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Saline Dreams

from Black Inscription by Rabbit Rabbit Radio

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This song celebrates the life of Arnold Bossi, defined in so many ways by his daily bare-footed trek from his house down to the beach to put himself into the water. We watch as an older man walks slowly to the beach for his daily swim. It is a simple tradition… a habit. His communion with the water is not built on ambition or sport, but is nonetheless clarifying, and transformative. As Natalia did before him, and as we have all done since the beginning of time, he both finds and loses himself in the sea.

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Wave to the pretty girls who usher in the cars.
Lift up your legs.
Count the strokes on your front and on your back.
One last swim before the daunting cold.

This is you most like yourself.
Here is what you know by heart.

Wave to the lady with the salt-happy dog.
Ignore the cold.

Here is where you come together.
This is where you fall apart
while we watch from the shore and wave.

Lay down your head,
graceful and clear.

Smile at the laughing gull…
Pour your thoughts into the brine.

credits

from Black Inscription, released January 11, 2018
Music by Matthias Bossi, Jeremy Flower and Carla Kihlstedt
Words by Carla Kihlstedt

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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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