Something Strange Happened in the Farmyard

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1.	Hast-di in dir kein Emunah nit 01:09	info	buy track
2.	Ich gedank gar nisht 01:18	info	buy track
3.	Amongst Light 01:47	lyrics	buy track
please don't smother my candle light, makes me all wanna fight, someone has to do something, we don't know each others struggle, dont mean it aint real...little do you know that that person might might be me. standards and check marks to check off till death harks
4.	Gevalt! Zeit eich nit megeish 01:23	info	buy track
5.	Her Mournful Psalms 05:53	info	buy track
6.	Kein yuish iz gar nit far handin 01:39	info	buy track
7.	Wheel of Prayer & Wheel of Fire 02:19		buy track
8.	Phantoms drifted around me... 03:51	info	buy track
9.	Eiere kinder zalt modin zein vas da hat zich getan 01:14	info	buy track
10.	Hard Time Sleeping 01:41	lyrics	buy track
I have a hard time sleeping with myself, all by myself, and with someone else never makes it no easier, all night long I spend wrestling and all morning wasted I don't like to sleep.
11.	I Don't like the Way you Say my Name 03:04	info	buy track
12.	A tale from the Baal Shem Tov 03:21		buy track
13.	Ich hab zehr gehoravet 02:51	lyrics	buy track
Childhood death and still we left wondering why
14.	Psalm 10, Cure 1 01:31		buy track
15.	Scorched Earth 02:09		buy track
16.	NYT going out of business 01:16	lyrics	buy track
sleeping in corners, down with the sickness

about

It is too easy to simply say this is an album about the Holocaust. It is dedicated to the survivors and the victims. It is about old lands, old sounds, old words recaptured for a modern ear. It is about using your body, both to produce music and to survive. It is about the agency of joy, how to treat each day in terms of hope vs. despair. Anything can be subverted or substituted for a vision of the other. I learned this from Otto Friedrich's the Kingdom of Auschwitz. Inspiration for two of the tracks are drawn from Jerzy Kosinski's "The Painted Bird" which I plan on continue to develop musically. The psalm here is included because of Reb Nachman's tikkun. We will always be exploring ourselves, our history and our future because we can not afford to give up. Most important are Solzhenitsen's rules for surviving the gulag. Do not beg. Do not give up. Do not be afraid.

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released September 24, 2018

All music by Yasha Erkkila except for what has come from the old country. Texts by Y. Erkkila, Jerzy Kosinski from the Painted Bird, and whoever wrote the psalms.

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SLOW GROAN Knoxville, Maryland

I am a transgender sex symbol living in Maryland. I am also proud to be America's first transgender country music SUPERSTAR

Booking: slowgroan@gmail.com

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