MUSIC
Blues mutilations and hints of rockabilly; sometimes rousing, sometimes moody, electronically tinged rock. Carnival Romance takes you on a stroll down the midway of the traveling amusement show of human (and inhuman) relationships. You’ll find bright lights and low-lifes, creaky rides and rigged games of chance, the Spiderwoman and an ether rider. Listening to Carnival Romance, you enter a weird funhouse whose every room tells a strange and wild story.
Relationship: the way in which two or more people or things are connected
Romance: A fictitiously embellished account or explanation
Carnival Romance: A fanciful sideshow of relational exchanges, excuses and excesses.
Lyrics
I’ve got a Nikon Camera embedded in my forehead
I take secret pictures of the scandals in the woodshed
I upload the raw files to a server in Bulgaria
Some Russian codes the pixels into music that I’m streamin’ at ‘cha
How can I be in love with your day?
When it all comes rainin’ down on me
And the people who run your world
try and make me pay
So I hide out in the ether
Beamin’ all forbidden knowledge
Straight into your right hemisphere
The kids hear the music and their brains decode the pictures
They get sudden urges to throw off the common strictures
They start new religions and invent complex philosophies
Of gender morphing mutants building post-human technologies
They’re way beyond eros, they’re way beyond reason
They’re teasing out meaning from nebula and pathogens
The media loves ’em, the parents berate them
The government jails ’em it’s just the way it’s always been
So how can I be in love with your day?
When it all comes rainin’ down on me
And the people who run my brain
try and make me stay
So I hide out in the ether
Beamin’ all forbidden feeling
Straight into the wrong hemisphere