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Track Listing
01 Position One
02 A
Song In My Wallet (featuring Robert Fisher)
03 White
(featuring Howe Gelb)
04 Monologue
05 Crack
In The Back
06 Red
Across The Sand
(featuring Carla Torgerson)
07 maggie
and milly and molly and may
08 I
Will Never Forget You
09 Ours
At Least (featuring James Sclavunos)
10 New
Life
11 The
Blue Side Of The Sun (featuring Robert Fisher)
12 Dark
Outside
13 End
Of A Patineurre
Hitch Hyke Music
(GR) LIFT098
September 17, 2007
All
songs written by Akis Boyatzis, except Our’s At Least, I
will Never Forget You and Red Across The Sand, words by
Michael Willet, maggie and molly and milly and may, words by
E. E. Cummings. Spoken word contribution on White by Mike
Lovatt and on Dark Outside by Carla Torgerson.
Akis
Boyatzis:Sigmatropic Publishing/ Bug Music.
Michael Willet: Acidmusk Publishing/ASCAP administered by Bug Music.
‘maggie and milly and molly and may’: Copyright © 1956, 1984, 1991
by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from COMPLETE POEMS:
1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by
permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Original Illustrations: Rena Avayianou; Cover Design: Matt Dornan
Sigmatropic are:
Akis
Boyatzis: lead vocals, backing vocals, bass, acoustic guitar,
electronics, programming
Anna
Karakalou: lead vocals
kappa MYSTA:
keyboards, backing vocals
Panos
Scourtis: electric guitar, backing vocals
Yiannis Tryferoulis: drums
Also:
Theodore Pistiolas piano, keyboards, string arrangements
Guest appearances on vocals:
Howe Gelb, Robert Fisher (courtesy of Willard Grant Conspiracy),
James Sclavunos (courtesy of
Naked
Spur Productions),
and Carla Torgerson (courtesy of Glitterhouse).
Mixed
by Ian Caple, except End Of A Patineurre mixed by Vangelis
Zisis and Ian Caple and Position One mixed by Akis Boyatzis.
Mastered
by Ian Caple
Executive producer:
Theodore Vlassopulos
Acknowledgements:
Many thanks to Robert Fisher, Howe Gelb, James Sclavunos, Carla
Torgerson and Michael Willet, for been so dedicated, inspirational
and helpful. Also, thank you Theodore Vlassopulos, Theodore
Pistiolas, Mike Lovatt, Alexandra Papageorgiou Rena Avagianou,
Emilios Katsouris and Anastasia Petroulia for inspiration and
support. Also: Thank you Shel Silverstein for remote inspiration.
Produced
by Akis Boyatzis.
All
songs by Akis Boyatzis © Akis Boyatzis 2007
Correspondence to:
info@sigmatropic.gr
www.sigmatropic.gr
www.myspace.com/stropic
Dark Outside
Lyrics
01. Position
One
(words
and music: Akis Boyatzis)
I am
tossed like a tie, I am blown high
Dried
in the sun, on the road I am
The water flows, the river upon me
All
known forces unite to get me
I am
blown like a flute, I am feeling glued
In a
dome I stand, all alone I am
The
water flows, the river upon me
All
known forces unite to get me
A. B.:
vocals, acoustic guitar, electronics, programming
02. A
Song In My Wallet
(words: Rena Avagianou and Akis Boyatzis, music: Akis Boyatzis)
You
wanted to define the flow of the water
How
long it takes to put life in order
You
wanted to grasp joy and pain as a whole
Remove
every dusty grain from my soul
Ay-e,
Ay-o, Earthly high, starry low
If
one is you, then Infinity is two,
Ride
the western wind - Around the world in forty minutes
Ooh-I’m waiting for you
The
earth is not too big
Ooh-vision blue
Around
the world in forty minutes
We put
the sounds in my cooking pot
I had
the opening line, you add the substance
We
both turn on the gas; hey, don’t forget the flame!
Here,
with my guitar a well-cooked rhyme
Blue -
I wanna breathe your fuel,
The
earth is not too big
Blue -
covers everything I see
Around
the world in forty minutes
I
closed the door behind with a song in my wallet
I
watched the horizon with all the red and the velvet
I’m on
my bike rolling down hill slide
And
yes, I’ll keep singing our song all day long
Ooh-I’m waiting for you
The
earth is not too big
Ooh-vision blue
Around
the world in forty minutes
Ay-e,
Ay-o, Earthly high, starry low
If
one is you, then infinity is two,
Ride
the western wind
Around
the world in forty minutes
Robert Fisher: main vocals; Carla Torgerson: backing vocals; T. P.:
piano and strings arrangements; Y. T.: drums; A. B.: backing vocals,
bass, acoustic guitar, electronics, treatments, programming
03. White
(words and music: Akis Boyatzis)
My
white queen on her chess board,
So
alluringly flat
Even
my tears are white
Even
my tears are white
My
head turns round and round
As
I fall to the ground
And
I feel so lonely
Oh
God, so lonely
My
heart dissolves in atoms
My
soul devours
The
thousand lights of heaven
A
less honored heaven
Black
horse under her white shadow
White
desert all around me
Chessboard fades in the night
Now
all squares turn to white
My
white queen so annoyingly flat
Even
my tears are white
Howe Gelb: spoken vocals; A. K.: sung vocals; P. S.: electric
guitars; Y. T.: drums; A. B.: vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, brass
and strings arrangement and programming, electronics
04. Monologue
(words and music: Akis Boyatzis)
I
dreamed that we shared the space of a flower
You
were a petal and I was the anther
Wasps
and bees sucked on our juices
That
flower means nothing to me
I
dreamed that we shared the space of your body
It was
where our scent filled up our senses
It was
when you invited me in your system
I
mistakenly let myself in
Don’t
mind disaster
Always
run faster and fade
An
inside voice to obey
I
remember when I held that flower
And
took off the petals and cut off the anthers
I
don’t mind being pinched and bled over
That
flower was the world in the fall
That
flower means nothing at all
T.
P.: keyboards; P. S.: electric guitar noise; A. B.: vocals, piano,
bass, acoustic and electroid guitar, electronics, programming
05. Crack
In The Back
(words
and music: Akis Boyatzis)
In
life, sometimes, the wonderful go under stress
And
crack in the back
A song
as obscure as a whale’s
Goes
fast away
Hear
those echoes being raised?
Rip my
eardrum from my head?
I used
to roll my wheels in the fast lane
I
couldn’t tell the bad from the nice
Hey
babe, join me on my skate ride
On
thin ice
See
that light passing through?
Ice
opaque, sticking like glue
Even
if Time is on your side and helps you carve your track with huge
success
is
lasting long and looking up high, called luck?
Even
if Space is ample in your feet and take your millionth walk in the
very same terrain, do you feel proud sedated as a rock?
At
first we painted a landscape to ourselves
Tricky
things kept somewhere else
Mountain lines and river beds and a few colors
In a
subtractive sense
Chopped down our childhood’s trees
Bonfired the bench of our first kiss
And
babe when I met you it was all already
Falling apart
Living
with you was like pollen to the bee
Or
maybe, meat to the shark?
Touch
my skin and feel my heart
And
can you heal that crack in the back?
A.
K.: vocals; T. P.: piano, synthesized theremin and keyboards; P. S.:
electric guitars; Y. T.: drums; A. B.: backing vocals, bass,
acoustic and electroid guitar, electronics, treatments, programming
06. Red
Across The Sand
(words: Michael Willet, music: Akis Boyatzis)
Death
is a doll’s hungry house
A
story sometimes told with flowers
Why
make love a cautious corpse
Who’s
got time to count the hours?
We
ignored the bedroom’s windows
A dark
desire; the blackbird lands
These
kind of jewels do always
Seem
to burn one’s wandering hands
Hell’s
strap across our back
Fingers found within the pie
Cry
hard cry fast cry quick
Lend a
kiss before we die
Filling prescriptions for the storm
We did
not know that we would find
Blood
comes clean from clothes
Easier
than from one’s mind
Run
your bleeding tongue
Over
the hangman’s broken teeth
Leaving lacerations deep
Language is always more than breath
We
always took just what we wanted
Lovers
within a road-less land
This
moment of truth, a moving target
Our
passion splattered red across the sand
Hell’s
strap across our back
Fingers found within the pie
Cry
hard cry fast cry quick
Lend a
kiss before we die
Carla Torgerson: vocals; P. S.: electric guitars; k. M: keyboards;
Y. T.: drums; A. B.: backing vocals, bass, acoustic and electroid
guitar, strings, programming
07. maggie
and milly and molly and may
(words: E. E. Cummings, music: Akis Boyatzis)
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles; and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea
P.
S.: electric guitars; Y. T.: drums; A. B.: vocals, bass, piano,
acoustic and electroid guitar, electronics, programming
08. I
Will Never Forget You
(words: Michael Willet, music: Akis Boyatzis)
I will
never forget you
you
and your undertow
the
wave unravels quickly
the
cascade starts, lifting us down
schools of fish last night
swam
right through our bed
while
a red sea-swirl of foam
exhaled flecks upon my lips
making
holes in the water
look
out and see the sun
only
to have them filled up by
the
tears that come raining down
and
here below the ocean waves
a
laughter that won’t ever find echo
and
here below the ocean waves
how
foolish casting stones against your spell
and
all our dreams both known
and
all our dreams unknown
are
only new in the form
in
which they come back still-born
who
needs glowing horizon
in
these depths find our blanket
let
the weight of our love
pull
us down deep to the bottom
I will
never forget you
you
and your undertow
the
wave unravels quickly
the
cascade starts, lifting us down
A.
K.: vocals; P. S.: electric guitars; Y. T.: drums; A. B.: vocals,
bass, piano, acoustic and electroid guitar, electronics, programming
09. Ours
At Least
(words: Michael Willet, music: Akis Boyatzis)
the
two of us just sit and stare
both
of us all too aware
of the
thing that’s never there
never
saying what inside is felt
playing only cards that we are dealt
dreams
frozen and yet still they melt
once
we tried to take the leap
why
pray the lord our soul to keep
the
idealist sometimes can never sleep
the
stairs we climb they start to crest
while
others want us to digest
for
them their poisons as though blessed
the
two of us just sit and stare
both
of us all too aware
of the
thing that’s never there
though
overhead does fly the crow
the
songs we sing don’t need to show
the
rain outside our window
once
we tried to take the leap
why
pray the lord our soul to keep
the
idealist sometimes can never sleep
in
love it’s all good, why embrace their beast
this
too shall pass -- it’s ours at least
like
the color of midnight snow falling
like a
fragile tea cup left out in the wind
like
trying to sleep under a full moon
like
trying to describe the smell of a lover
like
blessing the corners of an empty house
like
hopes striking the floor, hard and dull
like
stones, like sheep, like men
like
stones, like sheep, like men
trying
to force the world to turn with purpose
when
it’s ours within we give it purpose
James Sclavunos: vocals; k. M.: keyboards; Y. T.: drums; A. B.:
bass, acoustic guitar, strings, programming
10. New
Life
(words
and music: Akis Boyatzis)
The
line starts here, divides the world in two
A
nightmare and a dream come from the same truth
Stars
run into the sun in their lonesome path
Deep
in the dark there is only a single track
Cold
finger sticking on my flesh
Dead
cells and blood pretend to come alive again
A
million dream words come out of your mouth
Flooding the heart they thought they couldn’t live without
The
line starts here divides the world in two
A
nightmare and a dream both come from the same truth
Stars
run into the sun on their lonesome track
Deep
in the dark there is only a single path
You
need a builder, an architect in your command
You
need an artist, a musician, a god and a man
State
your needs and big old uncle will come
Load
them on his back and push them under his thumb
today, a whitewash of desire;
today, devoid of fire;
I’m
sailing in a safer port
I
am going to document our failing efforts
The
line starts here; strive to win a loss
Step
on these coins that we carved and tossed
How
does it feel when big old uncle comes?
Crawl
on up on his back, then hide under his thumb
A.
K.: vocals; A. B.: vocals, bass, piano theme, acoustic and electroid
guitar, electronics, programming
11. The
Blue Side Of The Sun
(words
and music: Akis Boyatzis)
This
night is the right time to drop your bomb
Even
if I’m still awake and if you are at home
Happy
faces gone
Your
head holds perfectly two curious eyes
If
they don’t mind the mirror, if they don’t mind the glass
Watch
you fading fast
Is it
strange to have faith in the scientific way?
While
letting your body move with nature’s wave?
So
many feel proud of the births they give
Yet so
many feel sorry that they sometimes leave
Dead
flowers on the ground
This
earth holds life spinning in the right position
If you
don’t mind those two-legged creatures
Heading towards God
Is it
strange to have faith in the scientific way?
While
letting your body move with nature’s wave?
I wish
to change the key of the tune, and then let it roll and fool you
But
the day breaks in, the ghosts move out, I lean at the window and cry
it out!
There
is always a party going on
Where
you may find laughing and a cheerful song
In the
blue side of the sun
I will
find you dreaming of the velvet twilights
You
will find me nesting in the great meander
This
side of the sun
Is it
strange to have faith in the scientific way?
While
letting your body move with nature’s wave?
Robert Fisher: main vocals; k. M.: keyboards; P. S.:
electric guitars; Y. T.: drums; A. B.:
backing vocals, bass, acoustic and electroid guitar, electronics,
treatments, programming
12. Dark
Outside
(words
and music: Akis Boyatzis)
I am
writing these lines from inside the capsule
tryin'
to be a part of this space travel culture
it’s
so dark outside; my senses can no longer feed my ego
yet
stardust music, comes through my star-spangled window
I am
writing these lines to explain the point
I hear
the music of the stars as I am stuck in this joint
after
all, I don’t regret how this all began
your
little [gentle] hand pushed, the capsule doorstep too steep
was it
your bright idea about starting all over again?
take it away, take it away, take it all with you,
make it be gone, make it be gone, looking for something new
Carla Torgerson:
spoken vocal; T. P.: strings and keyboards;
P. S.: electric guitars; Y. T.: drums; A. B.: vocals, bass, acoustic
guitar, electronics, programming
13. End
Of A Patineurre
(words: Alexandra Papageorgiou, music: Akis Boyatzis)
She
had been dreaming all night long
Of her
parasitic knight in silver form
His
shadow shining at the end
Of the
long and narrow corridor
The
room was bare-there was not enough air
To
move away –move away
Death
of a patineurre – a tragic decline
The
end of a patineurre
Death
of a patineurre – a tragic decline
The
end of a patineurre
This
is a leap –everything will collapse in a second
This
is a leap –a paranoid delusion
This
is a leap –a middle aged snow queen
This
is a leap –completely out of control
A
crack in the net -Revealed the trap
We
cannot always know what will happen next
Death
of a patineurre – a tragic decline
The
end of a patineurre
Death
of a patineurre – a tragic decline
The
end of a patineurre
It is
the middle of the night, in the blind survival watch
Of the
avid entomologist’s clever lab
Creatures were awakened jumping here and there
Completely out of control
The
room was bare -There was not enough air
To
move away –move away
Death
of a patineurre – a tragic decline
The
end of a patineurre
Death
of a patineurre – a tragic decline
The
end of a patineurre
A.
K.: vocals; k. M.: keyboards; P. S.: electric guitars; Y. T.: drums;
A. B.: backing vocals, bass, acoustic and electroid guitar,
electronics, treatments, programming
(c),
(P) Akis Boyatzis 2007, Licensed to Hitch Hyke Music. All
rights reserved.
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