After yesterday’s number by Lavinia Blackwall, a gorgeous, entrancing fusion of folk, chamber pop and post-punk and a clever protest song about a ravaged planet by the brilliant London singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Ursula Russell, who played everything on this track. It’s inspired by a book, Time and the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human Affairs, by José Argüelles, exploring his distinction between natural cosmic time and artificial mechanistic time in human history. The song was recorded at east London’s Total Refreshment Centre and is out on Faith & Industry Records and is from the Ursa Major Moving Group debut album, which is released in June. To enjoy and explore further music by Ursula, see also the other embedded links below.
Universal time
A virus in the lining of the womb
A superstructure ticking from my tomb
Greed is in the system
Eating through the ceiling of the biosphere
So beat me into line
And gag me with religion, it's the same
The torture of the object is the name
Harvesting a rhythm of psychic pain
Until I'm grieving the biosphere
I'm February forever
Climbing through the fires of purgatory
Well I could stay forever
Swimming in my synchronicity
But February forever
I'm wrestling with desire for a scene
A dressing gown, a doorway and an endless seam
February forever
I'm crying with desire for the scene
Getting higher and higher on a timeless dream
Getting higher and higher
Getting higher and higher...
I could stay forever
I could stay forever
I could stay forever
I could stay forever...
Universal mind
Tuck me inside your universal score
'Cause I'm sucking on the pendulum no more
From mass hallucination to inward spore
I'm leaving the biosphere
[And I think it's leaving me]
Bye bye bye bye biosphere
Bye bye bye bye biosphere
Bye bye bye bye biosphere
Bye bye bye bye bye biosphere
Time and the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human Affairs by José Argüelles (2002)
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