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Pillars

by Luca

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A 02:48
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Dorian Gray 03:00
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Drowning in splendor we bitterly worshipped Youth and the vast Galaxy all was your canvas Then you were blinded by rose-colored Inno- Sensed it when I encountered you, fateful dances - Watch the brush lift your blood - yes it's chilling Embracing the world in a flood - of vermillion Take in your face you gorgeous villain Love never cozened my soul - wasted passion- Unknown to you in your alien mindless- Nested among all your blissful oblivion I breathed your fate through your ear to your head repeat Repeat your prayer again -if you recall it That you stay rooted in the ground -the vermin crawling Your face never phased by sprawling time And the portrait feels your pain
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Pillars 05:04
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There’s a woman I knew well She lives in stacks of paper The room she rents out from the mill Blank walls can’t escape her She has just discovered God As a smokestack savior Stretching taut to vitreous sky The dome that shades our tracer Soar above the timberline Firebrick sequoia to sun-blurred Eye Obscure the boundless shifting vault With soot the dusky augur Sign of industry divine My woman worshipped eagerly Nights when she sits down for grace Cluttered at the table She envisions fireplace A sputtering eternity Soar above the timberline Firebrick sequoia to sun-blurred eye Once you’ve straddled every sky You can claim an idol No one judges from up high ‘Cause he was suicidal The breath of fire stains her shirt Cradles just-pressed leaves to the floor As she soaks into the dirt She forgets her human name Soar above the timberline Firebrick sequoia to sun-blurred eye (x2)
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] 00:40
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Packing Pellets 04:06
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From my window widow’s walk is too far from the shore While I waited I debated how to close the door On my block they’re out of stock in porcelain goodbyes When we spread that trembling bed my spine was my disguise Found your verses in the hearse where you had stowed the keys Tattered leaves lie scattered weaving curses through the trees True conviction more than fiction from between your thighs When we walked through cliffs of chalk your face was my disguise Call me out to fix your radiator every night I won’t sleep among the dirty seaweed, no, despite The Beasts you call from torn-out thrones, you like to fantasize When we laughed at Broadway gaffs our mirth was my disguise
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Stirfry 04:22
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The streets which cluttered and clandestine strain, The air with pandemonium entomb, And mold the maelstrom matchless but mundane In car-horn clamor, noxious neon fumes Do not on any block contain relief For sentimental screams, or passions blind Nor does the traffic ever cease and  seize The seas of shirking man or womankind With silence sphinx-like slithering between The ears that dot the countryside of skull And never does the skyline broad careen Monotony to ground and structures cull And yet as I alone do meditate My mind is shapeless; endless is my state
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Carnival 01:42
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Trashed Pages 04:19
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The skeptics pass the lonely preacher in a tunnel underground It’s an image from the cover of a playbill that you found On 17th street where the streetlights wander dimly all around The trashed pages of our Autumn You’ve read it through a hundred times and hung it up behind the door Now you’re through with the rehearsal and you covet something more, A resolution and an audience to savor the rapport The trashed pages of our Autumn He shouts with Spanish undertones, he means to be remembered His face is torn between his words and trust in God dismembered He tells me that the Gospel holds the answers to my queries if I care To look beyond the biting air of late November — he calls your name And you’re caught up in the morning that has since passed into fame And you’re locked inside the memory of singleness and shame But remember that cold tunnel dripping with forgotten rain And the trashed pages of our Autumn
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Dec 5 1791 04:34
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Salzburg heaves a sigh Julie Andrews passed them by Total strangers laughed and cried Even joy goes with the tide Vienna, it’s on fire He’s a genius and for hire Now they toss him on the pyre Cause the money it was dire
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The Name of This Track Is... 01:11
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12.
Next Time 04:45
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Next time you’ll get it right Next time you’ll know the plan Next time you’ll win the fight Next time you’ll take a stand You’ll take a stand Next time you’ll seize the chance Next time you’ll seize the day Next time you’ll conquer romance Next time you’ll be here to stay You’ll be here to stay Next time, look ahead for next time Next time, all errors will erase themselves This time will disappear into the shadow of the years But what if next time never comes? Next time you’ll know the score Next time you’ll see the signs Next time you’ll end the war Next time you’ll keep on tryin’ You’ll keep on tryin’ Next time you’ll get a hold of your life Next time you’ll prioritize Next time you’ll confess to your wife Next time you’ll realize Who you are Next time, look ahead for next time Next time, all errors will erase themselves This time will disappear into the shadow of the years But what if next time never comes? The wall’s down, you came round, you left your silver bag I can’t find your number, I guess you’re moving back Next time, look ahead for next time Next time, all errors will erase themselves This time will disappear into the shadow of the years But what if next time never comes?
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B 03:10
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Luca has been writing and performing music since the sixth grade, when he formed a band called Füss with a friend. Now 16, he started this project a little over a year ago, when he had the idea to create a record by marrying music he had been composing at the piano with several poems he had written. Over time he would refine and develop these sketches into full-fledged songs, and string these songs together with instrumental interludes. The result is an engrossing, strikingly original listening experience that owes about as much to Radiohead's In Rainbows as it does to David Bowie’s Low. Pillars, which features Luca singing and playing piano and keyboards, embodies a style influenced by rock, jazz, and classical music alike.

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released December 5, 2016

Luca - vocals, pianos, keyboards, percussion
Tim Luntzel - bass
Adam Levy - bass on Trashed Pages
Dan Rieser - drums and percussion
Max ZT - hammer dulcimer
Jackie Coleman - trumpet
Maria Christina - Eisen - bari sax
Stefan Zeniuk - tenor sax & clarinet
Pat Stern - guitar
Chris Hoffman - cello
Christina Courtin - violin & viola
David Goldman - producer, various & sundry, knob twiddling and arrangements

Dave Collins Mastering - mastering
Joe Arcidiacono - photography

For booking and information contact patstern@mac.com

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Luca New York, New York

Luca is a singer-songwriter in New York City. He creates poetry and puts it to music that's inspired by jazz, rock and classical. His music is an engrossing, strikingly original listening experience that owes about as much to Radiohead's In Rainbows as it does to David Bowie’s Low. ... more

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