Midwestern Ragas, Racket, Sorrow, and Such for the Lonesome American Soul

by Josh Miller

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I slide across the line to the sound of worn out chimes. It's just another fairy tale to keep these hands from getting stale. In this place, time seems to stand or quicken it's pace to a visible space, I see the decay in clay. It is white light from the mouth of all that I hold dear, coming here to carry me home, coming down to swallow me whole. As I separate myself from this world and burrow into the earth I embrace the feeling of disappearing to understand that I am alone.
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When I die I want to fly with the birds; no boundaries here, free from fear, it is clear that I never belonged here. As I wash my wounds with dirt cause the drugs fucked me up and I think it heals, I keep my mind in reverse because love fucked me up and I think it weeds out which is worse. I'm wishing the bergamot had a cure for these gloomy days, to take me away. But no apothecary could save this drab and dreary mind with eternal sadness circling the sky, and the clouds not far behind taking the birds out of site. Psilocybin why you ridin' me so hard (this time) it's not mine to decide, I'm just looking for a cleaner high in love and life.
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I ain't feeling to great today so I guess I'll stay in this bed digging these overwintered potatoes. Let the citrus in the soil wrap around my hands, and for that reason alone I'm glad I gave it a chance. I ain't feeling to great today so I guess I'll stay in this bed wishing I could just let go and head the way of the Arboreal; this house holds the brine of the sea, the sweetness of salt but the sting of deceit. I guess there's not much more that I can say in disdain then I hope you eat the spud that grows from my shallow, casket deprived grave.
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about

Written from around 2017 to 2020, recorded/produced/mixed in Kalamazoo basements 2020/2021 while beating my head against a wall.

Bergamot Blues was recorded in 2017/2018 partially in a basement in Indiana.

credits

released May 10, 2022

Alex Travers on violin
Jarad Selner on sax
Trevor Coleman on synth and lead guitar (Shah and Moore)
Connor Mcpherson on omnichord, chord organ, bells, and triangle

Josh Miller on everything else, tracking, programming, mixing

Mastered by Mike Schuur at Sunspot Recording in Kalamazoo

Link to Non Omnias Moriar music vid: youtu.be/EWsrvmmB4l0

If you are interested in physical copies email me at joshmilleraudio(at)gmail(dot)com

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Josh Miller Kalamazoo, Michigan

American primitive, raga, guitar soli, sad boi, psychedelic, sound collage, free improv, racket/what have you currently in sw Michigan.

Current:
Kalamazoo Drone Society

Past:
The Wrap! Live on Ice
Fuzztown
Seventeen Again
William Bonney
Shoto
Forget the Times
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