Imagination Feels Like Poison

by Martyn Bates

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1.	Mock Sun*1 05:16	lyrics	buy track
MOCK SUN . invisibility - you : a mirage of a beauteous liar . an empty reflection . & when you silence sounds I want to be yr every word . when your shadow fades I want to be the place it spurns . when yr lips are stilled I want to be yr voice . when I am cast out . just as I am thinking that the light & warmth are rewatching thru it all, you eclipse me . and you show such riches then ...
2.	I Can't Look For You 05:07	info	buy track
3.	Bones Of Your Face 01:35	info	buy track
4.	Years Of Salt 04:31	info	buy track
5.	I Forget You 03:35	info	buy track
6.	The God On The Tree 02:11	info	buy track
7.	Full Sail 03:16	info	buy track
8.	Flanaghan 01:28	info	buy track
9.	Fully Bright 04:53	info	buy track
10.	Mystery Seas 03:05	info	buy track
11.	This Wayward Love 05:33	info	buy track
12.	Fantacinni Playground 04:12	info	buy track
13.	Ellen Massey 03:01	info	buy track
14.	Letters To A Scattered Family 05:00	info	buy track
15.	Silvery Images 01:05	info	buy track
16.	No-One Spoke 02:54	info	buy track
17.	The Mountain Tomb 04:53	info	buy track

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Producer – Martyn Bates & Peter Becker .
Engineered/Recorded by Peter Becker at Ambivalent Scale Studios April-May 1996, completed August '96 .
Photography – Elizabeth S.

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released February 3, 2023

Martyn Bates : Vocals/Banjo/Autoharp/Percussion/Pump Organ/Whistle .
* All songs composed by Martyn Bates .
* except : The Mountain Tomb : words by W.B. Yeats/music by Martyn Bates .

originally released April 1997
on A-Scale via World Serpent Distribution .
2nd edition released February 1988 .

* This collection of LETTERS WRITTEN songs & atmospheres was originally issued to accompany the book IMAGINATION FEELS LIKE POISON - comprising recordings of songs extant 1982-1995 hitherto unheard .

* love is a gift *

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2WVeEvRZOs

www.eyelessingaza.com (write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com to receive infos re limited edition Ambivalent Scale label CD version of this album)

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Martyn Bates UK

(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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