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The following article is the songlist, credits, bio, song stories and lyrics for the release of 'A delicate procedure' by Kelebek Evrimi. Thanks for coming and enjoy the EP while reading what we're about.
Artwork by Paula Marie of Berlin @ http://facebook.com/artpaulamarie
"It's drawn in one line because life starts in one point and ends in the same. I don't want to create something aesthetic. I want to catch the life and visions which live in humanity."
Songlist:
Recorded in Alshar Studio by Evitsa in Skopje, Macedonia Oct' 2018 without whom none of this would have been possible.
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Also available for complimentary download - Bus 21 EP - http://archive.org/details/bus21
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Artwork by Sabina Niguez of Galway @ https://www.facebook.com/whizzy.warlock
Kelebek Evrimi - Turkish for butterfly Evolution, is symbolic of the dark places humanity has retreated to in order to blossom and discover that place of absolute resolve.
Three main members with guests comprise this band: Monti Karus a traveling street performer from Australia; Katerina Dimitrovska a balkan nomad, musician and wanderer from Skopje, Macedonia; and Umur Sadico , a philosopher, Oud player and aesthetist from California based in Berlin and Istanbul.
A meshing of cultures and an unconditional allowing of the freedom of expression in the art of improvisation has formed in Kelebek Evrimmi a unique ethno-western sound.
Artwork by Monti Karus
Song Stories and Lyrics:
ONE - A DELICATE PROCEDURE
What is the art of finding the right moment and tone to release an energy that is only available for a short time? When we have to place our incisors in between the inbetween in order to find it. It is a very delicate thing to do. So patiently we must wait and in our patience, the kind heart of resolve will come forward and flourish.
TWO - HAIL TO THE SUN
You are on the desert sand, the snakes are rattling and a tribe of men and women living together are participating in a sacred rite. Gathered around a fire with drums and voices and basic instruments they chant. To the oldest religion from whence all religions were spawned - the worship of the sun; the giver of life; the love; the chariot; the one. Hail to the Sun! Hail to the Sun! And so mote it be...
THREE - JOURNEY TO VENUS
Monti wrote this song after having a dream in the house of a beautiful sorceress. In the dream she said, 'The path of the sufi is the journey to venus and the journey to venus is the journey back to the womb.' Then she proceeded to attempt to kiss him.
After being awoken that morning he immediately wrote down the dream and this song was the result.
Lyrics:
The journey to Venus is the journey back to the womb.
We eat everything in our path, all these dishes we consume
But we just walk and in walking, each step a feast without a crime
And we just walk and in walking, each step a love that's trapped in time
You cannot walk this path in fear
You must fall till you don't need to prove it
For we all will settle, for nothing less than authenticity
As all as one as equal, on the path of equality
On the knife's edge in perfect peril
Walking this path for all eternity
FOUR - BEGINNINGS
After an electric and sensual evening with a lover Monti awoke and had a conversation with his connectee about the world's final end. The conclusion drawn from the communication was that the end will come, that is certain but it is better we focus on the new beginnings than focus on the end.
Soon after, Monti wrote these words:
Another step in time
Another closed door
Another broken heart
Another reason to die to be reborn
An open book
A truly open book
A world of attention
A world that waits
Waiting for us all to dream
To live life open and content
We have the energy
Winner or loser, let's forget about this
Dream the perfect dream
Dream the perfect dream
Dream the perfect dream
Dream the perfect dream
Let's dream a dreamless dream of pathways undiscovered by the mind
Let's dream an open book a truly truly open open book
A habit, a culture, a repetitive behaviour
We are lost in time but for these
The earth is breathing still
The stars still glimmer
Don't look for the end it will come
Look for new beginnings
Artwork by Katerina Dimitrovska
*FIVE - THE BUTTERFLY'S BURDEN *
The following is written by Umur Sadico:
What exactly is the burden of the butterfly? Every life is inhabited by something forgiving, delicate and handsome that is cherished - a butterfly; yet, there may be an unwillingness to witness its course of fruition, its emergence and its passage, for it is potent in something harsh. Beauty is a terrifying thing. The Butterfly’s Burden is one of two pieces composed on A Delicate Procedure as a musical interpretation of poetry. The title of the song was inspired by Fady Joudah’s translated works of Mahmoud Darwish, who had a sublime ability to depict the condition of exile and longing for a situation beyond limits and endless bifurcation. The butterfly that inhabited the life of Darwish was his homeland of Palestine. The unremitting deaths and rebirths he experienced during his lifetime, his exiles and homecomings - what he called “the phoenix” - was always in search of the butterfly. The “selves” in the poem - the mother, the student, the soldier - are no longer content with what they had once sought, a state of affairs almost everyone faces at some point in life. This is the interval when one faces self-exile, and encounters the potential phoenix-moment; self-obliteration. It may lead to resurrection and expansion into the next station or to unresolved ruin. The mother’s son whom she prizes is no longer with her. The student of archaeology sought the face of humanity in the vestiges of artifacts, and finds sparseness, impersonal stone. He questions his own identity. The solider sought peace and security, but realizes the ghost of war can never be overwhelmed. I imagine Darwish himself, like all the banished and exiled, passed through various stations and experienced such turning points in life. In due course, every life must find respite, as in the final words of the poem. The Butterfly’s Burden is a requiem for the resolve of abode and home.
Adapted translation of the poem 'Nothing Pleases Me' by Palestinian born poet Mahmoud Darwish:
Nothing pleases me
Says the traveler on the bus
The radio doesn't say it
or the morning paper
or the citadels on the hill
I want to cry
The driver says to me
Wait until you get to the station
Then you can cry alone all you want
A mother says, I agree, nothing pleases me either
I guided my son to my grave, he made a home there and slept
and then left without a goodbye
A student says: Nothing please me, I studied archaeology but I did not find my identity in stone
Am I really me?
The soldier says, me too, nothing
I always end up besieging a ghost that besieges me
At last the driver says:
Here we are, almost at our final stop
Get ready to leave
Then together they exclaim
We want what's beyond the station, keep going!
As for me, just let me off here
I am must like them
Nothing pleases me
But I am tired from travel
Artwork by Sabina Niguez of Galway @ https://www.facebook.com/whizzy.warlock
“Sabina, who is originally from Alicante, in Spain, studied Fine Arts in Valencia. She received a scholarship to do her final year in Lisbon. It was in Lisbon where she began her graphic diary and would continue to add to it as she traveled, making notes and sketches as she went along. Since settling in Galway in 2016 she has immersed herself in the cities cultural scene. She continues to practice her art.”
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Special thanks to all the artists that contributed to this release and to all our amazing friends who have kept us going all these years. May we never cease to be channels of honesty in our interpretation and reciprocation of the energy that's around us.
Copyright Kelebek Evrimi 2019
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Monti's notepad before arriving in Albania in September 2018. The video was created by him inspired by this artwork.
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