Gabriel Rojo - song, vocals, piano, Microkorg, samples
Mel Helmick - cicada field recording
Featuring the ghost of T.S. Eliot reading an excerpt from "The Waste Land: What the Thunder Said"
From "SlowTime Grace"
Cover portrait: Agustín Gambino
lyrics
The Impossibility of Crows
"You are the task. No pupil far and wide"
-Franz Kafka
A random element in chance
and a system to the Heavens
A hundred thousand flaws
An impossibility of crows
A single lonely crow
The heavens could destroy
And yet I'm still standing
still I won't let go
For heaven simply means:
"The impossibility of crows"
There is no poet that is not a mystic
There is no heart that doesn't crave a soul
There is a language of the young,
a language of the old,
An impossibility of crows
So my love do not struggle
My love do not let go
I will be crawling to your river
I will be crawling to your shore
But there is no river
And there is no shore
There's only what is mine
and only what is yours
An impossibility of crows
(The creature who says
"me" and "mine"
need not bend down in shame -
along with lakes and mountains
the ego is created
and divine
-Leonard Cohen)
supported by 5 fans who also own “The Impossibility of Crows (Cicada Mix)”
While I enjoy drifts and drones like any other ambient fan, what I like the most is experimental stuff like this, offering sounds you have never really heard before. Very cinematic as well. RICHARD ALMASI
supported by 5 fans who also own “The Impossibility of Crows (Cicada Mix)”
Take the shimmering guitars of the Cocteau Twins, dilate and lengthen with the wistfulness of Boards of Canada and release them like one of Robert Rich’s haunting soundscapes with a jazz coda and you have Carlo Giustini's 'Custodi'. It's brilliant. sepulchre19