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The Eclectic Universe

by BAAN

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The Eclectic Universe 04:29
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Negative charge when carefully sent Meets a positive influence Nothing could ever be worse In this Eclectic Universe Positron Graviton Election Erection Direction Suspension Inflection Correction All the bad actors are here Timing their entrances without the fear Of taking their part in the play Blowing the whole place away You’ll get what you came to here see The curtain protects you from me Uncle John pulls on the mask Steps out, the audience gasps Now that the play has begun Opens the negative sun Blasts out its power in daggers and rods Flays from the front row, way up to the Gods And they burn! Almost as if they can never learn They die quoting the verse Of the Eclectic Universe
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The Spider and the Whale 04:35
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I once knew a spider Who once knew a whale The spider walked up into a tree The whale was certain the spider would die The spider could walk upon The water, the wave and the surface of the pond The whale lived his life upside down No face, but a smile like a frown I once knew a spider who married a whale A sorry old match, a terrible tale The spider was sure the spider would die The spider was smaller than her husband's eye Eight eyes, bright and clear She was a clairvoyant, a seer In his deep sea she always was drowned In her web he was always bound His ground is the boundary, where lies the air His sky the deep trenches, the cavernous lair Of the kraken, the monster, his nemesis There he does battle, on this he insists She brings him flies, bugs, caterpillars who dance Not roses nor fish, nor other signs of romance Crushed by the pressure of the water above Crushed by the perilous state of their love Spider loves a whale Their love be impaled World is upside down Who will be the crown?
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Michaelangelo Zombies 06:53
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Surely it’s just a metaphor Where can I find the metal door? I'll tell you better of the Whale Could be the purpose of the dream To keep the mind and body clean It’s like doing a puzzle Where the pieces don’t fit This piece goes here This one turns to shit And over we go Like soldiers for hire It’s all for the show The Spider's desire The ocean on fire The Moon was a liar Are you feeling much better for The intervention we abhor? The storm no longer threatens you Electricity beyond fear! Something nears Bound by gears Steeped in war Crushing our souls Painted herself away beyond us Golden spirit locked behind glass Michaelangelo zombies Zombies Girl on the street, no-one will carry Lovers in arms, one day will marry Sang like bird on Irish TV Prayed for the bombs and guns to unbe Michaelangelo zombies Zombies Where did they hide the bodies? Soldier comes near Bound down in fear Rips bloody rose Crushing his soul Michaelangelo zombies Zombies Where did they hide the bodies? Inside the norms Static in form Nothing by song Doing all wrong Live now Paint down the canvas in darkness Colours blending End up suspending the world
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Errant Wave 11:42
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The blood Errant wave All our thoughts are blown Beyond the gate Where waits our fate This is how this one will go Never had this voice before Never heard this voice in my mind It was never around It was never designed In oceans of thought Things we never ever thought Thoughts we ought to never have Beyond the stars Beyond the grave Waves upon the shore I showed them to you Crashing, sweeping through the door Maybe it was the flood It felt like it was the blood Who is allowed to say Who observes the way? Is it even the real path Or the aftermath Of an errant wave? We are in mass formation Like starlings dancing Lacking information And all reason has flown All our thoughts are blown And if this ever ends You can depend Upon the light, there is no truth Beyond the gate Where waits our fate I heard them talking about you You can crawl on your knees You can beg me And I I may listen For a moment Beg me please Don’t forget me Oh, don’t forget me Don’t you forget me When you’re done Crawling on your knees Begging all the powers that be Make it stop Make it stop But no-one is listening No-one is listening No, no-one is listening No-one is listening to you You can crawl on your knees If you want to If you want to You can crawl on your knees
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Manitoba Falls 04:05
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You already know it’s love It’s time to go back Slip into the black But this last thought You can never hold It’ll be like it was never told Computer generated people Might as well be in my head A loser generating freedom I drink the water, but only when it’s red Compute exonerated feelings Just hope the numbers calculate Because reality is coded Imagine we could really discorporate And fly like angels Fly like angels Computer generated people Falling all around like dolls Confused exonerated deepness Now we all live out here in Manitoba Falls And we fly like angels Fly like angels
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The Sun Will Come Down 02:28
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I can make you feel Like nothing really matters Like nothing there is real Your life lies in tatters Lady spider mine Where do you sleep? One day soon you’ll find me Waiting in the deep By the coral reef cathedral Crashing waves above Save me from the evil Of unrequited love And the sun Will come down to you And you run To the ocean so blue And the sun Will delight in you
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River of Crows 08:31
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[Part 1] There is a river of crows in the sky And they die should they fly too high Dropping down to the fields Like black snowflakes revealed in God’s eye Feather bones and dream wishes In water and swim with the fishes fry Where the river flows the river goes the river knows the river shows the river flows the river goes the river knows the river shows There is a river of crows in the sky And they die should they fly too high They don’t go anywhere They don’t come back from there Weatherman they defy [Part 2] I thought we were safe in their blind spot Where no-one would ever find us It seemed to me that we would never be caught Death and destruction far behind us I took the potion the witches brewed I made sure you swallowed the medicine But the taste was bitter and I spewed While you complacently viewed the state I was in That was when I think I knew This was the end of me and you Waited for the river That Indian giver To sweep us all away [Part 3] The river brings us flakes of gold, tiny rubies, sapphires, rusty nails, old lead bullets, ocean picture stone, adamantine memories of ancient astronauts, pieces of Mars, broken trucks and liquid dreams. There’s a river of galaxies Right here in our eyes Bodies wash down to the sea When we’re swept away We are in solution The whale may never know the tree Thinking upside down Fold ourselves into ourselves Become the quantum field A cathedral made of bones Beneath the quiet waves Another ocean is revealed There they consecrate To the memory Of all truth and rule of law All you brought to them Was a crystal gem So beautifully flawed [Part 4] It is by this she will be known The one who died The one who’s grown Her seed will kiss, will then be sown The one who’s fried Will be alone It’s gone amiss, her cover blown She never cried She’s in the zone But not like this, a broken bone So when she lied Her voice was Thrown into the stars between The spaces in the universe Sentinels and angels live With infinite all-knowing love We are going home to answer All the questions to be answered Never let your Meatloaf render Put the whole thing in the blender Anything you can’t take with you Must be left with trusted others Father mother uncles brothers Sisters good friends will discover All you gave them lost in moments Not forgotten misremembered Something rotten half defended From the past we are descended
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Poor Julien 04:52
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“We live in an age of technology, in which machines touch every part of our lives. It is not surprising that music has also been influenced by technology.” We were dappled with sound Drank the apple juice down Laced with the dreams of all men I spoke to God, I told him Amen There was a shadow beneath As he lied through his teeth Not my God after all Answering the war machine’s clarion call He brought poor Julien down Through death’s front door and back around Tied up in memory, tied up in chains Flew him away in a military plane It wasn't Julien who told those lies Who doesn’t care if all the children die A prisoner in the Challenger deep They won’t let him wake up, they won’t let him sleep Poor Julien Back to the start again Poor Julien They wanna break his will Poor Julien He never kill The Man waits outside our schools Eagerly looking for the cheaters and fools Another dumb empath to rob A psychopath in need of a job Julien lost five thousand days We forgot where he was hidden away Now no-one cares if the cause is lost Golden green fields all turned to frost Julien stands behind those gates Gun in hand, in the other his fate He really wants the world to pay But he puts the gun down and he walks away
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Supranuminal 05:37
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Did you ever stand in the sunlight Thinking about the dark? Did you ever drink up the sun Then turn that light into a spark? Supranuminal Mind beyond number Did you ever dream of a fast car Then find yourself behind the wheel? Did you ever dream about this dreaming Knowing all the time none of it was real? Supranuminal Time in penumbra Supranuminal Mind be my thunder Did you ever freely give yourself To a golden lost cause? Did you ever stand upon the brink Then dive in without a pause? Supranuminal Time in penumbra Did you ever fall in love Then somehow fall out faster? Did you ever fall into a black hole And there did you meet the master?
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The Metallic Society 14:33
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Philosophy - our days will end Philology - all words will blend Psychology - unique the same Nomology - laws are a game Biology - we are just meat Seismology - the earth has bones Zythology - we all get stoned Deep in the structures of your mind To which most of us are blind Lie the fields of ancient Rome Where the quantum is at home And all your babies will be there Everything you ever shared All the loves and all the shame In the end it’s treated all the same Time and time you look for space Every time you lose your place Slipping out of your comfort zone But you know you’re never alone Just like golden finches fly There are little gardens in your eye Little islands you put in a tray These things you make will never fade away
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In the Future of the Past 03:44
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Crucifixion blind but now Time proceeds as if by wing Suffer all but never how Time lets us delay these things Spit upon ourselves Drinking spirits and poison Smoke lives where we dwell Gives you hell to put your noise on Hands made of bones No flesh upon their dreams Picking up the telephone To find out what it seems Tiny mask in pocket Robbing banks, we’re counterfeit Love descends like rockets In the valley of deceit And that’s not all there is Finally at the very last We live beyond the kiss In the future of the past

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Recorded and produced by Peri Urban in East Lothian from September 2021 to March 2022. All songs written by Largy Baan and Peri Urban.
The Spider and the Whale is an edited version, added in January 2024 after listening with Bobby Gillies.
This album is configured as a double vinyl LP. Such an object does not yet exist.

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released March 19, 2022

Vocals by Largy Baan and Callum McCallum.

Peri Urban - keyboards.
Largy Baan - piano.
Frappa - electric guitar.
DD Strang - bass guitar, synth bass.
Henrik Peter - drums.
Jojo Mayer and Benny Greb - additional percussion on The Metallic Society.
Jullienne De Bris - cellos on River of Crows.
Alison Joy - voice on Manitoba Falls.
Michael Cobley - cutting room floor.

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Like all musicians I wished I had the same number of limbs as an octopus. My wish was granted, but not in the way I had hoped for. My cephalopod partner is an enthusiastic volunteer from the worldwide animal charity Save Humans From Themselves. We share a special kind of love. ... more

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