This is a double album including both Heliotropism and its companion album, The Pulvinar Movements.
The CD packages were hand-made with pages of the Occupied Wall Street Journal. The envelopes are stamped with the original album art by Alex Velazquez (@x2creator) and also contain a pamphlet of liner notes, lyrics, and sheet music called The People's Hymnal, a packet of sunflower seeds, and a sticker of the album art.
Includes unlimited streaming of Heliotropism
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Double-album disc, packaged in recycled cardboard sleeve stamped with original album art by Alex Velazquez; includes The People's Hymnal, a pamphlet of liner notes, lyrics, and sheet music.
Includes unlimited streaming of Heliotropism
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
Purchasable with gift card
$15USDor more
lyrics
Some say there’s nothing so frightening.
At least they’ve come that far.
Most days I’m lucky if I can get there -
Apathy, complacency, ambivalence, distractions
And sometimes just a book face
Get in the way.
Windows into the soul-less, I’ll gaze long into those eyes:
A face with no expression,
A book with no real phrases,
Just fragments, abbreviations, acronyms, and lies.
And lies.
Language dissolves,
And while that book is no book at all
These bound compositions
Wide-ruled, hole-punched, and perforated
(are) Each a perfectly blank page
Each a black, blank, blank...
Can I take back two cents?
Perhaps they’d buy me some lost time,
And a new blank page; but I fear it’s too late,
For I’m hopeless - that face,
those eyes have sucked me in deep.
Am I in too deep?
Will I recall
That while that book is no book at all
These bound compositions,
Wide-ruled, hole-punched, and perforated
Each a perfectly blank page.
Each a blank, blank, blank...
I’ve become a character in the story,
Codependent with the rest.
And even with the binding
that straps us ever tighter,
We suspect that everything’s unraveling;
We’re crashing...
Into these walls.
And while that book is no book at all.
These bound compositions,
Wide-ruled, hole-punched and perforated
Each a perfectly blank page.
Each a blank blank blank,
So now I’ll get on the ball
‘cause while that book is no book at all,
These bound compositions,
Wide-ruled, hole-punched and perforated
Each a perfectly blank page.
Each a blank, blank, blank..
credits
from Heliotropism,
released September 15, 2012
Piano by (Anthony) Knuppel
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