The Portal- I beseech thee to pass through this half imagined portal. To pass if only for the breath of this poem into a place where fear is nonexistent, where love is intrinsic, where hope is all consuming. I entreat thee to pass into a place, where compassion emanates, emanates from the core of every object, living and nonliving, emanates from the core of every action and non action, emanates from the source that affirms only oneness. I beseech thee to pass into this place where anxious “What ifs?” fade, where death is the giddy continuity of life, where releasing is true possessing and departing is always just arriving. I beseech thee to pass, if only for the breath of this poem, into this half imagined place. Into this place I beseech thee to pass.
from
Lowlives Divine,
released June 1, 2017
1. Endure
2. Seest Thou Not
3. Lovers
4. Lowlives Divine
5. Wild & Free
6. The Portal
7. The Resurrected Mind
8. The Only Crown
Hieronymus Bogs: all music*, lyrics, lead vocals, baritone ukelele (1, 4 & 7) nylon guitar (2, 3, 5), acoustic guitar (8), harmonica (8); Ben Morey: acoustic guitar (4); Chris O'Rourke: piano (4, 7 & 8); Dave Drago: drums & bass (3); Fred Brown: ambient sounds (4), electric guitar (7); Hester Bartram: flute (1); Johnny Bell: banjo (1, 2, 5 & 8), melodica (8), shruti box (5); Joshua Frankel: bass clarinet (2); Wallboard: prepared voice, stomps & claps (2), organ, electric piano, baritone guitar (3) pedal steel, 12-string guitar, guitar loops, organ, electric piano, auxiliary percussion (4), organ & piano (5), auxiliary percussion (7), pedal steel, organ & bells (8); Mosaic Mountains: backing vocals (2, 3 & 4); Reilly Solomon Taylor-Cook: bass (1, 4 & 8), bowed bass (4); Sam Snyder: bass (2, 5 & 7), drums (1, 2, 4, 5 & 8), percussion (1, 2, 4, 5 & 7), drum programming (3 & 5), piano (1), electric piano (3 & 5), monotron (3), harpsichord (5 & 7), synthesizer (2, 3, 4 & 7), sequencer (4), samples (3), prepared voice (2), backing vocals (5 & 7); Sean Hagerty: violin (5); *Shaun Jones: music & all instrumentation (6); Tim Avery: trumpet (4); Tom Montagliano: electric guitar (2, 3 & 5).
Design layout: Eric Fernandez; Album art: Lisa Bogs; Art preparation: Dorothy Ross; Back photo: Ezra Talavera; Recorded at Artist Abbey, T or C, NM; Mission Hall, Rochester, NY & home studios throughout NM, NY and TX; Mixed and Mastered by Sam Snyder at Turtlephonic Studios, Troy, NY. For Natalia & Bobby.
Produced by Sam Snyder
Sam Snyder appears courtesy of Columbia Records.
Lyrics at:
hieronymusbogs.com