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Featuring very special guests Rodrigo Azorin Vizcarra (vocals) and Minuz (guitars). "Theresienstadt" is a piano ballad about a man living in a concentration camp who waxes poetic about how great it is - to the point of even inviting his loved one there. I wrote it back in 2018, inspired by a Hannah Arendt essay, but I'm glad it's coming out at this point in history.
"There a more than a few people, especially among the cultural elite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius"
-Hannah Arendt
lyrics
I have saved a place for you
in here, my love
I'm not an engineer
and yet, you've seen me climb
You'll have your opera, and theatre, and rhymes
May not be Heaven on Earth
but it's here, it's us
The Fate of the Prominent is ours to share
There's so many categories at which to glare
I wish that Einstein had been here to see it all
If only Einstein had been here
Our gold is not the gold they buy and sell
My faith is not the faith in which the faithful partake
I wish that Einstein had been here to see it all
If only Einstein had been here
For I have saved a place for you in here, my love
For I have saved a place for you
credits
from
Playing the Apocalypse,
track released September 4, 2020
Music and lyrics by Gabriel Rojo
Rodrigo Azorin Vizcarra - vocals
thisislisis.bandcamp.com
Minuz - electic guitars
minuzger.bandcamp.com
Gabriel Rojo - piano, melodica, drone, samples and field recordings
and featuring the ghosts of Hannah Arendt + interviewer
Produced and mixed by Gabriel Rojo
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