Babal - Shall Not Fade Into The Night
from A Year In The Revolution 2020 by Various Artists
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From the Melodic Revolution release, Dreams For Imaginary Puppet Shows On The Radio Released August 21, 2020
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In 2019 BABAL had to cease performing and recording. Vocalist and songwriter Karen Langley had stage 4 cancer requiring many chemotherapy sessions and a stem cell transplant; she is now thankfully in remission.
Karen was unable to sing during that year so we wrote lots of instrumental tracks, visualizing them as puppet shows on the radio!!, while others could possibly be destined as re-arranged tunes with vocals in the future.
Then along came COVID 19……….
The third part of The Circle of Confusion of Tongues trilogy, “(I’m Just A) Spirit in A Meat Suit” has been delayed as we are mixing and mastering remotely which takes time. We plan to release the album later this year.
The music on Dreams for Imaginary Puppet Shows on The Radio reveals the different yet identifiable and distinctive sound of Karen Langley (voice/devices), Rob Williams (guitar, guitar synth, bass), and Jon Sharp (drums) – BABAL.
This is BABAL’s sixth album – the desire to never stay in one musical place too long remains a constant with the band.
The concept of a puppet show on the radio threw us a few imaginative curves and strange angles when thinking about, and improvising the music.
Along with the track titles each piece has a “dream” concept portraying possible scenes in the puppet show, described in a dark and Lovecraftian manner – or you may choose to visualize your own Puppet Show on the Radio – let us know where it takes you! There will be a prize….
Here are a few examples:
Track 4. Bunker 1A “The sirens cry out in the vile depths of the hellish metropolis – the cries of the lost and the yells of epiphany. They cavort and wail to hellish pipings and bongos”
Track 7. Void “She wanted to rise above the dimensions of mundanity, to drink deep of the nectar of the cosmos. As her body became lighter, the winds of the universe took her far into her beyond”
Track 8. Ahab’s Promise “Stiff and twitching, Ahab raised himself from his tattered cot. The universe was beckoning with its benign smile so he staggered on into the hellish night on raggedy stick legs – leaving behind the relentless rot and canker of his demented obsession”
Track 11. Nightfalls “Lost in the vast world of fluid – a vicious and languid ambivalence slipped into the hellish concept of what he was becoming – sinking into the stinking depths of his tattered and eviscerated soul”
Listen, Love, Buy, Share.
USA: babalmrrartist.bandcamp.com
UK: babal.bandcamp.com
Listen, Love, Buy, Share.
USA: babalmrrartist.bandcamp.com
UK: babal.bandcamp.com
In 2019 BABAL had to cease performing and recording. Vocalist and songwriter Karen Langley had stage 4 cancer requiring many chemotherapy sessions and a stem cell transplant; she is now thankfully in remission.
Karen was unable to sing during that year so we wrote lots of instrumental tracks, visualizing them as puppet shows on the radio!!, while others could possibly be destined as re-arranged tunes with vocals in the future.
Then along came COVID 19……….
The third part of The Circle of Confusion of Tongues trilogy, “(I’m Just A) Spirit in A Meat Suit” has been delayed as we are mixing and mastering remotely which takes time. We plan to release the album later this year.
The music on Dreams for Imaginary Puppet Shows on The Radio reveals the different yet identifiable and distinctive sound of Karen Langley (voice/devices), Rob Williams (guitar, guitar synth, bass), and Jon Sharp (drums) – BABAL.
This is BABAL’s sixth album – the desire to never stay in one musical place too long remains a constant with the band.
The concept of a puppet show on the radio threw us a few imaginative curves and strange angles when thinking about, and improvising the music.
Along with the track titles each piece has a “dream” concept portraying possible scenes in the puppet show, described in a dark and Lovecraftian manner – or you may choose to visualize your own Puppet Show on the Radio – let us know where it takes you! There will be a prize….
Here are a few examples:
Track 4. Bunker 1A “The sirens cry out in the vile depths of the hellish metropolis – the cries of the lost and the yells of epiphany. They cavort and wail to hellish pipings and bongos”
Track 7. Void “She wanted to rise above the dimensions of mundanity, to drink deep of the nectar of the cosmos. As her body became lighter, the winds of the universe took her far into her beyond”
Track 8. Ahab’s Promise “Stiff and twitching, Ahab raised himself from his tattered cot. The universe was beckoning with its benign smile so he staggered on into the hellish night on raggedy stick legs – leaving behind the relentless rot and canker of his demented obsession”
Track 11. Nightfalls “Lost in the vast world of fluid – a vicious and languid ambivalence slipped into the hellish concept of what he was becoming – sinking into the stinking depths of his tattered and eviscerated soul”
Listen, Love, Buy, Share.
USA: babalmrrartist.bandcamp.com
UK: babal.bandcamp.com
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from A Year In The Revolution 2020,
track released August 21, 2020
Rob Williams - Guitars. Guitar Synths, Bass, programming
Karen Langley - Voice, Devices
Jon Sharp - Drums
Rob Williams - Guitars. Guitar Synths, Bass, programming
Karen Langley - Voice, Devices
Jon Sharp - Drums
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