Stone is carmine, blood or spice.
The silk road turned red.
I'm so hungry I've been visited by visions
of a Christ covered in spice
Come storm the city walls -
The siege of Antioch
Now we sleep in the beds of infidels
starving again, as night fell, surrounded.
Saint Andrew told us that the holy lance is here,
so we dug it out and we cheered -
A hushed and low-lit EP from this Melbourne musician, where dreamlike melodies drift across a bed of tender guitar. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 19, 2023
Blue Mantra Rhymes, aka Ed Cooke, pays tribute to his current home of Bangkok and its folk traditions on this delicate new LP. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 23, 2021