#7 (#1 side 2): A southern cassowary couched in the constitutional loopholes of "Novus Ordo Seclorum" | post |
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12/19/2020> * flipping disc, singing 7 swans a swimming * the 1st # on the 2nd side (track 7) of Herd of Birds is "Novus Ordo Seclorum" ("new world order" for those that don't speak latin). When we released it as a single we blogged about how we wrote the lyrics after reading the Constitution + pondering the loopholes w/ a dread that it would be hard for the U.S. to oust Drumpf regardless of election results, so guess the song is sorta about that + the malaise of living in a frascist police state under covid lockdown + the general oppressive + isolating mood of 2020, which is almost behind us. Musically it's a pretty simple tune, mostly about the drums (which were a pain on them little pads). The guitar was tuned D-G-D-G-A#-D + we just sorta riffed off that. As usual we didn't really write down what we were doing, but we did jot down these few notes about the opening progression + which notes to play + then made it up as we went along: Birds featured in "Novus Ordo Seclorum" are a southern cassowary (the low bellowing at the beginning) + a capuchin bird. NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM the birds bring us to kneel the onely thing that's reel to be herd kin u feel the impressions of feathered friends? the hail on the skylight from cloud to ground whips crack is this the biginning of the end? blood runs blue in the veins gun-steel turns to rust reverse the rites |
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# 829 <(current)> 831> #8 ("Mare"), "Totem #9", continued declined, RLM + Geronimoooooooooo | ||
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