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Apparition

by Dominic Sen

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1.
Gilded Halls 02:36
2.
Prayer 03:18 video
Nothing to lose I press my palms in prayer Let my words become a wish Now lost to the air Nothing to lose I press my palms in prayer Let my words become a wish Now lost to the air Take flight Be carried by the wind Find me something inside The fantasies of others My dreams Are muted shades of green Undone at the seams There is nothing to recover Nothing to To lose Nothing to To lose Nothing to To lose Nothing to lose I touch my lips to earth Let her hear my simple song Now lost to the earth Nothing to lose I find a seed Only a flower yet to be Give it away I'll give it away To the breeze Take flight Be carried by the wind Find me something inside The fantasies of others My dreams Are muted shades of green Undone at the seams There is nothing to recover
3.
Apparition 03:06
Over the water Visions like skipping rocks Rippling across the shore Tides are low This time of day But I see you there An apparition in a storm Calling out your name A gust of wind Knocks me down How'd I know Who you are? Disappear Like summer rain But I'm left alone Still wondering If you're far away From here Over the water I call out your name Pass the time Three moons They cycle through Fall and rise Days go by Nothing but whispering leaves Hollowed out like pliant sand But I have this hunch Inside my gut That I will see you again
4.
Pomegranate 03:17
Understanding Breeds resentment Fertile ground For doing wrong Stand before you Hand outstretched A pomegranate seed That you don't want Don't want Feeling foolish And embarrassed Open me up Like a wound Knowledge is a Fleeting promise And a deeper well To fall into Into To your call I come Isn't it enough To guide me Guide us both? To your call I come Isn't it enough To guide me Guide us both? Pour this water Onto dry earth Cracked and ready To be sowed When I dig A garden for you Left with nothing green To call my own My own Try my best I'm doing my best To move mountains From your path Could not guess Your every step I'm crushed Under your feet A blade of grass
5.
Begging in the silence Don't know where my mind is Can't move my mouth A tightness in my chest And I'm feeling out of breath Can you hear me out? There's a lump in my throat And got a tremor in both hands I'm thinking only the worst thoughts now Gonna open up and focus Know my only hope Is to make a sound Who am I if I'm without a voice? Buried alone Underneath a world of noise Nothing to call out Heaven has fallen to hell Nothing to call out No prayer will break this spell Nothing to call out Heaven has fallen to hell Nothing to call out No prayer will break this spell Nothing to call Sailor to a siren What I'd give to dive in And sing this hymn I come across a wind That flows up to my lips And I let the air in Who am I if I'm without a voice? Buried alone Underneath a world of noise Nothing to call out Heaven has fallen to hell Nothing to call out No prayer will break this spell Nothing to call out Heaven has fallen to hell Nothing to call out No prayer will break this spell Nothing to call out No way to call out Nothing to call out No prayer will break this spell Nothing to call
6.
Icarus 03:25 video
Is this everything You thought you had to risk? Couldn't waste another Day like this From a mountaintop you jump You're flying high When the sun melts your wings Do you die? Fall way too far From the coastline Passing ships sailing Keep sailing right on by Stroke of midnight When we take another swim Choppy waters Losing sight of him Tread forever His hand pulls me to shore When the sun dries our skin He will mourn Fall way too far From the coastline Passing ships sailing Keep sailing right on by Stuck on an island Or caught in the deep We'll make these tides turn for us When there's a storm I'll keep you in reach We'll tame the sea
7.
Carry me over the edge Taking me out of eternity Throwing me out to the sea Where the waters are calm And you're there with me Ankle caught on a vine Sinking into the earth I shout out And you're the only one Who could know the sound Of my mouth Know the sound Through the loudness Know the sound Keep folding in Don't keep folding in Don't keep folding in Keep Swallow me into a cup Nothing exists But the thought of love Loosening up like a string Too sharp Being tuned by a careful thumb No looking back I found what I've been seeking To hear myself Within reflections of your call Keep folding in Don't keep folding in Don't keep folding in Keep Of my mouth Know the sound Through the loudness Know the sound Pushing me out of the dark You are my shadow When under the sun An equal force There all along There's no more need to run
8.
Geyser 02:28
I am afraid of What's dormant inside Destruction is greater When fears choose to hide I'm holding my breath Like a geyser in sleep A wolf wearing sheep's clothes The monster they see I am afraid of What's calling me close Connection's a killer I can't let him know I'm holding my breath Like a geyser in sleep The monster he'll see
9.
My Sun 02:12
Watching the room Fill up with sun Oh how I've learned to love Her gentle entrance When I used to run Cower and hide Curse her demands But she brings nuance to The colors and the shapes Across the land She is closest We have to magic Aren't we so lucky To have it? Under her light I'm prone to change Seed to a flower Keep only my name
10.
My Stars 02:16
I dream of one Night for us all And it would be never dawn And she wouldn't Transform in the green wood To escape me Like what they call the day That what we (they?) call Apollo Chased her into earth Even I will be buried In dry flakes of wood And the day And the day And the day And the day Will insult me Between a rot Of tiny stars But trust But trust But trust But trust Trust me Here dawn will not See the sun
11.
From one end To the other Looped and knotted Pulled apart But not forgotten Elastic Stretching out Across the fabric Woven through Woven through A single thread Is woven through In trouble Looking out And seeing double My reflection In a puddle Reach across Meet a threshold Made of flesh Oh, someone's hand I've always known Someone's hand From one end To the other Looped and knotted Pulled apart But not forgotten Elastic Stretching out Across the fabric Woven through Woven through A single thread Is woven through
12.
Mist 03:46
Standing on the peak of land Highest point that I can Lookout, see all of earth Know you're there In the dirt Hand outstretched I'm doing my best Doing my best To find you In this mess To find you Throwing caution to the wind I come down to meet you in The mist so thick I can't see Anything in front of me Hand outstretched I'm doing my best Doing my best To find you In this mess To find you Enter the valley With nothing but riddles I search for the answers I search for you And I come to a clearing And find there's a gate Made of gold Which you beckon me To walk through

about

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"Before there was light and heat, the world was cold and cruel."

This revelation opens the creation myth at the center of the Geddir Luk'a Tam, an archaic text from a faraway civilization where many of its inhabitants possess a formidable power known as weaving. The myth chronicles how the sun and three moons come to exist in the aftermath of a great sacrifice, an event that simultaneously serves as the genesis of weaving and the beginning of societal flourishing. In her latest musical offering, songwriter and producer Alexandra Lily Cohen tenders a glimpse into this ancient, magical setting.

For as long as she can remember, Cohen, who goes by the stage name Dominic Sen, has used both original and traditional mythology to add dimension to her music. “Storytelling and world-building are a means of escaping the tedium of my own reality. They're also the best tools I have for self-discovery, for exploring what holds meaning for me.” In the same vein, Cohen views Dominic Sen as her proxy, and uses the persona to occupy a place outside the boundaries of reality, weaving truth and legend together to yield music that is usually pop and always evolving.

Cohen took this mandate literally in the case of her debut album Visitor, a concept album where the listener followed an extraterrestrial protagonist’s feelings of alienation as she grappled with a strange new world. Visitor was concurrently a love story, space opera, and thought experiment.

On her forthcoming LP Apparition, she draws narrative inspiration from the fictional and self-authored Geddir Luk'a Tam, but purposefully blurs the line between the mythological and the more personal aspects of the work. The result is a pop fantasia that draws from wide-reaching influences like Enya, PC Music, and Bach, and deals in thematic opposites – connection and isolation, creation and destruction, darkness and light. At its simplest, Apparition is a meditation on the natural world and the myriad wondrous appearances we encounter by virtue of existing each day.

"An apparition is many things. It is the arrival of the sun in our sky every morning. It is an unexpected connection with another living thing. Even the act of songwriting is an apparition," says Cohen. "Creativity is fickle and capricious, like a stroke of lightning."

credits

released June 9, 2023

All tracks written and performed by Alexandra Lily Cohen

Produced by Dominic Sen

Mixed and Mastered by Oren Ratowsky

Artwork and design by Isla Den: isladen.world

Photography by Bo Chapli

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"Gilded Halls", "Apparition", "Pomegranate", "Geyser", "My Sun", "My Stars", "Looped & Knotted" co-written by Edward Lyle Barton

"My Stars" co-written by Kat Addis

"Mist" co-written by Cameron Isaac Wisch

Flute on "Gilded Halls" by Adrienne Byrne

Synth Bass on "Gilded Halls" by George Malek

Violin & Viola on "Apparition" + "My Sun" by Oliver Hill

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