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Sooth 007

Release date  09.11.15

Black Magdalene / Winter Palace

Total running time  35 minutes 22 seconds

33 1/3 RPM






















Side A

Khlysty         4 minutes 58 seconds
 

The soul belongs to God
​But unto us the body belongs

Rentre fentre
Speaking beyond their own reason
Be fearful man before praying
Kindra fendra
Kiraveca

The red sun has set
Whirling in mysterious death

Rentre fentre
Second supreme baptism
No salvation without sin
Kindra fendra
Kiraveca



Matushka          2 minutes 42 seconds
 

In the dawn of my empire
Sorrow's joy estranged from me
Both eyes closed although awake
Speak no more of yesterday


спи мой возлюбленный (spi moy vozlyublenniy)
мой прекрасный (moi prekrasnyi)
Sleep my beloved
My beautiful one


In death blooms a reign of peace
Your Matushka I will always be
Close your eyes to the nightmares
Love is a golden empire


спи мой возлюбленный (spi moy vozlyublenniy)
мой прекрасный (moi prekrasnyi)
Sleep my beloved
My beautiful one



Old Believers 3 minutes 48 seconds   

All that is perceived
Merely shadows of the unseen
Endlessly seeking paradise
Kingdom beneath the white waters

Ки́теж

Unsung harmonies echo
Buried within the clamour
Forbidden invocations
Kingdom beneath the white waters

Ки́теж

Rejecting this world
In priestless immolation
A new heaven on an old earth
Kingdom beneath the white waters

Ки́теж

No patience for the apocalypse
The Faithful would rather burn than surrender




Rusulka         5 minutes 18 seconds   

At the pinnacle of summer
Amidst the willow and birch
Ghost crone virgin
Lost soul of a maiden

She awaits

Your cross your circles and wormwood
Your incense and salt won't save you
Before the time of Christ
An unbaptized child

She awaits

Dance the helpless dance
Into the arms of the abyss
Water is calling you

She awaits

Deadly laughter echoes
Through the haunted trees
Spirits of the drowned
Lure men with their song

She awaits

Dance the helpless dance
Into the arms of the abyss
Water is calling you

She awaits




Side B

The Double      4 minutes 27 seconds  

Himself by himself
Never alone
Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces
There is no escape

He met a stranger on the bridge
In the sideways rain
Made in his image
Sent to take his place

He sees but does not see
The adversary
Devils breed in still waters
There is no escape
​
He met a stranger on the bridge
In the sideways rain
Made in his image
Sent to take his place




The Portrait         7 minutes 41 seconds   

Ready to raise the Devil
An arrogant wreck on the boulevard
Fame gives no pleasure to him who has stolen it
The eyes of the painted man in the half light of the moon

The sick one knew nothing
Save vain desire and passions
He grew unrecognized colorless and oh so cold
The eyes of the painted man crept out of the frame

All the purple and all the gold in the world
Oh to sell a soul for it all

No monster of ignorance
Ever destroyed so much
How could he forget the wretched portrait
The eyes of the painted man an invocation of the damned

All the purple and all the gold in the world
Oh to sell a soul for it all

Mercilessly wasted youth
Magnificence and beauty extinguished

All the purple and all the gold in the world
Oh to sell a soul for it all



Troika         2 minutes 29 seconds   

Into the cold unknown

Two wounded hearts setting out
Through frozen beautiful snow
A troika flies them home
Beyond Moscow's dead souls

Two weary minds make a new life
Among the people
A troika flies them home
Into the cold unknown

Is home

 


The Last Christmas Tree        5 minutes 59 seconds   

Do you know who I am, he said with a smile
I'm a friend of your father's late wife
When you were a boy, innocent and weak
I gave you a gift that would take all the pain away
Too young to remember or just too weak
The last December under the last Christmas tree




Black Magdalene is Star Wrey, Victor St. Petersburg, Brent McKinney, Christopher Pfeffer, Ruby McConnell, Drea Cypress Straw and Lindy Noel Comrada. All songs composed and performed by Victor St. Petersburg and Star Wrey. Additional Percussion composed and performed by Christopher Pfeffer. Additional guitars composed and performed by Brent McKinney. Mastering by Thaddeus Moore at Liquid Mastering. Graphic design by Victor St. Petersburg and Rob Sydor. Photography by Rob and Tracy Sydor at Digital Latte.


Comrades

Ami De Paris Salon, Rick Augenmeyer, Justin Bezelj, Paris Black, Dr. Cody Calaway, Amanda Chmiel, Jackie and Jason Cowsill, Brian Crane, Darker Shade of Pagan, Digital Latte Photography, Eric Eiden, Brett Estep, Chris Gatsby, Mary Getty, Arianne Harlow, Ghost House, Chris Gierig, Mac Goodwin, Wendi Kai, Nathaniel “Wario” Klute, Shannon Knight, Sheri McKinney, Ian McVay, Thaddeus Moore, Candice Nelson, The Oak Street Speakeasy (R.I.P.), Margarita O'Brien, Robert Parsons, Jason Petzel, Jennifer Scott, D.J. Silpher, D.J. Spidersound, Roberto Stovallski, Tracy and Rob Sydor, This Fair City, Jason Vanderhaar, Michelle Walter, Ariana and Cevin White, Sarah Young & cheap red wine. Lada Korol

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