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Songs From the Closet of Light & Swords

by J. Ebben

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    Originally released as Dear Astronaut - Song From the Closet of Lights & Swords

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1.
Across the Fallow Fields 04:14
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2.
Devil Took My Woman 04:54
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3.
All the Birds in the Sky 04:37
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4.
Bulrush Blues 03:56
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5.
Cry Out for Heaven 04:31
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6.
Sunflower Reception 02:02
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7.
Cigarette Breath Blues 02:53
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8.
The Park 04:24
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9.
Night Falls on the Quarry 05:46
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10.
Where the Gravel & Pavement Meet 03:37
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11.
The Lighthouse Stands Tall 04:25
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about

I remember the rumbling of machines over the loud clap of thunder, and I recall lightning coursing through the structure, swimming on the ceiling like cartoon eels drawn by some fumbling hand shaking with delirium tremens. Closing my eyes, the sound was not unlike standing alone in the snow as your train pulled in back in 1913, my feet throbbing from the cold, great plumes of steam rising like spirits to the sky. A shoddy picket fence lined the platform and in the distance I could see factories, the early twentieth century versions of my own factory here and now. My own hands were trembling as the train roared in to the station, and I felt an affinity with the sparks flying out from the underbelly of that breaking behemoth. I feel the same toward the lightning coursing through the factory's veins, and even now, my hands are still trembling.

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released June 6, 2006

Recorded mostly in the living room of the Dandelions House, Milwaukee, WI, January & February 2006, with overdubs done elsewhere in the months between February and June 2006. Performed by J. Ebben, Scott Emmerich, Frank Knaebe, Mike Benoy, and Ben Greene. Mastered by Lord Byron IV. All songs written by J. Ebben.

This album is dedicated to Timothy Linsmeier. May white light fall forever from your eyes.

Originally released as Songs From the Closet of Light & Swords by Dear Astronaut. Physical orders of the album are still credited this way.

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