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George Christian & Tod Shelton - Sorriso do Sul

from Prel​ú​dio Tardio (GCSA 02) by George Christian

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This is a song I composed in March 2008, during a trip from Sapeaçú (a small city from the countryside of Bahia) to my hometown, Salvador. At the same time, the lyrics recollects the feelings of being delayed and the frustrations I had around that time and the images I had from that small city I visited in a flow of consciousness. It was severely elaborated during the course of two or three months until getting its final form, with its harmony based upon an alternate guitar tuning. It was really exhausting for me to mixing all the sound elements and getting into the form I wanted to give, despite the original recording of the guitar and vocals was made in one simple take. Two years later, Tod Shelton was invited by me to add his touch on mastering this challenging recording and he, also, took his part in the throat singing. I've chosen the version with his participation as the definitive one because of its impact and better audio quality.

Originally recorded in November, 2008
Tod Shelton's participation: November, 2010

lyrics

Sorriso do Sul (Poem written in March 3rd, 2008)

Você roeu a mosca daquele almoço
com o seu sorriso do sul.
O asco com o qual ela foi mordida fez-me engolir o osso
do sopro cardíaco de sangue azul
e lábios lâmina de barbear.
Onde a ponta de sensatez atingiu aquele infarto?
Estamos em março e ainda haverá o ocaso
farfalhando o ser de todo lugar (com o seu sorriso do sul).

É certo que eu esteja assistindo risos,
mas você, sorriso do sul,
traumatiza os pés da caminhada de escaras de turismo...
Paciente terminal de parecer nenhum,
silêncio que queima ostras...
Tocha humana do despejo de largada... a farsa
de seu espelho côncavo retroflexiona linguásas...
Paisagem forasteira, boiada solta... e o seu sorriso do sul?

O nevoeiro encoraja os seus olhares,
e você ri com seu sorriso do sul
ao lembrar do canto das cigarras em naves da fertilidade;
galáxias moveram a fecundação-tempo
ao lançar satélites, contatos de densos sóis,
madrugadas nuns lances de sinuca, eis o universo
constelado ao alto e imerso e disperso
até o negrume percevejo de lençóis em seus sorrisos do sul.

E não há mais nada a fazer a não ser sorrir
o que mais espelha nos dentes do sul?
Talvez a vida da morte e a morte da vida ao se despedir
e partir para outra jornada de cidadão comum
em desemprego de fusos horários,
desfruto de espaços nos domínios uterinos ao léu,
maremotos despertos onde já não há mais céu
cumprindo destinos de todo oráculo com seu sorriso do sul...
(aterrissado em lugar algum)

English translation:


Southern Smile (Translation made in April, 2011)

You gnawed the fly of that lunch
with your southern smile.
The loathing with which it was bitten made me swallow the bone
of the blue blood’s cardiac whisper
and razor lips.
Where has the solidity’s tip reached that infarction?
We’re in March and still there’ll be the sinking
rustling the being in every place (with your southern smile).

It’s certain that I’m watching laughs,
but you, southern smile,
traumatize the walking feet of tourism’s eschars…
Terminal patient of no opinion,
silence that burns oysters…
Human torch of start dump… the farce
of your concave mirror retroflex winged-tongues…
Outsider landscape, loose cattle… and your southern smile?

The mist encourages your sights
and you laugh with your southern smile
when you remember the cicadas’ singing in fertility’s vessel;
galaxies moved the time-fertilization
when launching satellites, heavy suns’ contacts,
dawns in snooker’s moves, here’s the universe
highly constellated, immersed and scattered,
‘till the bedbug murk of sheets in your southern smiles.

And there’s nothing to do unless smiling
what mirrors most in your southern teeth?
Maybe the death’s life and life’s death when saying goodbye
and leaving for another ordinary’s journey
in unemployment of time zones,
enjoyments of places in uterine domains aimlessly,
awaken tsunamis where there’s no more sky
fulfilling destinies of every oracle with your southern smile…
(landed anywhere)

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from Prel​ú​dio Tardio (GCSA 02), track released April 9, 2011
George Christian: vocals, guitar, production
Tod Shelton: throat singing, co-production, remastering

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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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