My long time friends and one-time room mates/band mates Joseph Patti and Michael Korb formed the group Bookchin, to exercise and experiment with Joseph's creativity and love for literature.
While I was away at school he started releasing a new song every month online, each of the songs based on the themes and concerns of a book. He invited me on this particular song "A Tale Of Three Heads" which is based on a short story collection by Russian author Irina Ratushinskaia.
The title story is about a dragon who is lazy and only grows three of the typical twelve heads, then two of the heads get eaten by the third. I explore the importance of cohabitation in enclosed spaces and also that everything is a matter of perspective, who we choose to WATCH out for and who we choose to LOOK out for.
My vocals are lo-fi and this was achieved by performing my verse through custom mics that joseph and mike made by reversing the wires on a small speaker thus making it into a microphone element and then making a housing out of a pill bottle with a whole cut in it's lid and giving it a metal mesh filter.
lyrics
Two heads are better than one,
unless jealous of umbrellas in the absence of sun,
who reigns when it rains? It's poor when it pours,
one predator comes one's clever, one's dumb.
One's pleasure is one's glum endeavor to fund
each level of lust, french kiss forked devilish plunge
to a severed split tongue. Three heads are company
third try is a charm, give death a shot in the spiteful dark,
it's scary who's bearing the right to arms?
Raising a voice, raising alarm, open doors raised in a barn,
making a choice, don't raise up your guard.
Put our heads together, don't butt and leave,
but indeed live left field dead center,
duck and weave cutlery comfortably, circle of life,
think outside the four corner's muddled themes
no puzzle piece. Include all smarts when your spool's all farmed,
and you pool all yarns. Remove all shards, smooth all scars
until the bruise is all gone. Pull all cards, please play the games
with a sleeved ace of spades in case it's changed,
embrace the players with an angel's grace,
make all rage displaced and paint your neighbor's face
with wonderment. Questions? One is left:
“do you and the other heads want to rubberneck,
respond to a sunset or the promise of a bomb threat?”
sticks and stones may break my bones
but they may also be lain like bricks and grown
to make my favorite home.
The sun is arising on a lovely horizon,
and ya'll are invited to come to the brightness,
and bring the rest of your heads, whichever ones are the nicest.
credits
from We'll Make It Together,
released November 28, 2013
Joseph Patti-Lyrics/vocals/recording/mixing/guitar/miscellaneous instruments. (www.soundcloud.com/bookchin)
Heather Patti-Vocals
Michael Korb-Instrumentation/recording/mixing
AllOne-lyrics/vocals
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I have been listening to variations of this album a long time. I remember I was living in a cardboard dumpster when some young guy was like yo dude it's gonna rain come crash on my couch. He played The Many Faces of Oliver Hart for me. I fell in love, I set my favorite track as Rain because we looped it when the rain came. That was one of the early acts of kindness I received in the nearly 20 years I've been homeless. @NomadRoamsFree