october dark by dead lizard grin

A place that turns cold like a corpse in the grave, where clear country stars menace in the sky like barbed icicles, where days grow darker with windswept leaves that cavort in macabre pirouettes beneath a mourning veil moon.

That time of foggy hills and leaf smoke swirls as if a thousand tiny forests burn nearby. A time where lingering midnights are scented like old books and cadaver-cold childhood school rooms. A lingering moment when you feel an erstwhile lover's kiss that turned frigid upon your lips long, long ago.

A dolorous place of faded rains where change is trenchant and unstoppable. Of hope that vanished into too-early snows and the regrets of summers forever gone.

Tracklist

1.	no moon in the land of shadows	15:48

2.	and darker the sky that falls so cold	24:19

3.	wind across the emptiness	7:18

4.	atomes d'ambre au feu	4:40

Credits

released December 16, 2016

Prepared by Terry Skaggs in October & November 2016 in Rock Island, IL. Track 3 prepared 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, remixed 2016.

Materials used:

"no moon in the land of shadows" - synthesizers
"and darker the sky that falls so cold" - layers of 'found' string quartet loops, field recording
"wind across the emptiness" - synthesizers, piano, guitar, field recording from Ofu Island, AS
"atomes d'ambre au feu" - live microphone in a room with piano, string synthesizer, and samples

Photography & design by Terry Skaggs

License

CC BY-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.