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We

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1.
Airbnb 04:58
Angels on the El, Flying through the air For a dollar Hour after hour A symphony streams From the underground A soundtrack for your holiday Have a nice stay Chorus: They come and they’re hungry And they wanna see They come and they’re hungry And they reach For everything I, Don’t blame them I, I do it too And so do you. Apple of our eye Liberty, she used to call us Home Now she’s turned away, Unless you’ve got what it takes Pay tribute and lay yourself At her feet Chorus 4x
2.
Beautiful, These waves Undulating, Our design Enough, Enough for all Pretty as a picture Pretty as a picture Pretty as a picture… Chorus: What this pound of flesh requires Is not blood but water We need so much water You can have your pound of flesh But not without revenge Tides will rise, sweeping us off our feet yeah! Tides will rise, sweeping us off our feet yeah! Beautiful, Skies with no rain Sun, Sun for all A perfect day, A perfect day! Chorus 1x
3.
Situation 03:23
Much, Freer than before Time, Casts a golden glow Far and wide Spills out of every pore Lives to light Our daily grind Chorus: Satellite Let me into your Swoon Forget-me-not Has me running Blind Signs, Blister into gore Violent lover, Keeps us wanting more Hard to tell Where anyone else begins Skins alike And heads linked Chorus Forget me, forget me Forget-me-not Forget me, forget me Forget-me-not Has me running, BLIND Has me running, blind (4x)
4.
We 04:03
Kill them all Keep only the ones that Keep us fed We need Familiarity It’s so cheap it’s almost Free Chorus: We are, The chosen ones We are, The chosen ones We didn’t do anything to deserve this We were born, we were born like this Let them all drown They knew the risk When they set out to sea That’s what you get for being Greedy Besides, There’s no room We have to grow our food Chorus 2x We, we, we Didn’t do anything, didn’t do anything We, we, we
5.
The world is ending I can see it caving in I wake and I tell you and it Gets under Both our skin Things can only boom so much Before they explode I know they told you You could be anything But there’s no future Unless you stand up Shuffle out Fight for your life No future, no future NO! (2x) The world is ending I can see it caving in I wake and I tell you and it Gets under Both our skin You can only shop so much Before you drop dead I know they told you You could have anything But there’s no future Unless you stand up Shuffle out Fight for your life No future, no future NO! (2x) The world is ending I can feel it caving in I wake and I tell you and it Gets under Both our skin Stand up shuffle out, Fight for your life (3x)
6.
Amazon 02:55
Holes in the canopy Let the fire in Holes in the canopy It’s gonna get you Chorus: You think you’re far away And it’s safe You think you’re far away And it’s safe The ocean won’t be Deep enough Slash and burn Turn all that’s good into ash Slash and burn A few fertile years so what? Chorus 2x
7.
Civil 04:50
Hunt is on, For double wheat In the fields Look up, What do you see? Cascade together, Formation Birds of a feather One Chorus: Somehow, animal These lights Waiting for, Sunrise Waiting for, Sunrise Brutal, these lights Waiting for, Sunrise My migration was urban I craved asphalt And concrete And bodies I loved these dark rooms Filled with strangers All their gazes For the taking Somehow, animal These lights Waiting for, Sunrise Waiting for, Sunrise Brutal, these lights Waiting for, Sunrise Somehow animal Waiting for, waiting for Sunrise These lights
8.
Holy Moly 04:02
Streets filled With others Murmur and they mutter Murmur and they mutter, Mutter, mutter Will them, Keep keep silent Be like a mute Lover Waiting to discover For you, the city lives for you For you, the city lives for you Chorus: And I, And I, I'm lonelier than autumn And I, And I, I'm lonelier than autumn Descend the end, the end descends Descend the end, the end descends Come one, Come all You know you wanna sin No one’s gonna turn you in Go for a ride Step inside the sexy, Step inside the sexy Sauna club Sweat it out, Leave yourself on the ground Go home, Your mind at ease The city, the city lives for you For you, the city lives for you Chorus 2x
9.
Gigolette 03:02
Say you’ll stay inside Say you’ll write my life Say you’ll keep your skin mine A vision of purity But I am not here! I am not here Out of sight And out of mind Away, away, away Away, away, away Poison in beauty Desire at dawn The light, the light, the light Comes in long Say you’ll stay inside Say you’ll write my life Say you’ll keep your skin mine A vision of purity But I am not here! I am not here Out of sight And out of mind Away, away, away Away, away, away Poison in beauty Desire at dawn The light, the light, the light Comes in long

about

~ We: me, you, everybody.
Every body…
Lyrics like the omnipresent manifest reflecting nowadays world.
And setting a mirror to its twisted western values…
The public call, an appeal to self-criticism and awareness… ~

Duo consists of the visual artist Dan Vlček and his wife Ewelina Vlček Chiu - also a solo musician recording and performing under alias Ai Fen - both playing in their own projects and bands as well.
Album “We” is finding this couple in the times of a strangest combination - during the period of an unrelenting circumstances and lockdown - while preparing themselves for the firstborn child, and in a pandemic years. It caused them to rework the material heavily, scraping and reshaping it again a few times. That resulted in their song structured and orientated witchy art-pop, darkwave electronica with the strong emphasis on lyrics, to be enhanced with hyper-pop glimpses, and spare instrumental appearances such as from collaborator, Montreal based artist Adrian Copeland. They previously recorded a track with his solo “doom” cello project Alder and Ash, about mass industry and consequences, gluttony, greed and privilege. And all proceeds from sales of the single goes to a non-profit organization, like good engaged art should do.

Ba:zel are saying it the most aptly:
This second full length release is the culmination of intense creative exploration, introspection and fine-tuning in the last six years, an album written in response to fury, a rage toward helplessness, domination, plain old stupidity and lack of care. Over the course of nine tracks, “We” glares at the state of our world while looking toward the future with surreal, oddly detached terror. After all, we are living in an age of distance and paralysis. The horrors of Earth are close, instantly knowable, yet seen through a patina of social media and dubious journalism. Housing is unaffordable, our cities are overrun with careless tourists living in a flats just for short-term rentals, the lungs of our planet are burning, we take up land and use up precious water to raise animals to satisfy a greed for flesh while tossing tons of food as most of the humankind lives in starvation. Our society is paranoid, skeptical and pessimistic and it imprints itself on us to some degree however hard we may resist. This is a response to that and an attempt to shrug it off, emerging smooth and hopeful.

Their artistic statement:
The tracks were created over the course of 2017-2019 and the album was set to publish in the autumn of 2020. When the pandemic hit all our plans for the release went awry. During lockdown we took a magnifying glass to the finished material and thought it could be better. We set off on polishing it, recording new vocals, fine-tuning the sound design, adding, subtracting. By the time we had finished we were in a different mindset completely than when we had begun writing, and in the initial false utopia signaling of the global pandemic (Dolphins returning to the Venice canals! Decreases in coal consumption! Falling CO2 levels!) it seemed the issues we had funneled our rage against were no longer relevant. Yet as the haze lifts, we see that they are more present than ever and ever more urgent to address. The world is still burning.

credits

released October 31, 2022

Special stripped-down bedroom version of song 'Airbnb' live from the cabin: youtu.be/EOWHi0ltf4I

Schedule for the release:
15. 12. vinyl & release party @ Prague (Kasárna Karlín): fb.me/e/2rrp20wRE
12. 11. “Spitify”: tiny.one/XION37 and other streaming platforms & various webs with music
31. 10. Bandcamp & snippets: soundcloud.com/xionlabel/bazel-we



All tracks composed, performed & recorded solely by ba:zel
Featuring Adrian Copeland on cello in Pound of Flesh & No Future
Vocals recorded at Golden Hive Studio
Mix: Daniel Vlček and Alexis Raverdy in Amazon
Master: Arnold Kasar, Calyx studio
Cover art: Juliána Chomová
Graphic design: Sonni Scheuringer, Daniela & Linda Dostálková

Visual video clip for single "Civil" by Jakub Krejčí: youtu.be/TZMXMYE_JJg



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