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Sweet Beyond Witness

by Eliot Cardinaux

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    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

    Includes a (digital) PDF of the album's accompanying chapbook, featuring poetry off the album + bonus items, with photography by Eliot Cardinaux.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in a lovely eco-wallet with photography by Jade Wollin and Eliot Cardinaux, designed by Katya Popova.

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1.
Lately 00:33
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2.
Prudent Nature 01:35
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3.
Long Live the King! 03:39
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4.
Gunsnap 00:58
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5.
Collector (Sonnet for the Sentries) 02:05
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6.
And Youth is the Moon 00:39
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7.
Immacule 01:44
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8.
Dada 04:10
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9.
Sunspring 00:41
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10.
Poor Devil and Chorus (Augury) 02:31
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11.
Woodsdrip 03:21
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12.
Nocturnal 00:35
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13.
Meridians (Limbo/Steps/Overlook/Witness) 05:22
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14.
Nativity 03:04
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15.
Snowflake 01:51
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16.
Vestige 00:51
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17.
Galileo 03:06
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18.
Dead Hands 00:26
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19.
Reflections 02:50
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20.
Y'dob T'fird 00:58
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21.
Launch 02:12
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about

I want intent and execution to circle the scrap like a murder of crows, to a tragicomic drop, a beloved mishandling that leaves a crack in it.

Why? Because my music acts as a weathervane, allows me to stuff it like a letter, with or without second glance into a bottleneck, swearing as I go, to leave on a wine-dark sea that is not my own for a stranger to find, uncork, and finally hear. And yes, that particular stranger might be you.

The body forgiven in its kind of favor, holds a mental acuity that it can manage — some sway — and that mistaken supplication of a dream with what the spirit wants. But a true, foretelling dream — one that comes in sleep and then is murky — never leaves without a trace.

-Eliot Cardinaux

credits

released August 8, 2018

Eliot Cardinaux — solo piano, spoken word

Music and poetry by Eliot Cardinaux
Engineered by Joe Stewart
Mixed and mastered by Eivind Opsvik
Cover Photo by Eliot Cardinaux
Design by Katya Popova
Produced by Eliot Cardinaux

Recorded in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
at Dimension Sound Studio
June 11th, 2017

I was at the reservoir,
and God was in the reeds.
They spoke without sound, without silence.

The devil smiled with me.
Sweet beyond witness, I walked away,
alone, before my family awoke.

-Eliot Cardinaux

This music is dedicated
to the victims of violence
and oppression around
the world.

Special thanks to all my family.
© 2018

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The Bodily Press Amherst, Massachusetts

The Bodily Press is an independent poetry press & record label founded by poet/pianist Eliot Cardinaux. Mostly an avenue for its founder's own work, the press features a catalogue of original work in the fields of both lyric poetry & improvised music.

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