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Warszawa

by Point Reyes

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1.
Maine 04:45
Smoking constantly Covered in sex bruises Terrible weather Hardly leave the basement Eating fast-food Rad My parents built a little house On the coast in Maine there I was conceived on Halloween Welcome back to America We are from the softest place We find it where you can't imagine We are from the softest place I hope that you find the scars that are right And I hope that you find your initiation's right Alright
2.
Białowieża 04:08
Wake up my father said it's time to run at 5 am the town is silent waiting for the boots and the guns First path on your right past the garbage in the forest swim to the island in the lake and hide yourself They marched our families to the shore and cut them down like golden wheat just out of earshot if Göring hadn't had his reserve in Bialoweiza would my grandfather have learned to run like I do? We went looking for the forest Seven hours on buses and we couldn't find it In the ugliest city the walls in my mind finally crumbled down Images of models on billboards Kebab stands and skinheads What other forest was I looking for? Once this silent forest covered the whole earth if Göring hadn't had his reserve in Bialoweiza would my grandfather have learned to run like I do?
3.
Drunksober 05:26
When I was a kid I drunk sober I drunk sober I did Clouds they came, stayed there for a while, untamed me Ecstatic dance made everything the same Clouds and the mountains and photos and the death and the feelings Okay okay okay I reached the forest Or the image of the forest Do we know the difference? The trees are in bloom The pigeons are getting fat Let's not wave our arms for a little bit And now things they aren't the same to me Clouds and the mountains and photos and the death and the feelings Okay okay okay You are exactly as you are Everything is as clear as day We cannot be fooled Everything is as clear as day We can be fooled Everything is as clear as day We cannot be fooled Everything is as clear as day We can be fooled Everything is as clear as day And you are exactly as you are
4.
Buildings (free) 04:39
These are the buildings Fat and square and ugly They marched east from Moscow To Ulan Ude and Beijing They marched west from Moscow To Wroclaw and Berlin In all of these cities they look exactly the same Oh, "machines for living" We will bulldoze your village And you will live in them Villages of under 1,000 Are completely illogical I don't care if your grandfather built your house This is progress I've got some plans for our old courtyard 360 degrees of concrete I'm just going to go and sit there So much surface Andy would have Andy would have Andy Warhol would have loved it It doesn't matter how they look It's what you can do in them You can rehearse a play Stanislavski did You can make picked cucumbers You can make love You can turn off the television and dance You can wash your dog I've got some plans for our new apartment I'm going to build it out of concrete slabs From one of those old buildings Re-use all that energy Not too much surface Andy wouldn't have Andy wouldn't have Andy Warhol wouldn't have loved it Oh well
5.
Almond Song 04:39
Hey there my love You are California grown Wild almonds I left you lying in the field Just before our dawn A bear in a zoo cage Just because you want to look And look and look and look and now it's sick With matted hair and dull eyes Love is something we must do Not an idea or an image We must do it differently If we want the bear to run through the streets of the city And hide in the kernels of the almonds I didn't see you for three years You didn't see me for three years
6.
Mall 03:42
I went looking for the Brooklyn of Poland And I found a giant mall And I wondered Why does it look exactly like Santa Rosa mall? Let's go to Zara Let's go to Saturn Let's go to Bytom Let's go to Empik Let's go to McDonald's Let's go to Bennetton Let's go to H&M Let's go to Pierre Cardin Let's go to Toy Planet Let's go to Cheesecake Corner "Pure Health and Fitness" I see Ten nuns On a shopping spree
7.
Ulaanbataar 02:59
At first we were singing With our friends At first we were singing With our friends It was okay It was okay It was okay It was okay Then I met the man Who put gold wire through my tongue In a fit of haze and shame and a chance of transformation Ulan Bator Was the biggest city in the world Buildings shone with liquid light Ulan Bator Was the coldest city in the world Everybody lived inside You came to visit me Wrapped in your brown beauty A coat from another place In my cold desert city I was looking for a coat To fight the inside cold Of San Francisco in July In a side room Copulated with a naked girl Thought I'd rather be a woman So I was
8.
Demon Song 04:08
Better to have never started Once you start best to finish I don't love you I love another And she is fierce and free A city by the sea These demons they are mine And mine alone They will live with me my whole life There's no mistake In the river and the forest It's hard not to think of you Upstairs there was a war Made you so sad We can't avoid power in anything we do I'm sorry sorry In the river and the forest It's hard not to think of you Oh well I suppose Control has its downsides
9.
Cemetery 06:06
I go to the Jewish cemetery in the rain Hoping for some experience of grace What do I find but Chasids singing five All of whom I recognize from Bed-Stuy Followed me here Swaying over the grave of Peretz or Ansky And I remember the words of a rabbi G-d is everywhere Just nowadays nobody knows how to stoop low enough to see him On the way back in a taxi I spill breadcrumbs all over the seat I try to hide this from the driver I am exhausted, my shoulders hurt Holy holy holy And I remember the words of a rabbi G-d is everywhere Just nowadays nobody knows how to stoop low enough to see him
10.
Movie 04:50
In a cold movie theater In August's hot dry Northern California Instead of watching the film Look around you See the other people Notice your body in its seat See the way light from the projector streams And catches gold dust in its white beam See the flatness of the screen See the flatness of the screen Could you be part of anything Could you be part of everything

about

To get Brooklyn band POINT REYES off the ground, Asa Horvitz suggested that percussionist Kyle Farrell and cellist Daniel Bindschedler join him in Warsaw, Poland (where he was working supported by a Fulbright grant) to spend four months writing, rehearsing, and giving concerts in a completely foreign environment. Farrell and Bindschedler jumped at the opportunity and in May 2011 the trio moved into a sunny attic loft across from the Vistula river. Throughout the summer of 2011, POINT REYES immersed themselves in Poland: they performed in towns where no Americans had performed before, rehearsed ten hours a day in the basement of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music, studied Polish, swam in flooded meadows, became obsessed with Communist architecture, played festivals in Krakow and Berlin, collaborated with Polish musicians and theater artists, and wrote and recorded their debut full length album. The project was funded in part by the Fulbright grant awarded to Horvitz. POINT REYES' debut album – the culmination of their time in Poland – will be released on CAKES AND TAPES (Portugal) in January 2012.

We are grateful to the many people who helped to make this recording possible. We would especially like to thank Allen Kuharski, Michal Zadara, Barbara Wysocka & Benjamin, Professor Stanislaw "SCO" Skoczynski, Wilhelm Sasnal, Neil Strauch, Lukash Korczak, Artur Sienicki, Maciej Moruś, Bartosz Weber, Dominik Strycharski, Olga Przybyl, Zofia Przybyl, Maciej Swinoga, Kryzstof Niezgoda & the Niezgoda family, Zielak, Maciek Diduszko, Wojciech Diduszko & Agata Diduszko-Zyglewska, Mariana Sadowska, Kalina Mróz, Justyna Gmitrzuk, Nini Julia Bang, Eliza Rose, Scotia Gilroy, Thymn Chase, John Tarrant, Jack Randall, Nat Baldwin, Elliott Sharp, Hannah Manfredi, Forrest Nash, our families, Dorota Rogowska & everyone else at the Polish-American Fulbright Commission.

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credits

released January 12, 2012

Daniel Bindschedler - Cello
Kyle Farrell - Percussion
Asa Horvitz - Voice, Guitars, Laptop

Additional percussion by Helga Przybyl, Zofia Pzybyl and Maciej Swinoga. Clarinet by Jacek Dziolak. Alto recorder by Dominik Strycharski.

Recorded by Asa Horvitz in the "Jazz" Department, Fredryk Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw, Poland.

Mixed by Neil Strauch and Asa Horvitz.
Mastered by Neil Strauch at Engine Studios, Chicago, IL.
Produced by Asa Horvitz and Neil Strauch.

All lyrics by Asa Horvitz except for "Maine" by Asa Horvitz and Liz Peters. All music by Asa Horvitz, Kyle Farrell and Daniel Bindschedler.

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