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Subterranean Stories

by Bill Boethius with Jonathan Beckenstein

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You sit on top of the mountain, the garden dwarf keeps you in prison, you should make a decision, but you look elsewhere, you don't want to see the hatchet come. What is? Do you want to fall? Take flight? What makes the throat tight? What claws your heart? "Okay," they want to hear, everything is supposed to be alright you're supposed to be nice, they want you nodding, friendly smiling (while) facing the precipice and you look elsewhere, sitting up on the mountain, the garden gnome keeps you in prison. Come to a decision! Don't you wanna end your prison? Come to a decision! Do you wanna end your prison? You don't say what you want, because you don't want anymore. Your words hollow and banal. Singsang of words. You should speak of intuition, of dying, of trust and hope. Of love. Of strategies and what really concerns you: the isolation, forgiving and thanking. Come to a decision! Don't you wanna end your prison? Come to a decision! Do you wanna end your prison? Worddead, because there are no words available, all are already used, already installed, stumble towards Hell, because all through the dirt, burned by the sun because everything has already been said, right down to the coffin, because your body is a suitcase that you unpack or not and good-talking, good-thinking keeps nothing away. Come to a decision! Don't you wanna end your prison? Come to a decision! Do you wanna end your prison? You have climbed an angel, climbed wings. "Can you understand me, world?" your eyes ask, embarrassed to ask for understanding, for seeing you. "Do you want to understand me, world?" And look away again, turn away, understand the one who does not look. Nothing is more secret than suffering. No one sees how you run out of air, thrown out, storm wreck on the beach. Empty, emptied. Deserted. Devoid of hope. No, hope rises, picks you up, dented, you sit up. You raise yourself. and you go between looks that see nothing. full to the brim you are, overflowing with words, full of beans. Your word has woken up, regained, no longer contained, it can't be restrained. holds it's ground, your readiness to whitewash gone you hold nothing back The unsaid words rise, thunderstorms pattering on the land. You're beating them out, spitting them Out, you let off steam, you vent your anger, your grievances, you air your despair, Lust. No prison, no more distress. you give vent to your feelings, give way to your dreams Wonderfully imperfect, undeterred honest is YOUR word! [lyrics by Augenmerk]
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One for Bill 02:43
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Dream Time 10:34

about

I first met Jonathan Beckenstein on Soundcloud a couple of years ago, and we frequently swopped ideas about our likes and dislikes in music.
Both being guitarists, we overlapped in many places, and infrequently came together to make collaborative tracks. Even though these were few and far between, they were always special.
I contacted Jon and suggested to him that once we had enough material, we needed to do an album.
Well, finally, here it is.

I called the album 'Subterranean Stories', as Jon described my instrumentals as having 'stories' buried within them.

We were lucky enough to have Augenmerk give her words and voice to one track.
As will be gathered from the tracks, Jon is very much a one guitar man, with his trusty modified Telecaster. I, on the other hand, like to use lots of different guitars. However, that's not to say that Jon isn't an experimenter too - check out his looping track here, called One for Bill.
Well, here's to say all for one and one for all
[Bill Boethius 2018]

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released September 7, 2018

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"The Dali of guitar noise".
Free improv,
Cinematic Sounds:
Strange Blues:
Cosmic Jazz,
Poetry settings,

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