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Hibakusha

from Transit by mr sterile Assembly

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    11 track album with two books of artwork to illustrate and expand on the content within.

    Drums, two basses, a Javanese gender, saxophone, poetry, rap, and holler, this album offers a slice that differs from the rest of the musical outpourings from Aotearoa New Zealand.

    A beautiful gate-fold packaging, heavy on image, lovely to hold and explore, supported by Tenzenmen DIY distro from Australia, and reproduced through Dualplover, AUS.

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For Tsutomu Yamaguchi
March 1916 – Jan. 2010

Yamaguchi,
A survivor and witness to both
atomic attacks on Japan
in the Second World War.

Reference - To Hell and Back: by Richard Lloyd Parry : www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article766984.ece

lyrics

0 8 15 30

Sit here, count the decades on two hands
Living in the shadow of no ordinary sun
Life persevered, I’m amazed that I stand
How did I survive being young?
Twice I saw two suns shine
Twice I saw the world end
Parachutes fell like blossom from another tree
Illuminates all once, and then again

Outside, go walk with my mates
Sky is blue, and nothing here seems wrong
And when danger looms, the sirens agitate
They called before for shelter
But now the panic’s gone
High above splits the belly of Enola
High above, death is giving birth
To Little Boy, looks like pure magnesium
Fed on splitting atoms, delivers a hand-written curse

What now! Get out of this place
Back to my city and family safe at home
Who could know? Fat Man in a secret race
Soared to Nagasaki for his crowd-stopping show
The worst luck, witness monumental moments
The best of luck, survive terror’s history
To be bestowed the cruel honour of the horror
To watch the blossoms burn in ignition’s tree

credits

from Transit, released February 25, 2011
mr sterile: drums, vocals
Chrissie Butler: bass, vocals
Aaron Lloydd: bass
Jeff Henderson: sax
Campbell Kneale: Art

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