"In the disintegration of a purple hour, for a few moments, the dead emerge from their places of internment, before leaving once again...saying nothing. TAAWAASIIN (Tawasin)...to say ‘No’ thrice (laa, laa, laa) and plummet through seas of darkness for the sake of the Beloved. True love…in the turning of 'the wheel'--fallen under the juggernaut--(moksha in samsara) or the spaces between four fingers--the best art. Only one got the right answer, but from the beginning it was only ever a most intricate and magnificent trap…so that the Beloved might watch and the ‘sentient’ beings discover…and none sense the eons of loneliness. Indeed:"There is nothing like IT."Behind the house under the limbs of a black tree on a cold day between winter and spring, I was driving a nail into a board with my head…one raven watched disinterestedly and another didn't, while you ate noodles from a blue China bowl on the inside. For now, this is all there is…and that is just…how it is…”marginal people"the upside of drowning"All tracks written and performed by Abdullah R. LuxRECORDED IN:Beirut, Lebanon; Brooklyn, New York; Portland, Oregon; Park City, Utah; St. Petersburg, Florida; San Marcos, California.PERSONNEL:Abdullah R. Lux: keys, programming, piano, fretless bass, Chapman stick, electric & acoustic guitars, percussion, flute, santurBjorn Nilsson: drums--tracks 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19Marwa Ahmad: background voice--tracks 2, 6, 12Ling: Chinese recitation from Mao Tse Tung’s “On Practice” (1938)--track 4Zaynab Sa’igh: incidental ‘voice’ on “Saloth Sar” intro--track 10Virgine Piede: French recitation on “Smash Doll”--track 13Thanks to Allah...the First, the Last, the Manifest and the HiddenThanks to you--all of you--and, you know who you are.