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Impermanence

by Peter Silberman

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1.
Karuna 08:48
I’m disassembling piece by piece… deteriorating, decayed, decreased. If you’re here, retrieve me. They checked my flesh, they checked my heart, they can’t detect my faulty parts. But they say you’ll heal me… …can you heal me? I plug my ear, bash my fist. I need some proof that you exist, that you can reach me. Can you reach me now that you bent the bars of the cage, scraping skin, draining age, out of view, out of range, out where no hope remains? I need your name, Karuna…
2.
New York 03:28
When my nerve wore down, I was assailed by simple little sounds: hammer clangs, sirens in the park, like I never heard New York. Blaring brakes, trapped trucks honking horns, hissing buses stuck, shrieking trains barreling berserk, like I never heard New York. When the room grew loud, I learned to stand in back, behind the crowd, dam canals with cork, like I never heard New York. But when the walls gave way, I had to flee, I had to back away as the whole town barked, like I never heard New York.
3.
Gone Beyond 08:18
I’m listening for you, Silence, but god, there’s so much noise. And now I fear I’ve found you, you’re partially destroyed. I echo in your absence, voiceless as a swan. I want you to hear what I hear, This sound that I found to replace you while you were gone, gone beyond… With folded legs you hold me, and smiling, calmly mime, “You worry nothing’s happening, you’re happening all the time! So shaken by these changes, but trying to waltz along… I want you to hear what I hear: A tempo, ticking away, beating bygone, gone beyond…”
4.
Maya 05:12
Our bodies are temporary, let it be known: from the start, we start to lose them. Depreciating vehicles stuck under snow, shoveled out without illusion. Try to breathe like you breathed on your very first try, like you’re filling you up with an ample supply for goodbye… Our bodies are temporary, let it be shown thru summer evening fading daylight: violet tissue, into flesh, into bone, into dust, into brightest, blackest midnight. Try to see like you’ll see at your very last light, like you’re watching a flood from a comfortable height for goodnight… Try to breathe like you breathed on your very first try, like you’re filling you up with an ample supply for goodbye…
5.
Ahimsa 06:57
Time is all we have. I hope I have enough, enough to show you love before my time is up. Before you wake the dead, take a pause, instead of deafening nonsense, share silence. No violence today… Like driving with the window down, all of this will disappear. I only have you now, you only have me here. And we can’t count on tomorrow night, or wait for brighter light. I can hear you thru my eyelids, chère Silence. No violence today…
6.
Impermanence 03:19
However…

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released February 24, 2017

Written by Peter Silberman
between 2013-2016 in Brooklyn, NY;
Block Island, RI; Somers, NY;
Woodside, CA; Big Sur, CA;
Portland, OR; Saugerties, NY
Produced by Peter Silberman
& Nicholas Principe
Engineered by Nicholas Principe
at People Teeth in Saugerties, NY
Mixed by Andrew Dunn
Mastered by Joe Lambert
Nature recorded in Woodside, CA;
Big Sur, CA; Block Island, RI
Peter sang, played various guitars,
rhodes, pedal steel, accordion,
& Tibetan bowl throughout
Nicholas Principe played percussion
on Karuna, Gone Beyond, Ahimsa,
& sang doo-wop on Gone Beyond
Hana Tajima sang doo-wop on
Gone Beyond
Kelly Pratt played flutes & brass
on New York
Michael Lerner played percussion
on Gone Beyond
Tim Mislock played guitar on
Gone Beyond
David Moore played piano, pump organ,
& farfisa on Impermanence
Peter Tullio practiced Ujjayi breath
on Karuna & Impermenance, & snapped
his fingers on Gone Beyond
All music & lyrics © 2017
Peter Silberman /
Immanent Domain LLC
All songs published by
Distressor Songs (BMI)
Management by Dawn Barger,
Post Hoc Management
Photography by Justin Hollar
Jacket Design & Art Direction
by Zan Goodman

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