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Dan​ç​a das Colis​õ​es

from Às Vezes Sempre (EP) (GCSA 01) by George Christian

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Instrumentally, "Dança das Colisões" is a set of improvised solos on my electrified folk guitar accompanied with contrapuntal responses on improvised slide guitar (played with an alternate tuning), with some electronic noises. Along with this arrangement, a set of two-poems-in-one are recited, whose titles are "sem tempo para ter tempo" ('no time to have time') and "perdas" ('damages').

"Dança das Colisões" has in its composition a liquid flow in which the usual sense of rhythm is loss to leave room for musical diversity, exploration and catharsis. It can be anything, ranging from blues, avant-jazz to electronic noise.

It's the centerpiece of the album because of its poetics, and specially because it's a moment of existential definition, between the loss of notions of time and space and the loss of familiar references, in an urge for rise and maturity. And the music reflects those feelings with angst.

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dança das colisões - poems in portuguese and in english

sem tempo para ter tempo
sua face me gritou qual um diamante
após consumada uma derrota... ou uma revolta... ou uma vitória... ou a história

de não ter tempo para ser o tempo
eis o peso de uma imensa estrela
ASTÉRIA em suas artérias, amnésias em uma era, féericas férias

não há porque lamentar se esta é a nossa miséria
há-de se temer a inércia – e nada mais...
e quanto mais ascende a clareira de mais uma lágrima,
mais brotam as cicatrizes de uma passagem pela terra,
liquefaz-se a pétala de frágil poema e de
ausente brincadeira

sem tempo de ver o tempo, eis o centro
de sua estrela em mais uma vereda,
eis um dilema de glissandos e staccatos,
zunidos à ausência veloz
de abrigos para as chuvas
de um áspero e desdentado sorriso às ru(í)nas
constelamares de desperta espera


um último copo d’água adensa a alma

ascese do suspiro:
transpiração

minha mãe, grito por um adeus
meu pai, campo de batalha

um sufoco
por
um socorro

o que quer que tenha caído,
nunca será meu
mas

do universo um vôo

catarses de esquecimentos
berço de memórias

e

memórias de berço
esquecimentos de catarses

um vôo do universo

mas
nunca será meu
o que quer que tenha caído

um socorro
por
um sufoco

batalha de campo, meu pai
um adeus por grito, minha mãe

transpiração:
suspiro da ascese

a alma adensa um último copo d’água

perdas

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no time to have time,
your face yelled me like a diamond
after a consummate defeat... or a revolt... or a victory... or history

of not having time to have time,
here's the weight of a huge star
ASTERIA in your artery, ammnesia in an era, fantastic vacations

there's no need to regret if this is our misery,
there's the fear of inertia - and nothing else...
as much as the glade of one more tear arises,
more the scars of a way in the earth sprout,
and the petal of a frail poem and
absent jest liquefies

no time to have time, here's the center
of your star in one more footpath,
here's the dilemma of glissandos and staccattos,
whistles to the quick absence
of shelters from the rains
of a harsh smile with no tooth to ru(i)n(e)s,
constellaseas of awaken waiting


a last cup of water accumulates the soul
ascension of the whisper:
transpiration

my mother, scream for a goodbye
my father, field of battles

a suffocation
for
a succor

what had to be fallen
won't never be mine
but

from the universe a flight
catharsis of forgetfulness
cradle of memories

and

memories from the cradle
forgetfulness of catharsis

a flight of the universe

but
won't never be mine
what had to be fallen

a succor
for
a suffocation

battle of fields, my father
a goodbye for scream, my mother

transpiration:
whisper of the ascension

the soul accumulates a last cup of water

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from Às Vezes Sempre (EP) (GCSA 01), released March 9, 2010
George Christian - voice, guitars and production

Composition and poem written by George Christian

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George Christian / GC Sound Artifacts Salvador, Brazil

Guitarist, singer and songwriter George
Christian is a musician with a prolific activity in the field of independent online music, with the electric guitar as his main instrument in several instrumental explorations.

GC Sound Artifacts is a personal label created by the composer George Christian in 2010 and a household name for his productions. ... more

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