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Redshift

by Temple Garden

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Intro 01:07
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New Radiant orb, second sun my ever-loving mother lost her femininity now she's gone - I was driven from a dying world which no one can restore, went to colony A7C and joined the space patrol. But often when I lay in bed at night I think of the world I lost and how beautiful it was... Will I ever find another place out here in empty starry space where I can rest my head? and will I ever find that certainty of a summer’s warm embrace or are these just phantoms? Don’t cry, don’t mourn what you have lost the virtues in the cost I know why you feel the way you do, but it’s time for something new for you something just as beautiful.
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Hey, android babe - I just wondered if you’re here to take me away. Today I’m not afraid. That seduction in your voice takes me to outer space. I feel like I fell on the knife and made today the day I forgot your name. This forbidden love - It shouldn’t go on. Know I will never forget this day. Wait, there's been a mistake - the robot baby isn’t mine there's far too much at stake. Today, gotta get away. It’s off with my head, if they find me I’m dead and there's no place that is safe. I feel like I fell on the knife and made today the day I forgot your name This forbidden love just shouldn’t go on know I will never forget today.
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Galactik Kommandoh, eater of worlds just like your home He loves his genocide servitor of the mind the size of solar mass maps out the universe in light and code Now you’re trapped nowhere to go you who crossed me exile or die Off ya go, eternally show your face and dead you’ll be! Running start into the void play my game of hide and seek. Revenge for bride you stole death and doom an even score “blah blah blah whaa whaa whaa” big mousetrap drunken rat man overboard bite my tongue take my leave into void, all recedes Tit for tat absent tat scar my fate, strip my honor nowhere to run in this universe, I lost my certainty doomed to live 1000 lives in this endless starry sea. Now I lost everything is this how my story ends? All alone with no home and nowhere left to go.
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Redshift 03:37
I had one choice I had to make, be a slave or run away now I took my chance and hit the speed of light I ran away into the sky All I know is it’s not fair what I have gone through All I know is I don’t care I get stronger as I go along You can’t turn back you’re never welcome back So long memories I shut em down, red-shifted to the past now A change in me A new movement a new someone to be All I know is it’s not fair what I have been through All I know is I don’t care I get stronger as I go along All I know is I don’t care what happens to me and all I know is I don’t know anything. All I know is I don’t know I don’t know is all I know
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Starsea 03:54
I saw my homeworld ending I watched her body starving 1000 year explosion lost to the radiation It was so far away Rejoining all my ravaged requiems conscript conspiracy while I’m dining on delerium I lost my hope and lost my innocence This ocean swallows me and I never will come home. A passion play - I’m scouring every seed I’ve sown. In light of circumstance I dream the dream mechanical. A secret martyr, electric ardor an endless emptiness to skim with rations quartered. Now lost in open star sea drifted so long we might be free of the weight that’s on our souls. My eyes open I lost you too. Patrol Log 2393: Approaching orbit around A-7-C. That's her, Luria. Well, that used to be home.. Now lost in open star sea drifted so long we might be free of the weight that’s on our souls. My eyes open I lost you too.
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Vacuum Sky 03:35
Elation wind blowing carry me along like a wordless song Trapped in a vacuum sky saw the spirit fly come to save my life I thought I lost my soul but I lost control I leave it in your hands now out of the vacuum of this no man's land a sylph arrives and takes my hand and on the solar wind, I’m carried ever deeper Into myself, into the other conversations wander Trapped in a vacuum sky saw the spirit fly said it’s come to save my life I thought I lost my soul but I lost control and it’s in your hands now.
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Heat, god of flame Devour my body of light Olibanum smell, tongue lashes hell with sword of flame expunge my aura black ziggurat unseen by god obsidian core climb towards it Heat, God of Flame Devour my Body of light “I am heat, God of fire” I’ve come to bed you humbly, hide me from those who hunt me keeper of the sixfold mystery I implore your light protect me I am an innocent man Marked for death and on the lamb for a crime I didn’t commit Victim of circumstance My name is Mr. Mikey what is this that bows at my feet? you are an insect to me yet you dare make demands of me? you are an insolent man my might you cant understand this power that you demand, your fear cannot withstand
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"The only escape from the megalithic space prison was through a platform that lay far above them, in the tower of infinity which stretched up and up from the pinnacle of the ziggurat, acting as a barrier between this world and the dimensional rift at the apex of the tower. Reaching the exit would be no easy task. Standing between our hero and his salvation was an immense labyrinth, built millennia ago to keep the eldritch, demoniac drifters from the dimension beyond from creeping into our world. Staircases into infinity gave way to dark chambers of unfathomable horrors. There, chimeric space beasts stalked the halls, with serpentine hisses and venomous claws. Hitting dead end after dead end and facing trials untold, he was filled with more strength and resolve than ever before. One after another, the beasts fell, howling at the final sting of his laser gun- but with the death-gasp of each haunting monstrosity came yet another fiend, flocking frantically towards the fearless patrolman, only to be stricken down in his sights. Incensed with the might of the fiery archangel below, he reached the final chamber of the tower of infinity. The veil between worlds became thinner still, and apparitions of many-mouthed faces and eyes looking in every direction at once peered at him through transparent membranes of unseeable colors and unhearable sounds. Fearless, though trembling, he took his final steps past the rift-walker, and claimed his prize of fair passage, setting off for the green planet of Tunkasilan."
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"I’m alone here, starting to get the feeling this whole goose chase is strictly from Dixie. (at this point in the story, he is worn out and apprehensive) Some of the trees secrete a tempting blue sap. I find that it’s sweet. (In the demo, we really liked how you said “kinda sweet”, it really drove home that peppy, retro hero character voice) Nightfall. Something beckons me into a Grove of Sequoia. a blue light sways gently against the breeze, waving for me to follow. Blazing threads, interwoven into spirals of dazzling iridescence gilded all my sight. Upon the ground, moonflower and Indian pipe, Cool to the touch. (Becoming more disoriented, distant. should’ve been more careful with that sap!) There is no longer a path, but a tunnel. No longer a forest, but a gleaming city of giving wonders. No longer silence, but clamoring."
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Come now, little child. For a while, take a load off among our branches. Theres no need to do, only be - Rest is responsibility Its a matter of perspective, concentration taking time to wander and dwell among the dreams you had when you were young and finding freedom in fancy. But did I go wrong? oh what did I do and fight off fleeting feelings that distract my every move Have I been seen? Can you teach me to conceal? Put an ending to this running from my own past now. Breathe now, close your eyes feel the vibe hear the light inside its a power like invisibility the power to be not-a-thing but did I go wrong? oh what did I do and fight off fleeting feelings that distract my every move have I been seen? can you teach me to conceal? put an ending to this, running from my own past now. Just as learning gives birth to knowing Just as dreaming gives birth to growing Just as empty gives birth to filling Just as silence gives way to teaching Just as justice gives birth to penance Just as Isis gives birth to Horus Just as three gives birth to four Just as one begets more and more and more and more and more and more
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Chameleon 04:13
I am chameleon made of language, made of sound drowning in the sea of voices heaped in electric mound for now I am blessed that I possess transparency but I may become the knave who is a slave to pellucidity and shout the mantra down so none may ever sing and rave against the wind that howls louder than you can scream I found a place to hide turns out it’s in plain sight but my voice ain’t loud enough to rally anyone to fight. I am chameleon made of language, made of sound drown out electric voices that are heaped in shouting mound for now I am blessed that I possess transparency I am the boy who can enjoy invisibility but I may become the knave who is a slave to pellucidity my bucking tongue refuse the fate of trepidity Slow change the river’s flow disjointed choir singing eight billion different songs. Slow change the river.
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Vex 04:42

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The sci-fi concept of both the album and radio play follows a space patrolman named "Miro" who is exiled from a galactic armada due to a forbidden romance with his patrol ship's AI guidance system. He goes on a series of adventures through the universe as he flees the terrible "Galactik Kommandoh" and seeks a way to hide from the all-seeing eye of the "Matrioshka Brain", a supercomputer the size of a planet that monitors the universe for the armada.

The release of the 13 track album is accompanied by a 4 part "radio drama" mini-series inspired by the "golden age of radio" and radio plays like those by Orson Welles and others. The release of the album is also supported by a music video for "Redshift" and several 360 degree "listening" videos that put you in the driver's seat of the patrol ship as you listen through the album's leading singles "Redshift" and "Vacuum Sky".

credits

released April 30, 2021

Vocals, etc. . . . . . . . . . . Eric Carbenia
Guitars, etc. . . . . . . . . Brandon Carbenia
Guitars, etc. . . . . . . . James Cosner

Producer . . . . . . . . Brandon Carbenia
Mastering . . . . . . Mike Kalajian
Album Art . . . . . . Luca Martinotti
Additional Vocals . . . . . . Nikki Simmons
Saxophone . . . . . . . . . . . . Wil Shade
Keyboard . . . . . . . . Ian Leroy
Miro Voiceover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Duncan
Narrator Voiceover . . . . . Jose Luis Martinez

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Temple Garden Austin, Texas

Temple Garden is a Psychedelic Rock band based in Austin, TX - In April 2021, we released our debut album "Redshift", a concept-driven album inspired by "golden-era" sci-fi radio shows, complete with VR listening videos, a music video, and a 4 part radio drama. ... more

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