The story of VOID is a story of fear, not knowing what’s going to happen, and questioning one’s own identity. The track begins with a percussive synth loop, and a spoken word voice-over by Belgian poet Dominique De Groen, morphing into a flow of harmonies, highly energetic drums and an Ambrose-ish trumpet solo by Laurence Wilkins, eventually dissolving into broken fractures of sound which are accompanied by another poem - Nick Flynn’s “Swarm“.
lyrics
Hymne (Dominique De Groen *1991)
Elektriciteit stroomt door mijn aders
een magisch object
stroomt door mijn aders
duizend afgronden
krioelend van leven
stromen door mijn aders.
Genen doen een zijwaartse schuifeldans
in mijn aders.
De onzichtbare hand
van een dode markt
roert in de besmette vloeistof in mijn aders
een stoet van planeten
trekt door mijn aders.
Ik infecteer mezelf
met mijn bacteriële broeders
ieder wezen
dat ooit bestond
stroomt door onze aders
we stromen door de hunne
en worden licht
zwevend door de kosmos
tussen enorme koolstofketens.
Swarm (Nick Flynn *1960)
When you see us swarm — rustle of
wingbeat, collapsed air — your mind
tries to make us one, a common
intelligence, a single spirit un-
tethered. You imagine us merely
searching out the next
vessel, anything
that could contain us, as if the hive
were just another jar. You try
to hold the ending, this
unspooling, make it either
zero or many, lack
or flurry. I was born,
you begin, & already each word
makes you smaller. Look at this field —
Cosmos. Lungwort. Utter each
& break
into a thousand versions of yourself.
You can't tell your stories fast enough.
The answer is not one, but also
not two.
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