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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    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.
    ships out within 2 days
    edition of 99 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $35 USD or more 

     

  • 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

      $15 USD or 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..

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from Heliotropism, released September 15, 2012
Piano by (Anthony) Knuppel

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GioSafari New York, New York

GioSafari was the pseudonym for singer-songwriter and peace activator Gio Andollo. He lives in NYC, where he has committed to music - songwriting, recording, busking, performing, promoting - and activism. He speaks truth to power in the heart of Empire, recalling the subversive musical traditions of American folk & punk, singing for peace & justice, and advocating the use of bicycle helmets. ... more

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