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Addendum I

by Sweet Gum Tree

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Like a snowflake in the sun You can't ignore the melting has begun Immaculately quiet and still Such a beautiful shimmer but things are just going downhill And everyone claims to know best How you should serve your own interests And the more you learn, the more you age With increasingly little leverage Feeling weary of longing for acceptance Bitter-tasting defiance And vainly striving for attention Trying to handle rejection And indecent swarming injunctions To get over excited and be all smiles Contrived happiness and blatant lies In this toxic digital age Foul beyond words, ugly as a cage Heading fast for a tragic fate Way before your own expiry date How much freedom could you stand Whatever safety left you with in the end Feeling weary of longing for acceptance Bitter-tasting defiance And vainly striving for attention Trying to handle rejection And indecent swarming injunctions To get over excited and be all smiles Contrived happiness and blatant lies Like a snowflake in the sun All you can feel is the melting has begun
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Incandescent 03:16
Unlike the sly rustle of envy Far from theories of the ultimate cruelty Standing pure as teenage fantasy We're both hit by serendipity Facing incandescent love Incandescent love This is incandescent love And now push comes to shove Yeah now push comes to shove Almost alike and most likely In the margins of androgyny Leave the world to its own immorality Keep a strong sense of immediacy Here comes incandescent love Incandescent love This is incandescent love And now push comes to shove Yeah now push comes to shove Succumb with me Temptation denies jeopardy Here comes incandescent love Incandescent love This is incandescent love And now push comes to shove Yeah now push comes to shove Succumb with me Temptation denies jeopardy
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Kid, why should we ever Surrender to foul attitude, cheap behaviour To digital servitude, blatant lies Despicable hate Zero in on the virus of the mind On the poisons being passed out as antidotes all around And now dusk bleeds hope Of a conscience awakening Don't let the love run out Don't let the love run out Kid, there's no lifeguard on duty But don't give up an ounce of freedom for pseudo safety As sure as all men are created equal And all exits are final Why would we willingly drown In the sick mediocracy of world leaders unsound But look now dusk bleeds hope Of survival from the mental plague Don't let the love run out Don't let the love run out Kid, it now rests upon your shoulders Dream up your tomorrows, think up an alternative future 'Cause dusk bleeds hope And twilight holds the promise Of a new day
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Take my time and take it slow Raise me as I watch you grow You teach so much more than you would know Take this love and ask for more Take this freedom which I've got no use for Oh no, not anymore 'Cause you're cobalt and manganese Heal me like cobalt and manganese With your power to even, soothe and appease me You're the cure that paves my way Witness of all things that fade I crave to see you bloom instead Kid, your fun could even eclipse the sun How your power to enthrall Helps me make sense of it all Hope ain't gone, now it's where you belong 'Cause you're cobalt and manganese Heal me like cobalt and manganese With your power to even, soothe and appease me You're the cure that paves my way
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Been here before in your stormy garden I felt the sorrow, I felt the anger Reach for the heart, target the burden Man on a mission, spellbound and honoured How much more rain can soak in ? How more pain can sink in Before one falls apart ? I stayed here before in your stormy garden Vowed to belong in fragrance and colour Distinctive beauty we bonded over As we were being born of thunder
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Delayed Life 02:42
Sagas long put on hold Epics but longing to unfold Further away, out in the distance Old expectations versus patience Global reluctant procrastination Treading water in a lack of vision Quarantine penance or lockdown romance Too stuck in remembrance to save the next dance Once making plans subsides We'll merely plan to be suprised Delayed life In the present tense Once making plans subsides We'll merely plan to be suprised Delayed life In the present tense Weird unprecedented present tense of Delayed life
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After the storm when peace settles in And I linger on for a little while like phantom guilt After the storm it all becomes clear My tongue was curse, my throat was shout And my mouth full tilt I need to hold you close my love There is no shelter quite like your arms I want to trigger the brightest rainbow All the way to your heart After the storm when the fury has ceased And I'm filled with regrets and the moment bites and remorse stings Silence descends upon us and hope gleams And I'm waiting for that little impulse from you Which will paint the sky blue I need to hold you close my love There is no shelter quite like your arms I want to trigger the brightest rainbow All the way to your heart All the way to your heart
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Secretly 03:37
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A Shelter 02:12
Oh look who's dressed to kill and all smiles Stunning pictures of you in happy times Hey Little Mum, everyone agreed You looked much like Romy Schneider In your prime Not yet pregnant, back when hope was rife And still in love, just before you got hurt And that sinister someone merely messed up Your life Hey Little Mum until you dried your eyes We'd lock ourselves in my bedroom I played your favourite late-sixties seven-inches By Françoise A shelter from the monster outside A shelter from the monster outside
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Petrified in the creative process and preserved, not unlike the remains of Pompeii illustrating the artwork, the various recordings from Addendum are Sweet Gum Tree's collected rarities and previously unreleased material, spanning two decades. Outlining his discographic jigsaw, those sonic vignettes especially bring the guitarchitect and the songsmith out in the Gallic dandy. With floydian intro Saturn Square Saturn, Sweet Gum Tree sustains the mood of previous effort Silvatica, critically-acclaimed in France and featured in recent best-selling book 1,000 Essential Rock Albums (from 1956 to 2022). From the cosmic pop of Incandescent and the luminous melancholy of Snowflake in the Sun to hushed jam session City of Glass, Addendum rewards the attentive listener with its sense of detail and intimate atmosphere. Icing on the cake, legendary guitarist Marty Willson-Piper (formerly of The Church) pays a friendly visit with his Rickenbacker on Dusk Bleeds Hope.

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released March 3, 2023

Written and composed by Arno Sojo (except track 11 composed By Arno Sojo and David Sojo).

All instruments by Arno Sojo except drums on track 3 by Simon Bernier, sax on track 3 by Pierre Bernier, electric guitar on track 4 by Marty Willson-Piper, flugelhorn on track 7 by Virginie Levasseur, keyboards and vocals on track 3 by Virginie Levasseur, bass on tracks 3, 9 and 11 by David Sojo.

Recorded and mixed by Arno Sojo, with original production on tracks 3 and 10 by Peter Deimel at Studio Black Box. Additional production on track 4 by Dare Mason at The VIP Lounge.

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Sweet Gum Tree Angers, France

Sweet Gum Tree is musician Arno Sojo's psych-pop / art-rock project. He's played a hundred shows in eight countries and collaborated with such luminaries as Isobel Campbell, Heather Nova, Earl Harvin (Tindersticks) or Marty Willson-Piper (The Church). Embodying a distinctive kind of elegance, he cultivates his own aesthetic in a beautiful collision of the intimate sphere and the wide open space. ... more

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