WEARENOTDEAD

from WHITESTARR by GRUPPEN

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    White Starr is the debut album from Gruppen. The 6 tracks take the listener through an aural landscape of past, present and the possible. Through the spoken word poetry and post-rock soundscapes you will find reflections on the earliest known settlement Star Carr and travel across the Mesolithic landscape of Doggerland. Elsewhere there are contemplations on painting, selling out and the plight of an existence underground.

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lyrics

WEARENOTDEAD

I

WE_ARE_NOT_DEAD
YET_THE_WORLD_IS_DYING
BEFORE_PIGMENT
THE_BODY_IS_LAID_OUT
AS_CONCEPT_AND_GAME

PREPARED_FOR_PASSAGE

FRESH_FROM_ITS_WOODED_CEMETERY_THE_RABBIT’S_SKIN
BEGINS_ITS_BOILING
DOWN_IN_THE_ARTIST’S_KITCHEN

CONNECTIVE_TISSUE
PROLONGED_TO_REDUCTION
TO_BE_DRIED_INTO_PELLETS

THIS_IS_THE_NEW_SHIT
DISSOLVED_IN_WATER
GLUE_TO_GYPSUM
AS_GESSO

CADAVER
STRETCHED_ACROSS_BEAMS_OF_SOFT_OR_HARD_GRAIN
CONIFERS_SLOTTED_WITH_PRECISION
PINE_POPLAR_CEDAR
RED_OR_BASSWOOD

A_DOVETAIL
WITH_BEECH_CHERRY_OR_MAPLE_KEYS
OBLONG_SQUARE_TONDO

THE_LINEN
SIZED_WITH_EMULSION
APPLIED_TO_SHIPLAP
TO_PARTCH_AND_SHRINK_IN_AIR
A_SAIL_TO_LATER_BEAR_YOU_THERE

PAPER_SHROUD_SLIDES_INTO_THE_BATH
WATER_DIPPED
TO_BE_LEFT_SUBMERGED
WATERBOARDING

SOFT_UP_FOR_AIR
UPON_THE_STRETCHER_PLANE
AND_SMOTHERED_OF_ITS_EXCESS

BOTH_LIE_ALONE
UNTOUCHED
TAUT_DERMISES
DRUM_HEADS_FOR_THE_BEATING_BRUSH

II

AFTER_PIGMENT
WE_SHALL_NOT_SPEAK_OF_WHAT_WENT_BETWEEN
SAVE_TO_SAY
THE_BODY_BORNE
IN_SOLITARY_COMMUNION
INTO_THE_WORLD
WAS_DECLARED
COMPLETE

THEN
LAID_TO_REST_IN_TWO_DIMENSIONAL_FORM
NOW_RESPLENDENT_IN_ITS_COLOUR
STILL_POROUS
STILL_REPELLENT
AN_OILY_OR_WATERY_‘THING’_EMBALMED
LET_THE_RITUAL_BEGIN

VARNISHING_DAYS_HAVE_PAST
THEY_WERE_THE_LAST_RELATIONSHIP
GONE_WILD
BUT_FOR_NOW

IN_MICRO
IT_IS_RATHER_STAID
PEOPLE_COMPORT_INTO_GALLERIES
FROM_WET_STREETS
THEIR_GREY_SKIES_OVERHANGING
MOSTLY_DRIFTERS
IN_SEARCH_OF_SCENERY_NEW
RE-INVENTORS_OF_RECENT_WHEELS

HE_WHISPERED_IN_MY_EAR_ONCE
‘THE_OLD_WAYS_ARE_BEST’
HERE_THERE_IS_RARELY_SUDDEN_REVELATION
PEAK_EXPERIENCES_ARE_FEW
AND_FAR

AND_SO_THE_OBJECTS_ARE_PERCEIVED_IN_THE_EVERYDAY
AS_LACKING_AGENCY_AND_WITHOUT
DIRECT_CURRENCY

BUT_HERE_IS_THE_RUB
THE_INSTANT_KARMA
THE_RITUAL_IT_TURNS_OUT
CANNOT_BE_SEEN_BY_ALL

BETWEEN
FOR_WANT_OF_ONLY_SEEING_TREES
AND_MISSING_GLADE_WOOD_FOREST

THE_SHAPE_AND_DELINEATION_OF_THE_JUNGLE
ITS_PERIMETER_TAKEN_FOR_A_WALK
IN_INK_LINE
DRIP_RUN_LICK
STROKE

THE_RITUAL_IS_NOT_HEIGHTENED
BUT_LIVED_THROUGH_REGARDLESS
FOR_BORED_SOULS_AND_MANY_MINDS_TO_WANDER

MOST_LIVES_IN_SPITE_OF_PAINTING
IN_ALIENATION
AND_FOR_THOSE_THROUGH_PAINTING
STILL_ALIENATED

ALL_OF_THIS_SHOULD_BE_EXPECTED

IT_IS_NOT_FOR_EVERYONE
DESPITE_THE_OPEN_INVITATION

THE_WALLS_ARE_WHITE_BETWEEN
AND_AROUND
FOR_THE_FEW_WHO_HAVE_FALLEN
UNDER_A_SPELL
CRITICAL

FOR_THOSE_THAT_WISH_TO_WORK
ENGAGE_THE_CORPSE
TO_INVOKE
THE_SELF-IMMOLATION

OF_MAKER
IN_MAKING_TO_THE_MADE
INTO_MANTRA_WEFT
INTRICATE

OR

IN_AMBIENT_SOLITUDE
OF_THE_’WE’_IN_’ME’
THE_WALLS_ARE_WHITE_BETWEEN
AND_AROUND
ENABLING_PUNCTUATION
BREATH_SPACES

WE_ARE_NOT_DEAD
YET
THE_WORLD_IS_DYING

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from WHITESTARR, released February 17, 2024
BRENNAN_BRANNAGAN

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GRUPPEN London, UK

Gruppen are a dark dada duo who combine field recordings, electronica, scapes, tones and poetry. As much visual as sonic. Think Schwitters meets Cabaret Voltaire via Pound and Poe.

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