We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

america (12​/​19​/​2022)

by of the wood

/

about

a spoken-word drone piece written and recorded 12/19/2022.

solo voice, eleven tenor saxophones, two upright basses, glockenspiel, toy piano, two bass drums, two toms, and various metal objects.

lyrics

some victims began to torture one another
flaying their backs
tying them to a bed of bamboo shoots
and gouging their eyes
with their bare hands

above was only black smoke
and one heart
for one moment
saw the sun peek through
and it felt another heart beating
in the distance
and then it was shot
in the back of the head

everything that surrounded us was devoid
of nature
our landscape was tar
scattered with whale bones

and a moan could be heard
beneath us

a single note
immutable
and as beautiful
as each memory we forgot

those responsible could not be seen
it didn’t matter
Methuselah still stood
somewhere
waiting

I looked into the distance and saw some vast, hulking creature built from crumbling buildings
building and rebuilding themselves over
and over again
and once again
I felt my own wires, hotter than rage, burning towards it
as though they were hands
reaching into a mirror

I feel underwater in the air as I move away from each moment
moment to moment, with no in-between, before, or after
moment to moment, a dream of sheer lucidity

I stop myself before I get closer
before I, too
become larger than I can comprehend

I strap a gas mask to my face and stand still in the smoke
that rises from the burning bodies that fall from the creature
as it travels across the flat, unending concrete
towards nothing

it continues towards nothing
and nothing can stop it

credits

released December 20, 2022

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

of the wood New Jersey

of the wood is one person.

it is an attempt to capture moments, hours, days, months, and years as they happen and to hopefully journal a musical life in doing so.

no effects added to the music beyond EQ and panning.

all acoustic.
... more

contact / help

Contact of the wood

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like of the wood, you may also like: