Name: History Is Not Linear
Duration: P00H04M38S
Description: A song about ideological whitewashes.

History Is Not Linear

by Oliver Browne

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A song about ideological whitewashes.

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roving artificial eye, making snapshots in spasm,
supreme hypernormalised,
surmising reality at 30 frames per second,
yet the grain is not that fine
our stories are now quantised
yet one eye sees the world anew,
like only a few do,
but me and you can....
...... only hope to spectate, hold on tight to the rails,
as fake history gets written on our behalf by pseudo-scholarly husks....

.... who cast onerous aspersions,
weight of cause/effect can send us,
teeming errantly of kilter,
cos not one single one of us,
could possibly ascertain how one thing leads to another,
because history is not linear,
it's just really confusing.

it can only be written in retrospect
when circumspect circumlocution
sends us round the houses
evading a destination
the western canon
deploys drum and trumpet
parping triumphalist hymns in the key of sins
which is surely flat
and occludes from view
a number of squandered virtues
and manifold abberations
on nations and civilisations

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released May 14, 2017
Oliver Browne played, wrote and sung every last morsel on this song.

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Oliver Browne North Tyneside District, UK

Oliver Browne is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in North Tyneside. He was born a human. His music encompasses a variety of styles, with an emphasis on rich harmony, labyrinthine arrangements, and jagged rhythmic shards, all catalysed by high energy levels. He is interested in the vacant spaces between pigeon-holes, and how these might be filled with a panoply of ridiculous sounds. ... more

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