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Ice Age Gospel

by Cosmozoa

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CelloAnne The lyrics take you to another place. So clear and gorgeous. Every track brings a totally new feeling and direction. Love the strings.
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1.
Whaleprayer 00:50
Homeworld, hear me Breathe me in Whispers in the brine, I know you Shadowed fin of living matter Your bones be unscattered Your bones HUSH. HUSH. NOW LITTLE. HEART.
2.
Hush now little heart See the world was Set against you Set against you Oh she's standing there beneath the falling leaves All dancing with unbroken grace Oh they told me all about gravity But who dares to look fully in her face? Didn't you see her changing shape? She's just the dark night reflected in a great wave. She's just a lonely little dream Living inside the latest machine And she longs for the day When the next one will take her place. My ruler it stretches out the measures My canons they battle on the page My kettle is screaming for a teapot And my blood, it is ready for a race. But I can't help it, I'm afraid I've seen my temple crumble, and my best thoughts My best thoughts wash away Just a lonely little dream Living inside the latest machine And you long for the day When the next one will take your place. Just tell me now how I'm supposed to feel When I finally get my way My precious mind can't seem to find A nice respectable pace. Didn't you see the news today? There is no one left to save.
3.
Hold no Hope for Second Chances Every turning is a New Planet Grow now from the Old One a Fallen Body
4.
Nightly I walk to a meadow Where the marrow is gone from the ground. Where fault lines flicker in the amber Pillars in their millions surround. My lips go sounding for a border And many times comes the mimic of my words: “Reflection has rounded my corners Don’t know when I’ll see you return.” O Carver of trembling hand. We both are waking. I touch finger to twig and it crumbles Every fiber has folded inside A spirit was held in the mineral All these centuries, waiting for mine. A bright fog makes bodies of spaces And my body it darkly bounds. The droplets all singing from the branches: “Find the water Follow it down.”
5.
Auropod 05:44
Lizard in the Sun, you have the eye of everyone  Unmoving, then you break into a run.  The camera’s panning slow, heat waves rising from the road  O the black rock river it never runs low. Now zoom it out wide, show the dried out ravine  And faintly she’s forming, the stealer of scenes.  At first just a glitter of gunmetal grey  A flower of dust, a belly of flame.  Blazing in armor  Still as a temple in ruins  She draws back an arrow  Waits for the moment Her missile is bitten by scars in the ground  A widening empty, a hush in the crowd  Blazing in armor  Still as a temple in ruins  She turns every page and occasionally  Gives us a view  Our turning is endless  We’ve no memory  And spun to one vision  The faces we meet  We’re bound by a circle  A telescope’s view  A satellite’s mind  A speck in the blue
6.
Angeline 06:45
In the town, I make a living setting metals to a mold But in the evening, the sky turns colors that my eyes can't seem to hold And so I've come to raise a body that I buried with the war Sand and ocean -- holy border -- where we landed twenty years before. All living things will fall apart. All living things will fall apart. Twice I thought I'd lost my bearings -- thought the rocks had fallen closed But in defeat I keep a secret, and she's sleeping there in the cold Dark as night -- but I can find her, I’ve got her iron inside my heart And when I feel that steel propeller, then the long-awaited work can start All living things will fall apart. All living things will fall apart. "Angeline -- don't try to whisper. Let me mend your broken bones. And when I push you to the water, You'll be ready to come home.” Taking off, she leaps and shudders, the air forgetful of her folds But with the ghosts of all her sisters she cuts the wind with steady blows All living things will fall apart. All living things will fall apart.
7.
Don’t say, My love that it’s Too late, My love Well you know that it’s time
8.
The Hearing 04:04
Well I’m listening for the tune that the waves make when playing for the moon. Some nights, they come and crash me down, Oh, and others it’s the dry sand in which I seem to drown. I go walking in a line. If the ocean invades me, I don’t mind. She don’t gotta give me any sign — I just need to feel outside myself tonight. And I’m missing Though I aim At describing the hearing of her name All the notes I have ever written down They don’t match even a moment of her sound
9.
Hot water turns into coffee, and what I can’t drink I unthinkingly  pour down a hole.  And my voice, it was born of the ocean —  My gills start to die and the dry land it thickens my bones.  The window is beating with raindrops. The old sugar maple by lamplight  is starting to sway.  Oh, the great wind has cut me a canyon —  And many the gullies where once there was nothing could break.           So suddenly down from the sky           Falls my eye.           Something holds me, lets me sing boldly           Oh, for a time. In the evening, I’m feeling you breathing. The dark of the ceiling with phantoms  is starting to play.  Like stories read to a baby —  It’s most of this music I lose in uncountable ways.  (Sing me the day when my body was soft as the sea.  When the thought of a song was the same as its coming to be.)           So suddenly down from the sky           Falls my eye.           Something holds me, lets me sing boldly           Oh, for a time. 
10.
Westward Day 05:56
I’m driving past her now –  The dotted yellow line has drawn me south.  The sun lies low on the town –  I know what she will pull from the broken ground… tonight.  You ask me now what I feel –  The riverside has won my sword and shield.  I press my face to the field –  and the gently setting sun to the twisted steel.          Don’t you got lots to say? It’s past your time          To speak your mind.          The lighted domes in shadowed homes are all I see, but I’ve got          One thing to find... They show it frame by frame –  Each time you hope they won’t run it quite the same.  A smoke trail climbs through the rain –  You wonder what goes first in the dying brain.          Don’t you got lots to say? It’s past your time          To speak your mind.          The lighted domes in shadowed homes are all I see, but I’ve left          One thing behind... And I found your old room. And I said I’d stay to play one tune. And I saw your beautiful face. And I thought, ‘My god, what’s happened to this place?’  Don’t say, my love, Hush now little heart O Carver of trembling hand that it’s too late, my love, See the world was Set against you We both are waking Well you know that it’s time to go…  Oh, you ask me now what I’ve found –  I chase the Westward Day at the speed of sound.  You’ve got it turned around –  Prometheus has shrugged, and Atlas is bound. 

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released March 29, 2019

Musicians: Michael Hamm (Vocals, guitar, percussion), Tom Deis (Synths, guitar, percussion), Miranda Troutt (Vocals), Syd McClune (Vocals on Westward Day), Aleida Gehrels (Viola), Taylor Rae Jensen (Cello), Travis Gore (Bass), Jimmie Herrod (Choir), Mike Jauregui (Choir), Tim Keller (Choir), Ashleigh Miller (Choir), Ursula Sahagian Slover (Choir).

Album stem tracks are available for free (CC-attribution) at cosmozoa.com

Cosmozoa is electrochamber music based in Seattle WA. Ice Age Gospel was written by Michael Hamm and produced/mixed by Tom Deis. Music was recorded at: Pineapple Room Studio (Kerhonkson NY), Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Open Ear Studios (Kirkland WA), and Cosmozoa Cave (Seattle.) Recordings were engineered by Tom Deis, Michael Hamm, Mike Wall, and Steve Ditore. Mastered by Levi Seitz at Blackbelt Mastering (Seattle).

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Michael Hamm ia a composer of electroacoustic chamber music in Seattle, WA, USA.

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