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After a yearlong hiatus, I have returned to Mister E. Menachem, to record Natural Pleasure. This track is inspired by my publication of the same title in The Body Electric anthology by and/or press, who invited me to read in New York City while I was still living in Canada. Months later, I now reside in New York City, and while I did not make it to the reading, I have produced this track after a whirlwind of a summer, and into the full hollow beauty of winter. Direct from my Brooklyn pad, through a heady experience of xaphoon, cymbal, and chimes over a decadent percussive synth structure beat out into a phone app, listen on and be swept within.
lyrics
A threshed sweat leaf, singled out over the billowing masses,
A high, overstated nocturne
Dreaming in workaholic shivering screams
That transform lightly into breath of song with male weeping,
And her deserted lips struggle to purse
Over the citrus flesh of an Iberian mother
Calling for heart chains to unlock
Yet distressed and of unruly mind,
She dresses timelessly with prophetic sophistry
Beyond the rasped vocal bead of the Roman elite,
Prideful with elegant cheeses to smother their appetite
For lower slavery below the belt of animal sanity,
And still a ruthless tide follows every inhale
And imbibed breast-milk cry
From the middle earth
High season field of waves,
Lashing out on the rickety back of the African skull,
Swollen with wisdom and envy
To oversee the white planetary momentum
Towards entropy
In the blessed
Beyond fluidity,
A seed to match the Earth,
Sown in the deep darkest matter of space,
Holy black soil of divinity
Preparing for the inner sprout
From within our species
Prototypical brain,
The reason of universal catastrophe,
Being heard and seen
To know self through negation
In living dream and daily waking
Into the stronghold of centered duality
Between an atmospheric pull and heart strung desire,
To expel the soul
And unify with vibration’s border
Along the delicate edge of creativity
From subjective awe to atonement with the Creator
In the lawless gray area of judgment
Gone reckless with inhuman brutality,
An uninspired mode of being
Praying to exit from God
In the instantaneous devotion toward self-mastery
And a conscious crawling towards infinite ecstasy,
Vocation of ultimate being
Expressed through the spiritual instrument of Love
In soundless wonder,
The always evident past
Coming along to partner with vagrant forewarning
In the new moment,
A loud, clear sign
To befriend raw, natural pleasure
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Circle, spoke Yiddish, were Romaniote Greek, English settlers during the revolutionary war of America, and from Germany pioneered in 19th century Alberta, Canada where they also took Blackfoot names. They were buried in religious fame; and so I also go by Menachem ben Asser....more
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