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    "The EP is a beautiful high-quality pressing housed in a full-color shrink-wrapped mini-LP style jacket"

    Recommended if you like Anneke Van Giersbergen, Kate Bush, The Gathering, Within Temptation, and Björk.

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1.
Monochrome Memories 03:31
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1. Monochrome Memories He darkens her door, a shadow of a love long past – and perhaps better forgotten – but those unwelcome memories come to the fore anyway, unaccompanied by any sense of nostalgia or forgiveness but met with jaded resolve. Lies ... as they burn, ringing in my ears, now return, stinging, all those years followed you, standing at my door. Now I have nothing to believe and I’m through listening anymore... Love ... fallen hard, dreaming of the Moon Now the scarred echo of a wound bleeds again, streaming in the cold and though it was fitfully asleep Now awake, stirring in my soul... I’d have given up my life just to see you standing in the light ... just to feel you breathing in the night... Love, tossed aside, scattered on the floor Like my pride, battered and ignored in the dust, shapeless and obscured and now I have nothing to believe Hidden thus, faceless void and blurred... Now I see everything shaded gray... Monochrome memories fade away... Now I see everything shaded gray... (bathed in pale moonlit glow shining down) Monochrome memories fade away... (like a veil falling slow to the ground)
2.
Ptichka 07:51
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2. Ptichka (Лети, птичка, лети... >> Leti, ptichka, leti... >> Fly, little bird, fly...) Not the moon drawing on me with a piece of chalk, Nor a bird on the branch waiting for a Spring Not the mocker nor the mocked Or an elvish song in MP3 Nothing, nothing... Not all the scientists with their nerdy telescopes Not a home-bird, nor a skipper who crossed the globe Nothing meets eternity... Лети, птичка, лети ... лети... Not the symbolism of a tiny leaf Not a boundless sky, neither a forest nor a tree, Not Egon Schiele nor Archip Kuindży Neither Vrubel’s lilacs nor all his demons Nothing, nothing... Mais j’ai un peu d’espoir Un bel et mince espoir Лети, птичка, лети ... лети... В поисках тепла и света Маюсь я, но что-то в этом есть От меня и то и это Зимний город прячет где-то здесь Лети, птичка, лети ... лети... Not the moon drawing on me with a piece of chalk, Nor a bird on the branch waiting for a Spring Лети, птичка, лети ... лети... Not the mocker nor the mocked Or an elvish song in MP3 Лети...
3.
Nihil Tactum 04:14
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2. Ptichka (Лети, птичка, лети... >> Leti, ptichka, leti... >> Fly, little bird, fly...) Not the moon drawing on me with a piece of chalk, Nor a bird on the branch waiting for a Spring Not the mocker nor the mocked Or an elvish song in MP3 Nothing, nothing... Not all the scientists with their nerdy telescopes Not a home-bird, nor a skipper who crossed the globe Nothing meets eternity... Лети, птичка, лети ... лети... Not the symbolism of a tiny leaf Not a boundless sky, neither a forest nor a tree, Not Egon Schiele nor Archip Kuindży Neither Vrubel’s lilacs nor all his demons Nothing, nothing... Mais j’ai un peu d’espoir Un bel et mince espoir Лети, птичка, лети ... лети... В поисках тепла и света Маюсь я, но что-то в этом есть От меня и то и это Зимний город прячет где-то здесь Лети, птичка, лети ... лети... Not the moon drawing on me with a piece of chalk, Nor a bird on the branch waiting for a Spring Лети, птичка, лети ... лети... Not the mocker nor the mocked Or an elvish song in MP3 Лети...
4.
For You 06:50
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4. For You Raise the tearful eyes of yours and look. The sky is blue The sky is doomed ... but today it shines for you For you... Empty the cup. Play your part. Someday there will be nothing left of you Someday the fungi will eat you to the forest but today You eat the mushroom Raise the tearful eyes of yours and look. The sea is blue The sea is doomed ... but today it sings for you For you... Someday your bones, as white as snow, will decorate the room for roots and worms Someday your tooth will be anchored by roots But today you bite the fruit Raise the tearful eyes of yours and look. The sea is blue... Raise the tearful eyes of yours, raise your eyes... Raise the tearful eyes of yours and look. The sea is blue...
5.
Latibulate 04:39
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5. Latibulate One will live, to live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist and that is all My skull is in a vice; the more you speak, the less I understand you Due to my defy, I’m an ivy on your wall Mute as a growing weed, a desire to love, to live, is a shield, I latibulate in serenity... A life turned upside-down... The things I love, things I’m sick of, don’t have a place in this world My skull is in a vice; the more you speak, the less I understand you Due to my defy, I’m an ivy on your wall Mute as a growing weed, a desire to love, to live, is a shield, I latibulate in serenity... From this life I’m expecting everything, I require it Though it may hurt and sear... I wish to sink in silence; I’ve had enough of this Impose it on others; words don’t bring peace... One will live, to live is the rarest thing in the world Most people exist and that is all My skull is in a vice; the more you speak, the less I understand you Due to my defy, I’m an ivy on your wall Mute as a growing weed, a desire to love, to live, is a shield, I latibulate in serenity...

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Featuring sublimely evocative vocals from the ever-enchanting Dikajee, Quicksilver Night’s “Ptichka” EP is nearly thirty minutes in length across five captivating songs of progressive-influenced rock music with operatic and madrigal nuances set on fire by pyrotechnic solo contributions from special guest guitarists.

About
Quicksilver Night is guitarist/composer Warren Russell and a small but widening circle of musical collaborators around the world. The music of Quicksilver Night is probably best described as “distilled progressive rock” because it often incorporates elements of progressive rock such as exotic modes and composite meters but it generally eschews extended song structures in favor of a more concise songwriting style than is usually associated with the genre. Visit quicksilvernight.com

Dikajee links her connection with nature back to her childhood, having grown up near Lake Ladoga in northwest Russia. Dikajee’s compositions draw inspiration from the progressive music of Kate Bush, Nightwish and Björk. Her pieces never stand still, driven forward by her own visions and the talent of her fellow musicians. Visit dikajee.bandcamp.com

credits

released September 9, 2023

Dikajee: all vocals
Marco Iacobini: featured lead guitar on "Monochrome Memories"
Farzad Golpayegani: featured lead guitar on “For You”
Andrew Negustorov: featured lead guitar on tracks 2, 3 & 5
Quicksilver Night: supporting & fill guitars along with everything else, real or virtual Recorded at various studios around the globe

Mixing by Alex O’Loughlin & Warren Russell at Sandcastle Records in Nashville TN Mastering by Cefe Flynn Mastering in Sydney, NSW, Australia
Produced by Alex O’Loughlin & Warren C Russell
©&℗ 2023 by Quicksilver Night Productions, all rights reserved.

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