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Sun Blues

by Eyeless In Gaza

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1.
Animal Hate 03:43
animal hate : strive for a way thru animal hate/nerves kick away/can’t get it straight/an out of reach day/an out of time place/I call out yr name/n I call to that day/power shakes at the life of you/to nowhere we will sleep/further away/into nowhere space/such an animal hate/to where I shall break/an out of reach day/an out of time place/power shakes at the life of you/to where we can feel the need for you/I call to yr name/yes I call to yr day/I call to yr name .
2.
Solar Logic 02:48
solar logic : who can claim us in this season/in this weather that takes our reason/skies to blaze in/winds to raise us/n call out so proud . lift up the morning . oh to be there in that season/shake my reason/make my meaning/bring me back there, summon me there/call my name aloud . and lift up the morning .
3.
Tamarisk 05:29
tamarisk : i know you’ve been born into a waiting world/with all the flags unfurled, you feel powerless n spurned/you wait n you wait on/for yr moment to be born/to take you up into life/where the sun will move you on/sun blues/sun blues/i know you’ve been caught/inside this waiting world/where chance took you so high/then used you, passed you by/n you wait n you wait on/for yr dark to turn to sun/the harsh night steals yr life/n yr weary with the fight/sun blues/sun blues.
4.
a new take/on an old situation/n I wait/let the news touch me gently/who knows what I want/who knows what I’ll say/n who knows where I am - am i safe?/for who knows what I’ll want/who know what I’ll face/n who knows what I’ll lose/a new take/it’s a new take .
5.
Longing Song 03:54
longing song : I’m stuck fast estranged/as feeling dictates/n I can’t see my way/thru circumstances n deadweight/with little leeway/falling beyond compare . n I’m walking astray, arriving today/n two years away from confrontations I don’t face/I’m following logic/n somewhere I fell astray/don’t you know this longing?/don’t you know this longing?/ … and, when I awake – when the maker awakes and the sleepwalker rests/and I don’t want to go back in it - I walk a new light/and new light runs out of the skies - and the time flying by/in a feast of delight/n I’m paying a price/to bring the morning all-alive – n I want to be amazed/ n you’ll be my sweet surprise/ … ah, don’t you know this longing?
6.
. here's an edge that we went to, and then we looked over ...here's a chasm that we glared down into ... here is a falling feeling . here is a frozen smile cracking, like twin scabbards we twist & shatter - we are losing . we are taken . we are away . & far .
7.
Unborn 03:29
unborn : a sleepwalker, a speaker of no words - a seer of the dark - you listen to less than silence . stationary . stasis . unborn .
8.
here I am, I always am : who’d hide/should a real light show now in season/who’d hide/if I laughed like I’d love to drown/who’d hide/if a delight gave me good reason/who’d hide/should a smile arise/to shadow my frown/here am I/I never want to run 'n hide/here am I/I never want to let this die/who’d hide/in a half-light/the sun fills this morning/who’d hide/in a cold night, should warm sun arise/who’d hide/out of day’s sight/on such a sweet dawning/who’d hide/from a delight adorned, undisguised .
9.
Juniper 02:40
JUNIPER : when I was waiting/all was there/to grasp/to hold - for reckoning . when I was waiting/sweet with certainty/the day was mine then to dream as you dream . come up roses, come up red, like fire/come up strengthening/staking claims and standing proud alive/and bearing me again/to dream as you dream . look for me in glancing winds/ shaking moving glimmering/binding freezing winter/chastening the air so fresh and sharp within/ to dream as you dream .
10.
Ill-Star 03:28
ill-star : why has yr star soured/why so disempowered/you took in too many voices/you stood still for all their fucked choices/you let them try and destroy us/swallowed up amongst the voyeurs/ill-star/yr ill-starred/ill-star/fight back/fight them back/fight/fight .
11.
all in the rainy morn : and the love lives on in the rainy morn/love lives on, out in the rain/n I know inside who its living for/n I know deep inside there’s no blame/… after the first comes the second rain/to mingle in fast/in the thirsting grain/n some seeds will grown/n some will fail/nestling in our hands/the precious rain .
12.
you turn from me : you turn from me/you may be alone/in thoughts so solemn/you may be alone/in worry strange/you may alone/estranged, forgotten/you may be alone/transformed n changed/you should never be alone/when you are wanting/ah, please never be alone, don’t sit dismayed/I could be the hand to ease yr burden/just to talk it thru can lighten the weight/… yet, you turn from me/let go of my hand/you turn from me/I would listen/oh and I would open/for you, so alone, cut off, estranged/ n I would listen closely/take up yr burden/ but you have no words/nothing to say/you turn from me/you let go of my hand/you turn from me . you may be alone/in thoughts so solemn/you may be alone/in worry strange/you may alone/estranged, forgotten/you may be alone/transformed n changed/you should never be alone/when you are wanting/ah, please never be alone, don’t sit dismayed/I could be the hand to ease yr burden/just to talk it thru can lighten the weight/… yet, you turn from me/let go of my hand/you turn from me/I would listen/oh and I would open/for you, so alone, cut off, estranged/ n I would listen closely/take up yr burden/ but you have no words/nothing to say/you turn from me/you let go of my hand/you turn from me .
13.
Long Gon Pa 05:15
. you dance next to the sea . the pebbles beneath your feet . the breeze breathing you . the beautiful wanton . the precious bane .

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A-Scale had the following to say about the album, when first issued ...
❖ Sun Blues offers a 2016 styled distant cousin to Eyeless' classic improv/songs album release of 1982, Pale Hands I Loved So Well . Here, much as then, the studio becomes very much a musical instrument - where Eyeless In Gaza cook up a smorgasbord of filigree musics - creating an organic osmosis of layering techniques, which are then matched together in a deft collaging of elements. Here are instrumental discoveries & improvisations & pictures painted with words – songs that have an inbuilt claustrophobia and sonic density – musics that playfully investigate the sound-worlds & territories of both the kosmische - and terra firma.

❖ On Sun Blues, of particular note is the combination of Martyn Bates’ at times melancholic, sometimes passionate vocals – which come across exceptionally strongly – teamed with the extraordinary, mercurial bass guitar work of Peter Becker. Overall. the album would seem to be a groundbreaking distillation of everything that Bates & Becker have ever produced during their 36 year lifespan ... quite simply, Sun Blues is already being acclaimed as what is perhaps the definitive Eyeless In Gaza album.

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released March 4, 2022

Martyn Bates: e-guitars/voices/clarinet/kybds.
Peter Becker: bass/drums/e-guitars/voice/percussions/slide-guitar/piano/wasp/drum-machine/tapes/all engineering & recording.
All songs composed by Martyn Bates & Pete Becker, copyright control
Produced by Eyeless In Gaza .
Engineered by Pete Becker .
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering .
Recorded at A-Scale Studios Warwickshire .
Completed August 2016 .
www.eyelessingaza.com

* WRITE to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com to receive infos re limited edition Ambivalent Scale label CD version of this album .

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Biog stuff? It’s always changing. Re creativity, a wise man said: ‘‘It doesn’t matter where, as long as it’s out of this world’’. This seems a good way to feel about it all ... the music should be like a drugged dream, poem, hope, prayer - probably a blues .
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