PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Photosynthesizers of grace
Photosynth to feel the blind faith
Syncronize the human kind pace
Metabolize your thoughts in your brain
Rethink a new beginning
We are part of it, even if it makes your life harder
Resynchronized faith healing
We are part of it, keep on believing in that, brother
Rethink your reckless feelings
You are part of them, but if you don´t get it don´t bother
Resynchronized faith healing
Do not fool yourself, we are all part of this illusion
The sunlight
The CO2
The Chlorophyll
The water
The chloroplasts
The leafs
The thylakoids
The ATP
The Calvin cycle
The NADP
The dioxygen
The photosystems
The Photolysis
The photons
The Z scheme
The Rubisco
PARIS RAGTIME
We can dance and sing
the ragtime like no one ever did
Baby down here in the farm
We will conquer Paris
The big theatres and the clubs
Soon we’re gonna be at the top
(Ragtime, uh!
Paris Ragtime, uh!
Paris ragtime, uh!
Paris ragtime, uh!
Paris!)
We had to wait for a lifetime!
And improvise to survive
But once we learnt about love love love yeah!
We got to lift off the ground boy!
Stand up! Uhhhhh!
No noooo!!! No no noooo!!!
No noooo!!! Ohhh!!!!!!
No no noooo!!!
The world will beg for our footprints!
(everybody wants to be them)
We're going to buy the moon and stars!
(yes sure we love them all)
We'll hit the charts to the num-ber-ber one, overnight
(we love you! Yeah!!!)
We´d wish to live again
We lucky boys, ohhhh
we lucky boys
Can't you see? We can sing! We’re the band!
Here comes the gong
(coros: GONG! y suena un gong a la vez)
We turn the world upside down with our songs
And all our lyrics are saying is
P-P-P-P-Ping! P-P-P-P-Pong!
All that shit and
ding dong!
When we hear the crowd with a sound going right to our bones
(going right to our bones)
Like a steel sword
All this matters( all this matters!!!)
Always better! (Always better!!!)
Flash your boobs!
We had to wait for the right time
(waiting for the moment inside a wok)
When everyboby says goodbye
Shiny fur, latex briefs all over the place, flying around
It´s time for you to see
The nasty boys
The nasty boys
Can't you see? We can sing! We’re the band!
Here comes the gong
(coros: GONG! y suena un gong a la vez)
We turn the world upside down with our songs
And all our lyrics are saying is
P-P-P-P-Ping! P-P-P-P-Pong!
All that shit and
ding dong!
When we hear the crowd with a sound going right to our bones
(going right to our bones)
Like a steel sword
All this matters( all this matters!!!)
Always better! (Always better!!!)
TRYING TO BE A COURTCLOWN
La la la la la la
Three hurrahs (hooray) for the king, three shots of the brass
I always thought that joking around would be my salvation
Maybe it’s something that people practice since creation
Every once in a while I get a threat about my castration
I dream about going back to the place I come from with cetaceans
When the guy with the beard is around me with all his glorious elegance I have to show him my biggest smile and tell him that he ́s handsome When the guy with the beard goes through my stuff with all his splendid elegance
You will see, I have many more castles like this and you’ll say what a pity!
In your dreams there are bikers inside of the moon, Oh my boy, you' re so tricky
There are certain days you think you’ll end up like the other one Disappearing with no tracks and not because it’s a new padauan
I’m an optimistic guy and I try to think I’m the number one
It all depends on the old guy with the crown wanting to blow me into a bubble gum
When the guy with the beard is around me with all his glorious elegance I have to show him my biggest smile and tell him that he ́s handsome When the bearded fat guy goes through my stuff with all his splendid elegance
Oh! I hate him coming and telling me:
Stand by there, doing all your monkey moves and juggling like a court clown
Stand by there, don’t go very far cause I will want to have some laughs
Oh! I hate him coming and telling me:
Stand by there, doing all your monkey moves and juggling like a court clown
Stand by there, not very close to me because you really stink a bit Stand by there, don’t go very far cause I will want to have some laughs Stand by there, doing all your monkey moves and juggling like a court clown
UNDER A BLACK CLOUD
Show me a candle, show me where I can find a light If I surrender nobody is going to find me
Hold up the candle, tell me when I can start the fight If I surrender nobody is going to find me
Show me a candle, show me where I can find a light If I surrender nobody is going to find me
Hold up the candle, tell me when I can start the fight If I surrender nobody is going to find me
I understand that I’m on my own in this fight And the reality is that
I’m fighting with myself wowowowowo...
I should have built a super time machine
To touch the future every time I want
But every breath I take it seems to be in vain Out of control dark matter cycles
I should have made an artificial cloud of rain
Where I can live! And put my brain in that white kettle But I'm afraid of being a creepy tainted bean
A paranoid mind to recycle
I'm pretty tired 'cause I'm always on the run
Like gamma rays from the sun or the coward knight from the castle
Analyzing memories of the past is like going downhill
Better try it tomorrow when you're down on the ground suffering When I look into the mirror in my dreams
Inside I feel the rain and another part of me
Is painting purple boxes
to keep myself away to feel that pain
If I could walk under the acid rain and playing with the radiation again
but I ́m afraid of being a simple human being just a creation of blue matter
When I was wrong and laying on the solid ground I wish I could fly to the ceiling
Jumping to the stars
Crossing at the speed of light
Trying to find a blackhole
All of this seems to me a pantomime, I realize I'm out of my mind
I'm not afraid to crossing the lightning ring, but I feel weird when I see the red line
Smiley pills are mocking when you ́re gawking and standing on the wall
Time out! you'll have to choose or just forget about it!
Don ́t stop, nobody knows that, Don ́t stop, no one but you can do it Don ́t stop, nobody knows that, Don ́t stop, no one but you can do it Don ́t stop, nobody knows that, Don ́t stop, no one but you can do it
Analyzing memories of the past is like going downhill
Better try it tomorrow when you're down on the ground suffering When I look into the mirror in my dreams
Inside I feel the rain and another part of me
Is painting purple boxes
to keep myself away to feel that pain
A reason, you really have to search for it
Try to find the reason, you really have to find it Try to find the reason, you really have to grab it Try to find the reason, you really have to keep it
If you find the reason sure you ́ll feel better
THYLACINE
Humanity is almost gone
I know it ́s hard to say this
but nobody will feel the rain falling over their heads again Or will wait for the sunset
We're behind a black curtain covering our dark souls
It's easy
We're smart
Making our wonderful(marvelous) paradise Our brains are already frozen
Moments are passing through our fast lifes Guiding us to the dead line
Success becomes failure
Everybody go pack your things
We're going to play with chemicals under the fucking rainbow Don't say fucking rainbow
You will miss it when the bunker trembles
It's easy
We're smart
Making our wonderful(marvelous) paradise Our brains are already frozen
Moments are passing through our fast lifes Guiding us to the dead line
An imaginary welfare
Feels like a serial killer Waiting in the alley
With his body full of needles
Someone through a window
Looks down at this creepy future And he thinks hell (it) doesnt matter
Look at the crowd as an echo of your mind Look at the crowd pretending to be high
Cause it really doesnt matter
MONOLOGUE
Sorry but, i wanna get my money back Before i get into the world of dope And thats not gonna happen man
Honey! I wanna get my money
So i dont have to see your face shine Under those stupid lights over you
Dude, im bored out of my mind
Could have seen the ghostbusters, the ghostbusters or marty mcfly Or waiting for your super trick appearing through the fog
im not here for the money
Money is not what does it for me, really?
I'm tired of all that, and finally I will wear my hard hat To be the laughing machine that you're expecting
Honey! We're not at Tin Pan Alley
So it's time for you to take your big mouth And take a walk into the lions' room
Girl, I'm bored out of my mind
Have you ever seen the invasion of the body snatchers, body snatchers Now it's time to mind your own business
If only we had a good mask
To help us pretend we are having fun, darling
If only we could laugh like we were robots, just like robots
SUNNY VIEW FOR DOUCHE-BAGS
Don't come showing us everything's going fine
You're the reason the world is upside down
I don't know if your brain is frozen or it's boiling all night
Dumb-ass land makes you look like an artichoke, damn right!
You look like an artichoke (choke)
Bullshit overdose (doooose)
I love what - what your diamond ring says
I love what- what your diamond rings says ohhh diamond ring
Now you have to be cool...
And all that makes the world go crazy
I know what I read in the news
You think you're really looking down on me,
but you're standing at my feet and
that's a real message, you only have to smell ‘em
What´s the matter with you?
I'm terrified of you
What´s the matter with you?
I'm terrified of you
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Levitate and get hard on your visions
Get your golden dream to get high
And I know (know!) that even if it takes your entire life
You would walk all over your own mother, it's a fact
You´re so full of crap,try to get rid of that before you go to limbo
Roll the dice I will try to guess the size of your ego before you´re old
Don´t you want redemption, want redemption I don´t need it!
Ou ei ou I don´t need your cult to mess up with my moral
.....
Artichokes are cooler than you
They are smart beings, smart beings, really you know
I can imagine a world without you
Not to put up with this crap anymore
You can make irrelevant noises while i'm kicking you out of the door
I can imagine a world without you
Not to put up with this crap anymore
I had enough of you
I had enough of you
That´s all! That´s all!
about
ARCHITECTURE OF THE ABSURD is a Progressive Rock band. The same kind of rock that motivated thousands of avid brains to join a musical movement that enclosed everything. That undefined rock, with no boundaries or limits. That rock that laughed at the world and at itself, a delicious caricature of music.
ARCHITECTURE OF THE ABSURD gathers influences from bands like Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant or King Crimson. It filters them through a Mr. Bungle strainer and performs in an imaginary Cirque Du Soleil. The result can’t be more unpredictable. Nothing is what it seems and nothing looks like nothing.
This seemingly senseless parallel world has been created by Lorenzo Matellán and Razl, two musicians characterized by an unlimited creative inquisitiveness fed by their ability to transform the simple and pretty into weird and odd, which can actually be a bit scary. At least it might trouble you. Through their compositions, Architecture of the Absurd proposes imaginary situations based on tales, movies or stories they’ve heard, and they put them in very direct words, with an extraordinary double meaning.
The presence of the extraordinary (and no less weird) drummer Marco Minnemann has given Architecture of the Absurd an extra push. His participation in the project has taken the band to give a step forward in their musical intentions, strengthening them with a rhythmic weight only comparable to the power of the engine of a stellar spaceship taking off.
The last tier of this intricate network has been Damian Erskine, virtuoso bass player who has perfectly understood the fevered and damaged minds of L. Matellán and Razl acting as the perfect glue between the uncontrollable pulses of Marco and the incoherent musical methods of Architecture of the Absurd.
Razl is a guitar player who is obsessed with searching new formulas to express himself musically. His two solo albums, Rotonova and Microscopic (in which he collaborated with musicians like Mike Keneally, Bryan Beller, Dean Brown, Damian Erskine or Charlie Dennard) show this odd tendency. With Beluga, Razl has taken care of the vocals too, finding a new expressive toy by chance.
Lorenzo Matellán is an extremely curious keyboard player and sound engineer. He started playing with progressive rock and psychedelia with his first serious band and after collaborating and producing different styles like rock, pop, hip-hop (Frank T) or electronic music oriented to disco and funk (Guateque All Stars) he is coming back to his origins, where he really feels free. His only rule is to turn imagination into his only boundary and use all possible tools around him, musical or not.
Architecture of the Absurd is the final result of something that started in a total random and undefined way. Most of the tracks have shaped themselves almost at the very final moment before entering the record studio. Both Lorenzo and Razl kept suggesting new ideas and fragments that were stored in a sort of imaginary archive without knowing how many tracks would finally be part of the album. At some point, the number of musical fragments was so high that Beluga started to feel a bit stressed for not being able to use them all. So, they set up a specific date to start recording; stop the constant influx of ideas and put some order in everything that had been created to far. As it was extremely difficult to make sense of it all and use every idea, Beluga tried to think of a more abstract concept for the album, something with and without meaning. And under this notion, they integrated all the fragments they had and shaped the tracks.
credits
released February 16, 2023
Razl: Guitars, vocals and voices all around, ukelele, pedal toys.
L. Matellan: Keyboards, synths, soundries.
featuring:
Damian Erskine on Bass
and
Marco Minnemann on Drums
Recorded and mixed by L.Matellan at Headroom Estudio
Mastered by Chuck Norris
All tracks composed and arranged by Beluga
Lyrics by Razl, Lorenzo Matellán & Carolina Mateo
Art Design by Juanjez
We would like to send our best to the people who supported us making this record a real thing: Marta & Toñin, Juan R. Pozo, Franki & Eva & Djeneba, Guix, PerroRaro, Gabriela, Ali, Ángel Zapata, Oscar Cañas Zarraoa, Francisco Javier Ortíz Talaverón, Charlister, Lorena & César, Alfonso Borreguero, Azucena Encinas, Laurent Decorps
Lorenzo: I wish to thank, from the bottom of my heart, to Gabriela Zhou Bingqian for her support and understanding, for being the one. I stand still because of you. Marili, Marcos Zarevich and Pili Choak, I am what I am partly because of you.
Oh, yes, and of course to, my oh my, Bob Moog and Alan Robert Pearlman. Thanks for creating the weapons, the tools, the girls that made my mind go beyond myself!
Razl: Todo mi amor a Ali, ¿nos vemos luego un capitulo de Six Feet Under? . El soporte vital de mi familia (Papá, Mamá, Lore, Marta, Toñin, César, Paula, Lucía, NIco y Cirilo). El apoyo incondicional de mi mejor amiga Carola Mateo. Gracias a todos aquellos que habéis aportado algo a este proyecto incluso sin saberlo.
Razl is the pseudonym of guitar player and composer Raúl Huelves. His music moves between progressive rock and jazz rock to
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