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
Building Immunities
Forgetting regret, in depths of slumber I dreamed, river-willed, stirring stillness: you again, you—— Caresses, pebble-tended, an imprint leftover is this consequential. Along the skin's corridors, soothing, lavished, haven't we been loving off the pain?
What is such silk slipping, such ivory unveiled?
A statue? Dusky tusks? Yes, mist, water-intimate, what a marble-shining shore appears star scattered!
I am convinced we will reach there, traces of touch re-collected, immemorial, smoothing scars, lighting lamps.
I believe it will be glorious, the resurgence of skin with the blood plush remerging recharged
despite the carnage of life.
Of course it is not sound, butI must trust in the triumph bringing your face
back once more, back, for the fluids,
the immunities
love built pure as health.
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
"Building Immunities" & "The Stones of Memory" includes "tweaked" samples of "From the Cathedral of Books", Jurgen Knieper, Side One Publishing: Milan America/Administered by Buttermilk Sky Associates, Inc., copyright1989
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