John Callaghan - Phylactery

Описание: For Warp's twentieth anniversary box set, John Callaghan took the Autechre piece "Tilapia" and re-worked it with lyrics and additional music and production. It can be purchased here: https://bleep.com/artist/153

The video was edited by John Fisher and features the help of Kate Newell (who plays woodwind on the track), Jenny Cobb (who plays violin), Beata Rzepecka, Victoria Bettelheim, Purple Stuart, Nicholas J. Woodhead, Sally Case, Alan Mason and Robert Bettelheim.


Copyright and property John Callaghan 2009.

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PHYLACTERY
So I'll keep on talking
For as long as I can
Warm you with my embers
Hoping you'll remember
As I leave my debris
Like temporal graffiti
Audition for your memory
Oh please don't forget me

And these souvenirs are fragile and small
So mark where they fall
I need them to prove that I was here at all

Like a stone makes ripples
Like a stone I'm sinking
Create a puppet of me
To occupy your thinking
I leave a thousand footprints
And a million echoes
A myriad flawed impressions
In the people I know

And these souvenirs, reflections of John
I will be gone
I need you to carry them so I live on

And these souvenirs, mementos I make
Forming my wake
You are my phylactery, so keep me safe