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Burning Embers Underwater (click for VIDEO link)

VIDEO HERE: youtube.com/watch?v=UzbpJS5mawE
A shipwreck of a song. Dare you go down there with it?
The 4th track from our forthcoming release.
Luciole Langevine - Voice, words, performance soundcloud.com/luciole-langevine
Barry Snaith - Snaithilicious Guitars soundcloud.com/barry_snaith
Production by The Inconsistent Jukebox

Cello sample - Oisin Connolly soundcloud.com/digitalbiscuits

This piece of music was inspired by Richard Devine’s field recording, ‘Hydrophone Recording Of Burning Embers Underwater’, an astounding sound and also an inspired idea to record such a thing. I’ve sampled it here but listen to the full recording, it’s unnerving, eerie and beautiful. soundcloud.com/richarddevine/h...ne-recording-of
Also I thought it would be quite cool to do a ‘cover’ version of something that isn’t even a song.
I urge you check out Richard and his sound design work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Devine

Cover artwork ©mothmeister. You can view and/or buy their cards and prints here: etsy.com/uk/shop/mothmeister?r...hophome_leftnav

Burning embers underwater
(words by Luciole Langevine)


Under the white swirls
 and the smooth surface, hermetically closed, frozen in the lake,
 such as wireless puppets, posed on mud bed
. Staring eyes.

The glossy touch. Long brown algae 
and slow motion of the aquatic mass, 
viscous cold shroud 
enveloping flowage

.
This is where they have failed and sunk, 
taking with them their useless weapons. 


When small keys, 
the delicate spring will return to earth. 

When the conquering sun will dart 
golden rays
, its light sweetness, in the delivered water. 
When the banks will vibrate, 
watering the roots
 that the lake will shudder beneath butterflies wings 
and its blue mirror will stretch in an astounded O
 for diving birds.

When in its depths 
and out of sleep, 
the hungry fishes, 
scavengers, dark cleaners, lips curled over sharp razors 
in a rolling ballet, 
undulating fins 
and noxious bubbles
, will devour all the flesh of the lying bodies. 

It will remain of these foolish men 
under the sun, victorious sun, 
only pale bones, some yellow ivory
 and steel reflections.
Burning embers underwater
(I can hear seagulls sniggering).




Here's the french version, which we will also do for the album (or as a free download).

Burning embers underwater
Sous les volutes blanches
et la surface lisse
refermée hermétique
Figés au fond du lac
comme des pantins sans fil
posés sur lit de vase
les yeux fixes


L'effleurement glacé
des longues algues brunes
et le lent mouvement
de la masse aquatique
visqueuses vagues d'ondes
froid linceul enveloppant
C'est là qu'ils ont échoué et là qu'ils ont sombré
emportant avec eux leurs armes inutiles


Quand à petites touches
le délicat printemps
reviendra sur la terre
Quand le soleil vainqueur dardera
rayons d'or
sa douceur lumineuse
dans les eaux délivrées






Quand vibreront les berges
abreuvant leurs racines
Que frémira le lac
aux ailes des libellules
et que son miroir bleu
s'étonnera en O
aux plongeons des oiseaux


Quand dans ses profondeurs
et sortant du sommeil
les poissons affamés
nettoyeurs nécrophages
les lèvres retroussées
sur des rasoirs tranchants
dans un ballet glissant
de nageoires ondulantes
et de bulles méphitiques
décharneront les corps


Ne restera des hommes
sous le soleil vainqueur
que des ossements blêmes
et des reflets d'acier


Burning embers underwater


(Je peux entendre le ricanement des mouettes)