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The Blurb
From Feral Media
Feral Media is pleased to announce the release of ‘The Pomegranate EP’ from TEXTILE AUDIO – the solo project for operatic mezzo soprano and electronic musician Eve Klein.
Her debut EP for Feral Media includes material from her forthcoming ‘electronica opera’, titled “The Pomegranate Cycle”. Fusing opera, ambient electronica and post-classical composition, the work is loosely based around the myth of Persephone; and is premiering at the Brisbane Festival as part of ‘Under The Radar’.
The EP also includes a new remix by Sydney’s GENTLEFORCE, whose recent contribution to Feral Media’s POWWOW series (‘Sacred Spaces’) translated into an upcoming appearance on a compilation CD from the renowned magazine, The Wire.
The EP is available on both digital and limited CD formats, with cover artwork by Textile Audio. Purchase now at feralmedia.bandcamp.com.
There is a blog post about the production aesthetics here.
Lyrics
Some Kind of Mininova – No lyrics, Just Ooo’s!
Narcissus Bloom & the Rape of the Pomegranate
Of Hymn
Moisten the unborn flower,
Suspended
My tears bud and pass
Maybe the spring will laugh?
I travel through your reverie,
Clear
Fragrant remembrance
Blown and cracked underfoot
Mute, liturgy of being
Patterned
In the winter, brew
All that I know and pretend
Spoken. In the bell frame
Resound
My hands in your smile
Imaginings. Soothe rhetoric, shift.
Will our romance be,
Pathos
Or care that rides, melody
Back to cadence. Pass?
Eve Klein, © 2004.
Demeter’s Lament
My daughter is lost
Her song departed
In my desolation
In her desecration
How can the earth bear its fruit?
My daughter is lost
Can the corn ears ripen
Or the pregnant soils awaken
When she is gone?
My daughter is lost
The world is forsaken
And all my love…
Love?
How can life go beyond?
When she is gone…
When she is gone.
May death take my hand,
Wrench the chill heart from my breast,
Barren,
Stop the world.
My daughter is lost
As I am lost
How can the earth bear its fruit
When she is gone?
When she is gone…
Eve Klein, © 2006.
Narcissus Bloom & the Rape of the Pomegranate
Ah! To be left in stillness
Alone, the cloudy haze
Of summer fruits and Narcissus bloom
In peace I walked
Beloved pilgrimage, reaching
For summer fruits and Narcissus bloom
Pomegranates ripe they drooped
Their sweetness, mellow
My fervent harvest
Of summer fruits and Narcissus bloom
Picked. The petal crushed.
Carved,
The infant flesh
And the pomegranate burst.
Juice spilled, seed devoured.
Wasted.
It cannot grow anew.
Eve Klein, © 2006.
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