Clara Engel {blog}

nobrashfestivity:Unknown, Eclipse, Oakland, Ca, 1930

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:15:24 -0400

Unknown, Eclipse, Oakland, Ca, 1930

abandoned planetarium

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:10:20 -0400

meet me at the abandoned planetarium
when night falls we can shed our skins
grey suits, grey towers, grey rats and pigeons
tear the thorn out of my eye & let the colours stream in

meet me at the abandoned planetarium
glittering dome cobwebbed and echoing
orion, delphinus, cancer, phoenix all fading
constellations burn out
I could never find them anyway

meet me at the abandoned planetarium
it’s raining softly, a dog barks, and the traffic slows
I close my eyes, a churning infrared ocean
riles and laps around the bones of my shapeless ghost

CE

“Five gossamer pieces from Clara Engel courtesy of a new...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:56:48 -0400

“Five gossamer pieces from Clara Engel courtesy of a new album ‘In The Fog’. One of their greatest works, IMHO. It takes me to a dusty roadside diner at dusk.. with a beer. Miles from anyone I know..” - James A. McDermid

“The new EP by Clara Engel is a drifting and pensive micro-masterpiece.” - Gary Mentanko (Wist Rec)

“…sounds like chasing glowing will o’ the wisps through an old pine marsh: sweet and eerie, electric and antique.” - Nicholas Field

claraengel:Race with me to the sheer blue cliffsWe’ll make a...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:41:05 -0400

A post shared by Clara Engel (@clara.engel.music) on Jun 24, 2018 at 2:17pm PDT

claraengel:

Race with me to the sheer blue cliffs
We’ll make a fire as daylight fades
Words break down, hearts flounder and drown
Embers ascend into singing flames
CE

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Sun, 24 Jun 2018 21:46:51 -0400

Race with me to the sheer blue cliffsWe’ll make a fire as...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 18:36:03 -0400

A post shared by Clara Engel (@clara.engel.music) on Jun 24, 2018 at 2:17pm PDT

Race with me to the sheer blue cliffs
We’ll make a fire as daylight fades
Words break down, hearts flounder and drown
Embers ascend into singing flames
CE

“A Starfish Walking” is the piece I contributed to...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:33:28 -0400

“A Starfish Walking” is the piece I contributed to Polar Seas Recordings’ compilation A Light, A Glimmer. The track is available exclusively via this compilation, which I highly recommend purchasing in its entirety. The album is a gorgeous sprawling ambient tapestry of differently textured pieces, and all proceeds go to Wishing Well Animal Sanctuary.

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Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:50:39 -0400

Back cover design I drew for an upcoming release with Polar Seas...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 21:31:46 -0400

Back cover design I drew for an upcoming release with Polar Seas Recordings.

Once A White Owlfrom the album Visitors Are Allowed One...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:47:06 -0400

Once A White Owl

from the album Visitors Are Allowed One Kiss

(Soon to be reissued on cd by Siren Wire)

claraengel:“The sad eyed chameleon volcano grey sits on his rock...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:04:36 -0400

claraengel:

“The sad eyed chameleon
volcano grey
sits on his rock
on a thundery day
grey is his coat
and grey is his heart
grey-eyed chameleon
in deep grey thought”
- Derek Jarman

I love what I know about passion I love what I know about...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:22:58 -0400

I love what I know about passion
I love what I know about mercy
I love what I know about patience
I love what I know about soul

make me a home in a whale’s jawbone beached centuries ago...

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:18:32 -0400

make me a home in a whale’s jawbone
beached centuries ago
all my songs are fossils
all my words are so old
I found my hands in a bank of snow
I found my eyes in a pile of coins on the road
when the sun’s tentacles reach down from heaven and thaw my frozen tongue
I’ll have a voice that’s all my own

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Wed, 20 Jun 2018 20:23:39 -0400

today I walked around the city feeling like a raw husk, raggedly turned inside out, faltering, nerves exposed. horrible grief day, financial stress, precarious employment. I feel like there are massive barriers in place, real and imagined, (but our imaginations shape our worlds, and our worlds shape our capacities to imagine, it’s a symbiotic dance, so this distinction is too simplistic) – no matter how hard I work at music I will always be struggling and unable to make even a very modest living. I do not want to feel periodically that I would like to get on a raft and be pushed out into dark water – this is the best way I can describe this hollowed-out feeling. I will try and find a bit of joy in what is left of the day, but sometimes relinquishing hope/goals/plans temporarily is inevitable, or part of the larger process that I can’t claim to grasp. just being is enough, (and is a lot) sometimes.

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Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:09:25 -0400

claraengel:IN THE FOG

Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:19:49 -0400

claraengel:

IN THE FOG

Earthy ethereal electric swamp songs

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 11:47:57 -0400

Earthy ethereal electric swamp songs

Video

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 22:50:26 -0400

First father’s day since my dad died – there are no...

Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:25:24 -0400

First father’s day since my dad died – there are no words.

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Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:52:38 -0400

a shore far
from any prison
a name that changes
with the season
a snake glides
in and out of its skin
a pack of silver wolves
wanders down the mountain
in the evening
colours blossom and burn
all around them

a light flickers in your breastbone
a changeling wakes up in your bedroom
knives go dull
and music turns scornful
who are you
when no one knows you?

CE