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hello


sometime last year i promised a best of (or rest of if you want to call it that)
release of building castles songs.


exams kicked in, it started snowing


well we all know how the story goes...


i do plan on sometime this new year to release one on actual CD

but for now

and for a short while

i have gathered and zipped a folder with about 30 castles songs in it
from 2003 till 2009

songs i love, and feel a strong connection to.


available now.....free......as a download...mp3


just reply right on this blog or email me, say you want it, and ill email you the link!

xx





my new album, comme un reve dans la nuit is for sale at chat blanc records
and secret land, my newest full length, is available through trace recordings.

coming soon


split with science north, remixes on tape

and

full length love puppets release (collab with 243) in march through ping things.

rothko - be invisible

castle clips | MySpace Video





music by rothko
filmed and edited by anne sulikowski

it's funny how everything changes

when something has changed

or is gone.


a situation

a relationship

an obsession

a life

a dream...



all tangible things that are real

but when time comes into perspective

are almost meaningless

or often even forgotten




a love can be felt so strongly within a moment

and then after thousands of moments

and tens of thousands of new moments....

it was like it never even happened

yet it shaped your existance so intensly within that moment

and if someone would have told you

if they travelled back through time

and said, its not going to be like this for forever you know

you would shake your haed in disbelief

even if it had been you yourself who made the visit...







funny how you can spend every single day with someone

for four years

and not 4 years later

you cant even remember what they used to eat

or what colours they liked to wear.



being taken from within the moment

is the only way

perspective can be achieved



and its baffles me to think of the things i keep from a situation

and the things ive forgotten

as if they were written on some old newspaper

that i walk over to catch my bus

in the rain.






lately i have had some time on my hands

out of school for awhile,

thrown into introspection.


programs lost on my pc.



sitting with no records playing.










ive been thinking alot these days

putting pieces back together

trying to remember those things forgotten

or clouded by all those other past moments.









im glad christmas is over

ive never been one for tradition.




i had dinner with my sister and my mother today

it was ok, we have a lo-fi christmas.

before i went for dinner i had to gather all the cardboard in the shed

for the recycling truck that will come in the morning.


it was surprisingly very warm out today

but very dark, much darker than usual.


it looked like midnight, but it was only 4 pm




i walked on the new concrete that was in the bark yard

my mother had just renewed it,

it was so shitty and broken down there for years.




there is a little cart that i use to take things to the curb

i live in an apartment, that my mother owns, so i help with the work around here.





as i carted all the cardboard i found myself really appreciating the new driveway

before the cart would make so much noise

it would rattle and rattle.

and the ground wasnt level, so pushing it was often hard


twice before the cart had tipped over

and i hated that.



but today, on christmas, in the rain, i really was happy the driveway was paved.


how easy this is now, i thought to myself.


i have been taking care of this building for about a year and a half now.

i really like it here.





the drive way has been fixed for 2 months now

but lately, with all this time, i find myself thinking about it.



before i moved here it was my father who had my job of taking care of the building.


for about 13 years he had to hear that rattling cart

on the shitty driveway.

perhaps the cart never tipped on him

maybe he paid more attention

or maybe he used both hands to push it.


i dont know.


i never was there when he pushed the cart.



but today i remebered something most vivdly

something that was clouded by many past moments


i remember being at my mothers house, about 3 years ago

and we were waiting for him to have dinner

he was busy at the apartment, taking out all the trash

he came into the house

and my mother was so pissed, cause we waited and waited for him


and he said that if that driveway was fixed, he could do it in like no time

and that it wasnt his fault that it was a shitty driveway

and that the cart was old, and the ground was just so uneven....






he went on and on about that driveway.

i never cared then because i never did it.

i also never cared then because he was still alive.








...

i dont know


i dont even know where i am going with this.

things change


people die.


people say things and mean them


but only at that given time.












how i wish that there was someway that i could have paved this driveway.

























or maybe learn a way to bend time.




goodnight.

my free time has begun!

which means

nothing but blips

skips

loops

drones

reverbs

choruses

voices

phases

phrases

words

strings

noises

pops

beats

granulizers!









!!!!!!!!!!!!!



new sounds coming soon

plus collabs and splits out soon with science north, millimetrik & Absent without leave!

...




new album is out now on chat blanc records

limited edition

called

comme un reve, dans la nuit!





xxxx

please visit science north's myspace

and listen to

bonus squiggle 01











....



the sweet sounds of robots singing to themselves!


































..

lyrics:


14 days and 16 nights
tell me you'll be mine tonight!

falling over furniture
my head explodes, eyes eyes!

tell me you'll be mine tonight,
15 17 13 5!

(fay lie lie lie fay lie lie)

tell me you'll be mine tonight.



lies and thoughts are here with me
slowly dripping quietly

i caught you in another lie!

(fay lie lie lie lie lie lie)

14 days, 17 nights?

falling in with all my might

catch me, catch me,
i won't die

(lie lie lie lie lie lie lie)



falling over furniture!
dropping cigarettes on you!

do do do do do do do

lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie

14 days and 16 nights

i caught you in another lie!


lie lie lie lie lie lie
 
falling over furniture, slowly shifting forwards!



....




falling over funiture is available on my new ep from : chat blanc records

limited edition, 133 copies

called "comme un reve, dans la nuit!"




...thanks for listening. xx

new track posted

remixed by : science north (link)

comme un reve dans la nuit


...


comme un reve is a remix of like a dream in the night, a track featured on my new ep
out now with : chat blanc records (link)




!!

 science north (beatmaster) and i are finishing up a single release featuring remixes of my tracks "stay" and "reve"....this will be a limited edition and will also be available through chat blanc records....



stay tuned and as always, thanks for listening xx

Some psychologists have compared this scene to what its like to have psychosis

perhaps the most personal of all songs i've ever recorded.


secret land is available through the lovely : trace recordings

please visit their site, they offer beautiful recordings.


below is the video i created for secret land.

thank you for watching, listening xx


secret land

castle clips | MySpace Video

it always repays you

(yes, it does)

in ways in which YOU WOULD NEVER EXPECT

and often, it is when

YOU DO NOT EXPECT IT

or have already forgotten



...



the key?



patience.







what a virtue...


so as i sit here and type away at the radio where i work

i cant help but smile?


and smile,

and smile...


lol.