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A Netherworld Knot
04:30
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Ancient Gishbanda is set into the mountain
A trap
On a cliff-clinging path
At the doors of the life-giving sun
At its dark shrine
Frightening and red
Ningishzida watches open-handed
His black hair falling across his back
A net of eyes and taut muscle
A foot-shackling netherworld knot
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Dream-Opener
05:09
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The wild cow of the Sirara shrine
Rises into the future
Adorned
Jeweled dream-opener
Born in the darkened sea-foam,
Playing in gleaming waves
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A Jeweled Bed
03:36
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A jeweled bed
Heart-soothing
Strewn with herbs
The burnished bricks of Badtibira
Rise shining over the steppe
Where the shepherd protects his sheep from pacing lions
Beaten copper
Radiant in the morning light
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The temple at Zabalam
Swathed in shimmering beams
A sanctuary of wakening desire spread wide
Resounding
In her hallowed chamber
A woman at twilight
Moving among the bright things
All her own
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A Field-Flattening Blade
04:29
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On the green hill of the temple at Lagash
Women pour wine into fine stone vessels under the sky
Unequaled
Unceasing
A radiant fire, fate-cutting
A field-flattening blade
A drenching, destroying blast
A wind
A battle storm spawned from a glance
Whirlpools spin in its river
Whirlwinds pour through its gate
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Untouched by Moonlight
04:06
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Ninhursag’s Temple coils on the mountain
The lady’s house built on an imposing cliff
Inside, a womb, deep, fixed in place by incantation
From here all form is birthed,
In a deep darkness
Untouched by moonlight
Open-mouthed fear like a great poisonous snake
Towering over the world,
In roaring silence.
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Born of Sharpened Reeds
07:41
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The starry temple at Eresh welcomes all directions
People lift their heads to hear the wisest women
Read from cool blue tablets
Born of sharpened reeds
Measuring the earth and the sky
Their knowledge moves into the world
Enheduanna bound this tablet together
Something never before created
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Michael Bell Bellingham, Washington
A Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too.
Some of this is music for video games. The rest is a fairly raw document of my ongoing attempt to find something new among the blinking lights in my studio at home.
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Noveller got me started. This is essential listening for guitar explorers. Always inspires me to continue the search for new ways to shape the air.
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This is the sound of music after music. For brave listeners (or those, like me, who aspire to be).
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Some Music for Robby Müller
by SQÜRL
If you find yourself washed in blissful guitar feedback as you play alone in your attic studio at 3am, this is for you.
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David Peacock reimagines the Disasterpeace score for piano.
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Mini Metro: RMX KIT
by Disasterpeace
Disasterpeace's latest game soundtrack is packed to the gills with samples, mimicking the background noise of the subways in the game.
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featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 5, 2013
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