Hang On

PS Perkins: Guitars, bass, vocals, samples
R Thomas: Drums, percussion, keyboards, kitchen gamelan
Mixed & Mastered by Mystic Tape Deck

More experience here: https://mystictapedeck.com/bards/the-technician/


LYRICS:
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The flashing light is indicating error, error
A wave of fear, a rumbling of terror, terror
Push the button, summon the repairer, repairer
The technician!

Arriving on the scene
Resequencing the gene
Talking to the machine
With a list of simple rules
And a tidy bag of tools
Who will save the helpless fools?
Who will save them? Who will save them?
The technician.

As the only unit who is fit to, fit to
The technician has identified the issue, issue
The virus is in the soft tissue, tissue
The technician!

There’s a bump in the road
There’s a bug in the code
A system overload
There’s a fly in the soup
A redirection loop
There’s a dupe within the group
Who will save them, who will save them?
The technician.

The mechanical voice repeating warning, warning
The broken beings all aborning, ‘borning
This cannot wait until the morning, morning
The technician!

With a flinging of the dung
And a twisting of the tongue
The ladder skips a rung
The clock has slipped a gear
With the deadline drawing near
Have no worries, know no fear
Who will save us? WHO WILL SAVE US?
The technician.

BARDS:Of The Shimmering Seraphs

The Technician

ONE MILE OF DISTURBING REALITY ! by SUBSONIC DISSIDENCE !
Album SUIINA SUN SU AR SRA (2023)

ONE MILE OF DISTURBING REALITY !

Keyboard Mars/24
Photography ; Nils Tavernier (ideal palace)

Entre-temps (meantime) ━no metaverse

Where is the Opstacle?

An immersive soundscape, that merges field recordings with a track by Snow*Omen @snow_omen (Improvisation Nr. 9 for two guitars and voice). Field recordings: Westhafen (West harbour), Berlin. 
Except for the musical part and not in order of appearance: 
A freight train passes.
A small boat rattles against the mooring.
Scrap metal is transported from one scrap heap to another.
Trucks drive past.
A crane lifts containers. 
An annoying repetitive electronic signal starts and stops at some point. 
A rude dude asks me from a distance to switch off the camera that I don't have, as I record with my Zoom H2N.
Small waves splash against the harbor basin.
And there's wind...

All Sounds Snow*Omen & VSS; Mixing and production VSS; Image: site map of Westhafen, Friedrich Krause,  Berlin 1923 (coloring: VSS).

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Westhafen

Amiss

info: I re-replaced the soundcloud-mastered track (which was far too slick) with the gritty, under-produced and more lo-fi original (in which the birds sound more like themselves, at least)

https://www.dw.com/en/southern-germany-hit-by-catastrophic-flooding/a-69239541

method: today‘s field recording (near river Schussen with rain dripping on the umbrella that shielded my recording device) , voice, bandoneon
narration: flooding
image: today‘s flooding of the Schussen – you can hear bells ringing across open space from the village steeple of Eriskirch to your left, copyright jo richter

poem / copyright jo richter:

der regen kam und blieb

selbst die gummistiefel der
bauern – und die bäche – wer
könnte nehmen, all das
nehmen – weg-
gespült, einfach fort-
gespült, die gummistiefel

(viel zu wuchtig an
schlanken reiherbeinen)

eltern setzen ihre kinder
in körbe – die alten
dürfen nicht sterben (wer
könnte bei dieser erde 
ein grab ausheben)

es ist noch nicht ganz sommer
(und irgendwo, in irgend-
einem ozean, wird ein winziger
walfisch geboren)

der regen aber blieb und blieb

interlinear translation:

flooding // rain came to stay // even the wellies of the / farmers – and the brooks – who / could have taken, have taken / all this -  up- / rooted, simply washed / away, the wellies // (far to bulky for / skinny heron legs) // parents placing their children / in baskets – the elderly / are not allowed to die ( for who / could dig a grave in / heavy earth ) // it is not fully summer yet / (and somewhere, in  / some ocean  a wee whale / is being born) // rain, however, stayed to stay //

hochwasser

The continuation of Untitled Tape A1. (Some tracks may be missing due to copyright.)

Where is the Opstacle?

Wiborg Bamford