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Music: Allen, Falcone, Pinnock, Williams, Palmer, Thoms
Text: Calvert, Neville-Neil, Thom The World Poet
Bass Guitar – Michael Clare
Didgeridoo – Neil Pinnock
Guitar [33 Degree Left Guitar], Voice [Endvoice] – Daevid Allen
Guitar [33 Degree Right Guitar] – Trevor Thoms
Bass Synth, Samples (including a Michael Moorcock interview), Vibraphone [Outro Vibes] – Don Falcone
Synthesizer [Swirling Synths] – Steve Palmer
Vibraphone [Vibes], Synth – Paul Williams
Voice – Thom The World Poet
Voice ["Weird Language" Intro] – Robert Calvert
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Drive-By Poetry
05:42
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Music By – Bruce Smith, Falcone
Text By – Calvert, Falcone, Neville-Neil, Thom
Bass [Akashic], Computer [Digi Scrubs], Chorus – Don Falcone
Chorus – Karen Anderson
Didgeridoo [Mooch] – Neil Pinnock
Drums [Akashic] – Bruce Smith
Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar – Jerry Jeter
Sounds [Intro Crashes & Godzilla Spikes] – ST37
Synth [Additional], Computer [Mac Sounds] – Steve Palmer
Synth [Main] – Carl Howard
Voice ["Centigrade 232" Reading] – Robert Calvert
Voice ["Currumbin Bird Sanctuary"] – Thom The World Poet
Voice [Haiku Voice] – Daevid Allen
"Drive-By Poetry" Haikus by Roger Neville-Neil, Chorus by Don Falcone, "Currumbin Bird Sanctuary" by Thom, "Centigrade 232," by Robert Calvert
(opening haikus)
white circular lines
along the streets that i walk
alone in the night
our lives cross boundaries
like halos of spectrral dust
in a video scene
our lives cross boundaries
like halos of spectral dust
in a vivid dream
(chorus)
give me a shot of your drive-by poetry
a haiku, a rhyme, or a form that's free,
give me a shot of your drive-by poetry
give me a shot
(Currumbin Bird Sanctuary)
zoo means feeding times, regular as pension checks
these wild birds flash, flock, flip in to drink adventure's milk
they flap out again threading the skies with insubordiante
gossiping, once the feeding stops
we were birds once, we marvel at our stolen colors
we see our once wide wings, our tiny ranbow opulences
we hold ourselves in a world with hands and feed our futures
stock is food and water, y2k means nothing to a bird
milennial fever is a human disease
and we are birds who flip above ourselves
with smiling ecstasies
(chorus)
give me a shot of your drive-by poetry
a haiku, a rhyme, or a form that's free,
give me a shot of your drive-by poetry
give me a shot
(excerpts from Centigrade 232)
At Lexington they are going to burn
A hoard of books for charity....
(chorus)
give me a shot of your drive-by poetry
a haiku, a rhyme, or a form that's free,
give me a shot of your drive-by poetry
give me a shot
(closing haikus)
granite stelas
rising from earth to heaven
(excerpts from Centigrade 232)
At Lexington they are going to burn
A hoard of books for charity....
Round these towering volumes the flames will churn
As night and winter's dark they spurn
And threaten with their clarity.
The fire's fierce theatre draws herds of folk
All willing to be hynotised;
Anemones of flame and reefs of smoke
Enchant us so, we'd gladly choke
To see the dark so well disguised.
'Oh, look, the Bible's all on fire', we cheered
At its catching. 'Oh watch it flare'.
It was like this of old, when witches reared
Against the stake; we stood and peered
At such Aladdin caves of air.
These mushrooming billows of coral form
The fevered brain of fire on high,
Whose dream of destroying the world by storm
Will, in the ashes, still be warm
Long after its illusions die.
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Retrospectre
02:47
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Music: Jeter, Anderson
Bass – Michael Clare
Drums – Paul Williams
Guitar – Jerry Jeter
Keyboards [Manipulation Of Original Keys] – Don Falcone
Keyboards [Original Keys] – Karen Anderson
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Clear Audient
04:33
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Music: Falcone, Magnusson, Williams, Rockwell, Thoms
Bass – Michael Clare
Chapman Stick – Teed Rockwell
Drums – Paul Williams
Electric Guitar – Judge Trev
Mellotron – Kenneth Magnusson
Piano, Synthesizer [K2000 Strings] – Don Falcone
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I'll Give You Cumulus
02:39
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Music: Mushroom
Bass – Kurt Statham
Drums – Patrick O'Hearn
Guitar [Snake Guitar] – Erik Pearson
Horn [Soccer Horn], Remix – Don Falcone
Keyboards – Michael Holt
Lute [Saz] – Jay Radford
Mellotron – Kenneth Magnusson
Percussion – Dave Mihaly
Trumpet – Jon Birdsong
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Hidden Rope Trick
02:48
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Music: Allen, Falcone, Pearson, Palmer
Lyrics: Allen
Guitar, Voice, Text By – Daevid Allen
Synth – Steve Palmer
Synth [Orchestral Synths] – Don Falcone
Synths – Doug Pearson
"Hidden Rope Tricks" lyrics by Daevid Allen
oh precocious moment, enjoy yourself for now
for soon you will dissolve into the great song
for we are all sparkling melodies in a one great song
arise and pass, arise and pass, arise and pass
hold it in your open heart, and never try to own this art
everything and nothing, everyone and no-one
I live in an illusion
and if there is a reality, I do not know this
I see that I am nothing, and being nothing
I am everything
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Music: [Intro] – Falcone, D. Pearson, Thoms; [Brief Transition] – D. Pearson, Mushroom, Wobbly; [Main Body] – D. Pearson, Mushroom
Bass – Alec Palao
Drums – Patrick Thomas O'Hearn
Guitar – Josh Pollock
Guitar [Intro And Transition Distorted] – Trev Thoms
Guitar [Snake Guitar] – Erik Pearson
Keyboards – Marc Capelle
Loops [Wobbly] – Jon Leidecker
Percussion – Dave Mihaly
Sounds [AM Radio], Synth [Intro] – Don Falcone
Synths – Doug Pearson
Trombone – Carroll Ashby
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8. |
Eye=I
06:33
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Music: Mushroom
Drum [Tone] – Teed Rockwell
Drums [Original] – Patrick O'Hearn
Drums [Processed (Delayed/Modulated)] – Grawer
Electronic Drums [Electro Drum Kit] – Paul Williams
Guitar [Snake] – Erik Pearson
Keyboards – Michael Holt
Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar – Daevid Allen
Lute [Saz] – Jay Radford
Maracas – Michael Clare
Noises [Grindlestone] – Don Falcone
Noises [Grindstone] – Doug Erickson
Percussion – Dave Mihaly
Sounds [Bottle, Mic Stand] – Duane Zarakov
Sounds [Occasional Bottle Toots] – Doug Pearson
Whistle, Other [Toys] – Jon Birdsong
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Bird Swarmy Loop
02:12
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Music: Allen, Falcone, Pearson, ST37
Bass – Scott L Telles
Drone, Guitar [Gliss] – Daevid Allen
Drum [Silent] – Dave Cameron
Guitar – Joel Crutcher, Mark Stone
Loops [Electro Birds], Tape [Swarm Manipulations] – Don Falcone
Synth – Carlton Crutcher
Violin – Doug Pearson
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Music: Falcone, Pearson, Jeter, ST37
Text: Falcone
Band [Space Beach Band] – ST37
Choir – Karen Anderson
Lead Vocals ["Drowning In Space"] – Jerry Jeter
Piano, Synth – Doug Pearson
Sounds [Liquids, Static], Voice [Dialogues] – Don Falcone
"Throw Yourself In" lyrics for Intelli-Fish by Don Falcone
Here comes another cosmic cluster
dive in
down far
swim out
Here comes another cosmic cluster
black hole
hot star
blind spot
i'm drowning in space
but i still might get out
dripping in space
from my soul to my mouth
and I sight a band of muses
they're shifting light, and playing night
on a dry (bed of) space beach
who knows what they are all about
who knows what they are all about
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Music: Falcone, Pearson, Zarakov, Grawer, Crutcher, Anderson, Stone
Bass – Karen Anderson
Drum [Kit] – Grawer
Guitar – Joel Crutcher, Mark Stone
Hihat [Mutron Phased Hi-Hats] – Duane Zarakov
Synthesizer, Computer [Digital Clicks & Kicks] – Don Falcone
Violin, Synthesizers: Doug Pearson
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ST37, - Walking Shadow
04:26
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Music: Falcone, Jeter, ST37
Text: [Chorus] – dF; [Verses] – Neville-Neil
Bass – Scott L Telles
Drum – Dave Cameron
Guitar – Joel Crutcher, Mark Stone
Keyboards [Keys] – Don Falcone
Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar – Trevor Thoms
Synth – Carlton Crutcher
Vocals – Jerry Jeter
"Walking Shadow" verses by Roger Neville-Neil, chrous by Don Falcone
I am the walking shadow
Enter wher your dreams have fled
The nocturnal spectre
No sound like a cat paws tread
I'm the quiet side of midnight in a deserted room
My laughter the shiver
Released from its tomb
I am
and I'm not
Anything
You can't see
(chorus)
You open your eyes, and you will see
You'll see the walking shadow arrive
You open your eyes, and you will see
You'll see the walking shadow alive
I am the walking shadow
Enter wher your dreams have fled
The nocturnal spectre
No sound like a cat paws tread
I'm a faint line in space
A border where nothing exists
A retinal void
The memory you're unable to resist
I am
and I'm not
Anything
You can't see
(chorus)
You open your eyes, and you will see
You'll see the walking shadow arrive
You open your eyes, and you will see
You'll see the walking shadow alive
I am the walking shadow
I continue when you cease to be
I infiltrate all light
Cause your vision to flee
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Music: Erickson, Gerwers, Williams
Poem: Gerwers
Guitar – Doug Erickson
Synth – Paul Williams
Voice – Knut Gerwers
"The Idle Hours Of The Fruit Fly" Poem by Knut Gerwers
in my spare time
- which is the time they spare me -
when I hitch an aerial ride through this cold gleaming realm of plastic metal and stainless lightbeams
when I am off their microscopic hooks
amidst two vivisections
to stretch my wings and learning to fly on thin air with an opened spine
I am watching these beings, discretely robed in their pure white frocks
these camouflage - coats pretending purity
faces hidden behind their scientific robbery masks
I chose to call them my colleagues
but I wonder
wouldn't they rather open up each other's spines
suck the fluid out with long straws
chop off each other's limbs to fall for a friendly discussion on a bloody floor
smiling and reasoning about these most curious consequences.
cheerfully prophesizing the progression they've presented the world with
on their last breath
not mine
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14. |
Clouds Of Hypno Smoke
01:46
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Music: Falcone, Palmer, Rockwell, Xaliman
Bass [Bass Synth] – Don Xaliman
Chapman Stick – Teed Rockwell
Piano, Synth, Sampler [Voice Samples] – Don Falcone
Synth – Steve Palmer
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Music: Allen, Falcone, Clare, Rockwell
Text: ["Over And Out"], Voice [Self Recorded "Communication"] – Thom
Acoustic Guitar [Intro And Distant Acoustic Guitar Samples] – Pete Wyer
Bass – Michael Clare
Chapman Stick – Teed Rockwell
Guitar – Daevid Allen
Vocals – Thom The World Poet
Intro Timer Sample – Karen Anderson
Synthesizer, Percussion [Electro] – Don Falcone
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Spirits Burning is a music collective led by Don Falcone.
The band celebrate space, prog, new
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As of 2024, Spirits Burning have released 18 albums, featuring over 270 musicians.
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