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...the marble broke,
and the water was made sweet
where one Vessel shattered
into countless pieces,
and sound carried through light
spilling into our world, a shadow cast,
suspended beneath a decagram,
"And then rebellions broke out as storms gather in burning summer skies." (Giogrio de Chirico)
"I had based my sense of being in the world partly on an unreasoned conviction that certain areas of the Earth's surface contained a [...] hidden but direct passage that bypassed the mind." (Paul Bowles, Tangiers, 1993)
"is it nothing by the echo of the mysterious blows that resound on the rocks of that mountain over there, whose opposite side has apparently never been seen, and on whose summit can be seen by day dark masses, with an irregular profile, that are probably forests and from which at night come signs and stifled groans as though a giant were chained up there and suffering without hope under the great, shimmering star filled sky?" (Giorgio de Chirico)
"and spread among the collosal crystalline, the dance of light in the hoarfrost, all desires rang out from the soul in an endless shout wherein all light was made true heterophony, and looking upon this perfect desire, we can comprehend wonder." (from the Haggadah, excised from the Vulgate by Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, while being blackmailed for his sexual history and extorted by the Vatican to reconstitute scripture in service of their ideology, August 396, Palestine)
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credits
released March 1, 2023
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music for violins, violas, cello, and double-bass, by Mark Molnar, November 2022.
recorded and mixed December 2022.
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering, Montreal, Quebec.
Thank you: Nicole Dupuis, Harris Newman, Sandro Perri, Steve Bates, Vicky Mettler, Mauricio Velasco, Craig Pedersen, Edwin Burnett, Bennett Bedoukian, Karol Orzechowski, Raphael Foisy-Couture, and Eric Craven.
Mark Molnar plays strings and electronics with Horseman, Pass By.,1/4 Tonne (w. Nick Keupfer and Eric Craven), Land of Kush,
Black Seas Ensemble, and Kingdom Shore. He is the founder of Black Bough Records. His music has been performed by Quasar4 (Mtl.), and the Thin Edge Music Collective (TO.), and he contributed string arrangements to Buried Inside, Alaskan, Black Seas, and Kee Avil....more
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