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What the Rivers Say

ALBORZ - KALEIDOSCOPE (FEB 2023 PROGRESSIVE SET)

Credits:
Written by Elora Aclin
Produced by Elora Aclin, Theo Walentiny
Mixed by Jake Cheriff
Mastered by Calbi /Fallone at Sterling Sound
Synth/Bass by Theo Walentiny
Guitar by Jake Nuffer
Drums by Charlie Colbert
Cover by Andy Nappi
Cover edited by Sara Laufer

Lyrics:
You were the one that never made me feel alone
I never thought we were best friends just to get stoned 
Everything was fine until you started drinking
I would lose my mind wondering what you were thinking

Six drinks on a Tuesday you missed my call
I could feel your anger through the walls
Six drinks on a Tuesday you missed my call
I could feel your anger through the walls 

After all this time 
You surfaced in my mind
You crossed a million lines
You were my friend when you were high

We stopped getting together every night
I don’t know why you couldn’t let me in inside
You said your lungs felt better but what about my pride
I was a thing to poke and prod as you liked

Six drinks on a Tuesday you lost us all
I could feel your anger through the walls
Eight drinks on a Friday you’re running from life
I’m watching a movie staying inside

After all this time 
You surfaced in my mind
You crossed a million lines
You were my friend when you were high

Maybe we were both running, putting up walls
The embers going out and I’m alone
Maybe we were both running, putting up walls
The embers going out and I’m alone

Sorry but I can’t forgive (can’t forgive)
You never faced what you did (what you did)
Sorry but I can’t forgive (can’t forgive)
You never faced what you did (what you did)

Embers

Hypnotic Electronica for your night drive playlist.

Eye Of The Storm

Standing on the riverbank
Feeling the sun bringing warmth to my face
I screwed my thoughts up into a ball
I threw them in and watched them sink without a trace

Feel myself becoming small
Amongst the wonder of it all
Feel myself becoming small
And this is what the river said

It's alright
It's OK
The things you've done, you can't change them anyway
It's alright
It's OK

At the cairn at the top of the tor
Rising sun lights the moon in the west
Looking up and wondering why
I don't believe in God but I still feel blessed

Feel myself becoming small
Amongst the wonder of it all
Feel myself becoming small
And this is what the mountain said

It's alright
It's OK
If you don't love yourself, I'm gonna love you anyway
It's alright
It's OK

It's alright
It's OK
The things you've done, you can't change them anyway
It's alright
It's OK

And all the things you've done
You can't change them anyway
If you don't love yourself
I'm gonna love you anyway
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shoots of spring alive and green
river flows city sounds recede
sun is rising over huddled homes
eyes closed I'm on my own

oil skies
oil skies
sometimes we dream of a different life
but i'd always come back to these oil skies

wind and rain pound my face
all around me the sense of space
step by step the long way home
close my eyes and breathe; i'm on my own

oil skies
oil skies
sometimes we dream of a different life
but i'd always come back to these oil skies

Oil Skies

Function of Theory

Bliebst du dann bei mir?

Bleibst Du Dann Bei Mir?

Cosmic Occult Club Transmission

My first attempt at this spoken poetry stuff, maybe out of a slight laziness, just trying it on.  I can see how some people do this because it's easier than writing to a piano melody.

Lyrics:

Brooke Shields had it right
Remember that if you're killed
You've lost a very important part of your life

As I shuffled in past the misbegotten
I saw that the ignorant knave
Had roundly forgotten the tactical proviso
That he who makes half a revolution 
Digs his own grave

I had to applaud them on their perspicacity
A society full of sinners
Judging sinners for sinning differently

To a council summons all his mighty peers
Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved
A gloomy consistory
And unleashed the pronouncement he'd prepared
He declared he'd recently resolved that
Did you even say thank you
Was the most bitchmade line in history

He said the solution came to me by hook or by crook
Without doubt it's a hell of a burden i carry
But it's always in the last place i look
A less wary prelate blurted out
Yeah bro that's tautologically necessary

The unlucky fellow was upended
And toppled reeling into a chasm
When his boss responded with better sarcasm 
Instead of being offended

We saw no reason to eat comestibles
Befitting a corporate Brahmin
The culinary pinnacle was dishwasher salmon
Paired with shrimp flavored top ramen

Who needs ChatGPT
When you can just match with a catfish
Freeze dried or pan fried
You'll certainly get your wish

How Are The Mighty Fallen

CHARGE

Running in the Gutter”, BABAL’S 13th album, the 1st to be released on Fruits de Mer label Friends of the Fish, definitely hits the ground running and keeps you locked in to their immersive world of intense lyricism and potent musical ideas.
The resulting album is a beautifully crafted selection of hypnotic and rhythmic pieces, each delving deeply into the world we think we know.
BABAL have come up with an immersive, yet accessible blend of songs that illustrate the band’s superlative improvisational skills, whilst still retaining cohesive musical ideas that weave poetry and dynamic vocalizations that are central to the band’s alternative core.
Opening track “One Big Family” is a full-on attack on social media; the rise of the biggest brain-washing experiment in history; “eye sockets sore, mind in chaos, thoughts flying round, like a bird in a cage, manic with facts and terrible rage! Nowhere to go, I can’t turn the page!”.
“The Best Restaurants” is a sharp take on poverty consciousness and opposing huge wealth, and a vain hope that religions may save us, but very probably not.” All I saw was a crowd of starving souls, chewing at their wishes”
“The World that we Know” is a plea for the World to wake up to the real possibility of extinction, “I wanna green world! I wanna green world! I want it to smell good; I don’t want it to stink like it does at the moment! Open your arms and let it in!”.
“Cake Music” is a high-energy satire on the virtues of neo-liberalism, “recycle now and do your bit! Be a match when the fires are lit; move a little closer to the cholera pit! Ha Ha!”
“We shall be Fables” is a sweetly enchanting song that lulls the listener, yet reminds us ultimately of our mortality (one of Karen’s recurring lyrical themes), “life is eating us up, we shall be Fables, when the noon-tide beckons and the reaper reckons; we shall be Fables” It ain’t gonna last forever……..
Title track, “Running in the Gutter” is a truly majestic love song, poignant yet hopeful that love can still make the difference in all our lives; “you won’t applaud, it has a drive, it’s not a lot till love arrives! Love is not a number, it lives, it dies, running in the gutter, it doesn’t strive”. We can all get there, no matter how far down in the gutter we are.
“Running in the Gutter” is available on the Fruits de Mer label, Friends of the Fish, on vinyl, CD, digital download and streaming. Pre sales from 1st July, release date August 8th 2025.
BABAL will be launching the album at the Son Of Sardonicus festival of Psychedelic Delights on Saturday August 2nd, the Cellar, 25/26 Quay Street, Cardigan, SA43 1HU. Advance copies of “Running In the Gutter” will be available at the festival.
“Could it be argued that Crass are joining force with Cardiacs to deliver a Beefheart take on Byrne? Possibly, but instead of attempting to work out the influences and wonder how to describe them, instead say this is classic BABAL with the band putting their troubles behind them and being at full strength and power. Long may they continue as for prog to survive it needs to be as uncompromising and challenging as this.”
Kev Rowland: Prog Archives (author of the Progressive Underground vols 1-5).

Babal - Running In The Gutter - 01 - One Big Family

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What the Rivers Say

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