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Gelatin / Silver: Unfinished Recordings, 2016​-​2019

by WINDMILLS

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Documents II 03:20
mother spider guards my door with a wilted arm, a cigarette we won’t be leaving here again we never will be laid to rest oh my oh yes our night in stead take another winding way and take another pill for night write a little prayer for our prey and pick us up and make us right and in a way we stay the same but our lives lead and pick us up and in a way we stay the same but our lives lead and pick us back to earth
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I i’m looking up and i don’t see anything the smell of cold a map of our senses and in a way i’m a saul but never a paul there are ghosts who inhabit our catacombs in a way i’m a saint with no light to blind me i know the shape is harmless i’m looking up and i don’t see anyone a smell of home a trace of your finger and in a way i’m a saul but never a paul there are ghosts who inhabit into to damascus, the minerals but never the dust on our feet to dream, or to believe in a way, i remain the ghosts that i’ve named but the shape remains the same i’d adore thee but i don’t even know your name i’d adorn me but i don’t even know who i am II you are here - an ancient evil i can feel you running through my veins i can feel you running through my veins into my heart and i have known your fingers i can feel your shackles on my spines i can feel you wrap around my veins into my heart III you were young, and i was foolish to think that our time would be any different than the last but i've known that we are shown and sent our way i was high and you were too far to reach and in time we'd say we are different from the last though i've known that we are shown send a voicemail, drop a line make a promise for a promise or a hand held in our time though i've known that we are shown and sent our way
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particle dust in the light all the arms of a morning picture the lines yours and mine in the black and the space between and now you are here with me and in the air there is a melody singing for me fresh from the sheets and the space in between there is a melody singing for me filled in the lines of what you used to be
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i have no arms that would reach in a way and i have no hands that would shapeth the clay but i know that there’s something that you’re just about to say it’s as though there’s nothing left to say i have no arms that were cut from the cloth and i know the lines that would break in your arms but i know that there’s something and it’s just beyond my worth it’s as though there’s nothing left to say sugar and introspection it's all we are sugar and introspection all we are is here i have no arms that would reach in a way and i have no hands that would shapeth the clay but i know that there’s something and you're just beyond my reach still, i hope there's something left for me i hope that there's something left for me

about

during the spring of 2016, we began recording our second LP for heirship records - the first truly collaborative recording effort between the three of us.

we had big ambitions - dreams of a song cycle that would span the gap between dreaming and waking, soft and loud, gentle and abrasive.

we made a lot of progress on ten tracks that spring, but as often happens, life got in the way. time and money grew scarce, and the fates pulled us in different directions.

in the summer of 2018, another brief opportunity presented itself, and we put "documents II" to tape before moving on once again. we finally released a lone song from the sessions, "bells 'n' whistles" on heirship's farewell compilation that december. the rest remained in storage.

four and a half years after we started recording these songs, the story is still on hold, but we'd like to reassure you it's not over.

we'd like to think that this record could someday be finished. there are pieces still burnt in our memories, the lyrics and piano part to "muppets" or the watery, downtempo "sylvia plath" that sat after the medley. there are more songs lying in wait on hard drives and in notebooks.

we never let go of the threads we were weaving. we still are, and always will be, windmills, even when the universe pulls us apart.

we are living through strange times. so much of life is on hold, and yet so much seems to be slipping away. it felt right to let people know that art can still thrive in times like these. it felt like the right moment to release some of these songs and let people see what we had been striving toward.

to that end, we give you the bits and pieces we put together, the skeletons of the songs we had. there are hiccups, gaps, and sour notes, but the heart of the idea is there. we hope that what it says resonates with you and gives you a little hope.

- ng, ny, & my
4 Sept 2020

credits

released September 4, 2020

recorded by james treichler at wave upon wave studios in the spring of 2016, except for "documents II", which was recorded at the station in 2018.

all tracks mixed by james treichler, except for "documents II", which was mixed by matt yeates and james treichler.

35mm photographs and booklet design by n. m. garcia. studio photos by matt, nick, and nick. don't forget to download the booklet if you purchase the album.

lyrics by n.m. garcia. music by n.m. garcia, nick yeates, and matt yeates.

windmills is:
matt yeates - drums, percussion
nick yeates - bass, guitar, vocals
n. m. garcia - vocals, guitar, keys, cello

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WINDMILLS Champaign, Illinois

someone buried a melody in this unspeakable racket. someone buried an unspeakable racket in this melody.
m.y. + n.g. + n.y.= windmills

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