ALBUM CREDITS
Release: December 6, 2019 on AMP MUSIC & RECORDS (AT058)
Music by Alessandro Sgobbio
Lyrics by Alessandro Sgobbio (1, 3, 10, 11), Maya Angelou (1), Psalms 27 (1), Paul 2 Cor (1), William Butler Yeats (1, 9), René Guénon (2, 6), the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians. (4,9).
Produced by Alessandro Sgobbio
Recorded at Artesuono Studios (Italy) on April 12 & 13, 2018
Mixed & Mastered by Stefano Amerio
Band Photo: Mathias Eick
Cover Art: Alexander Semenov
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I.
Nobody but nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Maya Angelou, Alone (Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well, 1975)
II.
Time drops in decay,
Like a candle burnt out,
And the mountains and woods
Have their day, have their day;
What one in the rout
Of the fire-born moods
Has fallen away
William Butler Yeats, Moods (The Wind Among The Reeds, 1899)
III.
Separa clorofille
Fiamme per nuove retine
Memoria dei tuoi volti possibili
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IV.
Listen to my voice When I cry, answer me
Psalm 27
V.
En Astheneía.
Paulus, 2 Cor 12, 9-10
Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error, and darkness can win the day only in appearance and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibriums must perforce contribute toward the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.
René Guénon, Crisis of the Modern World (1927)
Spread trees
Identical sap
Tall, low,
green, dark becoming shape
A harmony of talents.
Wood spread leaves
Analog barks
A medieval village
Inclusive community.
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Luce della perfezione,
luce eterna delle eternità,
luce in silenzio,
nella prescienza e nel silenzio del Padre.
Il sacro libro del grande invisibile spirito (Luigi Moraldi, Testi Gnostici, UTET)
The ‘end of a world’ never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.
René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (1939)
Take, if you must,
this little bag of dreams,
Unloose the cord,
and they will wrap you round
till the meditation.
Master all its parts.
William Butler Yeats, Fergus and the Druid (1893) / All Souls’ Night (1930)
The light of the light of the aeons of [ light, ] the light of the silence of the providence the Father of the silence,
The light of the word and the truth, the light of the incorruptions, the infinite light, the radiance from the aeons of light of the unrevealable, unmarked, ageless, unproclaimable Father, the aeon of the aeons, Autogenes, self-begotten, self-producing, alien, the really true aeon.
The Holy Book of the Egyptians (The Nag Hammadi Library, James M. Robinson)
Multiple snapshots
Primordial traditions
Cosmic harmonies
Three times hidden
where the last and the first smile.
Equally dream and smile.
Still searching for the Spirit
Still searching further
Looking for quality
Still searching for
Aiming for the King
For the Light
Searching
Aiming for the King.
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I.
Mesti viaggiatori riparano
Nostalgie nuove (distrazioni da silicio)
Neve e radici
Promesse della luce
II.
Eravamo liberi
Come nelle favole
Accanto a mandorli
Nuovi angeli del candore
III.
Ora e sempre
Alla volta del sole
Alessandro Sgobbio
