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Melt the Horizon (for Fred Frith)

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 5 by Rabbit Rabbit Radio

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The lyrics for all of the songs on this album are sourced from Pema Chödrön’s book, “When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times” using a technique of word curation and poetic excavation called erasure. With one exception: Jeremy Flower wrote the last heartbreaking verse of this song.

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Melt the horizon.
This mirror exaggerates my love.
This vast place...
no longing, no being, no shield.
Hide the golden bombs exploding all around.
Carry the golden girl to the well.

I learned annihilation before learned the truth.

Things fall apart.
They come together.

Melt the horizon.
The truth in her aging face.
Throbbing and groundless.
It’s a kind a kind of test.
It’s a kind of gift.
It’s a kind of death.

I was looking out for land before I heard the call.

Things fall apart.
They come together.

I left a thousand designs,
Made notes and translations
It crumbles as you all forget
Divide what’s left.
There’s nothing left.
Is anybody left?
Is anybody left?

I learned annihilation before I knew the truth.

Things fall apart.
They come together.

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from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 5, released May 30, 2020
Carla Kihlstedt: Voice, Violin, Viola
Matthias Bossi: Voice, Drums, Synths
Jeremy Flower: Guitar, Synths
Jon Evans: Bass, Baritone Guitar

Music by Matthias Bossi, Jeremy Flower, and Carla Kihlstedt
Lyrics by Carla Kihlstedt and Jeremy Flower

Recorded at KihlBossi Studios, Sinking Ship Studios, and Brick Hill
Mixed by Jon Evans at Brick Hill

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Rabbit Rabbit Radio Falmouth, Massachusetts

Rabbit Rabbit Radio is the song-spinning duo of Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. Collectively, they are founding members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat, 2 Foot Yard, Causing a Tiger, The Book of Knots, and Fred Frith’s Cosa Brava.

Drawing on their love of both art & folk song, industrial & improvised music and heart-wrenching balladry, their songs are raw, beautiful, sparse and rich.
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