1. |
Charon's Side Business
06:59
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lyrics by Asad Dhaumya
Charon’s Side Business
A coin for the boatman,
on his off days he ferries
you between a skewbald conscience
and throaty desire.
Another coin for the boatman
to keep his eyes closed.
The dead, far more forthright,
know less nakedness and horror.
Charon indulges each fantasy,
"through their knowing I'll have peace,
or, perhaps I was happy all along".
Charon winks when I say
"absolution
I'll find in the temple,
my shame burning at the altar,
secret hands knotting my desire
und todestrieb".
Ancient is the journey and death
but a private afterthought,
the dead hardly give him the business
that faith and love's entrails do.
"Time's arrow fumbled at the bow,
we will begin again",
saith unconvincing Charon,
richer by the minute.
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2. |
Destination
03:36
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3. |
Lost Roads
07:24
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lyrics by Asad Dhaumya
Lost Roads
The lost roads lead home,
there are no chance encounters,
nothing to follow but your childish
sounds in the distance.
Eternity rests between the flight
of the black bird and its abode
among your discarded playthings.
On the lost roads who hasn't
dreamt himself the pilgrim,
first to seek out the face of God?
First to see it weeping?
The lost roads fork with every step,
father stands still,
mother dares to breathe.
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4. |
Paths
02:15
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5. |
Agape
04:49
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lyrics by Asad Dhaumya
Agape (excerpt)
Like a thief in the night
the infant stole himself away,
crawling headlong into a terrifying
darkness, with no comforts of
the milky black of the womb.
He has 13 minutes left
before he would forget
the language of the angels,
as well as his role
in the upcoming mutiny.
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6. |
Agape Apart
05:15
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lyrics by Asad Dhaumya
Adape Apart (excerpt of Adape)
1 second left-
'round the prickly pear at
five o'clock in the morning-
“Go forth into the night,
for the labyrinth is within you,
the music is discordant and
beauty is what I decree,
sing, SING!”
From him and his comrades
bursts forth the adagio in tears.
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7. |
Foundling
06:03
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lyrics by Asad Dhaumya
Foundling
In the endless, dull white
there is a secret and it's loud.
Off into an rough alley in the suburbs
between 72nd avenue and 126th street,
the hum of a blackberry
bramble,
like the sweetness of a crotch,
there is a secret and it is loud.
I looked around and saw life
bursting at the seams.
To dream a waking dream,
to lay it to rest,
forgetting not just where but who
you are,
because you are not.
In the distance the overlapping sounds
of machines join the churning of the soul,
young boys standing at the edge of
a great discovery,
each sound in isolation a texture of
forgetting.
Across the road the exoskeletons of found
objects.
Life bursting, bursting forth,
leaving hidden messages beneath
the ablutions of the sun.
Thought was the overextended
bastard child, any intelligence
with the endless dull white to
not take itself too seriously,
pulls away to
become the becoming-
It is a secret abandoned
and it is loud,
it casts no shadow.
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8. |
To Prepare
08:18
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lyrics by Asad Dhaumya
To Prepare (Parare Domino)
His prayers meet in a river
of Faustian monkhood,
the wheel forges a path, still carrying
promises of love,
the apple that rots on the branch.
"The world turns to you, your sweet little feet
and my blackness shift uneasily."
The Great Wait begot
the Watcher's lament,
tired light catching up to its shadow.
"I cast thee down into the fiery depths,
my son,
my only son,
my beautiful
child."
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9. |
Master's Voice
04:33
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lyrics by Asad Dhaumya
Master's Voice (excerpt of Adape)
1 second left-
'round the prickly pear at
five o'clock in the morning-
“Go forth into the Light,
strangely enough, he prays,
not for forgiveness or deliverance,
but wildly hoping that still he
after his great forefather
might be the first to hear
the Master's voice.
1 second left-
'round the prickly pear at
five o'clock in the morning-
“Go forth into the night,
for the labyrinth is within you,
the music is discordant and
beauty is what I decree,
sing, sing, SING!"
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In Fuse Vancouver, British Columbia
08/22/2022
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street Vancouver BC.
In Fuse music performance for Evelyn
Roth installation
10/15/2021
Vancouver Outsider Arts Festival
The Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre Theatre
In Fuse group music and dance performance.
07/21/2016
"Talking Trees"
Kits Community Hall, 2305 West 7th Ave. Vancouver.
In Fuse music performance and Dance.
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