This Precious Paralysis
by Gavin Gamboa
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Digital Album
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To Posterity
01:37
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Distraction
03:20
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Citadel
01:52
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Beneath Myself
03:19
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Pure Sensation
05:17
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Small Markings
01:04
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Doubt Box
00:47
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Leaden Afternoon
01:11
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Different Frequencies
06:35
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about
This Precious Paralysis (2016)
dedicated to Ted Nava
The Inertia Variations (2010)
John Tottenham
TO POSTERITY
My most profound observations
Have gone unrecorded. They were too subtle
And I was too lazy to pin them down.
I was always sluggishly scrambling
On to the next thing that would remain undone
Or underdone. It was, of course, within my power
To formulate them, despite the fact
That no evidence of them exists.
CITADEL
Am I empty at the core or just around the edges?
Are there riches therein? I wouldn't know.
I'm weighed down in a warm white glow,
Crushing the stark yellow dullness of the day
Into dust, statically and statelessly drifting
Throughout this haze of rust. Riding the waves
Of lostness across the landscape of a desk,
Into the bulwark of a threadbare curtain.
BENEATH MYSELF
Anything that requires perseverence
Has a wilting effect upon me
When opportunity calls,
Apathy is the natural response.
I cannot even call myself a failure.
I have never tried hard enough
At anything
To earn even that accolade.
LEADEN AFTERNOON (excerpt)
On the threshold of execution:
An urgent need degenerates into a chimera,
A hideous abstraction, an impossibility
Within my grasp. I consider it for a moment:
… … …
dedicated to Ted Nava
The Inertia Variations (2010)
John Tottenham
TO POSTERITY
My most profound observations
Have gone unrecorded. They were too subtle
And I was too lazy to pin them down.
I was always sluggishly scrambling
On to the next thing that would remain undone
Or underdone. It was, of course, within my power
To formulate them, despite the fact
That no evidence of them exists.
CITADEL
Am I empty at the core or just around the edges?
Are there riches therein? I wouldn't know.
I'm weighed down in a warm white glow,
Crushing the stark yellow dullness of the day
Into dust, statically and statelessly drifting
Throughout this haze of rust. Riding the waves
Of lostness across the landscape of a desk,
Into the bulwark of a threadbare curtain.
BENEATH MYSELF
Anything that requires perseverence
Has a wilting effect upon me
When opportunity calls,
Apathy is the natural response.
I cannot even call myself a failure.
I have never tried hard enough
At anything
To earn even that accolade.
LEADEN AFTERNOON (excerpt)
On the threshold of execution:
An urgent need degenerates into a chimera,
A hideous abstraction, an impossibility
Within my grasp. I consider it for a moment:
… … …
credits
released January 8, 2016
Piano, Vocals, and Processing: Gavin Gamboa
Text: John Tottenham (selections from ‘The Inertia Variations’)
& Hillel Schwartz (deletions of ‘Making Noise’)
Artwork: Ivan Gamboa • @thebedband
Piano, Vocals, and Processing: Gavin Gamboa
Text: John Tottenham (selections from ‘The Inertia Variations’)
& Hillel Schwartz (deletions of ‘Making Noise’)
Artwork: Ivan Gamboa • @thebedband
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