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Iwazaru / Mizaru

by Robocobra Quartet

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1.
Iwazaru 02:50
thoughtful plan as an island of a man didn't pay chipping away 'til i've got nothing left to say chipping away 'til i'm bare and i see no evil anywhere "speak only if it improves upon the silence" i guess i'll choose deaf as well as mute at least my pinball game would improve.
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Mizaru 03:52
reverie never fail me i'm currently the parsee but i'd rather live like ali a strafe to the side in lieu of a step back into hindsight i dream fast and loose but today i'm slow and skintight i don't dream at night reverie endlessly i wouldn't wish upon my latest enemy my hands outstretched at 180 living the life o' reality i dream of playing it cruel but when i shift gear, i stall i don't dream at all i guess the drone will always get through i'll call when i know what to do but i won't promise you when dark figures emerge, i'll do what i do i dream of getting stuck on a hill-start knocked back, dominos do their part sodium cascades there's something about trains eternal verge of tears but i haven't cried for years i dream of no fear but neurosis takes the wheel and steers

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"In 2015 we wrote three songs named after the 'hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil' monkeys. The track Mizaru was a proper musical collaboration between Nathan and I - it was written on a Fender Bass VI which is sort of somewhere between a bass and a guitar. We tried to get the dream-like vibe of impressionist composers like Satie and Debussy - I still love that song and we play it all the time live. There's a really grumbly cool sound from a BOSS slicer pedal in the second verse that I wish we turned up louder in the mix. Iwazaru is some kind of weird off-kilter bossa nova with lyrics basically telling myself to stop talking so much (here I am five years later typing random spiel). There was also a third recording titled Kikazaru ("hear no evil") which wasn't released by us but went on a compilation instead (see what we did there). Fiona McDonnell did the artwork for this and we've been really close pals since. Check her out online, she's a great illustrator. Small Town America Records did these cool lathe-cut records, they looked great but did not sound very good but hey there's always spotify?". - Chris, April 2020

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released October 16, 2015

Tom Tabori - Soprano Sax
Jamie Mackenzie - Tenor Sax
Nathan Rodgers - Bass
Chris Ryan - Drums/Vocals

Recorded by Chris Ryan at Start Together Studios, Belfast
Assistant Engineering by Chris Brazier
Mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio, New York
Artwork by Fiona McDonnell

Lathe-cut 7" vinyl release by Smalltown America
Digital release by Abbreviated Records

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