Our friends at Pavonine Packaging (pavoninepackaging.tumblr.com) brought our whimsical vision to life with four different limited-edition designs to honor each of the seasons we made love songs for on the album.
With fun "Calvin and Hobbes" inspired cover-art by Colleen Newell, a lyric book to read along with and admire Dani Blum's (www.daniblum.com) incredible pencil illustrations and of course the astonishing vibrant pop-up images in a hand made pocket-folded, string-wrapped package, these are unlike any CD package you've ever seen! These make for an awesome art-piece on a shelf whether closed or open and a great collectible way to remember the adventures that life brings us and to spur nostalgia and invigorate the magic of youthful wonderment.
Includes unlimited streaming of For a Year
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Wind picks up, temperature drops,
As fire places fill with logs,
Cold bitter blows bite crimson noses,
who billow air that's visible,
like chimneys on so many homes ensconced....
...As soon the flakes accumulate,
the youthful racers do the same,
and through the gates of schools as lanes get built.
Downhill in sleighs, toboggans made,
of trash can tops or lunchroom trays,
the wanting wait for holidays
hollering, their hearts remain filled...
...Like rosy cheeks, as they roam the streets,
or mugs in pink palms blowing steam,
as chapped lips sip cocoa and cream merry.
Snow globes shake like bells that make
a charming chime near coal and flame,
crackles harmonize as they glow and blaze cherry.
Like steadily grown best of friends,
insatiably adventurous,
or memories to recollect,
held tight like reddened necks in scarves
they are donning...
...Like icicles on residences,
cool translucent epaulets,
clear and sharp, but tend to drip,
like teardrops from a tender kid, falling...
...As we through clock's hand's wicked ticks
as seconds quickly tend to slip,
through fingertips' withered grip suddenly fragile...
...Like life, whose lines do intersect,
as windshields split,
by Hail (spit winter's whims willed in,)
a sleek thin sheet, on which we clumsily scramble.
from For a Year,
released October 22, 2016
Lyrics & Vocals written and performed by Bruce Pandolfo
Guitar & Backup Vocals written and performed by Johnny Paluszek
Recording//Mixing//Mastering: Franky Bones
Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.
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