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GLASS
Not to burn in the fire
Nor freeze in the chill
Nor be soaked in the rain
Nor lost in the fog
To see in the dark
Like a bird take flight
And not to die
“Glass” is based around Eugene’s personal experiences as a neurodivergent person, severe trauma, acute poverty and Chornobyl disaster survivor, and a queer multiethnic refugee activist from Ukraine.
The concept for this album came after we created “Something Broke Inside”. In this song we used a breaking glass sound that we had recorded while smashing a bottle on a stone floor. The concept of shattered glass fragments came to represent Eugene’s story of struggling to survive, heal and thrive. Every song on the album is a different story and like another razor-sharp shard of glass.
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credits
All music except Anti-Lullaby composed, performed, recorded, produced mixed and engineered by tAngerinecAt.
Anti-Lullaby: lyrics, vocals and composition by Runa de Luna & tAngerinecAt; recording, arrangement, production, mixing and engineering by tAngerinecAt.
Eugene Purpurovsky: hurdy-gurdy, vocals, sound design.
Paul Chilton: whistles, vocals, duda (Ukrainian bagpipes), sound design.
Recorded at tAngerinecAt studio.
Mastered by Andres Mayo.
Artwork/design: Caroline Julia Moore.
Photo by Paul Chilton.
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