A Breath of Flame, by Grain Sparrow

A Breath of Flame

by Grain Sparrow

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1.	Soothsayer 01:37	info
2.	Loose the Horses (Eclipse) 01:54	info
3.	Shivering Bird 01:55	info
4.	When It's Ending 02:41	info
5.	I Disremember Quite Well 03:42	info
6.	Frozen Path 00:58	info
7.	Winter Mornings as Dawn is in the Temple Garden Fishpond 00:20	info
8.	Vacant Lair 01:34	info
9.	Soothsayer's Hut 01:28	info
10.	No Title 02:03	info
11.	In Among the Gears where Dimensions Distort 02:07	info
12.	The Barrels in the Castle of the Wolf 01:38	info
13.	A Trivial Aside 03:01	info
14.	Trail of Frost 02:31	info
15.	The Command 01:23	info
16.	The Gemstones in the Walls of the Mountain 00:42	info
17.	The Memory of Anger 02:11	info
18.	The Tower of the Gate of the God 02:26	info
19.	In Every Bed, At Every Inn 01:34	info
20.	An Accurate Job of Stocktaking 03:44	info
21.	Soothsayer's Cloak & Sprig of Tea-Rose 00:45	info

about

Experiments with short songs and tone poems.

Lyrics are mostly from 2014, riffs and chord progressions 2013-2016. The old words and the old music were stitched together in January 2022 and new vocal/additional melodies written thereafter. The album was recorded throughout the summer, fall, and winter of 2022, completed at dawn on 20 February 2023.

Lyrics and liner notes are in a PDF packaged with the album download.

credits

released May 21, 2023

Dedicated to John Frusciante and Todd W. Emmert, emperors of the form I'm dabbling in here.

All songs by Sigismund Ashlay Sludig except A5 by Antonia and Peter Stampfel, and B5 by Sigismund and Vanya.

All instruments by Sigismund.

Engineering on A8, and engineering assistance on B8, by Chris Ludvik.

Mastered by properly qualified spaceship operator Caleb Mulkerin.

The cover art is a detail from an anonymous painting of Lord Narasimha in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which offers an estimate dating of 1825-1875.

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