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A Drift of Stars

by Cloudblaster

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1.
White Ship 01:19
2.
"Re: Implied social contract crisis In grocery store Pinch yourself. You’re still here. Get well soon."
3.
"Lay awake and wondering are you cool or warm? Inhabiting the maddening quiet, hoping for the storm. But when those feelings aren’t returned, From one small notion bigger bridges bloom and burn. How will I look into my own face? How will I stand the company of just me? I feel that way a bit today. Sobered by you and I. Where were you? (no one sees someone) Look at me, All dressed up (someone needs no one) nowhere to be. Life keeps happening by itself, forgetting where things go. With my own eyes is where i learned what I still don’t know. So don’t just say it for effect, and I won’t pretend to expect the truth. So stroke my arm and snap by neck. Just show me that I was correct, And I’ll go. Only know (no one needs someone) what I feel, And fantasy (someone sees no one) is not real. Won’t give what (no one sees someone) can’t be retrieved, Now that I (someone needs no one) don’t believe. Memory (no one needs someone) is a sieve. With strange eons (someone sees no one) life may live Wide open, in freedom see, a world without you and me."
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"Hissing ear, just recursive noise floor to say. Circle worm digesting dreams of endless sky. A million lights that stay and stay, Swing fire of worlds too far away. Glow madder shades, waste black to grey. Drawl bed year refuse look away My life for you thought we’re all schemers here We keep pictures of old friends. Noise bath where tones obsolesce in bedtime cheer. Immaterial feast just me at least in here. The idea of me hates the real me. Feel asleep under your tree. Touch my hand through the screen, White the god dies a child should be. The long despaired have slave with their minds. Tell me there is a smile no one likes. But there are miles and miles of storm drains. And all your life they hate the smile When acquaintances get broken it helps not to think of them, And even feel better in a dark movie theater. My life for you thought we’re all schemers here We keep pictures of old friends. It was all real."
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about

“The bedroom-metal stairway to Narrows Primer, this EP is dedicated to Oakland CA, and the extreme rock community that welcomed me into their scene in 2001. In creating music at this special time in my life, I naturally reflected the musical culture around me, in the process discovering my own voice. I hope you enjoy listening to this music as much as I enjoyed creating it. These songs were all created using a variety of gameified and constrained songwriting techniques, as part of the activities of the Immersion Composition Society, a creative activism collective that I co-founded with Michael Mellender in 2001. This approach to songwriting is documented in The Frustrated Songwriter’s Handbook, a book that I co-wrote with Karl Coryat.”-NNNNDDDD

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released October 15, 2014

All music written and arranged by Nicholas Dobson. Crucial audio/technical production and musicological wisdom (as well as final mix on tracks 1, 2, and 3) by The StiKman at Polymorph Recording, Oakland, CA. Additional home recording and production/mixing by ND.


~featured musicians~

Nicholas Dobson - lead vocals, live and manipulated guitar, EZ cello on track 4, upright piano, bass guitar, subliminal drums on track 8, programming, screamed vocals on tracks 2 and 4, percussion, community, game music and treatments.

Michael Mellender - assorted brass on track 1.

Navene Koperweis - tech metal drums on tracks 2 and 4.

David Shamrock - all drums track 1, space rock section drums on track 4.

Dominique Persi - whispers and screams on track 4.

Darling Freakhead - screamed vocals on track 4.

Eric Wilson - down tempo drums on track 4.


~artwork~

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~artist mgmt~

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Cloudblaster Oakland, California

Hailing from a post-everything DIY reality of it's own, Cloudblaster's blend of surrealist pop, fantasy film music, forest folk and heavy flourishes is a love letter to fans of experimental comfort music.

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