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Avida Dollars

by The Retinal Circus

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Dali soft dripping genius persistence of memory in clocks The backdrop - a cadeques landscape With playful mannerisms that suggest a stronger plot Exploring spiraling delusions of the paranoiac fetish These surrealists are bigoted and have no wish to let him On a mission to shock all of his peers and revel in reaction In these formulated settings - Will you ever wake up from your sleep again? Will you awaken from those dreams? With our heads full of clouds and adrift upon a reef Of forgotten metaphors - Tho time is short on this spinning mortal coil We traverse scenes in search of new turmoil Will you ever wake up from your sleep again? Will you awaken? - DALI! "They'll eat you alive little one" Endeavored in his vision the proud brave Catalan The Leviathan is rising in through the murky depths of time Spindly legged mammals feather equilibrium With contorted apparitions of society in ruins Fragmented splinters of Creativity
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In fire brimstone Orb jewelled too soon Alchemy woven within fires Embers bestow ~~ With the closing of the summer Had the wind taken out of your sails By a cold dark exterior What remains is inferior ~~ Flight of fancy unknown Orb jewelled too soon See it scurry as a scarab A season dissolved ~~ With the cracking of the thermals Jagged wind taken out of your sails By a cold dark exterior What remains is inferior ~~ They say what does It mean to you? It's cracked and descending above it looms
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Avida Dollars sweeps across the audio spectrum with sounds varying from otherworldly,Electronically bent, beautiful choral vistas or remains well grounded,firmly rooted in the folk traditions alike.
From the monumental epic tribute to Salvador Dali, to the cutesey parade of Taking Tea With The Parson, the not so lovely and utterly barking pissflaps of Cameron's Britain all the way through to music captured solely on a dictorphone and re:arranged upon a modern tablet device using ReacTable.

In it's duration AVIDA DOLLARS also utilizes ancient lutes, Celtic rose lyre, sublime fiddles,eccentric prog guitars, harmonically sliced Stylophones, primative1980s Casio digital guitars, hand claps, choral sections, pianorg accordion, Moog Theremin, charity shop keyboards, circuit bent amstrad, reverse tapes & loops and acoustic bass.. To not even cover the range on show here entirely.
All constructed to form either vast pollychords or understated counterpoint.

The method of fathing around & crusty composing at it's finest!

Especially for fans of Raymond Scott, Penguin Cafe, Frank Zappa, Mike Patton, Mr Bungle, Goblin, Animal Collective,Tangerine Dream or a.P.A.t.T

Rejoice! For music can exist without boundaries
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This album features these incredible people without which it would notbeven exist : John Joeseph Murray, Philip Butler, Edward Steelefox, David Headon, Emily Hàf, Greg Hoedt, & James Gibson. With additional vocals by Becky Rose & Shane Moroney.

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released May 5, 2014

C. Barry 05-013

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The Retinal Circus Birmingham, UK

CRAIGUS BARRY:
Onetime prolific singer songwriter turned multi instrumentalist composer. Films scored : Day Of The Stranger ( Darkside releasing 20), Senseless (Trash Arts 22),
Video shop Tales Of Terror (various 22)
Pocket Film Of Superstitions (23), I Curse This Land (24)

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