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Partners (Single Version)

by Interbellum

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Partners (Single Version) 04:02
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I woke up surrounded by troubling signs Visions impossible to trust or deny You and I Lives blotted out Re-enactors, renderers Partners in crimes I tried to remind you, you couldn't recall Did it happen that way? Did it happen at all? So I do the remembering Give names to nameless things I've got archiving fever and I'm feeling for walls But the light is still on in the hall The light is still on in the hall Under the needle our fractures were scanned You were deaf to the deafening sound of events But somewhere in mist Our echoes exist Too strange to each other to misunderstand The lines in the palms of our hands The shared lines in the palms of our hands I woke up surrounded by troubling signs Visions impossible to trust or deny You and me And space debris Trapped in a fortress hurtling through time

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I'm excited to announce a new album: "Our House Is Very Beautiful at Night", out on April 7th. I recorded it myself in various makeshift home studios and was lucky to have Pascal Semerdjian (from Lebanese dream-pop band Postcards) contribute drums.

It picks up where "Dead Pets, Old Griefs" left off, digging deeper into memory and the past to excavate the memories and post-memories that lie buried in crypts. In early 2020 I was inspired and enlightened by Nicolas Abraham and Mária Török's notion of ghosts as trauma - the intergenerational transmission of the phantom. It led me down a rabbit hole and to a batch of new songs.

Here's the first of them. "Partners" portrays the intimate bond between people linked through trauma, the amnestic role of the ego and the notion of the present as past repeated.

Check out the beautiful video by Camille Cabbabé:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrmPpTZrTGc

Love,
Karl

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released March 7, 2023

Written, performed and recorded by Karl Mattar
Except drums by Pascal Semerdjian
Mastered by Brian Pyle
Artwork is a still from the music video by Camille Cabbabé

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Interbellum Beirut, Lebanon

Project helmed by Lebanese songwriter Karl-Mattar. Sophomore album Dead Pets, Old Griefs was released by Lebanese label Ruptured in 2018. A follow-up is slated for release on April 7th, 2023.

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