis imitron iclamitrane,
Relantrilomis imiclantolon,
Tremilonis imitron nisomiclan,
Relantrilonis imitranilonis impitronis,
Clantate,clantate,clantate,
Ressomate retomiclaintrine,
Yeslonnit cretemisane,
Runtrailite,trusclomess,
Retalontis, traclomitrat,
Run,make a stand,
You’ll know them by the sunrise,
Run,make a stand,
You’ll know them by the sunrise,
Treatolize ronnaylonis,
Rodeelanigh,
Retellanamisonicated,
Retolleelonigh,
Retrololay,
Rantrilantisclon,
Run,make a stand,
You’ll know them by the sunrise,
Rantolontiseemaclame talontiate,
Retomicleennalontissawmeontiate,
Relaynammisanatt, retemiclont,
Retomilanalontisawmeontilont,
Redtrempist,redtraint,
Retalonobis anotass
Run,make a stand,
You’ll know them by the sunrise,
Run,make a stand,
You’ll know them by the sunrise

Volesh Pribe

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - A phrygian loop

桜の空のした、また会いたいあなたに

Electric guitar, percussion, effect pedals, unsynchronized loops, voice, two tube amps, field recording (jackhammer). All sounds, voice, lyrics, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark. Image: Abandoned doll's head at roadside, Berlin (photo: VSS)

I don't see you
You don't see me

I don't hear you
You don't hear me

I don't touch you
You don't touch me

I can't feel you
You can't feel me

I can't kill you
You can't kill me

I'm alone
And you're alone

I am home
And you are home

We're together
Here forever

We're together 
Here forever...

Together Forever

Jackhammer field recording snippet slowed, spread into 6 (3 stereo) tracks, paulstretched for drone part, cut, reassembled. All sounds, mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.

This jackhammer also appears in "Together Forever": https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/together-forever & “Chimaera”: https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/chimaera

Jackhammer Étude

Flickering Disposition

Song by the Ginger Twins
vocals/synths - Brian Beethoven

Lyrics:
Standing, facing the firing line
Cold hearts without a care I find
Climbing, racing a ticking clock
Path blocked – can’t reach the mountaintop 
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again and again and the sky grows dim
I am defeated again
I have retreated again
I am mistreated again
I have retreated again
Mind racing with endless thoughts
Distant memories of love and loss
Staring down at the firing line
No resolution and a truce declined
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again
Yet again and again and the sky grows dim
I am defeated again
I have retreated again
I am mistreated again
I have retreated again
I am defeated again
I have retreated again
Yet again


Yet Again

1981

https://soundcloud.com/nasoshnik
Not my track. I do not own this. 
Original song and lyrics (Polish) by Nasoshnik.
https://soundcloud.com/nasoshnik

English vocals by Cymru Roberts
https://soundcloud.com/vinectochoir

Nasoshnik - Świecące Próchno (Bioluminescence)

Authentic soundscapes of melody and noise....The Ginger Twins is an alternative music project by Philadelphia based musician Brian Beethoven.  Formed in 2023, The Ginger Twins produce songs with a varying blend of unique post-punk, dark wave and experimental electronic sounds. 


#darkwave #minimalsynth #alternative #postpunk #coldwave #experimental

Derivative

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