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A Return to Center Part I (Imaginary Shrines)

from A Return to Center (The Cycle of a Circle) by Strange Talking Animals

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FAWM 50/90 2023 song 4
written and recorde)d on July 19 (music) and July 20 (lyrics), 2023

My son wanted me to write a math/science song, so I am starting a cycle of songs (this is part one) about truth versus belief, hidden maths, and science versus dumb. There are hidden problems, scientific principles and concepts, and observations throughout- but they are obscure. I'm a puzzle.

I've been interested in late 60's pychedelica and early 70's prog lately. Not actually listening to it, but reading about it (yes, I will listen to it as well, but I wanted to create without copying, so no new (old) music for me until this song-cycle is done).

These first four songs for 50/90 2023 (No Gun No Antler, Control, Can You Hear the Bells?, and A Return to Center Part I) are all variations on E minor. Not sure if I will continue that, but it was intentional for this part. Also, each of the takes is live- what you see is me performing what you hear, hence the mistakes. But that's a live show for you!

Harmony Arch-top, '52 Tele, American Strat (with hot switch), Crumar Toccata, OB-6, Rickenbacker 4003s, Tama Club Jam, Eventide Space, SA Collider

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A circle opens and shares its prime
A circle divides and returns in time
Shafts of indifference and shadows excite

Angels of violence hiding in the Moonlight

The light breaks apart and covers the day
It empties the void as protons decay
A shift in experience, a challenge in space
Now where is the difference? And where is the trace?

Lines of consequence and shrines to ignite

A wrinkle in time, a folding of space
The elements crumble without any trace
A fading response that echoes through time
A delicate turn away from the light

Every advance, every answer, was magic at first sight
Every problem, every angle was covered from the start
All of that energy, all of that matter, scattered across the night
All of those questions changing through art
Channeling through stories, merging through time
All of that energy, all of that matter scattered across the universe

A tethered solution that sways in the light
Devout resolution that fades in the night
A new revolution, a true satellite

Lines of confidence in the Moonlight

A wrinkle in time, a folding of space
The elements crumble without any trace
A fading response that echoes through time
A delicate turn away from the light

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from A Return to Center (The Cycle of a Circle), released August 4, 2023
music and lyrics by Brad James Beske
recorded at the Uranium Playpen, in the Dungeons

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Strange Talking Animals Springfield Township, New Jersey

Born in raised in Madison, WI. Transplanted to Brooklyn, Jamaica, and finally Springfield. Versed in chamber pop and rock, psychedelic and prog, and expanding musical horizons to experience electronic and ambient musics and experiment with modular and chaotic synthesis.Overfed with science fiction and fantasy and actual science. And stay-at-home dadness. ... more

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