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Belarmino's Dictionary

from Alexandria - full album 1998 by Louisa John-Krol

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From our second CD Alexandria: After Ramon Perez de Ayala’s novel: ‘Belarmino and Apolonio’

More literature that inspired us at this time:

Human language is 'like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.'
- Gustave Flaubert, ‘Madame Bovary’

A variant translation: '... we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, when we long to make music that will melt the stars.'

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but to see them on the pavement or the air drift 
on nameless mist... to the ceiling or the stair, 
out of cages, birds fly south into the Sun
dusty pages, hand an' mind fall into one:

Fall into one,
come in the dark cave where the light is far better than here!
fall into one, fear in your palm where the line is 
a word they can't hear
fall into one, Belarmino, Belarmino …

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from Alexandria - full album 1998, released February 4, 2021
Lyrics, Melodies: Mark Krol, with input from Louisa John-Krol
Vocals, acoustic Guitar: Louisa John-Krol
Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Chiming Bells, Vietnamese Gong: Louisa John-Krol
Synths, Organ: Harry Williamson
Produced with & engineered by Harry Williamson at Spring Studio
Illustration: Louisa John-Krol

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Louisa John-Krol Australia

Louisa is an Australian singer, composer, writer & faery storyteller who has released many albums of ethereal music on indie labels, primarily in France. She's completing a fantasy series, The Elderbrook Chronicles, with a soundtrack.

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