A 4-song EP of bossa nova grooves for the breaking heart.
Release date: April 2017
jh0st: guitars, vocals, tenor saxophone, electric piano
Bossa nova literally means “new wave” — and like new wave, it arrived as a cultural convergence that overturned the status quo. Tom Jobim said music is the silence between notes. The ambiguous chords — 9ths, 11ths, 13ths — don’t fall neatly into happy or sad, and the same songs change with the decade of your life you bring to them.
Where pop songs draw breakups in black and white, bossa nova paints in watercolors. n0va is not about a single moment of right or wrong but a spectrum of moments spanning decades — recorded semi-live, paired with footage from my travels, inspired by Jobim’s Triste and Waters of March.
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faster than faster her,
flyer than higher, you can shake down an airplane fly girl…
when you move i don’t even have eyes just to know i see you.
harder and further her,
no parachute can prove it
take a leap of faith love.
all i know, it’s you who’s brave enough to be afraid now.
will catch you when you fall after all
mended wings bring your heart to mine.
(faster, higher, further faster)
lighter than arrows her,
shall we keep flying over faces and places we know?
or strip bare unclothe those words that sting even when not spoken.
falling forever friend,
The clouds’ll catch us
not a broken bone will scratch us!
cheating death for now hold hands while i take the fall when we land.
will catch you when you fly suicide
mended wings bring your heart to mine.
how can you hold the beautiful you?
through glass so clear it could be a tear.
and could it be me… and could it be me?
we laughed so hard could it be a tear,
then tore it down breathing till we drown.
and could it be you. and could it be you?
step closer still through windows we build,
now see the tear reflecting the real.
you only see me… i only see you?
a stone and a stick
stone wind on a plane
i know you want to:
change your fate as black as slate to want to go
to play and to pray
and go fly away
catch a leg inside a claw a yawn to beg
what if I turn grey?
you ask of the day
sailing on a pin:
fortune and a fly distract a scratch and as for me
and when your soft palms
come down on the rain
nails pulling a:
part the bark the tree the ghost the half moon
“all too true I sleep half the day
come full moon I’ll watch over your breaking heart and wait…
even as you fall into snores
chasing dreams on the edge of your haunted love contours”
…a stone and a stick
a rib and a bone
whisker whisper
“even though i sleep half the day,
come full moon I’ll watch over the way to wake you soon
even as I fall into purrs,
keeping one ear in tune to the wondering of you”
a rib and a bone
like water and stone
you can’t deceive:
kiss me then to calm the sad unsaid
whisker whisper
crowding the bed
kick to the head:
find me when i count to ten!
하늘별보고 바다 보면서
두마리 불가사리 우리손
열심히 살려고 하니까
분홍색 별 귀엽다고
starfish lips
내입술도 서툴러
어린애완 다르지만
이해하는 똑같은
가르침 배운다
starfish lips
조용한 이유 말없다아니라
영어 붕어 가슴 가득차니까
분홍색 아이 것 같다고
너도 별이다
starfish lips
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