Lemming Sunset

from Eat Plastic! by Abel Ashes

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To close out the album, I decided to invite two of my favorite free improvisation collaborators into the studio to create a soundtrack to another of my poems.

Meyer Hirsch (Hirsch "The Machine" Hirsch) and Eric G. Hensel laid down their guitar tracks first, creating a bed of churning noise for me to improvise a baby grand piano solo over. The poem was recited last.

This is the only track on Eat Plastic that doesn't feature any members of Abel Ashes & The Runs, other than myself of course.

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Lemming Sunset (lyrics by Abel Ashes)

In this opaque myopic nebula, plebeians work for drops of trickle down, from the opulent cornucopia of the aristocracy, as the glutinous monsters beseech their cyber-serfs and corporate vassals, to plunder the “Garden of Eden” in feudal homage, extending their purchase power to hypothetical infinity.

Oblivious to the flame that's burning the fuse; kinetic, perambulating, gregarious, odoriferous, copulating gimcracks, inebriated by alcohol, narcotics, and religion, purchase trendy, faulty, useless, and shoddy gimcrackery to fill their sport utility vehicles to the hilt, before their zigzag kamikaze suicide race back home to their TV viewing boxes.

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from Eat Plastic!, released October 6, 2006
Words by Abel Ashes
Music by Abel Ashes, Meyer Hirsch, and Eric Hensel
Abel Ashes: piano and vocal
Meyer Hirsch: guitar
Eric Hensel: guitar

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Abel Ashes San Diego, California

Born in a cult in El Paso, hitchhiked cross-country as a baby, grew up with mom in the shadow of the A bomb in New Mexico, vacations in San Diego with dad, played open mics with a fucked up old Stella, experimental music shows, lectures, open mics, and dead-end jobs galore, lived in LA and SF, 7 years in Kentucky, 4 years in Tunisia with my wife who was paralyzed in car crash, back in SD, CA now. ... more

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