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For your Holiday listening and viewing pleasures!

Happy December 25!

written and recorded on December 16, 2022.

Dante, Chaucer, and a whole lot of Milton. Based on a poem I wrote in college (a poem that got me into some troubles...)

'52 Tele, 4003s Rickenbacker, Tama Club Jam, OB-6, Eventide Space, SA Collider, E-Bow

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Smile on me O’ muse of destruction
Give me strength and wisdom and instruction
Allow me to see the beauty of isolation
in this paradise lost

As I walk through this concrete mirror
Watching faces of agony and terror
I understand the divine plan of horror
for this paradise lost

The Devil lies prone on his throne of fire
His parts strewn about in this murky mire
Leviathan, his life consumed with desire
in this, his paradise lost

I am show the grace and peace of the garden
And the terrible fate- of humanity’s falling
And the desolation of Adam’s first calling
in this, our paradise lost

I am witness to the murder of brothers
A testimony to the frailty of lovers
The sin engaged by the son of the mother
of this paradise lost

I hide in my pyramid of pain
My epiphany denied, my destiny restrained
My eyes burn with sulfur, a fire contained
in this, my paradise lost

I am show the grace and peace of the garden
And the terrible fate- of humanity’s falling
And the desolation of Adam’s first calling
in this, our paradise lost

A vision of death unleashed and tormenting
The first-born of Egypt, of Pharaoh’s lamenting
I stand in denial of mankind’s repenting
in this our paradise lost

I stand at the center of a land left in waste
A pillar of salt, a wife left in haste
A nuclear visage of god’s loving grace
in this, her paradise lost

Never have I breathed so much dust
The skin of the innocent, the flesh and the lust
No gods to abide, just sin we entrust
in this, our paradise lost

credits

from FAWM 2023 + Black Friday Connections EP, released March 1, 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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