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then we hear the song

from FLOODS by Badlands

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    FLOODS on 12" black vinyl with gatefold cover and black inner sleeve.
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    Side A is 19 minutes, side B is 18 minutes.
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lyrics

The desert landscape is hot and dry, and it bakes under the raging California sun.
Its infinite earth tones;
rusty, salty, sandy, deep, rich browns,
are perceived as a monolith,
as an absence of life.
To see the signs of life within this arid landscape requires slowing down, becoming quiet, deep listening, focused observation.
Through the act of gardening, tending to plants,
watching them transform in their own time, we slow down.
Here we watch the towhees, we smell the Artemisia,
we hear the rain drops dropping into oak leaf cups...
this is an old form of music
and we can’t hear it if we don’t speak the language.

This song, of water to leaf, describes a relationship.
One that we were once part of, and can be again.
Not as a hero, not as a villain,
but as a student, as a witness,
as an agent of compassion.

So, I am trying to learn this language
in which the oak, the rain,
the sage, the bobcat, the thunder and the stone
are our teachers, our siblings, our community.

And when the landscape becomes our family
then we hear the song.

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from FLOODS, released February 17, 2024

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Badlands Los Angeles, California

Songs about ecology, time, space, love, life, and death. Written (except for the occasional cover) and recorded by Tenney tracking instruments and vocals to create soundscapes inspired by landscapes.

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