Prisms of Knowing

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about

This started as an improv for the Maker Music Festival in Sebastopol, California, where we were only using instruments we had made, including the pyraharp, Joel's glass exciter setup and woodblocks made from bedposts. You can hear the glass rattling and buzzing at times throughout the song. Includes our own jingle at the beginning! The beat is from the drum machine in an old wurlitzer organ we had just found and hauled all the way across town to the Sweet Wreath studio. The concept is about crying as a form of understanding. Almost like a crystal ball that you look through. Tears as a kind of substance that conveys grief...that perhaps materially constitutes a form of wisdom that our brains can't hold.

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The mages of the moon
in bloom
send electricity
but you'll never leave
my haunted heart

tears are prisms
prisms of knowing

The blood flow to my brain
lemonade
equations of love
that you'll never solve
when darkness falls

What i meant to say
What i meant to say
 
Can you read my thoughts?

My beautiful friend
by God, let this never be
that out of jealousy
we cling to harm

Tears are prisms
prisms of knowing
Prisms are tears
tears are growing

and let me crush
the cruel
part of us

if i shimmer
a little like this

Tears
Are prisms of knowing
of knowing
of knowing

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from Wooden Shoe, released December 15, 2022

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