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The Girl Behind the Forest

by Sawak

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1.
Get out of the house run down the stairs out the front door to the neighbours' knock on the door He opens the door and says "what?" it was the middle of the night i said "can i use the phone, we got an emergency my house is on fire" i called the fire department i called my girlfriend she says "what do you want me to do, come over and watch it burn?"
2.
Ormai non c'è più salvezza caro Umberto. Viviamo in un mondo senza speranza, non ci può essere più speranza quando succede una cosa del genere, ormai più nulla vale un cazzo. Proprio, mamma mia, si è incendiata tutta la cattedrale. Pazzesco, pazzesco, pazzesco. Translation: There's no more salvation dear Umberto. We live in a world without hope, there can't be hope when something like this happens, now nothing is worth a shit, just, mamma mia, the whole cathedral burned down. Crazy, crazy, crazy.
3.
Mosul 05:42
4.
Anticorpse 07:23
5.
Once you move on you can't go back to those cozy dens where you once laughed they are so remote gone up in smoke and now you feast on the milk of beasts Don't linger on the bricks you have lost at least you have sticks and moss so pass onto unknown paths a beast alone without a home Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein. (F. Nietzsche) (Tr: Those who fight with monsters may see that they do not become monsters. And if you look into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also looks into you.)
6.
Drown 07:19
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8.
Last summer 03:52

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There comes a time when everything burns to the ground. Sometimes it’s a metaphorical burning, sometimes there’s actual fire. When that happens, and you’re forced to advance into the unknown, the future becomes a forest dark, cold and daunting. Birds and beasts and wind and rain and rivers all threaten, and there is nothing familiar that brings you comfort and security. Survival requires self-reliance, self-awareness and indeed a certain degree of resignation. Reflect, learn, and only then you can emerge on the other side changed, but intact and with a will to ascend. The girl behind the forest cannot help you if you do not help yourself.

"... a feast complemented by masterful arrangments heavily concentrated for the most spectacular concoction of noises imaginable." xactionmusic.wordpress.com

"...an astounding talent when it comes to pulling together raw instrumentation and callous themes with moments of real reflection and thoughtfulness."
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released July 17, 2020

Sawak is Bogdan Markiewicz, Antonello Perfetto, Greg Nieuwsma and Shaun O’Neill, with special guest Tom Carter on track 6.

Cover painting by Agata Wnęk. Photo by Adelina Krupski.

Mastered by Alan Morse Davies.

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Sawak: Two Americans, an Italian and an Irishman walk into a dirty basement in Krakow, Poland to create songs strange and not-so-strange.

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