Friday, April 05, 2024

El estribillo del juglar / The Minstrel's Refrain


 

La carcoma excava en las parodias de nuestros desvencijados carros. Poco queda de nuestras verdaderas artes escénicas.

 

Termitas sepia digieren nuestro destartalado escenario. Polillas marrón pastel nuestro raído vestuario.

 

Larvas de moscardones aguardan su festín con nuestra carne hinchada…

 

¿Se me ha pasado algo por alto, amor mío?

 

Como…

El brillo de tu piel el brillo de tus ojos

Hacia una imagen cadavéricamente blanca se dirige en su descomposición

Como la vida

¡Vida!

Eres puro hilo de fino algodón blanco

Que hasta no ser cariñosamente tejido

No termina en sublime sudario funerario

Como la vida

 

Dark Matters, II


Woodworm tunnel in the travesties of our fading carts. Precious little remains of our true performing arts. 

Sepia termites digest our ramshackle scenery, pastel brown moths our threadbare costumes. 

Bluebottle larvae wait to feast on our bloated flesh…


Did I miss something out my love?

Like

The sheen of your skin the shine in your eyes

But deathly white to decay your image flies

Life!

You are a pure thread of white cotton fine

But not until lovingly woven

A funeral shroud do you weave sublime

 

℗ © A-Soma, David F. Brandon, 2024

 “Jokers”, a concept album created in collaboration with A-Soma, a musical voyage from beginning to end, a work that navigates against the current...

 

  "Jokers" can be purchased at Vinylora records in Vitoria-Gasteiz and online at... https://vinylora.com/?post_type=produ

                   Digital download at...https://a-somadavidfbrandon.bandcamp.com

 

Thursday, March 07, 2024

Olmo holandés

                                         

                              Olmo holandés

 

 

 El amor es un negocio

La vida pequeños cambios

 

Yo te la vendo a ti

Me la revendes tú a mí

              Y tengo que pagar las tasas

 

Grabar un corazón en el árbol

 

La materia oscura y yo

La savia no sube

 

La savia no sube

Los hongos y el árbol

 

Los hongos y los árboles

La enfermedad del olmo holandés

 

                                                 

Un cuento de niños. Mitología del norte


                                                                    La vida es pequeños cambios

 

Yo te la vendo a ti

Me la revendes tú a mí

 

Y tengo que pagar las tasas

 

Madera del árbol

 

La materia oscura y yo

La savia no sube

 

La savia no sube

Los hongos y el árbol

 

Los hongos y los árboles

La enfermedad del olmo holandés

 

El amor es un negocio

 

 

 

 ℗ © A-Soma, David F. Brandon, 2024

 

 Dutch Elm es un tema de «Jokers», un álbum conceptual creado en colaboración con A-Soma,

un viaje musical de principio a fin, una obra que navega a contracorriente... 

 

Dutch Elm a track from “Jokers”, a concept album created in collaboration with A-Soma, 

a musical voyage from beginning to end, a work that navigates against the current...

 

«Jokers» puede adquirirse en Vinylora records de Vitoria-Gasteiz y online en..."Jokers" can be purchased at Vinylora records in Vitoria-Gasteiz and online at... https://vinylora.com/?post_type=produ

                   Digital download at...https://a-somadavidfbrandon.bandcamp.com

 


Tuesday, March 05, 2024

The Crematorium & Aboard Tugboat London

 

The Crematorium

 

 Dedicated to sepia Turners and Empires of fading Fighting Temeraires

 Life…Floating just

 Tugged out of gold leaf frames on yellowing Edwardian wallpaper

 The Fighting Temeraire

 Dedicated to generations who hoped against hope she would never sink

 

Life…Black coal smoke

 

Life…I don’t need to be there

Too dreary and dismal the night 

And the daylight no longer feels quite right

 

Life…Seems that I’m swaying on my last legs

Have drunk down to the very last dregs

 

And the dregs they read you no future?

 

Life…The last sick synapse fires so little memory 

Never can it explain these sublime but twisted universes

 

Ommm…Life…Step back step back

 The synapse fires no memory of the screaming chemistry of these last thoughts

 

Life…It reads me no future

 Blink

 And I am gone

 

 Life…Black coal smoke

 

 Smut for John Constable

 

 The Fighting Temeraire

The stoker feeds the tugboat’s boiler with sawn up pieces of her masts


The Crematorium

 

 ℗ © 2023 A-Soma, David F. Brandon, 2024

 


 

Aboard Tugboat London

 

 
                                                        The Jolly Joker

Face like a poker

The London’s stoker

 

Nothing left for him to say

Nothing left for him

 

On the dawn of this new Eocene

On the dawn of this new Eocene

 

The Jolly Joker

Face like a poker

The London’s stoker

 

Nothing left for him to say

Nothing left for him

 

On the dawn of this new Eocene

On the dawn of this new Eocene

 

 

 ℗ © A-Soma, David F. Brandon, 2024



Two tracks from “Jokers”, a concept album created in collaboration with A-Soma, a musical voyage from beginning to end, a work that navigates against the current...

 

  "Jokers" can be purchased at Vinylora records in Vitoria-Gasteiz and online at... https://vinylora.com/?post_type=produ

                   Digital download at...https://a-somadavidfbrandon.bandcamp.com