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Sleeplessinsleep

by Barbarika

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soundscooltome This is a cooler than me album.
Each track seems to illustrate a dream that is emotional yet warm, tangled yet profound.
Now I'm sleepless and peaceful ;) Favorite track: Yūgiri.
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1.
Mama 03:08
I know it's one day There's always one day You'd come in pictures You'd come in poems I know what you used to be No-one's what they used to be You used to be a merman You used to be a tree Stars you can not reach are stars you can paint Red yellow blue and green growing in your terrain Mama you can not free's mama you can flee Big strong dark and weak that's never gonna betray I know you know what I know What I know is none None falls like a leaf None rises like a rocket I know you know where I go Where I go is unknown Unknown is my only dream Unknown is your way Rivers you can not drink are rivers you can chase Cold clear remote and deep running through your terrain Mama you can not pick's mama you can pain Aggressive and bittersweet that's never gonna break Mama you can not free's mama you can flee Big strong dark and weak that's never gonna betray
2.
Éire 04:05 video
It all started from a murmur And faded in a picture Nothing could be saved by A kiss that’s lost in cold Thought the hours would flash back The earth would pause a moment The starlights would go bleak When you summoned all my souls It didn’t snow that winter I lost all the salt-white clues You opened like the vowels of The darkness in my throat You reflected each Ireland Without Ulysses and fiddles Waves crashing on the Moher The bird you breathed out floating upon This land of mirror sinking in the ocean Of the purest black water The black’s a new kind of snow You froze the townland on fire Letting blackish green seal reds Then you put a spell on the sleepers That used to run like rats You brought springs at wartime Brought my blood flowing all night Rosemary, gentian and thyme All alone you were roaming In the lost field of mine Got nothing to lose But this cold spring I was to find My orbit’s made ice-blue At sunset, you multiplied
3.
Yūgiri 01:50
4.
Dance³ 03:12
Over the sea Misty days Sailing from that opening hand Sun wrapped up One eye blinks You skip a step in r.e.m. I’m so cold Missing the show Giraffes fleeing from the stage Pouring down Time in my watch Birds can’t fly without a cage Eat that fire Fight for tigers Nighttime’s never calm like this Big times believer Learns to surrender All your horses get so tired We’re made to be bulbs in this balloon
5.
Moments 04:42
我迅速开启像一枚荒瘠的蚌 我迅速开启像一瓶造梦的化学试剂 我迅速开启比夜半的昙花还要孤绝 我迅速开启比碎了的心还要无所谓 我迅速开启犹如完结的侦探小说 我迅速开启犹如烧到指头的烟蒂 我迅速开启那个你推我进入的甬道 我迅速开启我的心 它不曾通向任何光亮 我快速钻入像一个不堪的念头 我快速钻入像一条蛇躲进糜烂的蓓蕾 我快速钻入比削尖的铅笔还要用心 我快速钻入比过堂的夜风还要阴 我快速钻入犹如起司渗入蜗牛 我快速钻入犹如千年的沙漠迎来了雨 我快速钻入不曾抗拒不曾弯曲 我快速钻入并不计较你的软肋有多坚硬 因此我结束 以一个微小的姿势 我结束 踏在最后一个延迟的音符 我结束 清脆如冬季第一根折断的树枝 我结束 潮涌来了一层又一层不曾退去 我结束 在你的目光里旋转如疲惫的陀螺 我结束 从还未堕入这人间的喧哗起 我结束 即然开启得如此果决而纯粹 我结束 当然还将来临如雪崩 在这不曾下雪的雪乡里 Lucid dream lucid dream You're never ever reaching the borderline of my dream Lucid dream lucid dream You're never ever reaching the borderline of my dream Lucid dream lucid dream You're never ever reaching the borderline of my dream Lucid dream lucid dream You're never ever reaching the borderline of my dream Lucid dream lucid dream You're never ever reaching the borderline of my dream Lucid dream lucid dream You're never ever reaching the borderline of my dream Lucid dream lucid dream You're never ever reaching the borderline of my dream
6.
Blueless 02:55
どこから、あのライト? どこから?あのライト!
7.
Nightree 02:58
Nightree, nightree Are you shaking for me With a head of green hair and moonlit face A kitten is climbing Eyes are aflame then go dim With secrets on your mind falling asleep Lights in this street Color you purple and orange Your heart of the darkness lightens the beats Nightree, nightree Are you being this lonely Music dies but your dancing never ceases Nightree, nightree Are you a shelter for me From endless noises of past days A girl off the night shift Stopping whistling and watching it Her lover’s eyes seem like glowing leaves Lights in this street Lead the way and get it twisted You'll find there’s only nightree in company
8.
Tidal 04:32
It’s the first time, we’d been to a shore The first time, seen petrels soar, Seas of mirror made wings sand thick And us sand light. I could hear the scream rising in your heart And rolls of drum rushing from afar, That music of time rained tears but Got me not to cry. The stones stood alone Telling tales of the temple. God of the sun played the flute You dancing in storks’ moves. Wind rose and sewed The waves in green and blue. Hot hearts in freezing cold Feeling naked like toes. Make a dive, swim deep Before the sea burnt by the yellow moon. Breathe free if we kiss In this love for so long we’ve never showed. Time frozen back when it struck, I see the light on which you rode, You are still the one who makes my sea brewed. It’s the first time, we’d been to a shore The first time, seen petrels soar, Seas of mirror made wings sand thick And us sand light. I could hear the scream rising in your heart And rolls of drum rushing from afar, That music of time rained tears but Got me not to cry. Night fell before it oozed Mysteries of old books, where lovers are never doomed, If they confide to the oud. Wind rose and sewed Your hair in shade and glow. I found one thing about truth Beauty’s born in your voodoo. Make a dive, fall free Before life gets too heavy to control Hold tight if we sink In my arms the abyss’s about to be the home Time flying ahead when it ends, We’ll cage the light in which we bloom, You are always the one who makes my waves move.
9.
Yerevan 01:51
雪 一直延续到方舟停泊之地 覆盖亚拉腊山 无人藏匿在这纯白中的蓝 点灯 唱诵 亡灵自塞凡湖底列队出发 仿若世界未曾有过人 幽灵与十字架石 不过如蔷薇 如百里香 生于被风吹散的雨 我也生于被这风吹散的雨 我也生于被这风吹散的雨 我也生于被这风吹散的雨 踩碎葡萄和石榴 做紫 和红的颜料 她为我织染第一件衣裳 第一件无遮无拦的衣裳 高举我像一片云朵的雕塑 被山谷的回音灌醉
10.
Ortygia 06:37
Floating, like a log in the river Falling, like a leaf through the rain Sleeping, like an egg unboiled Dreaming, like the yolk quivering Floating, like a log in the river Falling, like a leaf through the rain Sleeping, like an egg unboiled Dreaming, like the yolk quivering Floating, like a log in the river Falling, like a leaf through the rain Sleeping, like an egg unboiled Dreaming, like the yolk quivering Silent, still awake in the midnight Empty, juice dripping out of the fruit Blue, skies move to the moon White, nothing will happen soon
11.
Trains 05:29
Oh lord take me afar Far from the country home My father told me not to cry Under big city lights It's an ordinary day Just like any other day when I kill myself and revive Nothing wrong with life Working like a dog everyday Running like a car everyday At night I sleep alone with nothing But a load of dreams Girls dancing by me smiling Unlike that fading smiling It taught me what love gave and destroyed Destroyed as ruins should be Rebuilt as ruins should be My trees and rivers come back From my faraway dream Oh lord take me home But Is there anyone waiting? My father told me “Don’t look back, ‘Cuz the time’s opening its hands.” Oh lord please take me there the place I've been dreaming My father talked as a wise man Life is the only book he had
12.
Trampin’ 02:21
The gentle ugly one with jewels tramping alone From deserts through grasslands to the last of flaming lands Foot talks to itself and nose floats like rain Flowers cover eyes and voices root in trees He's dumb deaf blind, the king of sensual paradise To the west the north the sky, he's a map of no place to fly I'm all ears tongues eyes, the homeless dancing in the nights To the west the north the sky, I've a map of no place to fly I've a lamp of no fire to light, I've a land of no one to find
13.
Reprise 05:17
夕暮れは過ぎ去って 花びらをちぎって あの白い家に日焼けた両手 今朝雨に濡れて 夢から覚めて 海を薔薇色に染めた朝焼け You say it’s something to cry about and lose I know it’s something to forget and let go Life goes away and goes on and days fade in and fade out and Traveling along the lights makes flashbacks dark and gold The old sleeps and the young rises and the sun breaks the black oceans And in my heart grows every side of you~

about

For more than twenty years, Barbarika has lurked in the shadows, waiting for this opportunity to tell his unspeakable stories before getting completely confined in the water prison of his own consciousness.

Each of the thirteen songs on his debut album forms an exotic picture, yet they are all fractions of an otherworldly soundscape, which is dreamily weaved together by delicate rhythm patterns of dance music, and a wide range of instruments and their timbral samples, such as guzheng, koto, Chinese drums, taiko, oud, douk, sitar, and most importantly Barbarika's own vocal. His eerie murmuring expression, borrowing narrative styles from poetry, fiction, theater play, or even philosophical texts, leads onto the path towards the depth of a spiritual world.

This album is dedicated to the memory of Li Yongzhong, my father.

一只低像素的、半透明的、喑哑到难以辨认的猫科动物,Barbarika 能确定那是真实的相遇。一直生活在所有人的视野死角,融入无边黑色的同时,他伺机而动 —— 不是为了突然闯入谁的视界,只是为了:从摊开的手掌上升帆而来,在每一棵夜色中挥手的树木前伫足,在地理定义之外的浮岛躲避暴力,在梦的入口遇到自己。

这是献给父亲、Barbara 和 Ewa Demarczyk 的陈旧歌曲;二十来年,它们在 Barbarika 脑中经历了万水千山的虚拟创作。“我终于在快要把自己完全囚禁前,带着这十三首歌进入了梦境的更深处。”

credits

released November 5, 2021

Written, Recorded, Mixed & Produced by Barbarika
(Except track 6 composed by Georges Bizet)
Mastered at Brandenburg Mastering
Guest Vocal by Yuan (Track 2, 6 & 11)
Audio Engineering Consultant: Ocicat & Yuan
Photography & Artwork by Yolanda Chan, Barbarika & Tom Ng

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About Barbarika:

Barbarika is a singer-songwriter who makes electronic music, an English teacher with a degree in Japanese, a wild poet with a long history of fiction writing, and a pop music devotee digging alternative sounds. His folktronica music uses cut-up samples, synth, and acoustic instruments to create mysterious tunes, which not only encrypt his life stories in an ancient city in the northwest desert but also open up doors and communication to all imaginary worlds beyond.

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Barbarika Shaanxi, China

A Chinese-English-Japanese teacher
An idealistic storyteller
A traveler tramping on the land of neverness

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