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This is a song of physical transformation and dissolution. It is about the inextricable cycles of life and death. At its death, a whale's body is only halfway through with its profound productivity. It then undergoes an epic process through which the elements of its body are reclaimed. First, the large flesh-eaters come, then smaller opportunistic nibblers and bone-cleaners, and then a whole garden of Osedax worms and sulfophillic bacteria grow, feeding on the lipids in the bones for 50-100 years. And so, a whale becomes a garden of life on an otherwise barren sea floor.

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No pilot, no anchor,
no rudder, no flag.

Sailing blind.
Guide me, bring me home.

I am an edifice.
Unbind me.

Putrify me.
Purify and prepare me.

Disappear me.
Resurrect me.

Bathe me in brine.
Clothe me in Osedax grass.

No hunger, no mission,
No passion, no voice.

Unbind me.
Break me down.
Colonize these bones.

Lipid, sugar, sulfide, carbon.
Now I feed the hunted.

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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. ... more

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