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Saint Sebastian, By the Hands of Reni

from Die Alone by Silence and Secrecy

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Martyrdom, through art, transformed into an object of homoerotic sadomasochistic ideation; conversely, the experience of the sensual made ecstatic, apocalyptic. Guido Reni; Yukio Mishima.

...house music. Sort of. People seem to like this one. Shares something with the previous track in that it is tuned very, very unusually, in this case seventy-nine-tone equal temperament, which does some really weird things to how chords work. The ambient epilogue was one of my first adventures in the abuse of echo and reverb on reversed sounds to render backwards and forwards functionally identical. I am also singing into a toy drum there, testing the resonance frequencies...

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O, to die like Saint Sebastian!
He was struck by arrows, killed by clubs!
To die like Saint Sebastian:
Struck by arrows, killed by clubs!

Could wooden weapons transform the flesh—
give a roustabout the face of an angel?

You fall upon your knees in awe,
and your hands are stained with blood.

You will die like Saint Sebastian:
Struck by arrows, killed by clubs.
Die like Saint Sebastian:
Struck by arrows, killed by clubs!

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from Die Alone, released May 7, 2016

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Purveyor of fine musical curios, grotesques and arabesques since 1 January 2014. Mostly just one weirdo in a literal attic.

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