Comes in gatefold card cover that holds an inner cover with printed spoken words and a 28-page booklet with lyrics, artworks by Artashes Stamboltsyan, and more. All is put in a Japanese mini-LP sleeve polypropylene bag - ideal for such a packaging!
18-page digital booklet in PDF format contains the original poems with their publishing year, artworks, the book matters, etc., provides easy navigation (see the picture) and is supported with clickable URLs to the related external web-resources. Best viewed in Full Screen mode.
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The third an final theatrical piece written for this album. What does he do? What is he actually intended to do?
lyrics
MAN: ... so what he understood and what he wanted to deliver to the people was just a plain truth – so plain that you can spend your life trying to explain it to Mankind, and yet not be able to do it.
WOMAN: Errr... Sooo, did you perceive that plain truth?
MAN: Mmmm... Yes, I did!
WOMAN: Disclose it!
MAN: Oh... come on...
WOMAN: Why not? Let us know the truth!
MAN: Are you kidding? Do you really think that my path, which I have been following all my life, and what I found and lost while moving along it, will somehow affect people’s perception of Happiness and fill their hearts with Love? Especially all those bigots who count the bows in front of the icons, but - minutes after! - spit thrice over their shoulders to repel the evil eye. Actually, they don’t even spit – they pretend to. Now, just drop a hint about the similarity between that and some witchcraft - and be prepared to protect yourself from them wanting to scratch out your eyes! On their way home from the church they start whispering some spells and look into their mirrors if suddenly they have noticed that a black cat has crossed their way. They follow all those fasting rules, but in the evenings, in order to multiply their richness, show coins to the Moon and then bury those coins in the ground under some trees! And they keep on filling their days, their years - their lives after all! - with all these superstitions! Superstitions, and not faith! Bigots!
WOMAN: Faggots!
MAN: No, not faggots but bigots! I’m serious.
WOMAN: OK, OK, but I am not one of them, so tell me! Come on, I want it now!
MAN: What I would say will neither upset you, nor please you, because this is what I understood by myself, what was revealed to me alone, and basically this is the fact that I am happy only when I feel my immortality through the realisation of my mortality... I’ll say it again: I am happy only when I feel my immortality through the realisation of my mortality.
WOMAN: Jesus!
MAN: Sounds bizarre, I know. But only through that feeling do I understand how I love this Life. Only then do I see that my soul and the souls of a cat, of a fly, of a stone, of a tree... your soul, the soul of water, wind and fire – they all have the same core and the same nature, which is Love! And only then do I feel both the pain and the joy of every soul – of everything that is connected with me; and everything IS connected with me! That is Compassion that comes through Love. And at such moments peace comes to my spirit. At such moments, I am ready to leave this world, but instead I return into it reinforced, ready to create, to love, to spread this Love around and infect others with Life, to give joy, to explore and to lead. And to believe in all this! Believe! I wonder, if I hadn't meet you all, bigots, on my way, would have I been able to find my Faith? Would have I been able to perceive Mercy, Pity, Peace, Love?
credits
from Westerlies,
track released October 28, 2019
Mikayel Abazyan - voice
Christina Danielian - voice
Born on July 9, 1971.
Self-trained playing piano, guitar and later - bass, which allowed me playing and making a few
recordings with various bands in Yerevan.
In 2014, joined a special project dedicated to the music of Peter Hammill and Van der Graaf Generator, which brought me back to studio work. Having released yet another successful solo tribute, started producing my own music.
And I like it!...more
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Passacaglia is one of the loveliest works of mighty JSB. While I adore HB's playing and his wonderful digital instrument as well, I admit that this record is jaw dropping for me. Frank Hadlich
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Hi Hugh, just a quick note that I pre-ordered the BIG box; I was lucky to pass this off as a birthday gift to myself ;).
I’ve been passing the Burning Shed order page around, but I do not believe it will be necessary as it seems to be selling in droves.
Anyhow thanks for all the work you do to preserve these recordings; it surely is a massive undertaking.
I hope I get to see the band play live again here in Montreal, but none of us are getting any younger….
Mark
Mark Penny
Boston post-punk outfit Junk Ranchers broke up in 1986 before this, their debut album, was released; darkly melodic, it's a long-lost gem. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 22, 2020
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They played a wonderful set at Summer’s End in October 2018 which was based around this album . For me it was one of the sets of the weekend. The record is a wonderful permanent reminder of the show. Tony Honour