From "Threnody for a Forgotten Plague", work-in-progress dealing with the early days of the AIDS pandemic, specifically the fracturing of voices which literally and emotionally occurs during any such outbreak throughout time: the medical, political bureaucracy vs. the voices of humans fighting for their health and well being.
lyrics
And Dream of Seas
"I would rather drown, remembering——" H.D.
If the food stayed down
(& it did)
If the hands found each other
& not blindly
or just through letters,
that piercing paper touch
(& they did)
If we were soluble, the flesh
transparent & could merge
in a flow where nobody
drowned
or at least not alone
(& we might have)
If your voice, face was suddenly
inside mine & sky-lit eyes
looked out brighter,
an ocean in the all over dark
(& we almost)
If I were not sad, could feel
joy even in your leaving
without angry idols, fearful
obsession or the fact
fact of your sickness
(& I am)
or death
(am not)
then the last vast wave
would not want oblivion
(& we cannot)
only a sort of truth nearly
clear
(& we don't)
in this surge,
the real dream
which does not stop
credits
from Threnody for a Forgotten Plague,
released December 24, 2014
In addition to instruments and sounds recorded around the house, and samples from MusicCreator5, the following sites also provided royalty free sounds and music:
SoundDogs.com, SoundBible.com, MP3Skull.com, InternetArchive.org (Various Unidentified Choral Chants before "tweaking"*), and FreeSound.org
*Ofert.Deprofundis, Sanctus Mass Viii, Kyrie-MassXviii
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