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Consciousology

by Dot Allison

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1.
Restructure the water Bless it with words Heart’s sonar patterns The flowering of a song We are entangled Love, we are everywhere… Untethered in orbit Earth astronauts Reverse to move forwards His love forgetting-me-not We are entangled Love, we are everywhere… Drifting Close your eyes to feel Drifting Ghost out here with me Drifting Close your eyes to feel Drifting Meet me on the field I’m here to adore you… Drifting, drifting Drifting, drifting, drifting Close your eyes to feel Drifting Meet me on the field I’m here to adore you Here to adore you Here to adore you…
2.
Unchanged 05:03
Watchmaker’s precision You wrote my lines Unwitting in love Oh I wait for your sign Oh wait for a sign You’re always the same Always unchanged He knows he should walk away Yet his love remains… unchanged Unchanged, like a sunrise Unchanged, like your ghost Unchanged, once a lifetime Unchanged, a seed won’t sow… If statues could move Oh the stories they’d tell The loss of all time How lovers fall inside… Shoots they’ll come again Through this frozen ground I wait for a sign, oh wait for a sign You’re always the same Always unchanged So he should walk away Yet his love remains.. unchanged Unchanged, like a sunrise Unchanged, like your ghost Unchanged, once a lifetime Unchanged, a seed won’t sow Unchanged, like the fractal, shaping the snow If statues could move Oh the stories they could tell The loss of all time How lovers fall inside… If statues could move Oh the stories they could tell The loss of all time How lovers fall inside…
3.
Violas bow across the bridge of time A cello sings of the curve of my spine The beat of a wing conducting the chaos of sea That promise we made in our mirror symmetry Don’t give up on us yet, there is more we can be In our roots there is soul, an innate empathy Or will these words come to be bleached by the sun? Or will these words come to be bleached by the sun? Oh Beyond this limerence there is love Vibration of the imminence of loss The quiet hope that we might save The chorus of emergent waves Don’t give up on us yet, there is more we can be In our roots there is soul, an innate empathy Or will these words come to be bleached by the sun? Or will these words come to be bleached by the sun? Oh At the crowning dusk of day Will we face defining flames? Or can quietly insistent words Waltz amongst the rain? Within states of our divorce We hang laments upon the staves Only hope divinely saved For the last heartbeat of the woods Don’t give up on us yet, there is more we can be In our roots there is soul, an innate empathy Or will these words come to be bleached by the sun? Or will these guns come to be coal and diamonds? The seed of the fertile one where this life’s just begun Or will these words come to be bleached by the sun?
4.
Moon Flowers 04:50
Look behind our eyes, See the Autumn’s infinite colours The leaves are falling off our trees The leaves, may they soon reappear All hail, you influence the hail In heaven and beyond you There is a sunlight around you You illuminate everything I do Don’t give up, don’t give up Cos we’ll get there soon Don’t give up, don’t give up You and I, we’ll plant flowers on the moon You reign, you influence the rain In heaven and beyond you There is a sunlight around you You illuminate everything I do Don’t give up, don’t give up Cos we’ll get there soon Don’t give up, don’t give up You and I, we’ll plant flowers on the moon Moon flowers, moon flowers Sovereignty of the seed and river Like lovers two, like lovers too If we stay here, take care In the mirror, we would see That moon flowers are already here…
5.
220Hz 02:23
6.
Nature’s patterns talk Perianths like the sonar flower of a dolphin’s song Nature’s patterns speak Molecules the form of honeycombs My love still sailing upon every breeze Mirror me, mirror me Invisible, invisible The quantum fields Thorn yellow, cobalt, green The summer rain Beating my window pane Sheets and torrents lashing down Paint me a double rainbow Double rainbow, double rainbow Double rainbow, double rainbow Where love is the gold, spun gold Nature’s patterns sing The trauma rings of a scarlet oak Echo trauma rings in me Nature’s patterns stalk The spectral fields, see them shimmering Shimmering, shimmering The summer pain… Haunting my winters again Reigning down in torrents, sheets… Cast a double rainbow Double rainbow, double rainbow Double rainbow, double rainbow Where love is the gold… Spun gold, spun gold, spun gold Sun gold, yellow, green, lilac, greenish black, blue Cobalt, sap green, ochre, wax yellow, mauve, Green, verdant, verdant, verdant, Evergreen… double rainbow…
7.
I’d walk 10,000 suns To have you next to me Bridges I’d burn To give you the rest of me Lilac-coloured stars that glisten, beckoning Galaxies of tumbling suns, are blessing me Milk and honey His love, sweet ambrosia Milk and honey Summer mead Leave our shape upon the wheat Milk and honey Your tender touch, never enough Milk and honey… Truth missing in action, it’s all lies My radio waves were always on To the empty nights Silence-tinted stars that glisten, beckoning Galaxies of tumbling suns, blessing me Milk and honey Sweet love, ambrosia Milk and honey Summer mead Leave our shape upon the wheat Milk and honey The tender touch, we’ll never feel Milk and honey… I’d walk 10,000 suns to have one night next to you Lovers I’ve spurned, just to give you the best of me My milk and honey My milk and honey My, my milk and honey Your tender touch, like the never we feel Milk and honey My milk and honey
8.
Mother Tree 05:08
Hear the wind whispering through the leaves The fingers and the toes of the Mother Tree She knows her saplings and her own young Innate like the songs in only her love tongue Be yourself, be free, Breathe out, lie next to me Come to me, come to me Come to me, come to me Come to me, come to me I spread my roots, unfold my leaves Like a Mother Tree Lose the chains of your every fear My thirsty vines, let them draw you near As I run across your dreams, your dark Such a gentle touch, on your skin and your bark Be yourself, be free, Breathe out, lie next to me Come to me, come to me Come to me, a mother tree I spread my roots, unfold my leaves I spread my roots, like the Mother Tree
9.
Weeping roses are all you ever gave to me I felt the blood on my my hands, my toes and my fingers From the thorns you left in me Oh I still feel the sun shine round here Oh I still feel the sun shine… Oh I still feel the sun shine Do you feel it too, tell me do you feel it too? Bleeding roses they’re all you ever grew for me I see blood in the spray, on the petals Now, it’s so plain to see Do you feel it too, tell me do you feel it too? Do you feel it too, tell me do you feel it too? Do, do you feel it too? Do you, do you? Ooh… do, do you feel it? Do, do you feel it too? Do, do you feel it too?

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released July 28, 2023

Recorded at Castlesound Studios, Edinburgh
London Contemporary Orchestra, strings, recorded at AIR Studios London
Sam Wilson, London Contemporary Orchestra, solo percussion, recorded at AIR Studios, London

Produced by Dot Allison and Fiona Cruickshank
‘Double Rainbow’ produced by Dot Allison with additional production Fiona Cruickshank
Engineered and Mixed by Fiona Cruickshank
Additional engineering and programming Stuart Hamilton
Programming on ‘220Hz’ by Dot Allison
Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC

Published by Air-Edel Associates Ltd

Art and design: Maria Mochnacz
Layout and graphic design: Marc Jones

Management: Maggie Rodford at Air-Edel
Fiona Cruickshank: Air Management

℗ and © 2023 Unboxed LLP under licence to Sonic Cathedral

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Dot Allison Edinburgh, UK

Since her debut solo album Afterglow in 1999, Dot Allison has strived to keep the listener on a journey – and herself too.

She revolts against what she has done before, to evolve and not just occupy the same space.

Her forthcoming, and most illuminating album to date 'Heart-Shaped Scars is out now via SA Recordings.
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