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Diluvian Beat

by La Horsa Bianca

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1.
Encyclica 05:40
здіймається хвиля – і нас піднімає угору під нами вже сонце і майже невидна земля поглинули нас об'єднавшись безкраї два моря стихія несе нас безвольних немов немовлят ми перетікаємо плинно – із тіла у тіло в собі розчиняємось ми наче сіль у воді в потоках любові зливаються душі невміло і так безсоромно і добре мені і тобі а потім цунамі спадає і тягне додолу затягує вглиб і кидає на дно кам'яне жбурляє на скелі тіла безпорадні і голі волочить пісками як мертвих тебе і мене та ми не вмираєм бо ми взагалі невмирущі накотить приплив і здіймемося вгору ми знов бо тільки на гребені хвилі живі ми і сущі і море нам – небо і небо нам – дім і любов (Юр Іздрик, 2019) A wave rises and lifts us towards the sky The sun is below us and we're losing sight of the ground Two endless seas, conjoined, swallowed us completely Yielding, like toddlers, we are carried by the water We flow freely, from one body to another, We dissolve in ourselves like salt in water Souls fuse together awkwardly in streams of love You and I, we feel shameless and happy And then the tsunami subsides and pulls us down Sucks us into its depth and throws upon the rocky seabed Thrashes our naked helpless bodies around the cliffs, Dragging you and me along the sand like the dead But we never die because we're basically immortal The tide will come in and we'll rise up once again Because only on the crest of a wave are we alive and real And the sea is our sky, and the sky is our home and our love (Yuri Izdryk, 2019)
2.
A missage 07:52
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Стоповерхові кам’яниці сплять, немов потомлені звірята, географи малюють зорі крейдою на неба мапі, в рудому сяйві ліхтарів дощу краплини, мов пісок крилатий і місяць золотим котом лежить у мене на канапі. Ржавіють мертві риби у басейнах, вуголь і троянди чорні, купці й роздягнені дівчата, в’язні в тюрмах і поети. Оркестра полісменів дме мелянхолійно в труби і вальторні, коли міщанський бог рахує зорі, душі і монети. Живуть під містом, наче у казках, кити, дельфіни і тритони в густій і чорній, мов смола, воді, в страшних пивницях сто, примарні папороті, грифи і затоплені комети й дзвони. – О, пущо з каменю, коли тебе змете новий потоп? (Богдан-Ігор Антонич, 1936) Stone keeps a hundred stories high, asleep like weary beasties after romping, Geographers, chalk in their hands, mark up the sky map with new stars, The amber glow of torches in the rain is filled with flying sandy droplets, The crescent of the moon, perched on my sofa like a golden cat. Dead fish rust on the floors of swimming pools, amid the black of coals and roses, Merchants and semi-naked girls, and jailed prisoners and poets, A band of policemen blows into their trumpets with a melancholic air, Meanwhile the god of philistines is counting stars and souls and shillings. The city's fairy underside is home to tritons, whales and shiny dolphins Who dwell in pitch-black murky waters filling scruffy pubs and cellars Phantasmic ferns where gryphons hide, huge bells and sunken comets on the bottom, Oh stony jungle, pray how long until a flood sweeps you away? (Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, 1936)

about

As this record grew during the 13 months that we’ve been making it, the tracks began talking to each other in surprising ways; a kind of concept slowly revealed itself, and it was: floods.

The six tracks on the album form three pairs.
1/6: The two poetry-based songs that bookend the album (both poems reference tsunamis and floods) were written in June 2019 and June 2020, exactly a year apart.
2/5: Moving inwards, track two and track five are the oldest ones on the album, written in 2016 before the band officially began, never recorded until now. ‘A missage’, named in reference to the flood in Winnie-the-Pooh, provides a calm-before-the-storm moment, while its counterpart ‘It's not but damn’ has a part in the middle that we call Tsunami, for obvious reasons when you listen to it.
3/4: The middle tracks ‘The mouse principle’ and ‘Laws of slow motion’ are pretty new, written in 2019-2020. They don’t bear any specific diluvian-centric reference, but you can feel how Mouse hits like a wave coming in, while Slo-mo pulls you back in a fleeting respite.

The Greek for flood is ‘kataklysmos’, so the theme feels rather apposite as we ponder the times we found ourselves in. The feeling of being gradually engulfed by things we can’t control is sort of reflected in the flow of the album.

credits

released December 11, 2020

Music: Eugene Manko/La Horsa Bianca
Lyrics: Yuri Izdryk, 2019 (1), Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, 1936 (6)

Eugene Manko: bass, flute, saxophones and assorted horns, Mel9-o-Tron and assorted keyboards, acoustic guitar, bouzouki, percussion, vocals
Olga Ksendzovska: electric organs, synths, piano, alto trombone
Kirill Gonchar: electric guitar
Andrew Brahin: electric guitar, classical guitar
Igor Avdeyev: drums, vocals

Recorded September 2019 to October 2020 at the Digout studio in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Recording: Eugene Manko, Firefret
Mixing and mastering: Eugene Manko, Maxim Trianov
Cover art: Eugene Manko

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