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The Ventriloquist

by Sister Black Lagoon

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about

This summer in Houston, our family visited the art museum. I was quickly overwhelmed in the creative company of my heroes and heroines, I was, for a moment, nauseas and flushed. At one point standing in front of a painting titled The Ventriloquist, something clicked, it was a mystery, but something began there. Then I find the origins of Ventriloquism & that ventriloquy was an old religious practice going back centuries.
The name comes from the Latin for 'to speak from the stomach: venter (belly) and loqui (speak).The Greeks called this gastromancy. The noises produced by the stomach were thought to be the voices of the unliving, who took up residence in the stomach of the ventriloquist. The ventriloquist would then interpret the sounds, as they were thought to be able to speak to the dead, as well as foretell the future.
I found a kinship between the original meanings of Ventriloquism and the ways the lyrics arrive to me, often "channeling" narratives and vibes around me and within me. Gratitude, luv, Raul

Special thanks to the extraordinary artist Adrian Salazar Villegas for his cover art.

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The Ventriloquist

A house sits in a cave
No one knows it’s there
A house sits in a cave
No one knows it’s there -
Home standing still
No one no one
Breath in breath out

They say you lost
they say you dead
They say you way on out of your head
They say there’s mermaids, mermaids in the river,

Monkeys on the hill
With their pockets full of pills
Pimpin’ death then sellin’ you salivation,
In the land of milk and honey
It’s all blood & money
Win big before the knife go dull

There’s a lot backed up
there’s a lot backed up
Lookin’ for a way out
There’s a lot backed up
there’s a lot backed up
Lookin’ for a way out

Night behind the barriers and pines
Fingers deep in sockets
Lovers’ tongues and dandelions,
In all the nights I was not warm
In all the nights in all the nights I was not warm
Mercy couldn’t look me in the eyes
Head in my hands head in my hands

Lookin’ for a way out
Lookin’ for a way out now
I need a way out
I need a way out now
Way out way out way out

raul.dorn 10/23 - 11/26

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released December 10, 2023
Alex Kassim Music Composition & Creation/Engineering
Raul Dorn Lyrics/Voice
Adrian Salazar Villegas Art

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Sister Black Lagoon New Mexico

Alex and Raul have known one another since art school in the late 80's, and made noise togetherr in the alternative folk- rock band Utopia Go-Cart and the noisy darkness Muzzled back in the 90's. They put their heads together again in 2017 after a collaboration with the band Curios. Connect with us at sisterblacklagoon@gmail.com ... more

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