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Zepaton

by ardklaw

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Travis This is a very unique and creative release. It has me doing a combination of dancing, scratching my head, and just sitting in absolute awe. Favorite track is techno cube. Favorite track: Techno-cube Dungeon of the Great Stardral Fortress is Infiltrated and Expunged of its Plant Overgrowth and By-products of the All-futurized World, Sewn Closed with Power Lines like Seams and Dotted with Extraction Facilities like Malnourished Leeches.
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1.
Just feeling, peeling, squealing in my ears that siren, stretched and echoed 'cross seven years Just hugging, tugging, struggling, it comes loose that fucking inkling, that selfish, hellish truth held there, thread-bare But it can only get so far burned by the backseat of my car and it can only get so far until you say the words and your hands touch mine and now you too are blind Confessing, guessing, the blessing to which it's prone distressing, likely to fall back on what's been shown to be, mostly Easy, telling, and otherwise to the point these tendrils of worry, I swear, this will anoint I swear, to God But it can only get so far until the backseat of my car splits in two and it can only get so far until the backseat of my car falls through
2.
Keep it grounded safe and sound, and barely broken softly spoken Like I'm mute can't uproot Something's coming and erupting getting louder Debbie downer Like (running across a pond of marbles) I'm (stumbling into a drone hard to) mute Can't (stifle the obstacles keeping me) up (tugging incessantly down on the) root God, this weight's collecting in my bones sinking inward and making itself at home each step is dug deeper until I'm left to become a landfill Always, every time I let it in and take its hold of me I try to force it out my mouth but words seem to clutter and repeat in an epistrophy and they choke until my words run out God, this weight's collecting in my bones sinking inward and making itself at home each step is dug deeper until my bloated bones are full
3.
Java Chip 03:22
Smothered in quilts hooked down with weights caught between drafts flowing like straits I'm pushing through you're dressed in white stripped, I turn on the light All the facades and structures designed presences firm hazy outlines I'm out in front you're looking down I try my best, but you can't be found Getting louder Debbie downer Throw it all off 'cause I want to see split all the threads of this reverie I'm on the edge you're dressed in white I close my eyes, and black, you're dyed I'm on the edge you're dressed in white I close my eyes, and black, you're
4.
Dyed!
5.
Zepaton, Zepaton lonely orb, far beyond Zepaton, Zepaton blood is spilt on the lawn Zepaton, Zepaton frozen through, to the core Zepaton, Zepaton drug along, 'cross the floor Zepaton, Zepaton aperture to the mind Zepaton, Zepaton arm are held, reaching high Zepaton, Zepaton ossified atmosphere Zepaton, Zepaton gripping sight, growing clear Zepaton, Zepaton holy grail, abandoned hull Zepaton, Zepaton orbiting, atop your skull Zepaton, Zepaton nucleus, forgotten worlds Zepaton, Zepaton planted feet on wooden boards Zepaton, Zepaton floating in prismatic glare Zepaton, Zepaton clammy skin and desert air Zepaton, Zepaton pinnacle, humanity Zepaton, Zepaton it is you, and you are free I couldn't say for certain but you wanted something different something volatile and efferent, blistered seeping through the seconds and diffusing through the minutes something quick and painless, to the point and yet sinless, clean linens something understood by every soul 'rapt in it branching haplessly away from even our tenuous intentions Until the only notions of interrelation, patient grew similarly strained, and vacant waking up in a crimson blanket cast by burning embers singeing sweetly cigarette smoke, neurosis, steeping cycling through daily bouts of death and life repeating And so I turned to rumination, inward dwelling, longing silently after countless prospects for the fire's quelling but longing then bent outwards, twist! And guided by desire's apparent pilot into an empty Pepsi liter, and an anxious backyard science Into the whiskey-soaked desert my pilot led me, shrapnel and sentimental thoughts sporadically shelling, retelling passages of otherworld encounters, mysterious powers granted by fantasy, cannily capturing the fearfulness manhandling me Black eye bruised, fingers stuck and glued, to our wooden booth I was plucked and moved, and carefully drawn in kaleidoscopic awe, by the piningly violent maw of Zepaton Lingering high in the starlit sky, amid brewing clouds of scrying eyes, its intoxicating light and blinding size shed my blighted hide and bled me dry My vessel then shone blue and in an infinite slew of cubes I ascended through every conception of "me" and "you" and past the farthest inklings of anything I flew And the realm that I reached hung so freely, the culmination of a species' dreams - my body siezed, I ceased to breathe at Zepaton, it is you, and you are free Cosecant astral glow, pinpoint the location blue neon rectangles, aligned with lit purple platonic pace will slow, adjust with cosmic pull obliterate circles, slight universal flow Corroded sunken bones, positioned at each zone buried 'neath frozen shores, occasional blot spores propelled with quantum ghosts, across all planes pierce tones obscured by thick ozone, in orbit, space whales moan
6.
Scathing blue, it glows Techno-cube, oh corroded throne Caught in stellar throes tethered to its abandoned home Oh, Techno-cube, you're the answer soon you'll be a but a reminder of Zepaton's former glory pleading, bargaining, imploring Infiltrate, and purge reverberate down the halls, let them hear your dirge Currents bend and surge worming through panels that break and burst outward 'cross the burdened Earth Oh, Techno-cube, you're the answer one conclusion that we can't forego Zepaton, a cemetery wrought with our regrets, sincerely
7.
Carved From 04:32
Broken marvel, monument weeping Thorazine, hunched and pent All of the ways to lose your mind to give up, to get lost to feed into the fog to sleep beneath the thaw Carved from marble, carved from stone carved from ice, carved from bone Colorized phase, sine waves, aligned blending through, crawling up splintering, pulverized our monuments may die Its layers are melting and its core is clean but this mind reeks envy and this heart is mean Carved from debt Carved from a picture book about how bears learned to care or how Brother Berenstain learned to play fair Over time, you forget A monument to all the ways that we came undone and stripped ourselves of how we had begun and what we were first carved from
8.
Pending 04:34
I'm sorry for most of the moments when I didn't know what I was on about talking to walls when I had to shout Maybe next time I'll take it slower maybe next time I can go without you gave me the benefit of the doubt Pending changes just came through I'm not certain but I hope it's true Lost in the haze of the summer but born in the winter of Washington another picture left uncolored in Maybe I'm as good as I can be maybe I lost my chance to begin made myself impossible to forgive Pending changes just came through I'm not certain but I hope it's true I hope it's true

about

Zepaton, as a collection of earnestly written music and words, is a medium through which I hope to relay the emotions I’ve felt and the circumstances I’ve been a part of during my last five years.

Thematically, I used Zepaton as a vehicle to explore my experiences with love, depression, music, religion, education, drugs, and most consequentially, people.

Musically, my intent was to make Zepaton minimal in instrumentation yet grand, even absurd, in songwriting and sound.

I limited myself to three instruments: electric piano, percussion, and my voice. The electric piano parts were programmed in Logic using the EVP88 virtual electric piano plug-in. No other instruments, virtual or otherwise, were used.

Zepaton has been both a joy and an agony to create, and I hope with the most sincere optimism that these songs draw forth a desire within you to create, love, and grow - a desire which I am grateful to have had instilled in me by the amazing people and experiences with whom I have shared my life.

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released October 2, 2014

Arden Klawitter - Music, lyrics, recording, mixing, and mastering
Giordan Moloian - Artwork
Linda Klawitter - Photography

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Hello! My name is Arden and I make music for video games.

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