sun of monkey, by sun of monkey

sun of monkey

by sun of monkey

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1.	gather 01:28	lyrics
gather round the field, meet me at the field
2.	azure 02:40	lyrics
in the stone's vibration, riding the twin infinities
3.	livin' large in the underground 05:51	lyrics
and i breathe for the end of time, and i breathe to forget the world
4.	water water 02:32	lyrics
water water everywhere but not a drop to drink, water water everywhere but not a drop to drink
5.	salt 03:43	lyrics
i'm flowing under bridges, flying through the sky
6.	the incantation 06:14	lyrics
sugar my love, you are my honey under the moon
7.	superfine 03:24	lyrics
the girl i know, she's superfine
8.	ant man bee 04:48	lyrics
white ants runnin', ant man bee
9.	everything you say to me 02:56	lyrics
everything you say to me, means everything today to me
10.	green monkey 05:06	lyrics
what?, huh?
11.	pootytown 06:47	lyrics
put it down put it down put it down, put it down put it down put it down—pootytown
12.	love song 04:35	lyrics
i once had a pumpkin i kept until spring, i once had a pumpkin i kept until spring
13.	rock 'n' roll took away my front teeth 02:26	lyrics
rock 'n' roll took away my front teeth, rock 'n' roll took away my front teeth
14.	lucia's lice 05:17	lyrics
lucia's lice, gather and dance
15.	eeeee 09:53	lyrics
eeeee, eeeee
16.	hiding in your mind 04:05	lyrics
burning down the forest, washes to the sea
17.	new animal 01:40	lyrics
here it comes, here it comes
18.	open child : disarm yourself 05:19	lyrics
rub two sticks together, rekindle the warmth of your heart
19.	circles of good 05:17	lyrics
peel back the grays, that steal all your time

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E N T E R the monkeysun. a cosmos of radical vibrations. a harmolodic rock 'n' roll song cycle born of and to the intensity of life. "volume one" = tracks 1 - 10 and "volume two" = tracks 11 - 19. cd out of print.

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I like unusual, hard to describe groups, though of course that makes them hard to review…It’s an ambitious 84-minute double-CD (rare for unknown acts)…With a fold-out lyric/philosophy sheet and a dedication to the late Vic Chesnutt. Sun of Monkey are inexplicable; their music is likewise expressively impenetrable, like light fog. I can tell you the San Francisco ensemble play a weird, loose, open-ended, acid-psych hippie folk like something you might hear at their Fillmore West or Woodstock circa 1969 — what The Action listened to before recording "Rolled Gold". Yet they don’t sound like stoners: imagine if TV on the Radio went freak folk; imagine revolutionary rastas went hypnotic, pattern-y rock; imagine Sun of Monkey, keeping it real.
—Jack Rabid, bigtakeover.com

A curious combination of odd songs by a San Francisco collective of free thinking hippy types, here, on their double CD, offering nuggets of music in half garage, half trippy mode…Just the right combination of madness and music…A bit self-indulgent on occasion, but otherwise a good listen.
—Simon Lewis, terrascope.co.uk

this is rebel-tiger rock and brevity-in-bloom rock and hum-co rock as in keeping company with the hum and whir of creation, the business of allowing desire to make one's heart sing, cosmic artisans and troubadours alike – within the chaosmos we orient ourselves with refrains, the fragments we use to piece together our world: self, home, other, love, music, blue is the frequency, green is the color, stand like the squirrel, rabbit fighters ...

Musical expression comes from the very depths of the living.
—Wilhelm Reich

I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty.
—Alfred Jarry

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
—Henry David Thoreau

—excerpt from "sun of monkey" liner knotes

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released November 29, 2010

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☀ to the living memory of vic chesnutt and sun of monkey ☀

☀ recorded june 2009 by robert preston, get reel productions ☀ mixed by robert preston and sun of monkey, get reel productions ☀ mastered by gary hobish, a. hammer mastering ☀ cover art by unknown ☀

☀ 2010 songbag music except where knoted; 2010 dragonbones records ☀ duplication authorized and encouraged ☀ all rights unreserved and natural (cc by-nc-sa 4.0) ☀ made on earth ☀ all sonics and lyrics except where knoted by sun of monkey: rob aiman: drums/vocals; billy, bob, bones: instruments/vocals; slim: percussion/vocals on "open child : disarm yourself" ☀

☀ share your thoughts/feelings & questions/answers with us at theredthreads@yahoo.com ☀

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