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/​/​M E L O D Y_M A N

by boycalledcrow

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8lob 02:13
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SUN sun + 04:18
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s k y e 03:00
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1414 [] 03:02
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d 1 z z y 02:58
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oOo 01:51
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about

Introducing //M E L O D Y_M A N, the new album by boycalledcrow, set to be released on 27th October by Waxing Crescent Records. Picture yourself half-buried in the black sand of a hollow moon. Rusted whorls and endless spirals. An iron shell. Put it to your ear and listen. Hallucinogenic outsider folk art; glitchy, bright, and moments of sonic mania. Harmonic dissonance collapsing into patterns. Boycalledcrow is the alias of Chester-based sound artist Carl M Knott (Wonderful Beasts, Spacelab). Knott, a former folk musician, uses his myriad acoustic influences to create unique, strange and beautiful compositions.

Cassette available at this link: waxingcrescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-e-l-o-d-y-m-a-n

Below is a collection of poems written by my friend, Chris Rodenhurst, inspired by the music.

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Previously decommissioned cipher stations have come back online

Long forgotten machinery
In boarded-up attics and basements
In bunkers and abandoned office blocks
Old transistors are humming again
Harmonic dissonance collapsing into patterns

8lob
Half buried in the black sand
Of a hollow moon
Rusted whorls and endless spirals
An iron shell
Put it to your ear and listen

SUN Sun +
Fragments and off-cuts
Collected and catalogued
A patchwork quilt
Unfolding connections and remembrances

S K Y E
Untethered
A spinning top
Rises
Catching light
Turning
Reflecting
The tune we used to play

//M E L O D Y_M A N
And now
He’s pulling all the strings
A cats cradle
Of tangled tunes
Weaving paths
And making up names

AH AH AH AH AH AH
Putting itself together again
An old melody
On a wooden flywheel

God Woman = C I R C L E ()
Starry architecture
Rising columns
And distant archways
Shapes described
By movement
A glowing tracery
The fluttering of wings

1414[]
Shifting its weight
Glistening in darkness
Climbing to the surface
Making itself again

F O R E S T / …\ MOON
A clarion call
Beneath the canopy
Buzzing in the static
From a solar flare
Until the storm moves on
Leaving starlight
dripping and pooling
In the clearing

(S) illy Song #2
Another game of hide and seek
Skipping from one room to another
Open doors and bookcases
A maze of stairways and cupboards
Tables and wardrobes
Everything upside down
Everything inside out

D 1 Z Z Y
Waves
Rising and falling
Below:
a dark
Slow current

<DRUIDS Altar>
Somewhere in the center
Is a clockwork sun
A flickering mechanism
marking time
Backwards and forwards
And the spaces between

OOo
An old machine
A dusty room
Forgotten
But free
Without purpose
Without need for purpose

Dr Dr Dr || WOODS
There’s something
Behind the wall
Impossible to say
how far
Until
It’s everywhere

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credits

releases October 27, 2024

Written and Produced by Carl M Knott
Mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw
Artwork by Leeham’s Spellbook

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boycalledcrow Chester, UK

boycalledcrow is the alias of Chester-based sound artist Carl M Knott (Wonderful Beasts, Spacelab). Knott, a former folk musician, uses his myriad acoustic influences to create unique, strange and beautiful compositions.

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