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Ground

by Levoneh

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when i wake up in the morning i will feel new new as the moon shown deep the unseen i'll make myself lemon water i will feel whole whole as the rain i'll wash myself clean the ground under my soles won't be so cold won't feel so strange i'm ready to give myself this change and find the love i need to set me free i know it's somewhere here in me i know we have the love we need to set us free i know i feel it here in me i know it looks like we've all gone viral all on our own left to rebuild i'm feeling the world where the ground under our soles won't be so cold won't feel so strange it's time that we give ourselves this change we have the love we need to set us free i know i feel it here in me i know we have the love we need to set us free as abundant here as you and me i know our love is gonna set us free impossible for anybody to own
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Prisms 04:46
i've a sense i can't contain though i had to hide it well there's a loss deeper than i've known myself beyond the pale taciturn as the streets i take to my house suffocate the soil i know a part of me's been razed and a part of me is the bulldozer sometimes i'm broken open like a prism bends the direction of the light to show its true colors and i see apparitions arsing specters taught to neglect them so i sink a little deeper well i fell here by the wayside where i dusted off and lumbered along all the promise all the languages written off as good as gone it's just the cost to be so civilized like plastic oceans and full prisons and if the bombs fall out of earshot why on earth should i pause to pay a look? you know we're broken open like a prism bends the direction of the light to show its true colors you know the apparitions beyond the spectrum still reach our senses when we dig a little deeper r'fuah sh'leimah
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we're here to mark you as one of us we're here to call you into השם we're here to remind you of what you had to come from have you forgotten? we said this could be never again my god have you forgotten? we're here to remind you of those years in the desert what were we who were we back then?‎ we're here to remind you we said this never could be again my god have you forgotten? we're here to remind you that nobody needs papers no bodies need papers a landlord for the secret police my god you have forgotten
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will you stay where you were after the ground has shifted and exposed the rot in the roots and the seeds sold misgivings what do i know when i feel the sun? when i feel the air and the breath in my lungs? where i need to grow and where i'm growing from? where we need to grow and where we're growing from? yeah i know a new world has come welcome every body home come ground yourself it's time we tend the garden weeds need pulling out
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i worked inside the house i should've been out out with all the grit out with all the clout out with all the meek i should let it all out i'll work inside my house
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my body's still a mystery from other bodies' histories my veins lain my fortune runs within there comes a richness in my skin inherent in the life i live in country copped and suited for white men and now the ground is thundering with the trauma we keep plundering there's no strength in hiding all the wrongs we've made forgetting the faults won't keep the earth from quaking if not a noose then a knee or the bloodlines drawn by the banks will our hearts always be broke in the same way?
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the day you left i told you i would always be open to your spirit and the true strength of our connection and i said i would go to alaska and take you with me and you don’t need your body for us always to be together in some way but the truth is i feel i have been neglecting this promise to you by closing myself off from intuition distracting myself with television as my only means of falling asleep or else i am buzzing today i went on a walk with a friend in the wind and i like this friend a lot 'cause she makes me look deeper at everything i noticed a cherry tree though i must have seen it a hundred times and while the wind blew my cap off she said spirits come to her all of the time and just like that i felt you were as close as you’ve ever been the veil pulled off and tangled in the blossoms then i knew what i’ve known but i get so distracted i miss your spirit in bloom when all i need is to notice it you won’t stop buzzing
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we're all wired and tired i've been lit up like a time bomb after it explodes i'm all over sometimes i can't get past the troughs in waves i need to find that path another way it's always against the current i'm wintered bare as the trees i branched out broke with the stream i was looking for the future but it's on the run from everyone i was looking for the future but it's on the run i know i need to ground myself but i keep looking for the future but it's on the run how do i ground myself without one? but i keep looking for the future but it's on the run i keep looking for the future
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Bloom 03:42
and the first night i felt your glow we both held stones with candles on i let you know our friendship then three years old i was feeling trust and finally ready to move forward from once a wound and now a growth a path alight by work now shone where once before i wouldn’t dare go and then you asked we share all of our fears and all our hopes and we listened and we spoke and i asked for your hand to hold and open raw i felt your palms pull me into the heart of your being so curious illuminating empathetic radiating all your masculinity femininity queerness vulnerability as your soul pooled into the depths of me and i knew your light was a new moon surrounding me in orbit a cocoon a protection spell a transformation seeds sowed in the ground now we give it time to bloom
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Thank you:
Dylan Wall, for sharing your home and Tastefully Loud studio space with me for the past few years, for your work mixing this album, for letting me borrow gear and microphones and always being down to answer whatever random questions I had <3 Gregory Flores, for your beautiful artwork and design work for this album and zine, for your production and collaboration on Prisms, and for all your generous and loving counsel <3 Sharece Phillips, for your creative life coaching, your support envisioning and guidance curating this album, for all our long nights of listening and exploring, for co-working, makeshift artist retreats and your loving partnership <3 Everyone who contributed, collaborated and performed: Skyler Huson, Jacob Jaffe, Maia Brown, Hannah Hamavid, Ari De Leña and Sam Parker <3 Clyde Peterson for always being so damn supportive! and the whole Crusin Records fam <3 Jon Manning for creating and sustaining Lost Sound Tapes <3 and Mell Dettmer for your work mastering this album <3

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released March 18, 2022

Produced and recorded by Ross Kirshenbaum, except Prisms, produced by Gregory Flores
Mixed by Dylan Wall, except Prisms, mixed by Gregory Flores
Mastered by Mell Dettmer

Layout and design by Gregory Flores

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Levoneh is a collaborative music project led by composer and producer, Ross Kirshenbaum, based in Seattle, WA on unseeded Duwamish territory.

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