Peace, Love and Affirmative Action

by Sounds Around

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1.	Chasing the Dream 02:04	lyrics	buy track
I'm chasing my dream, chasing my dream you know me, I'm chasing my dream chasing it down town, chasing it all around out in the green field, making my own sound and I've been so many places and I've seen so many things and I'll never ever stop no matter what the future brings you know I read a couple books, that got this boy believing In a beautiful world, that my hearts set on achieving I'm chasing my dream, chasing my dream you know me, I'm chasing my dream chasing it down town, chasing it all around out in the green field, making my own sound and my clothes are always dirty, and there's no sheets on my bed and you try to ask me questions while I'm stuck out in my head you know the road is never ending, I'm not one for pretending I'm here to uplift just one mind, with the melody I'm sending it's my dream I'm chasing my dream, chasing my dream you know me, I'm chasing my dream chasing it down town, chasing it all around out in the green field, making my own sound the world is always changing, the one thing that's remaining is my dream...
2.	Forget the Fear (Nothing is Real) 01:23	lyrics	buy track
rivers never flowing backwards, please let go and know yourself love is trying, wanting, finding, just to give it all to someone else nothing around you is real... something easy, oh so simple, reap and sow the seeds of health holographic, want it ask it, just forget the fear you once had felt nothing around you is real...
3.	Sun Was Born 04:48	lyrics	buy track
the sun was born, you were born, I was born, the sun was born the sun was born, you were born, I was born, the sun was born there are so many things, there are so many things I could be anything, because there are so many things there are so many things, never too many things I could be anything because there are so many things the sun was born, you were born, I was born, the sun was born the sun was born, you were born, I was born, the sun was born there is a secret place, without a time or space I know you came from there, surely as you breathe the air a bird sings a thousand songs, without naming anyone just as you change the sphere, simply by being here the sun was born, you were born, I was born, the sun was born the sun was born, you were born, I was born, the sun was born
4.	Carnival 03:08	lyrics	buy track
every shady job becomes a carnival off and on the lines grow like vines up and around this face I've been knowing your child, she dances to the sound of your cries she's dancing all the time, your sweet little child is feeling fine I am just another faded customer married with you to the crime of living a life on which you've fallen your child, she dances to the sound of your cries she's dancing all the time, your sweet little child is feeling fine
5.	Grab a Gun 04:20	lyrics	buy track
early in the morning I seen the sky went black so I grabbed up my guitar and my little hobo sack and I headed on out the door just before you called my name I pretended not to hear ya, lord you thought I'd gone insane cos I feel, lord I feel this empire comin down lord I feel, like there aint no one else around with there heads up out the ground so I grab a gun start runnin rode on down to orange town and bought myself a gun now no ones gonna fuck with me cos I wont have to run and I hitch hiked down the road with a man without a name I was ready to explode like a match without a flame cos I feel, lord I feel this empire comin down lord I feel, like there aint no one else around with there heads up out the ground so I grab a gun start runnin fierce rain came pourin down while I was hiding from the wind under some fucking highway bridge about to hear this shit begin I was smoking my last joint, heating up my can of beans now there's tears wellin in my eyes while I'm thinkin about my dreams I hear explosions in the distance, up above me speeding cars and I imagine my friends and family turned to bloody smoky char now I see their twisted faces, every time I close my eyes so I better start believing lord cos I still aint scared to die cos I feel, lord I feel this empire comin down lord I feel, like there aint no one else around with there heads up out the ground so I grab a gun start runnin
6.	Ivory Ibis 03:37	lyrics	buy track
above the orifice oceans of my iris floats an ivory ibis, that's you... fragile as the leaves of winter turn my heart to ash and cinder dance in the wind... open your eyes, open your eyes, open your eyes, I see you young as the morning, old as the sunshine and we dance in your endless womb I asked the jungle for an answer speak to me you lovely dancer of fire and rain she spoke to me with gentle breeze relaxed my mind, put me at ease so unafraid open your eyes, open your eyes, open your eyes, I see you young as the morning, old as the sunshine and we dance in your endless womb
7.	And Then He Saw Himself 02:07	info	buy track
8.	Those Who Sit In Darkness 12:37	info	buy track
9.	You In Your World 02:42	lyrics	buy track
you... you in your world building your walls, building you home locking your door, I'm sleeping in the cold would you let me in, to your beautiful world... there's a mirror hanging, and a secret room full of wonderful things and an attic up above, you've never been inside it but there's light shining out the top and you just can't hide oh you... hanging your moon lighting your stars, up in your sky opening your door, to any old fool then you cry your ocean, it makes me feel so blue... there's a mirror hanging, and a secret room full of wonderful things and an attic up above, you've never been inside it but there's light shining out the top and you just can't hide oh you... would you let me in? would you let me in? to your beautiful world...

about

We had been recording for almost 10 hours, my hands were in pain, I could no longer talk properly let alone sing. We had given it our all. This record is far from perfect, but I gave everything I had to every song, and if Satan himself had entered the studio and tried to stop us, I would have beaten him to death, or perhaps strangled him with a patch cord. This record could have only been made by the alliance of myself and two of my best buds, Hank Van Harten and Ryan Masters, a small and noble band, which somehow play great together without practicing.

The acoustic tracks on PLAA were recorded in Crazy Vaze studios. I then took them to the Deep Space Cowboy junkie known as Peter Dasilva, the genius who helped me make The Visible Spectrum and the man who did most of the work on The Auras EP and EP2, to add the psychedelia and shoegaze elements.

I’d like to give a special mention to the track ‘Those who sit in Darkness’. This piece, a 12 minute improvisation, had never been played in any part until the tape was rolling. I gave barely any instruction as to what I wanted to happen, I think I said “You know what to do.” To Ryan, and nothing to Hank, and what I got was of greater artistic weight to me, than anything I could have imagined it to be. The intensity of that recording session haunts my memory, for at the time it was simply hard work. looking back, the air was thick with urgency. all three of us played with reckless abandon, we were certainly all battling something together, and what we created is, to me, truly honest and beautiful.

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released June 6, 2014

Music by Robb Schaede. Bass by Hank Van Harten, Drums by Ryan Masters. Produced and enginnered by Arthur Sadowski at the Tractor Shop and Pete Dasilva at Sonic Haze. Album art by Ricky Schaede (rickyschaede.com). Mastered by Pete Dasilva at Sonic Haze.

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Sounds Around Toronto, Ontario

A poetic picture of sonic beauty alongside dissonant rampage...Sounds Around might be best described as whatever art Robb Schaede wants to make, creating his own world of sound drawing from the obscurities of Cocorosie, Ryan Masters, Frank Zappa, and the journey of life. As well as two full length albums and an upcoming EP. Every Sunday a new sound is released at soundsaroundmusic.com ... more