[april 2015]
ALONE: "COAST" LP



released by unique spielzeug muzak in france, limited edition vinyl of 300 copies. a collection of 8 gloomy synthetic lullabyes and scientific love songs, sounds from a coast / limit / end of the world, a misty place where all boundaries melt: land, sea and air, inner and outer world, self and non-self. this is the most sleepy and foggiest alone album thus far, emotionally calm but sonically colourful as ever. it introduces the lead vocals by igor petrušić and draginja marić, mixed with the familiar voice of nikola vitković.
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see the video for 'tvoj san'
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side A
1. absolute zero
2. glas
3. tihi dom
4. tvoj san

side B
5. crna so
6. nisam taj
7. without you
8. the aldis lamp

personnel:
nikola vitković - synthetics, voice
igor petrušić - voice on 1, 2 and 4.
draginja marić - voice, lyrics and additional keys on 3 and 5.
tihomir čelanović - guitar on 8.

cover artwork by temple vengeance
mastered by patrick scott

~~~
lyrics:

ABSOLUTE ZERO
 
let's theorize...
is there any other way for us to become one with each other and things afloat throughout the universe except by absolute submission to the second law of thermodynamics? is there any other way for us to reach the level of absolute spiritual equilibrium, except on the level of absolute zero?
 
the wind has stopped...
 
drops of rain and flakes of snow
trapped in fall like icy wall
in the frozen air
 
zero level entropy
thermal death of space waits for me
in frozen air
 
i see you in ice concrete
unable to embrace you finally
in frozen air
 
motionless tragedy
this frozen love is a waste of energy...
 
...so let's waste it on a theory which might just save us all. is there any other way to conquer entropy? is there any other way to face the reality except by means of a theory?
 
drops of rain and flakes of snow...
...
 
~~~
GLAS
 
sat po sat slušam taj glas
dan i noć peva sa dna
kap po kap kapa u san
stih po stih gradi vetar od glasova
 
~~~
TIHI DOM
[lyrics by draginja marić]

jalova nada
nedostižan cilj
nošen s prašinom
život curi kroz pod
trom, intertan
rasipa se

žuti zrak...

~~~
TVOJ SAN

san sanjan oko nas
to je prastara priča
san mesu daje strast
to je prastara priča

san mesu daje oblik

taj stanovnik tela
što korača po stenju i zidovima
odjek njegovih koraka
iznutra nas vaja

njega čuti, njega sresti...

nije mi potreban tvoj san
čujem ga sam
nije mi potreban tvoj san
da te znam
nije mi potreban tvoj san
tvoj bezdan [bezdan ni kam]
nije mi potreban tvoj san
[sve] posmatram

spolja
kroz disanje kontura
odjekuje kamenje iz ambisa
njega čuti, njega sresti...
dok iscrtava i briše lik
dok gospodari plimom disanja
zamišljeni objekt žudnje

san sanjan...

nije mi potreban tvoj san...

~~~
CRNA SO
[lyrics by draginja marić]

široko nebo
šušti crni do
pod stenama muk

kosti i školjke
vezuje mulj

krljušt i meso
meso i kost
pod stenama zajedno
prekriva so

nikog nema
nema više tu
nikoga nema
teče crna so

teče crna so

~~~
NISAM TAJ
 
kad gubiš nadu i dom
duh teši šapatom
 
"nemoj stati, još nije kraj..."
 
zar iko bdi nadamnom?
dal si to ti koji možeš sve?
 
"nisam taj, ali nemoj stati jer još nije kraj..."
 
nisam taj
na žalost grešiš jako
moj duh oduvek priča
svakom gostu ovog prostora
 
~~~
WITHOUT YOU

it has never occured to me
that apart from speed and density
there's no difference between
the killing wind and the water
so i would have stayed drowned
in safe liquid opacity
hadn't your flight caught my eye
and my arm cought your ankle
it pulled me into air
in its killing velocity

you noticed me
but you never noticed
what you did for me

i know now
air or water
makes no difference

without you
i wouldn't die
but without you
how could i fly

~~~
THE ALDIS LAMP
 
today there was no flash below the horizont
no lightening flash since many a year
my patient nerves overgrew the lighthouse
never quite awake, never quite asleep
 
if the weather marks seasons past, well, i wonder - what strange alphabet could preserve memories?
if the water marks highest tide, well, i wonder - how much time is left till it washes me away?
if the weather marks seasons past, well, i wonder - maybe aldis lamp could transmit memories?
 
aldis...