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CdB Pressed Mixes

by Vold Book

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    You are looking at the only VB vinyl released to date. Pressed in 2015, approx. 175 copies remain. It is a cardboard cover with label, bespoke sleeve, and golden-orange record with hints of egg white (see images). Libations not included! Some autographed / hand-numbered copies remain on a first-come, first-served basis. Thanks for looking!

    Includes unlimited streaming of CdB Pressed Mixes via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Dream-docking, northern lights, alpha road, please come true Tourmaline, radio, seas of faith, turn my way Gypsy-eyed, rocketship, night-scented, amaze me Dreams come true, moontower, second sight, trouble heart It’s amazing that anything exists at all Everlasting, our geodesic home Exquisite details beyond description Among the stars The pacific ocean fuels a steel breeze that we control A single mote of dust rises up, over us, into the sunset Where it can be reborn as a planet Futurist, morningstar: you’re the queen of my heart Capulets, come inside: cabaret of wonder Distant starlight of her captures my heart and my mind in here Underwater kingdoms beckon us Imaginary homes to call our own, within her arms As we drift across the sky I’m everything that keeps her safe from harm Just look into the future, we are not divisible So how do you expect we’ll find our way among all of the billions? My sailboat shoots past The Clarke Belt, where I might find some other recourse Utopia or oblivion awaits me for the final chapter Spreading silver sails, I resolve to find my soulmate There is only one of her to keep me warm at night My darling, I love you so much, won’t you come with me? Like the endless night, love for you goes on and on Like the mountains we would one day seek to climb If we would only choose forever The farther you go out to sea, the fewer sailors there will be My heart is swimming in possibilities The farther you go out to see, the fewer sailors there will be My mind is swimming in possibilities Black butterflies escape out of my windpipes into the air Above the Kohaku River We unite on banks of the Seine Our telomeres are no longer bounded Life without death it turns out is possible Now we are one in everlasting harmony Pianos contract our fever, and the dance floors are no longer empty As we drift across the sky I’m everything that keeps her safe from harm Just look into the future, we are not invincible But now you see that you can find your way back to your own requited My sailboat returns from Heaven, where I have found what I was after Utopia is another word for what awaits us in the future Spreading silver sails, I resolved to find my soulmate There is only one of her to keep me warm at night My darling, I love you so much, won’t you walk with me? Like the endless night, love for you goes on and on Like the mountains we would one day seek to climb If we could only reach forever
2.
I have come here to cast a spell As clear as stars after a wind storm, my stardust winds We are ancient versions of our selves Couched in darkness, weaving neon arrows off the desert wind I secure the shadow of my thoughts in the true north sky above She said that “God is love and love is all”, which means so much on this toilsome path A mirror with a memory, my soulmate is a messenger from the secret migration Flying like the tempest, the wind in the air is majestic virtue Boundless seeker of night with brilliant pathway: a starwave locomotive Standard candles give us perspective, and them nothing at all Though voidness is not void; radiant existence lies in mystery Form cannot manifest itself: iambic pentameter A spark of genius drifts down this hall of clouds Welcome to the crypt; labyrinthine passages of the skull king He waits until the end of our attempts to discover How to awaken the universe from deeper energies we invest And then he comes for us one by one This atmosphere is a thin blue line that keeps us alive And binds us to the earth for now: a secret of mountains withheld from most all along Cries from my heavy heart burst forth on old Battersea bridge Our theatre full of sadness cannot transcend its hollow caves of naïve origin Only time will tell if our new phase change limits us in any way from ourselves Like a pearl set in shining emeralds, we resolve to break free from his dark grip Crystal chandeliers portend our sound judgment to the infinite Electronic architectures of oppression bind us before the strong current Arecibo messages tell of lost lands where we roam free Amanita spreads the narrow way for us to embrace our future selves, at last! The River Styx has become a symbol of our struggle Tangles of a creeping plant extend its sweetness Narrowing moons follow as far as you take me Moonlight shows us what we truly are As the dark patches fall, the deluge brings us another day
3.
People of the future world, silicon hearts, as rare as a shooting star This dream sequence of deepest waters and foreign sands is brought to you by The mystical states of Bohemian-treasured psychedelia Reflected in the jewelled trees, a multi-colored lotus turns away From the infinite sadness of its technicolor dream Galaxies of moving pictures come alive as a glass of champagne Meets the clockwork of your eye in secret rooms for the heart of Abingdon, U.K. Under the red glow of sunset, dawn of stars, temples of the golden pavilion, island mist Perfumed gardens glisten everywhere, sleepy silver door Archives remain in magic of writing A 1920s dreamport plays upon the cosmic riddle, as old as time Tomorrow’s entrepreneurs journey to forever through sacred alleys and the seven seas Just to find the lost notes of raw, magical power and unfinished beauty Possessions that last Flickering around me, audience admires houses with hidden doors Delphi shining daughter above
4.
Missing pages, head wrapped in dreams Spiral staircase, spiral staircase, spiral staircase Move into space. Slide into space. Clavius Base. Silver ghost Yin yang tragiverse enclave, teenage eyes: lunar Sharebride failing star satellites destined to die On the eve of deathless highland contact Who will miss it? And who will you see there? Spinal river lifeforce, save me. I want to go. I want to live Take me with you. Please, take us there. Please bring us back to you God sleeps in Heaven. He cannot hear you. Abandoned. Seven miles per second: five, four, three, two, one. In the 23rd century, life without death. Enter galactic peace And war, oh no: Earth analogues, ancestral sacrifice Sacred poets, mayday mayday, mayday

about

These are the digital mixes of the first and only vinyl release by Vold Book to date, 'Candelabra de Bras EP 1' (2015).

'Candelabra de Bras' is a double-album and the fourth LP by Vold Book. It is a collection of electronic songs, most single-length, where I began to practice lyrical expansion and get into the groove mindset of Vold Book. At the time, making a double-album was a bit ambitious for my abilities, but that didn't stop me from trying! I think overall it was a success. Several VB classics came from the sessions including those on this release.

I hope you enjoy the throwback. I always attempted to create timeless material performed with a dated MIDI sound. Although some of the tunes fell short of my goals, I am quite proud of others.

credits

released March 22, 2015

All songs written and recorded by John T. Trautman

Mixed and mastered by Landon Arkens, Blast House Studios
(Madison, WI)

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Vold Book California

Vold Book has been making music in Austin, TX. since 2014 and recently relocated to SLO County, central coast.

Stay tuned for "A Humanist's Story with Vold Book," on September 15, 2023. It is a four-episode radio program that introduces new listeners to my work. Dive deep with me into the meaning of the music and words.

John T. Trautman - b. October 27, 1981 in Ridgewood, NJ.
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