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"Atoms"
The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
Music Composition: Andrea Papi
Lyrics & Vocals: Daphne Ang
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"Atoms", tells the story of the creation of the universe to the fall of civilisation. It deals with the existential questions surrounding mankind’s purpose and place in the world. The lyrics combines original written material, with extracts adapted from religious and mythological texts (The Rigveda, The Bible, Corpus Hermeticum, The Mystery of Amergin), canonical texts such as Inferno by Dante, Phaedo by Plato, and the works of William Blake, William Morris and Ernst Niekisch.
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Lyrics
In the beginning,
There was darkness
A formless blackness,
Amorphous, atonal, discordant, disharmonious
The Prima Materia
A primordial pool of death decay, life and birth,
Suspended in a timeless continuum,
The spiralling substrate of the anonymous, the absolute
For nothing came before the movement of God over these waters
Form and matter joined
A ray shines with no pause,
From its coming to its being
Order was created,
Order was constructed,
And in the purest of acts,
The summit of the universe was created
I am in heaven and on earth,
In water and in the air,
I lead forth the roaring waters,
I am the wind that shapes the mountains,
I am both cloud and rain,
The wave of the ocean, the beam of the sun
I am the animals and the plants,
The babe in the womb,
The one born, and the one yet to be conceived
I am present, everywhere
I am the flesh and soul of man,
The Mother and the Father
I am the pain of the sick,
The heart of saints,
And the will of sinners
The machine is the achievement of which man is capable
If he relies entirely on himself,
God is no longer needed
Eventually, it transforms him into a machine himself
When nation grows old,
The arts grow cold,
And commerce settles on every tree
It is the enterprise of industrial civilisation that modern wars have arisen,
And will arise
It is on the same impoverished soil, that empires have grown,
And by the same greed that many civilisations have been destroyed
The body, for the sake of which we desire wealth,
Is the ultimate cause of all wars
If we are to progress,
We must not cease from mental fight till we have built Jerusalem
I have no more faith than a grain of mustard seed in the future history of civilisation,
Which i know now, is doomed to destruction
What a joy it is to think of!
O good beginning, to what vile ending must you fall!
And in the end,
There was darkness
A formless blackness,
Amorphous, atonal, discordant, disharmonious
The Negredo
Death decay, life and birth,
A timeless continuum
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About The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara
The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara (TCOMAS) are a London-based duo comprising Andrea Papi and Daphne Ang. Coming together in early 2020 to record their debut album FULL SPECTRUM, the duo are fast establishing their niche in music as pioneers of a new form of expression, through the performance of poetry in music, and as an act that traverses between the wide-reaching spectrums of music.
Drawing inspiration from TOOL and Kraftwerk, as well as the poetry of Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, and Jim Morrison, TCOMAS brings literature, art, and history together into a space where rock and metal meets electronic.
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Connect With The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara:
➤ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2V3zzIcq2sbRbaEjbGypc8
➤ Official Website: https://tcomas.com
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