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STAR​-​TAKER

by Nightblooms

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Working paper astrolabe included free with CD. Based on Chaucer’s c. 1391 "Treatise on the Astrolabe" and designed by Dominic Ford in-the-sky.org
    Star-taker" is the literal translation of "astrolabe". Download code also included.

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1.
lunar sortie 04:25
set it alight salvage the rest gone unused in your head and leave it for dead maybe the smoke will cover the scent of the burning desire killed in its own fire pause on the reel floating away watching suns fall and rise like empires in eyes stain on the white gravity comes like a heart on the attack technicolor black tournant et tournant ne pas s'arrêter sortie la lune et allons à la mer tournant et tournant ne pas s'arrêter sortie la lune et allons à la mer orbit has won now make me whole and then halve me again have me again footsteps ahead i know that bend i have been here before no need to explore turning and turning degree by degrees lets leave the moon and take to the seas turning and turning and never to cease lets leave the moon and take to the seas
2.
analog head 04:18
infinite approaching halide fade out into fade in in the warp it's warm oxygen on iron glitch upon an artifact run aground inside her math there's no ending to the edge inside your analog head there are no ledges off which to fall i can't slip through any particles i can't escape the cosine curve of the unbroken wave we form see light echo off the sea split upon the blade of your cheek you erode the jagged edge inside my analog head coming to inside the cave discern the light by how the shade behaves see the beauty in the blur we are wave and they are particle the beginning blend into the end you've no pixels to defend only bleed into the next inside your analog head
3.
reverser 04:21
bending the waves to make a color yet one yet unnamed / yet one yet unnamed fixed air exhale encrypt the plan and hide it under your skin / under my skin sunriser / realizer / dissolver / revolver daybreaker / mistaker / reverser / reverser burn reentry through the atmosphere nothing left of me / nothing left of me versed in light reversed to dark when i can't understand / i can't understand and then we land on the leeward side translating eyes / translating eyes
4.
you're the ocean i am the sky the horizon is a beautiful lie the sea touches the sky as far as we can see though they lie on the horizon they're as far apart as they could be sharpen the awl now cut along the fault line tell me where to fall apart vanishing point in the distance where we join the horizon is a lovely lie the sea reflects the blue sky the ocean seeds the rain the rain then feeds the ocean in turn it turns the sky to grey skies are in your eyes oceans deep in mine i'm what makes you blue and you are what makes me cry in haze and in the distance there is blurring of the line what is yours and what is mine still i am yours and you are mine...
5.
you paint my face a landscape lips to trespass, eyes to violate tape spinning round wax spinning sound eyes are stealing air like funnel clouds traveling parallel it's hard to tell burning through your layers like the circles of hell slave or satellite reach the limit of the light curve in orbit round the slope of your smile can you see i'm an empty galaxy i will let you burn inside the arms of me
6.
drawn 03:49
would i could write down such lines parallel and side by side they meet in odd geometry akin to synchronicity pull me down while you descend lines like lovers curve the bend do you think these things exist spite the gods despite the myths nothing's black and nothing's white shade of gray my shaft of light trapped in a box with blue sky sides i’m free to walk but for your eyes coincidence and happenstance fluke, unhappy accident in outer space of your insides we’re drawn together outside the lines you’re the hero, i’m a star that remembers each night who you are when its dark enough to shine your lines intersect with mine
7.
gravity, hold me down, hold me under give me air to breathe then take it away again take me while you can orbiting and no longer receiving signal from above trace me a path through your sky draw me a map of your love justify what my eyes are seeing give me reasons to move only for you my love anything for you mercury, let me gasp in your vapors while i turn, i seethe while i revolve i am burning teach me how to leave perigee, pull me close to your center satellite or slave? close enough to burn far enough to keep turning keep turning…. keep turning returning...
8.
<3=02 04:24
drop me like a bomb you can't diffuse trade in for someone one could really use all the words you say i sent away floating in a ship i carved to keep them safe air is thinning love is oxygen someone stealing air i breathe in let it sink like a ship like a word on the tip of your tongue on your lips upon mine watch me like the time that's running out prove me like an answer that you really doubt take me like a chance you can't refuse make me like a choice that you should never choose
9.
phantom fade 04:56
The sun is sliding over space and time and there is hiding intertwining vine the trees are are keeping something to themselves and there is reaping heavens in our hells and if i you were here i cannot say everything is washing away phantom fade , phantom fade hands are shaking revolving revolver and boughs are breaking baby's in the clover let the distance do its work in time do not resist it but instead resign do not send for help… do not send for help…

about

The album title “Star-taker” is the literal translation of “Astrolabe” -a medieval astronomical calculator- and it reflects the atmospheric, ethereal sound of the lushly harmonized star-gaze songs from Karla Manzur (Dana Falconberry, Alejandro Escovedo)

The CD comes encased in an actual working letter pressed paper astrolabe and will be available for sale at the release show Oct 30, and to order online Oct 31.

The moody and atmospheric sound reflects the classically lyrical themes of time and space, truth and beauty, gravity and the greater forces that that keep us where we are.

Among the many great performances on the record from Austin musicians: the restless noise guitar work of Lauren Gurgiolo (Okkervil River), volatile pedal steel from Ricky Ray Jackson (Phosphorescent) and voltaic synth performances from both Zac Traeger (Zorch), and Gustavo Manzur (Morrissey).

Recorded at Church House and Good Danny’s studios under the artful and artistic creative production team Christopher Cox and Grant Johnson, known as Fat Fuse. (Dana Falconberry, Eastern Sea, Abram Shook, Feverbones).

credits

released October 31, 2014

CREDITS:
All songs copyright Karla Manzur 2014
Vocals, main guitar, main piano- Karla Manzur

LUNAR SORTIE- Noise guitars: Lauren Gurgiolo, Christopher Cox
DRAWN- Synths: Gustavo Manzur, Lap Steel: Simon Page
ANALOG HEAD- Synths: Christopher Cox
REVERSER- other piano- Christopher Cox
FUNNEL CLOUDS- Beats: Dustin Gaudet, Synths: Zac Traeger
HORIZON IS A LIE- Strings: Thomas van der Brook, Bass: Lindsay Greene, Drums: Matthew Shepherd
<3=02/ AIR- Production and all sounds: Sam Chown
SATELLITE OR SLAVE- Pedal Steel: Ricky Ray Jackson
PHANTOM FADE- Piano and Synths: Zac Treager, Beats: Christopher Cox, Noise guitar:Lauren Gurgiolo

Recorded by Fat Fuse at Church House and Good Danny's Studios
Co-produced by Karla Manzur and Fat Fuse
Mastered by Thomas van der Brook/ Tonehaus
Astrolabe design © Dominic Ford www.in-the-sky.org
Letterpress printing by Lindsey Verrill and Dan Grissom / BiscuitPress

THANKS:
In addition to all the above...
so many thanks to these folks for making the release show possible:

All the amazing and inspiring voices of the super-choir
Zac Traeger and The Museum of Human Achievement
Lucia Brimer, Torvald Hessel and the Austin Planetarium
Lindsey Verrill and Dan Grissom- CD Letterpressing
Miranda Burnet / Greg Levin and Flash Tattoos
Jarle Lillemoen and Bone Spirits

And eternal thanks for the love and support from my family...
Mom and Dad
Lil bro Gus
Thomas the Rock

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this is only a place to put the things in my head that spill over into reality stop this is what i think and this is what makes me think this is only a test stop do not worry i will explain upon my arrival stop do not send for help do not send for help ... ... more

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