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Aimless Survivor

by Richie Setford

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1.
A long night holding out for morning The Melatonin lasted for a while Re-evaluating my emotions everyday before I go outside I became inactive after New Years I hope that I'll get going come July I was invited to you lake house You shouldn't be surprised if I decline Aimless survivor, hell that's good enough Better alive than not be here at all I know I'm not in isolation And I appreciate your call Suppressing the feeling Unsure of revealing my intentions I started a hobby Put smoke in my body All show babe All this repeating Like morning, like evening Rewire me All this is folly At home with my body I'll always be sorry You've never been easy on yourself boy But I can see the value in that We don't need to point it out boy What good would it do me now I felt I was honest And how you responded in kindness Immersed in the process I worked on my concepts all night babe All this repeating Like morning, like evening Rewire me All this is folly At home with my body I'll always be sorry
2.
Cells start to cook when it's 50 degrees I don't like it, I don't like it Starving the brain oxygen that it needs I don't like it, I don't like it All the inventions and progress we've seen Social constructions have made us superior beings Despite our achievements in life We're still a peach on a tree Think for yourself but be bound to our laws I don't like it, I don't like it We own the house but the mortgage is yours I don't like it, I don't like it These contradictions exploited for gain Often the narrative ends up the same But last night I dreamed I was Toshi A Japanese boy with no voice Learning from birth the material crawl Living deluded but functional despite our flaws And the thinning atmosphere One day the earth won't be here.
3.
I dream I'm inanimate Even my panic is stone I'm styled by confusion and covet collections you own You've got a way of reinterpreting the male gaze We call our cathedral The Imminent Body Of Drone We wear black like a beetle Bore deep like a needle in bone We've got a way of celebrating the external stain I'm in waking At night I shed my clothes There's a new skin waiting How I long to be exposed They call us receivers Internal believers Well tuned Reject all the breeders Hard wired evolutionary moon We've got a way of readjusting to the currents of the day I'm in waking At night I shed my clothes There's a new skin waiting How I long to be exposed I've been waiting For the skin to be exposed Like a kid just waking Trying to understand their home
4.
You're sober but you're restless No promo Summer's automatic Your neurosis never slowing Just exploding like an Alber's pattern You can fly off at the handle But your colon keeps the needle steady There's a fallout but don't panic Even comics suffer censors The only way now is down I'm a washout Pre-extinction, post-erection, anti-ergonomics Went to Saxony, in the centre With intention of a sadomasochist I am tested when extended I could tell you but I just talk around it Preservation on the tundra My last meal was an Ibex The only way now is down Your mouth's destruction Explore the new tongue
5.
I light your cigarette and let you take me in I emulate your sex, these walls are paper thin I live with total strangers I watched you defecate outside the Bürgeramt I don't communicate the secrets of my heart You spat on me at New Years You spat on me at New Years
6.
A Fist Of It 05:57
I have travelled In love I've gambled I've shared my life I survived that ride I've been writing since '89 And it drives me still I hope it always will Don't be scared watching me ageing An old man knows how to fall But I can't escape the baby I once was My need for touch is always strong I don't get too caught up in wealth I've got humble needs I live within my means Been a while since I felt desire How I'd like to hold someone in my bones Now I'm fine in isolation With no one to call my own But I want to confess my thoughts to someone In the soft shadows of the dawn Didn't I make a fist of it Didn't I try to fix a smile Didn't I shake my instrument Wasn't I listening for a while And where I'm going... I'll take whatever is going

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In Oktober 2018, I committed myself to an immersive recording experience, spending 8 days living and working out of 'The Ark' studio in deepest Tempelhof. A new song was presented each day, tracked live to tape, with engineers David Terry and Andres Barlesi on drums and bass respectively, and then overdubbed with multiple instrumentation.

This creative incubation was necessary to mirror the thematic threads at play within the material. The songs mine issues of identity and ecological imbalance, cultural unease and self-evolution. There is a mix of melancholy, pathos, absurd humor and surrealism; at one point I portray a mute Japanese boy from the 6th century.

The title track reflects on a life without a sense of propulsion, or more dismally, the notion of propulsion with no projection - the Sisyphean struggle - while emotional touchstone, A Fist Of It, is a simple and stark personal summation. Both these pieces traverse my state of mind and land on points of need and desire, of self-doubt and acceptance. They pulse with immediacy and bulge with half a lifetime of memory and character, spilling into the here and now.

In the songs found on the EP is a ready document of my life over a 12 month period, the internal and external are both honestly captured and poetically enhanced.

credits

released October 18, 2019

Albertine Sarges (vocals)
Andres Barlesi (bass)
David Terry (drums)
Lisa Baeyens (flute)
Marie-Claire Schlameus (cello)
Martha Rose (violin/vocals)
Richie Setford (vocals, guitar, organ)

Produced by Richie Setford
Engineered by Andres Barlesi & David Terry
Mixed by David Terry & Richie Setford
Mastered by Tom Healey
Artwork by Merve Terzi

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Richie Setford Berlin, Germany

Previously working under the moniker of Bannerman, the New Zealander has spent the last 9 years in Berlin building his reputation as a songwriter and vocalist, a live musician and session player.
Richie also writes and records under the name Bliss Creek and with Andres Barlesi under the name Harmonie Fields.
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