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Light Around the Body

from The Astral Plane by Dana Sipos

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about

“Light Around The Body”, the first single from the album, is a cacophony of reflections after a three month solo tour to Australia and New Zealand in the winter of 2019. It's infused with the vibrancy and sensory overload of being in such a far out place where some things were literally upside down. But it also touches on some painful elements - I was in Christchurch when the bombings occurred in the mosque, which of course was greatly mourned by all of New Zealand and the world. The aftermath of the 2010 earthquake was still very palpable and evident there. So ‘Light Around The Body’ is primarily about infusing oneself with the strange and beautiful and sometimes painful and strives to make sense of the senseless.

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Light Around the Body

Light around the body
Is the storm or stillness of the heart
Are you the desert winds blinding
The devils staircase winding
Squandering your darlings
While Orion, with his watchful eye, hangs upside down

Light around the body
Is choking on eucalyptus and rose
Velvet hand milks the deer
Queer lake is on fire
Where the highway meets the highway scum
You swoon at the seal of Solomon

Light around the body
Is the larch turn its yellow face to the sun
A people stare down the barrel of a gun
After the fault lines of the earth had come undone
And the red gums bleed in the valley of the giants
The angels in the mountain ash have turned their backs

As if waking from a dream
The pleasure fades as the morning breaks
Solstice has come and gone again
And again we haven’t learned anything
We’re the sap that flows in the spring like gold
So down sugar mountain we go

credits

from The Astral Plane, released June 25, 2021
Dana Sipos - vocals
Nick Zubeck - guitar
Tom Hammerton - piano
Mark McIntyre - bass
Blake Howard - percussion
Sandro Perri - percussion
Michael Davidson - vibraphone

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Dana Sipos British Columbia

hypnotic folk from Turtle Island.
The Astral Plane, produced by Sandro Perri, out on Toronto's Roaring Girl Records June 2021

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