Songs of the Five or Six Eyes, by The Bastard Kings of Samadhi

Songs of the Five or Six Eyes

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1.	It Begins 06:44	buy track
2.	Nine Doe Morning 06:09	buy track
3.	Sophie 03:03	buy track
4.	Mr. Mumbles 01:33	buy track
5.	A Gentle Moment 04:06	buy track
6.	One Thousand Times 02:13	buy track
7.	Old Wizard 07:35	buy track
8.	The Last Question 02:29	buy track
9.	Hurricane 03:12	buy track
10.	This Is Not Okay 03:16	buy track
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about

This project came about from a few intersecting events and ideas. I began working on short pieces in late 2019 with the idea of adding vocals from somebody. This somebody turned into Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls) and Michael Pistrui (Fat Gray Cat). It has been since the early 90’s that I have purposely used words in my music. This last Feb the three of us worked together on a project titled ‘Happy dead Man’. This will come out fall 2020. Our current world situation being what it is I was left with the desire to continue working in this way but am not able to. With some encouragement from Alan I began experimenting with my voice a few weeks back to continue with my little adventure into making ‘songs’ and have been pleasantly surprised that I don’t hate it.

Many years ago I realized that if I was going to truly pursue experimental music then that would also include experiments with ‘normal’ music. How is that experimental? For one I am not a playing many notes, riffs and music knowledge type of fella. With this in mind I have worked with quite a variety of genres, instrumentation and processes over the years but almost never considered making use of my own voice. In the early 80’s I did a bit, mostly horribly distorted using a contact mic in my mouth.

One reason I stayed away from ‘songs’ for so long was my dislike of the use of words to tell ‘the’ story, I want the music to suggest a story that the listener then creates themselves. Returning to what I am considering a kind of last unexplored ‘experimental’ sonic frontier for me is to abandon that dislike of words and dislike of my own voice and pursue the making of songs solo style that tell some kind of story...

The other contributing event was that when Happy Dead Man was recorded I successfully set up my studio for acoustic recording for the first time since the late 90’s. This rekindled my interest in seeing what I could do with the old acoustic instruments left over from Maybe Mental and Life Garden.

This album is the first result of this renewed use of acoustic sounds and voice and will evolve from here.

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released April 30, 2020

All sounds are acoustic in origin with various effects then forming loops becoming... some with overdubs and some without. No keyboards or samples were used or harmed in this recording.

Lyrics are included in a snappy looking PDF and jpgs just cause

all music, lyrics, instruments and voice -wdo

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The Bastard Kings of Samadhi Bisbee, Arizona

W. David Oliphant (-wdo-) is an Arizona based sound artist active since 1979. Inspired by the late 1970’s D.I.Y. Punk and Outsider movement he began experimenting with home-made ‘found’ instruments, electronics and tape manipulation techniques in search of the occult side of sound and the pure joy of creating sonic paintings ... more

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