A unique, hand-made artifact created by Illustrator Jamie B. Wolcott. Each 7" x 7" collector's edition volvelle (or "spinny") is constructed and screen-printed by the artist and includes an instant download of all the music. THIS IS A DIGITAL RELEASE.
Turn the wheel to create your own cantastoria as you listen to four musicalized Baudelaire poems by Curtis Eller's American Circus and New Town Drunks!
An initial run of 200 of these special items will be created.
Includes unlimited streaming of Baudelaire in a Box: Songs of Anguish
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
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$10USDor more
lyrics
ALWAYS THE SAME (SEMPER EADEM)
Whence, ask you, does this strange new sadness flow
Like rising tides on rocks, black, bare, and vast?
For human hearts, when vintage-time is past,
To live is bad: that secret all men know.
An obvious sorrow, with no mystery, shown,
Clear as your joy, to everyone around.
O curious one, seek nothing more profound,
And speak not, though your voice be sweet in tone.
Hush, ignorant! Hush, ignorant soul that's still enraptured,
And mouth of childish laughter, neatly captured.
Death pulls us more than life, with subtle wile.
Oh let my thoughts get drunk upon a lie,
And plunge, as in a dream, in either eye,
And in their lashes' shadow sleep awhile.
credits
from Baudelaire in a Box: Songs of Anguish,
released May 27, 2015
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NEW TOWN DRUNKS:
Diane Koistinen: voice
Roberto Cofresí: guitarra
Stu Cole: bass
Robo Jones: trombone
Nathan Logan: drums
Doug Norton: keys, accordion
“It is difficult to do justice in print to how beautifully and elegantly New Town Drunks construct their songs. Both
musically and lyrically, this is a band that knows how to build a song, displaying a level of both imagination and ambition almost unheard of from any corner of popular music.
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