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Phylogeny EP

by Jesse LeJeune

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1.
Teleonaut 04:58
Lord forgive me I've become someone I shouldn't be And all of my worries Over what I've done whether right or wrong They don't belong With the beauty you afford, my Lord and God I am finished denying it's you I see here I am done denying that you are the one for me That you are the one Away from who I've run in the night I am finished denying it's you I see here I am done denying that I'm who I shouldn't be Lord forgive me over what I've done.
2.
Rescue 03:36
Beautiful sigh The reason I can say three lefts made a right In the deep of night, your glory demonstrated Up in the sky, wing'd fenestration Beauty in flight has got me speculating Carry me into the night It is what I have planned Even so, don't rush to any conclusions (in your eyes) (You might say) Don't fight if you can't beat it (I would say) I'd rather go down bleeding Don't rush to any conclusions
3.
Half Glass 04:24
Keep your head held high and your expectations low People are disappointed every day And hard work doesn't always pay (yeah) A Djarum in the shower is exactly what I need Get back to the water I feel like I've been ill for a long long time My soul has a cold that I just can't kill (yeah) Knots get tied that man can't make. Lord knows we tried to write our fate The life felt in my fingers is exactly what I need Get back to the water
4.
"A haven, yea. Yet it must fall ere we be saved. Too frail a shell, and humans should not thrive. Too stout a shell and they would not die. Slaughter and salvation! Two irreconcilable Focuses we bore. Yet bound were we in a cocoon prison, impervious to our power. And so we thank you for granting us our longed-for birth. We are the Abandoned One, born but now to die. Our name is Orphan. By our hand, the world shall know redemption." - Orphan, Final Fantasy 13 (lyrics are a paraphrase)
5.
(indecipherable lyrics) I will sing in tongues for you Lord So the words don't get in the way Hallelujah you are truer than the day Starts with a ray Always you will have a beauty though you age That couldn't go away And the candles in this room are my clergy
6.
An angel with blue wings ascends to me with kiss I heard the sound of everybody's innocence Dripping with reminiscence The sound of melting stress The sound of endorphins An angel with blue wings ascends to me with kiss Cloaked in cerulean With a kiss of cleansing I can return this way, I'm sorry for the days that I lost to myself.

about

Began in September 2014, completed in December 2014.

The EP's concept is phylogenetic: each song is constructed from an element from a preceding song, whether a small part of it, or a more obvious segment. The first song is constructed from a piece that is not part of the album (is here included as a bonus track).

Full audio commentary for every track will be released.

Only select songs are shown here, all of them can be listened to upon downloading the album.

credits

released December 30, 2014

Explicit allusions and implicit influences are: Radiohead (The King of Limbs), Thom Yorke (Tomorrow's Modern Boxes and Atoms for Peace's Amok), Jay Clifford (Silver Tomb for the Kingfisher), Chris Thile (Nickel Creek- Why Should the Fire Die? / Punch Brothers - Antifogmatic), Savage Garden/Darren Hayes, Lorde, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, James Blake (Overgrown), Half Moon Run (Dark Eyes)

Thanks to Jessie T for permission to use her likeness in the cover art.


This (and all albums here) are essentially home demos. For best effect, listen with high-end headphones. Most of this is mixed with Sennheiser HD 598s.

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