"Found a key in the door / Tired eyes in the morning / Stepping out without a raincoat on / Baby can't you see it's pouring outside..."
The inspired sadness and survivorship of "Prose for the Cradle" by New England music and arts project Gaud draws you into it's melancholia and musical mayhem, maybe lures you in feels like a better description. The punchy musical swings I adore, the whiskey scorched vocals I crave and the impassioned feral drumming I am. The sensibility to me feels both raucous and futile to the point of exhaustion. It it were a film it might star Zach Galifianakis in a startling dramatic role as a down and outer who steps over the precipice but then pulls back, a gritty tear jerker.
"Prose for the Cradle" is not only bruised and beautiful but intriguing to me. It exists on Gaud's first full length album "The Singer" available, for the first time on CD Rom that comes with a single fold insert containing lyrics, liner notes, and other relevant poetry and fodder. It also contains a 3 part sticker pack filled with all your favorite Gold Mine characters so that you and your loved ones can decorate your CD however you see fit. Lastly a download code has been included so that you can listen whatever way you like. This has all been lovingly put together with great care by Gaud and Chris Roberge.
LINER NOTES about "The Singer" (in red):
"The Singer" is a story of someone who feels they must escape the confines of the life built around them. It explores the triumph and tragedy that comes with these choices. For the chooser, and for the victims of choice.
It’s a collage of intimate domestic reveries; what it’s like to be living as a human, and the deep connection that experience gives someone. A connection to the people and places they inhabit in their own unique system. It’s about joy and truth; how they are different yet can be one and the same. It’s about family. It’s about the conditions of unconditional love. It’s about a lack of choice one has in birth.
The fact that there is no promise of comfort, and how that should not be forgotten, or feared.
It is a story to celebrate a life meant to be lived with others. Even the parts we hide away or must endure alone are a part of the grand union. Stories tend to teach the listener something about themselves, and the same is true for the teller. Stories give us a sense of everything in this world.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://gaudstories.bandcamp.com/album/the-singer
https://www.instagram.com/gaudstories
https://linktr.ee/gaudislove
Gaud is a music and arts project from New England that uses sound and storytelling to explore the human social ecosystem. Finding fairy tales in the study of change over time, and remaining “joyful even when all the facts have been considered.”
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