Addict Garden (demo)

by Claire Donato

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Very lo-fi end-of-year demo featuring Felix's old guitar, church bells, a Tibetan singing bowl, wooden percussion, and a lot of white noise. Merry Christmas, happy birthday, and welcome 2021.

Recorded in my bedroom from December 20-23, 2020.

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Wash away the year
Wash away the signals that you sent
I was a high-wire act
Over the grass, I was falling
In midair, cascading
Through the room—
Where were you?

I wrote a list
I wrote my wishes down
In succession
One
After the next
After the next

I need a lover
To send me a juicer

And the flowers open softly

In the garden by the church, I touched
Saint Maximilian Kolbe's hand
And prayed for all the parts of myself
And prayed for you
It was the only thing to do

I'm addicted too/to
Touching the sculpture's hand
And the cat superimposed in the frame knows
My dead cat's ghost

Happy happy happy happy
Alone alone alone alone
Happy happy happy happy
Alone alone alone alone

(And the stick / fertilizes it / my [un]happiness)

(Amen, amen, amen)

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released December 24, 2020
Acoustic and electric guitar, Tibetan singing bowl, wooden percussion, lyrics, and 35mm garden photograph: Claire Donato

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Claire Donato Brooklyn, New York

I write songs on my bed, practice Zen meditation, illustrate myself naked in fish tanks, take 35mm photos, and am the author of some books, essays, poems.

Here's an EP I made when I was 20: friendshippa.bandcamp.com ... more

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