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Narrows Primer

by Cloudblaster

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1.
Asphodel 01:47
"Dreaming underground, end in tears Go in danger’s grace, and I’ll stay here. Under lesser men disappear."
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The Meadow 03:48
"Sun line on forest edge. Believed it never ends. Nothing useful gets said in a dream. It's past noon, the line's moving. Be gone where nobody else can go where i'm going. Wake up rush to write down what seemed like something, But it's not something. Like a golden age wood where i played... Enduring the safety of houses, Screwed up on the face of a late night peer. Just selling the fever a mouse lived, So believe everything that you hear. In the normal light where the living wake, Cold comforts replaced with something else that works just as well. And that color white burns like a thrift store, Halitosis and Old Spice like dying somewhere weird alone. Happy on our shelf like a broken spell, as micromedia empires fall."
4.
"Gardens in hothouse glass, towers in regress. A thousand and one delights march incandesced. Pineal fireworks in the mouth of hell. The tortoise collapses under the jewels on its shell. Does it matter at all what ecstasies pass? Tell me a story and wave me to rest, Sickened by pale desire in night blooming climes, So long as you wake me up at the end of time. Zap-lamp wiggling among the creeps Of inland sea taxonomy. And every flash turned up so proud, When you're tired of that now. Invisible inside my heart. Drowned city transit authority. Blanket fort in a whirlpool. I'm sorry. The ear listens to itself. The pen tears the screed, And scribbles the page beneath with heaven's greed. Let's pit realities against ideals. Never been happier ~ in realms unreal."
5.
Vesta 03:39
"Small and easy seasons go So much timeline wind blown Devils play and set us free Stranger at the wheel "Let's burn down your house with me inside", hit SEND and see With her hand in mine, in TV's glow, finally seen Nail up mysteries solved in books After history downtown shook Hold me close. Don't leave When the pressure gets to me. Laughing academy hall sun breaks on the path. Blooming late on this noontime waste in the tall grass. This life's too short, and goes on and on, the best for last."
6.
"No one here for miles around, jump a shadow on the road. Visited in morning hours that the mighty never know. Done before: ordinary sorrow. Tell me more, make it ring the hour. Done before: ordinary sorrow. At the door, wait up till it’s over."
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8.
"Fog move ~ Rag of clue, De-veiled to yet mislead. Unquiet business of dead lurk the dust. Rot none see the hell shine from their mouth. Dawn will tell fell Cannonball to the Earth A gift from the Northwest Imperium Somewhere between remembered humiliation And psychic civil warfare lies eternity I figured it out. Now I can watch horror movies, With my feet on the heater by myself and tell everybody To fuck themselves. I think that there are solutions, But I'm pretty sure that all of them are embarrassing. Somewhere between remembered humiliation And psychic civil warfare Lies a headache. Starry suave those limbs, Itching hair and fingertips. A howling witch was chewed by wild animals. The universe is empty, Nothing is connected to anything else drink more coffee Down a hole where everything that you think you know Meets every new thing that will every happen lies eternity I figured it out. Now I can watch horror movies, With my feet on the heater by myself and tell everyone To fuck themselves. Midway between an alarm clock And the inability of the human mind To correlate it's contents Lies happiness Outward from the invisible, To the implicit, Passed the obvious, To screaming forever too early in the morning Lies a headache."
9.
"Rooms get haunted until no one can live there. You are not alone in this room. Outside those aching stars, and the moon waiting for you. Lay outside and watch it glow, and remember we are so many like you, Just as many as these stars. You could never count us all. Please just rest here, we know you. You can be here, We burn too. And picture you for ever and ever. Such glad possibilities take root in bad times like these. Memory fade and there you'll be. Please just rest here, we know you. You can be here, We burn too. Rooms get haunted until no one can live there. There is nothing wrong with you, and what you're waiting for is true, and it also waits for you."
10.
Afterward 01:56
"Walking where worshippers lived Tall pale tree avenue It’s here we begin Iron key in trade, from house down the way, Not forget a day Here is where you’ve been Storied stones Tell their own Over churchyard wall our old house, Tells a busy life safe at home"

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These musical pieces 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 Dobson co-founded with Michael Mellender in 2001. This approach to songwriting is documented in The Frustrated Songwriter’s Handbook, a book that Dobson co-wrote with Karl Coryat

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released December 12, 2023

All music written and arranged by Nicholas Dobson. Crucial audio/mix/technical production and musicological wisdom (tracks 2, 8, and 9) by The StiKman at Polymorph Recording, Oakland, CA. Co-production on track 6 by SuzieQ Sharky. Home recording and additional production/mixing by ND.


~featured musicians~

Nicholas Dobson - lead vocals, overdubbed choirs, acoustic and electric guitar, upright piano on track 8, bass guitar on track 9, programming, percussion, community, game music, and treatments.

Michael Mellender - trumpets on track 2.

Jason Slota - drums on track 2.

~artwork~

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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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