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Timbuktu

by Vapor Vespers

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A sonic funhouse that draws upon everything from Fripp & Eno ambient and Krautrock space explorations to 70s funk-jazz-noise bromides, all to season and swaddle a world of surreal spoken word ruminations. Over Cataldi’s atmospheric soundscape of percolating synths, chunky Pagan drums, distant bells, gnat-like buzzes and bebop guitars, Muro sets a scene of early explorers on a long hot trek across the desert in Mali.

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timbuktu

this is the place of camels and canoes
where the seeds of be-bop
are traded for a missionary’s head
and strings of killer bees are smuggled like gems

here the sun’s bent breath
bruises the earth
and sears my lips
making a dark meal of milk-fed smiles

here a mummy bleeds dust
and mumbles something sulfuric
turning a flock of crow to smoke

here grass eats meat
and dogs become sand
chewing the last mouthful of hope
from a human ditch

here the rippling horizon muffles a boom
and a buzzard sharpens his beak on a bone

here a bush doctor
playing godfather to madness and mud
spits termites into a tourist trap
giving directions to comatose pilgrims
selling poison postcards
and genuine dung figurines

here tiny fish glitter on the wind
and credit cards are used
to scrape the hair off jackals

here the air fills with thorns
and a caravan of gnats head for the coast

here I am smoking a rope
packed up high on a camel’s hump
with coffee beans, cassettes and myrrh
and a guide book to malaria

and here the sky crumbles
jamming the projector
halfway up river
a white square of sail
hanging on the dark
slide of memory

@2019 Music Sal Cataldi/Lyrics Mark Muro, Vapor Vespers, Gravi-N-Bizqit Music/ASCAP

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released January 7, 2020
Sal Cataldi (aka Spaghetti Eastern Music) - guitars, keyboards, percussion, efx, sampling, engineering,
Mark Muro - words & recitation.

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Spaghetti Eastern Music Saugerties, New York

A beat unmistakably his own-New York Times
Charmingly melodic and off-center -WFMU
Beautiful and unique- WFUV

Spaghetti Eastern Music is the solo project of NYC/Hudson Valley multi-instrumentalist Sal Cataldi.

It's where acid jazz- and world beat fired electric guitar instrumentals co-exist with ambient sound collages and heartfelt acoustic vocal ballads straight out of the Nick Drake playbook. ... more

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