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A Loss Hard To Measure

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You know... We are dreams... And if one stop to believe in us... Then we disappear...
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Death Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again. A great man in his pride Confronting murderous men Casts derision upon Supersession of breath; He knows death to the bone - Man has created death. WB Yeats
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Sailing to Byzantium. I That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees, —Those dying generations—at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unageing intellect. II An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress, Nor is there singing school but studying Monuments of its own magnificence; And therefore I have sailed the seas and come To the holy city of Byzantium. III O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my soul. Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. IV Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come. Byzantium. The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong; A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins. Before me floats an image, man or shade, Shade more than man, more image than a shade; For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth May unwind the winding path; A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death. Miracle, bird or golden handiwork, More miracle than bird or handiwork, Planted on the starlit golden bough, Can like the cocks of Hades crow, Or, by the moon embittered, scorn aloud In glory of changeless metal Common bird or petal And all complexities of mire or blood. At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flit Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit, Nor storm disturbs, flames begotten of flame, Where blood-begotten spirits come And all complexities of fury leave, Dying into a dance, An agony of trance, An agony of flame that cannot singe a sleeve. Astraddle on the dolphin's mire and blood, Spirit after spirit! The smithies break the flood, The golden smithies of the Emperor! Marbles of the dancing floor Break bitter furies of complexity, Those images that yet Fresh images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea. WB Yeats
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There is nowhere else, no way out, other than to change the world in yourself. It is the only deliverance, to expunge the pain of your pulpit.
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At the edge of the petrifying fountain, inexplicably, I feel myself shivering, but it was only a nervous tic, one of those mysterious quiverings such as the dead have, they say, when they feel someone stepping on their grave. our organic artifacts immersed in the flow of information petrifies, covered by digital film, they turn into virtual stone. People here say it brings good luck. I wondered what would happen if something really alive was placed in the stream. If he could stay still long enough, he would probably turn into a stone statue. Organic death frozen in the permanence of the inorganic. Christopher Priest
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Where are you gone buddy... You've reached the eternity !
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about

The 8th July 2022 Antho is gone in the night. I would like it to be something more magic like in the OA series : a glide into the multiverse. The only thing I'm sure about is that I miss him so much. And I'm not the only one. The weight of this loss is hard to measure, thru the years it's one of the very rare friend I had never lost. Without him, perhaps since 1995 I would be stuck in a psychiatric hospital, never coming to the surface behind my chemical straightjacket. I've done my first step as bass player at this time, but I had turned the amp nearly to zero because I didn't know how to play. Many years later I still don't know, but I can, so we tried in 2014 to play together in another band, disbanded before to release anything. He was not hiding that he was not understanding my experimental sound, mostly outsider music. Despite we were both found of Tuxedomoon, Dead Can Dance, Bauhaus, the Young Gods, Virgin Prunes, Christian Death and of course Killing Joke we were not playing the same kind of music. But we were respectful, like brothers do, to each one's differences. So perhaps he would not enjoy that much this virtual record, but would understand the intention to say goodbye to him by this way. I asked to Studio 112 who knew him before I do to help me on several tracks. This is our memorial to him.

You can listen his old music here
soundcloud.com/obywan
And his last compositions and his Killing Joke Covers here
www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fuBpHu-QzR4453rG_sXwg


I also released an album with remixes of some of his drum'n'bass tracks, because few months ago he talked with me about to create the music for an Aleister Crowley's Poem and I wanted to do another door linked more to his music, it's in free download here
archive.org/details/parrhesia_sound_system_vs_ethnomite_pux_another_beast-feast

Finally, I may add I think it's a blessing to leave such a sick society, death is not for me something to mourn about. At the scale of this world where everyday so many people sink in the sea, die by war or human handmade cataclysms all mostly because of the rich greedy people, it's only one amongst all the everyday atrocious deaths. But he was a very special friend to me. The only one who've been able to write me as birthday gift a portrait poem so accurate that it caught my real spirit.

Dedicated to all the wild boys who can't escape from pain.

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released September 1, 2022

Ed End on all tracks
ello.co/ed_end
Studio 112 on PIRATE Tapes & rADio eNd tracks.
studio112.bandcamp.com
Poems by WB Yeats on track 4 & 8.
Lyrics on track 11 adapted from Christopher Priest's Petrified Fountain.

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Tkno BeurK (grand father electronic experiments)
OresteS (father post-industrial)
Yoshiwaku (kid greyphonics)

Like a snake removing is old skin, Yoshiwaku continues his improvisation journey thru the virgin territory of noise begun in 1999 with Tkno BeurK.

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