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Jericho

from Jericho by Chris Black

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    "Every bird has hit the road this morning, and everything you know will pass away."
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    Originally illustrated in India ink and inspired by my song of the same name, "Pass Away" is now available in a limited edition of one-hundred 11x17 screen prints on beautiful antique paper, signed and numbered by the artist.
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    1) "Termites," which has a beautiful subtle blue tint, and is slightly gnawed upon by antique termites. (You can see the tiny holes in the second photo above.)
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    3) "Textured" has a heavy texture and a manila color, just the sort of thing you think of when you say "cool old paper."
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    4) "Linen Gloss" has a beautiful, threaded, linen-looking finish, and the ink really shines.
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    (You can see the texture of all four papers, and how the ink behaved with them, very well in the third photo.)
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    The antique paper was generously donated by Drew Burk of Spork Press, and the prints were silk-screened by Jeik at Tanlines Printing, both here in sunny Tucson, AZ.

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In the BACK SEAT there’s a bundle wrapped up in oilcloth, it smells like blood, it smells like CORDITE, and the traffic’s backed up to Jericho, the cops are crazy, and God’s on the RADIO, and he needs more money and the heat comes down like a fist. My heart goes APE SHIT, and it sounds like thunder I’M A SOLDIER IN THE ARMY OF GOD, and we go BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.

Back in JERICHO there’s a line to the butcher for the skin off the skull of a mule. There’s no DOGS LEFT, no cattle no chickens and the babies are going by the pound and the sound of the TRUMPETS keeps the fear on top, the noise to stop for a HEART BEAT, and the ARMY, it surrounds the city and the walls come down like thunder, and we go BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.

In my babyhood I was safe and happy and the rain was a thing of GRACE, a thing of BEAUTY, like a ladder up to heaven, if you climbed high enough there were SOUNDS, there were WHISPERS. In the presence of God there’s a THRONE and a LION and a LAMB and a host of CREATURES run beneath my wheels. I’M A SOLDIER IN THE ARMY OF GOD, and we go BOOM BOOM, BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM.

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from Jericho, released July 6, 2006

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Chris Black Raleigh, North Carolina

Chris Black is a multi-instrumental composer and performer living in Wake County, North Carolina. He has been a member of such groups as Shoulders (Austin, TX), Les Wampas (Paris, FR), Golden Arm Trio (Austin, TX), The Wedding's Off (L.A., CA), and the Taraf de Tucson (Tucson, AZ). He is the founder of the alt-classical, D.I.Y. chamber music concert series ChamberLab. ... more

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