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Bells & Proclamations

by Big Block 454

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1.
Pyjamageddon 04:16
Filled with dust Her eyes were filled with dust Afore the day Twixt dark and dawn Upon the death Aurora born The Risen Sun Extends the Light Invoke the Day And Banish Night My temperature is low tonight I’ve measured it in Fahrenheit My dreams erupt in dust and spite Now give me back the Light Now give it back Pyjamageddon
2.
Malham, Balham, Lostock Gralam, Farnham, Barnham, Hove Brighton, Knighton, Kirton, Titan, Tooting, Luton, Rove Wheels, wheels, stupid wheels Endlessly a-turning The golden age of steam must be a memory that just needs burning Rail, rail defeats John Cale pulmonary breakdown He died one day in a sad buffet trying to get some mouldy cake down Transexpansive transylcranium Transum trancing prancing tranium Transexpansive transylcranium Transum trancing prancing tranium Trains, trains, dissolved in rain Casey Jones lies bleeding Twisted tracks just broke his back And now he’s catching up with his reading [Biddy Baxter Chorus] Jiggery Pokery Johnny Boy Noakery Petery Purvery Les-er-lie Juddery Valerie, oh Valerie, Singleton Blind Jack of Knaresborough described it as being a form, a formless form of Jazz-Folk Fusion, played by the deaf, for the few, in a void.
3.
Good things come to those who wait In Langstrothdale, at Yockenthwaite Honi soit qui mal y pense All my birthdays came at once (blue murder, a-blue blue murder)
4.
Metal Trees 04:52
Trees in the forest aren’t made of wood Trees in the wood don’t grow Round what shall the children dance in May When all the Maypoles go? The crows watch from the razor wire Streams are filled with foam Plant the fields with Orgonite Bring the Harvest Home See the man, dancing round the metal trees
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6.
Bread, bread, gingerbread man My thumb smells of corned beef Your fingers smell of cloves I’ve got three fish And you’ve a thousand loaves Hello Mrs.Housewife, Hello Mrs.Thief Now I’ve changed my dentist, You’ve got rotten teeth Cinnamon bread and hot cross buns
7.
Nought to gain in night’s persistence One alone in the dark One last drink upon the terrace Too much beauty will break my heart Perspire my heart decides you Inside you, knocking on the cage So lovely, an architect designed you The modern architrave (0 1 1 2 3 5 8) Such detail, such proportion My castle in the park Three of us alone forever You, the walls and my heart Perspire my heart decides you Inside you, knocking on the cage So lovely, an architect designed you The modern architrave (0 1 1 2 3 5 8)
8.
Doosh Doosh nash Doosh nash billy baste bimble Doosh Doosh nash Doosh nash billy baste bimble Try pie don’t lie Don’t lie to me bess Try pie don’t lie Don’t you lie to me bess Caught by dibble doin’ ton-8 up Spaw-ill on’t purple AP Lezavanarsewear ovyerfizzer (Kirton in the rain) Lezavanarsewear ovyerfizzer (Lost in Kirton in the rain) Lezavanarsewear ovyerfizzer (Kirton in the rain) Lezavanarsewear ovyerfizzer (Don’t get lost in Kirton in the rain)
9.
Ebb tide sway Long Shore Drift From Kent to Tiger Bay Long Shore Drift Ebb tide sway Long Shore Drift From Mull to Marseilles Long Shore Drift Ebb tide sway Long Shore Drift From Hull to Mandalay Long Shore Drift Long Shore Drift
10.
Rubber Road 03:16
An armature that never turns Black draped solo symmetry Here in darkness we all go Back down the rubber road A figure stands black twisted Limp wristed Harlequin Some go out and some go in Back down the rubber road I took my car down to sea Haunted lighthouse solitary Confined by my geometry Right on the rubber road So cover me in drapery Let my eyes refuse to see All that is in front of me Somewhere down the rubber road One way out, rubber road
11.
We were crossing the bay full of stars In our boat made of ashes and tar (Crossing the bay) We were weak, we were hungry We were crossing the bay full of nails In our boat pulled by dolphins and whales (Crossing the bay) We were cold, we were hungry
12.
Now the bees are dead and the birds have flown Now the bloody sun has drowned in the ocean Three times I called you before the dawn Three times I walked round the bitter blackthorn The frozen pond, first sign of winter The Harvest Moon, The Sun Unconquered From the burning wheel of the season’s cycle We will cut him down, we will send him under In the welcoming earth, ‘til the sun revives him We will dance around him, in the dying embers The frozen pond, first sign of winter The Harvest Moon, The Sun Unconquered

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Big Block 454 are Mark Joell, Colin Robinson and Alex Stone.
This album features the voice of Sean Corlett (track 1); the trombone of Tim Bradshaw (track 7) and the vocals of Nastassja Joell (tracks 8 and 12).

"Best albums of 2011 so far - Number 8, Bells & Proclamations" - Mark Whitby of Dandelion Radio, April 2011.

"Them Lancashire eccentrics and Gnostic visionaries unleash another winding LP on a musical community who sadly should be taking a lot more notice. Bells and Proclamations is full of byways spattered with obtuse references, underground lore and Eno-esque pop." - Richard Foster of Incendiary Magazine

"the material really creeps under the skin of the listener and stays there. The music is also well crafted and intelligently made. This band knows their craft and really maximise their skills. It is a strange album which leans both on the good melody and on all out avant-garde’ism. But it has found the perfect balance between those two worlds. I am really both intrigued and impressed by this album" - Torodd Fuglesteg of Prog Archives

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released February 28, 2011

All songs written by Joell / Robinson / Stone

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Big Block 454 Hebden Bridge, UK

Since the late 80s, Big Block 454 has been making exploratory, highly individual music that encompasses rock, funk, electronica, folk music, Dadaist collage and much more besides.
Each band member is a multi-instrumentalist, but Big Block 454’s approach also encompasses the creation of sound on instruments they don’t know how to play, and those that hadn’t been invented before the band made them.
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