I
Life is stains
And life is scratches,
Life is leaving
Life is losing.
Life is breaking, shrieking, freaking,
Life is choosing, cruising, bruising.
Peaceful warriors,
Starving royals,
Soddoms and gemhorrahs,
Loaves and fishes,
Life is solitude,
And endings,
Life is laundry, life is dishes.
Don’t be so existential,
Don’t overthink it
Just start rinsing
And fill your sink it’s
Gonna be OK
Don’t be mopey.
Don’t think too hard!
Don’t worry, be soapy.
II
Hotter than friction, we pop like corn.
Stranger than fiction and hotter than porn.
No half stepping, just quarter toning,
Stereogomous, on the phone we moaning.
Gas in the car and food on the table
Meat on your bones and green in your Gable.
Thought I was old when I was thirty
Now I feel lucky that my plates get dirty.
Everybody type QWERTY,
Password suspicious,
Life is laundry, life is dishes.
Most days aren’t too malicious,
Life is laundry, life is dishes.
The cycle’s viscous,
Lazy ambitious.
Disgusting delicious,
Laundry and dishes.
III
Well-fed bodies,
Starving souls,
Life is parking,
Life is tolls.
Fate and faith,
dreams and wishes,
Life is laundry, life is dishes
Holy criminals,
Evil axis.
Life is toilets.
Life is taxes.
Painful pleasures, stolen kisses,
Life is laundry, life is dishes.
And toenail clippings.
credits
from Laundry and Dishes,
released February 20, 2021
Patrice Agbokou and Michael Felber on one bass.
Montreal based. Started out with piano lessons. Then he made beats. Then he started producing. Wrote a few musicals, made
some videos, puppets, photographs. Did some shows. Worked with cool people. Now his life is out the window and he practices piano and does pencil drawings all day. Basically unemployed. He hopes to work again one day....more
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One of the best new albums of Yiddish and Klezmer music on Bandcamp in my opinion. The collaboration of two sensitive artists of different generations who know a lot about Yiddish and American music.
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One of my favourite musical discoveries in a while. These musicians are seriously talented. I can’t help imagining that there would have been a whole significant subculture of Yiddish psych rock like this in a different, kinder universe. For now, this is a window into that world that might have been. And I love every second of it. Audrey
The London trio return with a sequel to 2019's Civilisation I EP, an emotive art-pop suite recorded entirely on vintage hardware. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2021
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Winograd pays respect to Brandwein's style with great respect, when it would be easy to be cheesy. This album helps me appreciate the crackly recordings even more, and Dan Blacksburg does a great Sam Speilman.. davethek