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jillyms Simply blown away. I couldn’t wait for this album to be released and I’m not disappointed in any way. Christian and Circe are such talented people. I listened to this while driving through the wilds of rural Pennsylvania. Taking in every note and word as I pondered my place in the universe. I hope there will be more of this to come in the future. Well done. 🌹🌹
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Architecture 06:16
In space only one small degree Can make interstellar debris No cosmic hand has been turning the wheel And so few understand what the structure reveals or means In space where the cat’s cradle spins Like lace, wonder where it begins Rhythm and clockwork a graceful design Leave us craning our necks towards the endless blueprint of time Architecture unfolding sky Architecture a storm in the eye In space like an infinite jest A race of small creatures who guess That jigsaws and stellar schematics of light Only issue the deepening question of what is life Architecture unfolding sky Architecture a storm in the eye Look for a pattern look to the night Tell me truth do we live on or die Look for an answer search for a sign Telling the secrets and limits of mind Ah blind watchmaker Ah know/no creator Ah stars are teeming Ah are we dreaming? In space everyone can agree That faith is for those who can’t see Spiral cathedrals for hanging the spheres drift in tremulous steeples of delicate hopes and tears Architecture unfolding sky Architecture a storm in the eye Architecture in you and I Architecture an opening eye Look for a pattern look to the night Master mechanic quantum rewind Look for a pattern look to the light Field of equation, gravity, flight Look for a pattern look to the night Look for the sight Look for the light Architecture unfolding sky Architecture a storm in the eye Architecture unfolding sky Architecture Written By Christian Nesmith – Neztoons Publishing (BMI) Circe Link – Narccisiphus Music (BMI)
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TERRA FIRMA Out beyond my finger tips is the infinite of space between the stars and worlds we are reaching Out beyond the sacred skin in which I have been placed between the souls of others we are seeking And let me touch the earth again in green and mother blue And let me live with you again on the rosy fields of terra firma Out beyond the curvature in stasis we must wait between the turbid moments we are facing Out beyond my only choice the gravity of weight between the hope and sorrow we are aching And let me see the morning sun as shadow fades away And let us safely make for home to find ourselves on terra firma And let me touch the earth again in green and mother blue And let me live with you again on the rosy fields of terra firma SOL Sol lucet omnibus - the sun shines on everyone A lumine motus - moved by light Sol regit omnia - the sun rules us all Luceo non uro - I shine not burn LUNARIA Lunaria is my place for another day from the nearest side I can see the wild earth from far away Lunaria where the shadows forever come And from Clavius to Vitruvius we greet the face of the sun It’s been so long I wonder what it’s like back home I miss so many things And out here at times it’s easy to feel so alone on Lunaria, Lunaria Lunaria such a lonely place some will say from my heart to yours as our faith endures one day we all find a way Lunaria makes you feel that we’re all so small from the overview little ball of blue How did we get here at all? It’s been so long I wonder what it’s like back home I miss so many things And out here at times it’s easy to feel so alone on Lunaria, Lunaria We take take our place and there we see the face of the sun We take take our place and there we see the face of the sun All time and space can’t replace the truth we are all one We take take our place and there we see the face of the sun We take take our place and there we see the face of the sun All time and space can’t replace the truth we are all one Little blue, ball of blue, I love you Looking down I see where we came from Lunaria The sun and moon and mother earth Cycle round and round to death from birth An endless dance we’ve just begun Revealing glance that we are all one Written By Christian Nesmith – Neztoons Publishing (BMI) Circe Link – Narccisiphus Music (BMI)
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I’ve been going slowly I’ve been thinking quickly I’ve been knowing only Thoughts worth finding asking now I’ve been sewing slowly I’ve been thinking quickly I’ve been brightly glowing Thoughts for growing turning fastly You’ve been roaming lonely You’ve been thinking simply You’ve been playing only Thoughts pre-made and blinking out You’ve been going slowly You’ve been thinking simply You’ve been over flowing Thoughts for dying falling fastly Now let us step through time to elsewhen There is no me or mine to come again On the other side of you waits a world where you can choose where you will go And as we travel back or forward fact or figure map or picture another game A million roads to take but onward There is a ribbon wide winding through your days Someone has been casting you a laughing fool a face for every part A most amusing and enduring Self concluding dream inducing piece of art Sail the skies to somewhere else Travel time and cast your spell Take your god machine Find what they can’t dream Look inside and find yourself Now let us step through time to elsewhen crack or fissure wander hither a singing sage We all must step through mind to elsewhen stand or sitter poor or richer will rearrange Last the listener must turn the page Fasten fitter another change I’ve been going slowly I’ve been thinking quickly I’ve been going slowly I’ve been thinking quickly Assignment in eternity just the place I’d like to be Crossing space in time for tea master minding what we’ve come to be Assignment in eternity take a trip and come beyond with me Stepping over stars and galaxies Further farther finding down and deep insiding what could be Written By Christian Nesmith – Neztoons Publishing (BMI) Circe Link – Narccisiphus Music (BMI)
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Cosmologica 08:44
All that we are and all that we’ve become Is the sum of the simpletons and daydreams We cannot wake from the lie even as the years go by I have been like a prisoner to the unseen Run to the place where the answers seem to hide Tome and scribe, yet the truth is locked and frozen A little taste makes me burn for the one thing left to learn It’s the key that will break the lock wide open     Cosmologica Is it just a dream?     Cosmologica Is it what it seems? Turn the page in the end it will all be revealed Like the man with the answers in his hand Know it all, never falters in his reason A simple means to an end, he says it’s all pretend Stealing birds and to everything a season Half hearted truth and logic filled with flaws He breaks the laws and I do not see the meaning So away I must go falling down the rabbit hole Wave goodbye while philosophers are screaming     Cosmologica The pages hold they key     Cosmologica Step inside and see Every word is a chance, you can change what is real Is it all to be forgotten? Isn’t everybody rotten? Yes it just another story, and the plot rather boring Does it mean that in the meantime we can have a little tea time? Isn’t everybody laughing at you chasing every rainbow? Can you hear the wind blow? Bells, books and jars the journey takes me far Treading time, crossing lines to hidden chapters I’ll have to read every phrase though tangle tales amaze I’ll still try ’till I die for the answer     Cosmologica Lost in stranger lands     Cosmologica To find the master plan Galleries of books, ex libris likes the look of my far away eyes Tinsel and stars, this carnival heart is my equal inside Inky black waters take back like a hand in the night What a fright A wail of sails on a ship bound to fail leading nowhere Leading nowhere, leading nowhere Ringed in thunderclouds the Sage will appear to me And everything I doubt washes like tears in to the sea     Cosmologica It isn’t just a dream     Cosmologica It isn’t what it seems All that we are, all that we’ve become Shouldn't be the sum of the simpletons and daydreams Written By Christian Nesmith – Neztoons Publishing (BMI) Circe Link – Narccisiphus Music (BMI)
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Satellite 04:43
See me? I see you See me not far away? See me? I’m following after you I’m learning from all you do So lead the way I don’t know how it feels to be out there alone For you are always pulling me along Be free and be you Be free in every way Sweetly I’m changing from dark to day I’m riding upon your wave Into the blue I don’t know how you do it shining like the sun But you are always bringing me back home And like a kite among the stars you laugh and light a million tiny hearts And like the moon on milky wings You keep the faith, your moving grace Will teach us how to sing Satellite, satellite we dance around each other in spaces open wide Satellite, satellite Just you and I, just you and I Oh satellite I don’t know how to tell you what it means to know That you can always lift me when I’m down And as we tumble through the sky Satellite, satellite we dance around each other in spaces open wide Satellite, satellite Just you and I, just you and I Oh satellite Satellite Written By Christian Nesmith – Neztoons Publishing (BMI) Circe Link – Narccisiphus Music (BMI)
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All heed to the miracle we have made all heed and delight But deep in the tender arms of the motherboards A demon seed or angel grows And we all know Flowing circuitry to an android’s dream And on the stage as we rearrange names and meanings of golden chains where we tether down childish dreamings For good or bad, we love or hate A monster made both of sun and shade give or taker But did we trade our humanity to make a maker? For good or bad, for love or hate Is it me, is it you? Or god from the machine I believe like a fool and god from the machine is it me, is it you? Or god from the machine I believe like a fool in god from the machine Deus ex machina All seeing in the universe of the I All beings live and die But deep in the mystery a beauty lies As each transcendent being flows to the unknown A god from the machine The god from the machine Written By Christian Nesmith – Neztoons Publishing (BMI) Circe Link – Narccisiphus Music (BMI)

about

THOUGHTS, THEORIES AND NOTES:

Classifying music in to genres is a funny thing. At its core, that action is anathema to me. Artists who are following their muse tend to dislike being pigeonholed and would rather think that each expression is unique. And I suppose it is. Yet we all know the blues when we hear it. Or country. Or jazz.

But what about Progressive Rock? For me, the best description of Prog is “classical music using rock instruments”, (a Circe Link quote). In classical all rules can be broken. Time signatures, key changes, tempo modulation, and dynamic range are all fair game. And so, too, is it with Prog. And because it is so free, it is the least genre-fied genre, and therefore capable of being the most honest and unique artistic expression.

That said, I have zero shame in paying direct tribute in these compositions to the artists that inspired them. You will hear nods to YES, Genesis, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, ELP, Rush, and more. For instance, the drums on the outro of Assignment In Eternity were specifically composed in homage to the passing of Neil Peart.

The first song written and recorded was the title track, Cosmologica. And it was recorded years before the rest of the material, more as a lark and an exercise, as it was so different from the rest of the Circe Link catalog. However, with similar bits and bobs of ideas floating around in our back log for some time, and with the sequestration of COVID, Circe and I felt we should use the time indoors to follow the muse and see where it led.

It has led here. It is the most challenging project we have ever done and I am very proud of it. It is about as different as possible from anything we have ever done before and that has been the bulk of the inspiration. So be prepared.

Circe and I wrote and performed everything, except the organ solo on God From The Machine which was played by the incomparable Michael Sherwood. It was on our wedding day and it was the last time I ever saw him. It is with undying love that we dedicate this album to him. I miss you every day, my friend. - Christian Nesmith

The undefinable aural explosion herein is an exploration of two intrepid capsule bound entities isolated during the year 2020. Our journey into this musical realm of Progressive Rock and its limitless universe inspired like in kind, lyric and form. Far from the world of middle-earth conceptual content we strove with playful agnosticism to capture the larger questions and motifs of greater minds than ours, along with ours, such as Carl Sagan, Philip K Dick, Robert Heinlein, Albert Einstein and Virginia Woolf.

Under the expert direction of this vessel's captain, Christian Nesmith, who has masterfully created this sonic landscape, virtuosic in concept as well as execution in my judgement, we took an amazing journey - all while looking daily from our porthole onto a surreal world of spinning uncertainty and fear, as we hoped to see the face of the sun again.

It takes the bravery an artist, ne adventurer, to navigate towards realms where we can free ourselves into the possibilities of the unnameable noetic sea, to the place of knowing each other, and into the expansive void where somehow we are embraced in the souls ultimate belonging.

This trip has ended and we have finally landed. And having survived, we send this offering to you with our cosmic love. - Circe Link 

credits

released November 1, 2021

All instrumentation performed by Christian Nesmith except :
God From The Machine - organ solo performed by Michael Sherwood

All music played, arranged, recorded and mixed by Christian Nesmith Vocals by Circe Link and Christian Nesmith
Design and layout by Circe Link
Texture paintings by Betty Link

All songs written by Christian Nesmith and Circe Link
Neztoons Publishing (BMI) Narccisiphus Music (BMI)

Dedicated to our beloved Michael Sherwood, forever tickling the keys of the cosmos and singing in our hearts.

2021 All rights reserved.
www.christiannesmith.com www.circelink.com

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