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The Jaunt

by Obsidian Sky Records

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Recorded remotely and collaboratively with each musician adding new layers as the song evolved. Andy Martin of Clamfight on vocals, Erik Caplan of Thunderbird Divine on guitar, drones, and harmonica, Davis Schlachter of End of Hope on bass and keyboards, and Ken Wohlrob of Eternal Black and End of Hope on guitar, keyboards, and programming.

lyrics

Turkey, 1958
I've got headphones on and the counter in my hand
Back in '51, Howard Hawks said, "Watch the skies"
But is was our job to listen to them
It was fitting in a way
Because 250 miles east and 12,000 years before
Men had raised stones to mark the stars' path
Before ceramics, before crops, before houses,
Nomads had raised monoliths in their honor
And now 12,000 years later,
We were listening to the first men to die among them

We may not have made our figures in stone,
But it all came down to numbers just the same
For the nomads, it was placing a stick to mark the sun's rise or set every day
For us, it came down to beats-per-minute
Beats pulled off a radio transmission coming from 23,000 miles above
So I sat there and I counted beats
180 beats that's a monkey
A rhesus if you're particular

140 beats, that's a dog
A laika to be precise
Whether stealing fish in Siberia or spinning above the earth
It was all the same to them
100 beats, that's us, Homo sapiens sapiens
Brave volunteers spinning above us for the glory of the USSR

And what did we do?
We listened to them and counted the beats
But more importantly, we listened to them stop
180 beats, a monkey, STOP
140 beats, a dog, STOP
100 beats, a man, STOP

See I read somewhere that the first things man built were either calendars or graveyards
Stones to mark the stars or stones to mark the dead
I don't think they saw a difference
12,000 years later, we fulfilled the monolith's promise
Those stones that mark the sun and the moon and the stars
Well now they mark the monkeys and the dogs and the men
Spinning frozen and dead above us for all time
That's it when you look up at the night
It's just a graveyard,
A cemetery,
A frozen mortuary spinning above you
That's all there is
Empty except for Death

credits

released July 8, 2020
Andy Martin (Clamfight): vocals
Erik Caplan (Thunderbird Divine): guitar, drones, harmonica
Davis Schlachter (Reign of Zaius / Clothesline / End of Hope): bass, synthesizer, piano
Ken Wohlrob (Eternal Black / End of Hope): guitars, Moog, programming
Joe Kelly: percussion

Produced by Ken Wohlrob and Joe Kelly
Mixed and Mastered by Joe Kelly
Song by Wohlrob, Martin, Schlachter, and Caplan
© 2020 Swarm of Flies / All Rights Reserved
Obsidian Sky Records

Our other bands:
eternalblack.bandcamp.com
endofhope.bandcamp.com
thunderbirddivine.bandcamp.com
clamfight.bandcamp.com
reignofzaius.bandcamp.com

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Obsidian Sky Records Mohegan Lake, New York

Experimental, ambient, heavy music. Home to musical projects from Ken Wohlrob and other artists.

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