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28 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -'Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.'
—Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one true God. Amen.
The times are dark, and pestilence, famine, war, and death rule הַעוֹלָם הַזֶּ֗ה.
To listen to the still, small voice in our hearts is increasingly difficult as we view more and more chaos unfolding before us: neighbours distrusting neighbours, nations taking up arms against nations, man's inhumanity to man.
Yet to keep quiet and listen to that voice is to hear the proclamation of a new nation, the Kingdom of God, which is within all of us. Whether you call it hesychasm or דְּבֵקוּת, it shows a glimpse of הַעוֹלָם הַבָּא, which we can only pray to come soon.
In the meantime, let us show compassion to one another, comfort the suffering, and share in one another's joy.
On this Walpurgisnacht 2018:
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one true God. Amen.
Personnel:
• Eva Gnostiquette (except where otherwise noted)
——vocals, guitar, synth, production, album art, design
Notes:
All lyrics written by Eva Gnostiquette except for 'Bella Ciao' (originally written by an anonymous anti-fascist), parts of 'Love Is a Contradiction if There Is No God' (some lyrics originally written by St. Athanasius), Movement IV of ‘A Guardian on the Threshold’ (written by Karl Marx; translated by Clemens Dutt), and 'Venceremos' (written by Claudio Iturra).
All music composed by Eva Gnostiquette except for the aforementioned 'Bella Ciao' and 'Venceremos'.
Cover art inspired by the work of David Tibet.
Dedicated to:
• My family
• My friends: three Carolines, Michael Orion Powell-Deschamps, Devin, Noiyeh, Nicole, Sam, Hannah, Kit, and many more
• And all who fought and continue to fight for freedom, equality, and unity
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Tainted Fashion (single)
July 22, 2022 00:00 - 3 minutes - 3.56 MBI was overhearing this guy talking on the phone directly outside my window, and I was playing these chords over and over. The two combined in my head. Sometimes we just need a little bit of hope. This is the second single for the upcoming Rose with Teeth album. LYRICS: "It's a huge trauma thing with him—I'm not a therapist." There's nothing in our blood that determines who we are. This pain is not a natural outcome of existence— to be honest, it's incredible we've gotten this far. This is...
Respiratory Depression (single)
September 02, 2021 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.35 MBThe Russian and Chinese governments have been profoundly involved in the global opioid trade, as has the United States government. Chinese and Russian actors have been known to mass-produce carfentanil, a highly potent synthetic opioid, not only as a drug and cutting agent, but as a chemical weapon. Carfentanil and other fentanyl derivatives are the most common agents in what have been termed "deaths of despair" in the poorer, neglected regions of the United States and Russia. The drug trade...
Sunny Sheu
August 01, 2021 20:41 - 4 minutes - 4.27 MBSunny Sheu was a Taiwanese immigrant to Queens, NY who was the victim of a mortgage fraud. In the process of attempting to secure justice for himself, he came across evidence allegedly documenting improprieties on the part of the judge on his case who refused to return his house to him even after the fraudsters were arrested. After compiling this evidence, he was harassed by NYPD officers and then died under mysterious circumstances. Even his cause of death is controversial, but evidence poi...
I Was Dead at the Time
December 12, 2020 00:00 - 3 minutes - 3.53 MBI made this over the course of about 5-6 hours, just to have some fun and make myself less mental health. This is sort of a teaser for the new directions Rose with Teeth is going in, although at the same time it's a lot sillier, more lighthearted, more guitarless, and less focused than anything that'll be on the next album. • Lyrics: What is here again? I don't remember what I'm supposed to do. It's December, so I should be enjoying the snow, but everything else is breaking the flow. Now ...
Broken Guitar Song
March 15, 2020 00:00 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MBAll three of my guitars—my electric, my acoustic, and my classical—are broken in some way. This sucks a lot, because everyone's stuck inside due to COVID-19 and I wanna try to capitalise on that by making music. Plus immediately before making this song I realised that I have no fucking clue where I put the screw and spring that keeps the piezo attached to the saddle on my electric, which is just dandy. So I made this with three broken guitars. • Lyrics: There's a stupid fuckin' virus and ...
Let's Go
January 09, 2020 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.35 MBLast month I found out that I still have markers for Lyme disease. I was prescribed antibiotics, and when I began taking them, it hurt. A lot. Living with various mental, physical, and neurological problems has not only impacted my daily life but shown me how badly the world fails to take care of the people who need help the most. I took musical inspiration from Takako Minekawa's song "1.666666", which is the theme song for Hal Hartley's film The Book of Life, about the apocalypse taking pla...
Set This World on Fire
January 08, 2020 00:00 - 6 minutes - 6.32 MBThis is an attempt at an effective summation of how it often feels to live in my body in this world with this history. Such pressures and experiences often cause the death drive to become stronger. This may cause some people to "perceive themselves as being driven by internal fears, but banish those thoughts into bottomless pit of eternally repressed emotions that eventually reaches critical mass and propels them to become the fiery suns of all-conquering megalomaniacal psychosis", which of c...
Making Love on the Seventh Anniversary of the End of the World
January 08, 2020 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.17 MBI wrote this on 21 December 2019, worried about whether I'd be able to visit one of my friends again and about whether I'd be able to see another friend at all. It really does seem like the world ended in 2012 in some sense. Back when I was a kid, I could see myself doing things and living in 2012, but never after that. That seemed to be the cutoff date. For whatever reason, for the longest time I lost the ability to see myself in the future. Only recently have I regained it, and it's exhila...
Kantika de la revolusion
January 01, 2020 00:00 - 3 minutes - 3.22 MBThis is a straightforward revolutionary song I wrote in Ladino and English. I found that writing in Ladino, even though I don't have a great command of the language, is extraordinarily fun. I'm hoping people will continue to sing it for a long time. I'm releasing it early thanks to the strike on Iran. No war but the class war. • Lyrics: En la marcha del mundo al inferno, en el interminable invyerno, muestra lucha apenas komienza. Veremos ke muestro opresor venza. Afilu la noche es larga ...
I Believe In You
December 26, 2019 00:00 - 30 seconds - 481 KBThis is a remake of a song (original: https://clyp.it/tmsvewpb) I made for my friend Nicole a couple years ago to encourage them. I decided to rerecord it to test out my Line 6 Variax. It's also available as a general pick-me-up./ • Lyrics: I believe in you. You can do it! I believe in you. You can do it!! I believe in you! You can do it!!! And if you don't believe, I believe in you. And if you don't believe, I believe in you. (You can do it!) • Credits: • Evangeline Sutherland ——vocals...
Dear Science We Figured It Out
September 20, 2019 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.04 MBThree things converged: one, my friend Yael gave me the idea for the title of this track. Two, I challenged myself to write "math noise neofolk w/ blast beats and occasional shrieks". Three, I wanted to write a song loosely around the theme of exploding head syndrome. My lyrics here are more nonsensical and disjointed than usual, in part because my main motivation was musical experimentation; verbal expression took a backseat here. • Lyrics: Everything is so chaotic here. All I want is fo...
Total Prison Abolition
August 26, 2019 00:00 - 48 seconds - 758 KBI initially made this track over the course of about 10 minutes as a sort of affectionate pastiche of blackened crust bands who have thoughtful and intelligent lyrics shrieked in such a manner that they're incomprehensible and you have to read the booklet to get what's being said, as the music proper is made more for cathartic sonic violence than anything. Unfortunately my initial lyrics were already pretty thoughtful, my lyrics ended up being pretty coherent, and I'm not sure that the resul...
On the Run
August 14, 2019 00:00 - 4 minutes - 3.85 MBI wanted to make a neofolk song this morning, so I did. It took me 3 hours. Proud of myself. A little existential song for weary times. Like recessions. • Lyrics: This is the world that time has forgot. I am the cream that's left behind to rot. We are the ones that look for an out but we get thrown roundabout. This is the way we have to live: all that we have, we must give, all for this world we must leave. There is hardly any time to grieve. Find your time, find your life, find your pl...
Able Danger
July 09, 2019 00:00 - 3 minutes - 3.45 MBGoogle "jury nullification", "Sibel Edmonds", "Operation Gladio", "BCCI bank", "MHCHAOS", "Continuity of Government", "Ptech", "Far West, LLC", and "Otto von Bolschwing, Helene von Damm". • Lyrics: I am the man from the Propaganda Due lodge. I am here to throw you in a big hodgepodge of lies and truth and strange reality. It's far too odd for your little eyes to see. It's a clear and able danger to follow as it keeps getting stranger. You'll never know the world, you'll never know what's ...
Sleep Paralysis
July 09, 2019 00:00 - 5 minutes - 4.59 MBSometimes I get flashbacks. This is part and parcel of having C-PTSD. One of them came after a nightmare. For some reason, the "predicate event" (thing that I remember happening in the dream, but which never happened irl) was that I had viewed a video of a trans woman being murdered outside of my apartment. All my friends were posting on Twitter about largely trans topics and I was trying more and more to conceal I was having more and more and more paranoia/ill feelings due to having seen t...
Bullshit War
May 15, 2019 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.15 MBJohn Bolton, Trump, and the rest of their fetid administration are pushing for war with Iran. As of the writing of this, all non-emergency State Department personnel are being recalled from Iraq. So I got really angry and recorded this in approx. 20 minutes. It's wonky and the timbrel is off-beat but [insert ms paint star with "i tried" in Comic Sans here]. This administration has been nothing but a massive operation to get disgraced Reagan and Bush administration warmongers and criminals...
Love Is a Contradiction if There Is No God
April 30, 2018 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4.49 MB'We have created God in order to save the Universe from nothingness, for all that is not consciousness and eternal consciousness, conscious of its eternity and eternally conscious, is nothing more than appearance. There is nothing truly real save that which feels, suffers, pities, loves, and desires, save consciousness; there is nothing substantial but consciousness. And we need God in order to save consciousness; not in order to think existence, but in order to live it; not in order to know ...
Roman Moloch Blues
April 30, 2018 00:00 - 2 minutes - 2.55 MB'Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments! 'Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! 'Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like e...
Bella Ciao
April 30, 2018 00:00 - 2 minutes - 1.9 MBA song of the Partisans who fought fascism in Italy. As they recruited people to fight against the despotism of Mussolini, they would sing this hymn to rally the people. This song emphasises the universal human longing for freedom and equality. Today, the torch is carried by those who wish to overthrow the oligarchy and its evils. Dedicated to the brave warriors of the YPG and YPJ in Rojava, who are fighting fascism in the form of DAESH, to all anti-fascists wherever they fight, and to Stje...
The Masquerade of the Saris
April 30, 2018 00:00 - 4 minutes - 4 MBThe word 'סָרִיס' ('saris') refers in the Mishnah to someone who was assigned male at birth but later becomes female. I've struggled with my gender identity all my life. I first came out as genderfluid when I was 14, and then as a trans girl at around 16. I only started transitioning last year. This song is about those struggles, including some very stupid things I've done, and I hope and pray that others who struggle with gender dysphoria—whether they be boys or girls or anything in between...
Men Without Chests
April 30, 2018 00:00 - 4 minutes - 3.68 MB'History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.' —Simone Weil, 'The Need for Roots' 'And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilisation needs is more "drive", or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or "creativity". In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remov...
Even the Almighty Sun Has Moths Flying into It
April 29, 2018 00:00 - 3 minutes - 3.39 MBPanic, anxiety, fear, uncertainty, and doubt have plagued my life as far as I can remember. They follow me wherever I go. With others and alone, speaking and silent. And like some unspeakable horror, it encroaches upon me. • Lyrics: There is no refuge in the vineyard of the Lᴏʀᴅ. There is no fleeing to the kingdom of Annwfn. She told me to find and embrace it all around me, but as I reach out it withdraws from my grasp. Even the almighty Sun has moths flying into it. Clanging clanging forw...
The Future Has Been Cancelled
April 29, 2018 00:00 - 3 minutes - 3.18 MB'[Her] vocals are a bit distant. But it's eerie that way. 'It seem[s] like the sorta song you'd hear at the end of a party when you're stoned and drunk and everybody you know is long gone. It's that song you hear when you realize you're alone at 3 a.m. and everyone is passed out but you. 'If it was in the soundtrack to a movie it would show the protagonist trying to get home on rainy streets and finally making it to his or her empty apartment and sitting at the window looking pensive. Somethi...
Venceremos
April 29, 2018 00:00 - 2 minutes - 1.96 MBThis is the song that was written for democratic socialist Salvador Allende's campaign for President of Chile in 1970. As Chilean society broke down in the months before the coup, 'Venceremos' became the unofficial national anthem. The great Chilean folk singer Victor Jara wrote different lyrics for the song referring directly to Allende's 'Unidad Popular' coalition. After days of brutal torture and just before he was murdered in cold blood by the soldiers of fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet...
A Guardian on the Threshold
April 29, 2018 00:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB'Every one of those unfortunates during the process of existence should constantly sense and be cognisant of the inevitability of his own death as well as of the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attention rests.' —G. I. Gurdjieff 'The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right....
The Idols Have Been Cast Down and Rent
April 28, 2018 00:00 - 7 minutes - 7.13 MB'And the seventh angel sounded, and there were great sounds of thunders, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever.' —Revelation 11:15 (Lamsa) 'AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away; and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice from heave...
Bloody Red Roses (Sirkha)
April 28, 2018 00:00 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBA very personal song for me, this recounts how I was raped as a child, my feelings of guilt, fear, shame, and pain that I've had ever since, and the debilitating effects of that trauma—nightmares, psychoses, depression—on my life. A song that I wrote not merely to express my rage and sadness, but for my own healing, and hopefully for others who've had to experience similar horrors to my own. St. Agnes of Rome, helper of rape survivors, pray for us and protect us that no one should endure sex...