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“Albatross” is a continued reflection on Hurricane Katrina. It is concerned more with living through the storm and trying to find hope and a way out, than knowing that for any bit of good news telecast to those of us who were mere witnesses, somehow our shared national guilt could be appeased. But helplessness transcends the politics of incompetence and indifference, and for those who had to navigate out of Katrina’s wake, it must surely have seemed like the end of their dreams and the beginning of something worse to come. These few years later not enough has been done to heal New Orleans. The knowledge that it is our brief national attention span that is the instrument of our own self-appeasement is the source of our national moral chaos.

Musically, the long tag is its own kind of chaos. Eric drives the section with the kinds of desperate improvisation that barely anchors Paul’s steady pulsing bass. Still in open-D tuning, the guitar solo clusters around particular areas of the neck, seeks some kind of exotic tonality, and crashes into diminished chords at proper intervals. It’s like an old freak out, which must be the state of mind when encountering the wrath of anything.

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Albatross

Floatin’ past the Rubicon (Water all ‘round me)

My Chevy & the Levee’s gone (Land under the sea)

Looking for a new day to last all night long

Flight of a new bird....Albatross....

Driftin’ like a piece of wood (Screaming fills the air)
Stagger forth this stick of mud (There’s nothing left to fear)
Praying for some answers for questions not yet asked
Lookin’ for some dry land Albatross... Albatross

To live beyond all dreams.

Bo-Jafo-keh, anir-tak Bo-Jafo-keh, anir-tak
Bo-Jafo-keh, anir-tak Bo-Jafo-keh, anir-tak

Fighting back the tempest storm (Wind carves up the soul)
Holdin’ back the infant born (Time without the holes)
Sleeping past the end of days, walking through the night
Feathers fall and I pray
to the Albatross... Albatross...
To live beyond all dreams.

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from Trepanning, track released January 1, 2008

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Edward Morneau Salem, Massachusetts

Edward Morneau has been a musician and songwriter most of his life. His focus on multiple genres and interest on sound collage experimentation makes his music hard to classify. His muses range from Beatles, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, XTC, Kinks, Iris DeMent to Mahler, Shostakovich, Penderecki & Zappa. His background as an English & Film teacher gives humor and striking imagery to his songs. ... more

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