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Glass Apple Bonzai

by Glass Apple Bonzai

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Shane Dangers
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Shane Dangers this was long overdue..had my 👁 on this 💎 for quite some time. Astonishingly great retrowave that touches on so many influences, and all of them the best of what the 1980s gave us.. I believe much of this modern 80s music is much better than some actual 80s. it's a great time to be alive. Album is pure🔥pure awesome, thx Daniel ❤ Favorite track: The Freeze.
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drewracer406 Takes me back in time with vocals reminiscent of Peter Murphy and catchy synth pop rhythm. So happy to find this artist. Favorite track: Right Some Day.
les1ncompentent
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les1ncompentent This guy got me away from instrumental synthpop as a rule. Awesome smooth voice over deadly synthetic rhythm and bass. Favorite track: The Fist.
Brian Lee Lewis
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Brian Lee Lewis I just love a well crafted song that takes me to another place (the 80's in this case). Simply delightful. Simply catchy. Simply had to buy the cd after hearing one track. Favorite track: The Fist.
Morts
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Morts This is the music that embodies everything "pop" music is supposed to be! Favorite track: The Fist.
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I carefully have given it all much thought Into a time I feel loneliness The memories are charming only once The time that we don't feel that sanity has begun (chorus 1) A million foolish hands to light up all the signs And foolish hands give way to a failure to decided the enemies into the sun to throw it all away A million way to tell me how my life has gone astray I honestly haven't given it all much thought Been blinded by the ways I've never once been taught And to a time I feel loneliness The feelings are changing And I see the signs I'm making (chorus 2) A million ways I choose to light up in the night A million fools are just water through the sand A million ways into the sun to throw your shame away I never knew just what you want until I gave it away To hold, to give you To set the days on fire Another way to change everything I fire two inside, and I burn the days away And I've seen your crimes and I hear your name (repeat chorus 1) (repeat chorus 2)
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The Fist 04:59
In a race to another life You shake the hand of those who know And the ending will begin And force a break between two roads And you'll never feel the same On your way to stake your claim To whatever fascinates A basic game between two traits Now there's a place in the afterlife Where all the lies become your truth And now you're in control Of every minute of your youth Though you'll never know for sure Why you're wearing this disguise In denial of your fate The truth is hiding in your eyes I don't mind the sun sometimes, I never mind the rain I try to clear my mind of all the shit you'd say Take back the wasted days and show'em who to blame Let all the people know I'll never play their game In the face of another lie You can't believe it's gone so cold That a meaningless demise Is the only choice you're sold As you're crawling on the floor Trying slowly to replace All the elements of hate With an image of your face I don't mind the sun sometimes, I never mind the rain I try to clear my mind of everything you'd say I lie awake at night with the innocence of dreams To let all the people know it's never what it seems And the fear from the other side In denial of your strenth Will believe its only lies Are the shadows of your fate And the memory sets in As the pieces fit the shape And the ending will begin With the burning fires of hate I never mind the sun sometimes, I never mind the rain And I try to clear my mind of all the shit you'd say And I'll break away from here and leave it all behind And set fire to everything until the end of time... And I won't feel OK...
3.
You don't know who I am or who I used to be It takes a thousand years to get this close to me And only time will tell how I should be seen I know it takes a while to find out what I mean (chorus) And maybe I should go away? (maybe I should go away) And maybe I will melt away? (maybe I will melt away) A million things before my eyes that I will never be And it's too late to let go Wishing someone knew that it was all a game The feeling I once knew is leaving me again It takes a million years for everyone to see And only time will tell what you have done to me (repeat chorus x2)
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The final breath The silence of your fears So many lies for all those years But never mind nothing matters now you've done no wrong And all that time doesn't matter now that life has gone (chorus) One minute left to go I don't think so, I don't know How a thousand lies turned everything to shame The memories will fade to sorrow And I will never let you go Now this solemn life will never be the same And you can try To silence everything and I wish I could believe There's somewhere else that you might go And I know I'm right but I wish I might be wrong somehow As I hold your hand, and I understand you're leaving now (repeat chorus) There comes a time When everything will fade and the memories remain And nothing ever seems the same And it took some time and now I realise you've done no wrong And all that time it doesn't matter why that life has gone (repeat chorus)
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The eyes on the wall from I don't know where A failure to see, I don't know where The fires below to show me the way I'm trying to know, it's all mystery And I know the answers to the song Awakened lies were hidden far too long (chorus 1) the liars songs and the attitudes of mind, some day Will show us how to die, some day And it feels OK and I won't go away I'm feeling the soul as a means to mourn Nothing's the same, I don't need anymore The wires alone are feelings enough to save And I don't care if you don't know the same A million signs for you to throw away And I don't mind to see it all again (repeat chorus 1) But I won't go away No I won't go away Maybe the song is doing some right I won't begin a failure tonight Now listen close and watch it all unfurl And I won't care if you can't see the world A million signs for you to throw away And I don't mind to see it all again The liars songs and the attitudes of mind, some day Will show us how to die, some day And sit alone and lie all day And never see the light of day Taking everything away We'll never see the light of day And it feels OK
6.
The Freeze 04:50
It's nothing that you said that led me to this day A fictional creation of my mind I'm lost in admiration for a broken few And nothing ever seems the same This breaking ice surrounds my life; my name (chorus) A momentary shame And then I freeze this lie within me A victim of your blame And then I see desire within me A million things I've seen Can you believe this fire within me Extinguished gracefully? And then I freeze this lie within me From the nothern sky the winds of fate Sending frozen lies of fear and hate my way I never understood the way you took the pain And threw it in my face again This breaking ice is showing me the way (repeat chorus) If you took the time I bet that you'd see There's nothing left for you and nothing left for me You turn it all around and then you take the blame And nothing ever feels the same This breaking ice is taking you away (repeat chorus)
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Impossible to Ignore You couldn't believe the truth that I was in your mind And though it feels the same way every single time And you could feel the answer crawling up your spine And though it seems the same way, everything's divine (chorus) I know just exactly what you said And I know just exactly where you are I see every single thing you do And I know just exactly how far And though it may seem too impossible to ignore And no one here will begin to see right through the door And though you may begin to follow, And give it up in the middle of the night Change your mind, change the time, change it all around And see it in the end tonight (repeat chorus) No reasons, frozen ice, and I feel Though you change inside And fall to hollow days and lies And you try to crawl away in side (repeat chorus)
8.
As all your friends stood still in perfect silence you will set fire to me And this time, I see And it's your friends who will By trading violence with skill desire to lead The one time that I feel... (chorus) This way of life seems out of place And I feel as though I fell into somebody else's grave On this satellite of fallen grace And it feels OK to throw it all away When the earth stood still With perfect timing you will conspire to free This life that you keep And if your friends won't kill The fading moment to swallow the pill, the fire in me But this time I see... (repeat chorus) Then you figure out, in your solitude What the trigger is, to make everything turn blue As the world stands still The moment everyone will quietly scream As this fire sets free And as the only ones left careening quickly to death, silently plead And it's time they see... (repeat chorus)
9.
The image that I see is staring back at a me In the book full of things I'll never be (chorus 1) And one day I will open wide And magnify the things I'd say to you And hopefully you'll know just why And share with me and tell me what to do To see you there that night Flashes full of light And the imagery that you thoughtfully create (chorus 2) I feel as though I've seen inside Behind your eyes and now I'm mystefied Of all the things I know are true There's no place I'd rather be than with you A million things I'd love to say But then one day that may just go away And thankfully you've shown me how To find the things I've lost somehow The image that I see is staring back at a me In the book full of things I'll never be (repeat chorus 2)
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The debut full-length release by Canadian synthpop/synthwave project Glass Apple Bonzai.
GAB is a side project of Daniel X. Belasco of Industrial/Electronic/Sci-Fi band Defence Mechanism.

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released May 7, 2014

Glass Apple Bonzai is:
Daniel X. Belasco

Recorded, Produced, and Mixed by Daniel X. Belasco @ The Studio From Beyond the Moon, St. Catharines, Ontario
Words and Music by Daniel X. Belasco (Daniel George Mackie)
Mastered by Martin Bowes @ The Cage (thecagestudios.co.uk)

Artwork by Paul Sizer/Sizer Design + Illustration (paulsizer.com)

Recorded using FL Studio 10, Arturia CS80V, Arturia Moog Module V, Korg Legacy Polysix, SuperwaveP8, Use Audio Plugiator, Korg Dw8000, Casio CZ5000, Roland Alpha Juno 1, Alesis QS7, Ensoniq SD-1, Yamaha TX7, Yamaha Tenori-On, Akai S5000 sampler

Thank You to:
My Mum, Ethan Moseley, Rob "Rob-Bot" Moseley, Troy "Fuck You, Troy" Hilton, Krummi Bjorgvinsson (Legend), Steve/Dreamstate Seven, Paul Sizer, Martin Bowes, Jennifer Emily, Conor von Moonbeam, Gord and Anju Sood-Clement, Alex Ready, Sheenah Ko, Rick Van Owen, Ryan Cameron-Clark, Alex Kennedy, Edwin Locke, Larry Swiercz, Mike Bryant, Rick "That Sounds Made Up" Lever, Brian Hogue, Mrs. Awesome, Brian "Brain Grabber" Graupner, Jessica McAuley, Rammbo, DJ Th'Elf, Hangedman and Saucy Miso, Kim and Luke @ The Brain Farm, Miss Ashlee Standish, Ethan Rising, and any and all fans and friends worldwide.

Indiegogo Contributors:

Ryan Mallette, Vanessa Tarling, Robert Wagner, Lance Pilon, Suzy Roy, Herman Wang, Joshua Starkey, Ryan Cameron-Clark, Brian Graupner, Morgan, Adrian & Trent, Bruce Lord, Jason Meadows, Mandy Wells, Alex Ready, Ethan Moseley, Barbara Moser, Roanne Seguin, Robotnik The Destroyer, Jill Grant, Shantell Powell, Van Owen, Mike Bryant, Kisho, and Kyle Greer.

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