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Extinguish All Useless Lights

from Songs From A Chamber​-​Chris Cunningham by Chris Cunningham

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This track and "Mountainsong" are two tracks culled from the many recordings of my group ¡Radiante!, which recorded and performed in the late 1980s.
The title and initial inspiration for the song comes from the 1927 Yves Tanguy painting, "The Extinction of all Useless Lights", shown here.

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Extinguish All Useless Lights by C. Cunningham

And if the sun stayed down now
and all around there was only night
And waterfalls from heaven would extinguish all useless light-
The light from your eyes would be all I need
to see the love you've given to me.

A thousand faces floating in the ice of my memories
are melting in the waters of this lover's sea, this lover's sea

Who turns the key that turns you on?
Who turns the key that turns you on?
If I do now, will you stay with me?
If I do now, will you stay with me?

The light from your eyes will be all I need
to see the love you've given to me.

A thousand faces floating in the ice of my memories
are melting in the waters of this lover's sea, this lover's sea
this lover's sea, this lover's sea

Who turns the key that turns you on?
Who turns the key that turns you on?
If I do now, will you stay with me?
If I do now, will you stay with me?

Who holds the key that turns you on?
Who turns the key that turns you on?
If I do now, will you stay with me?
If I do now, will you stay with me?

If I do now, will you stay with me?
If I do now, will you stay with me?

I'm in the lover's sea.

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from Songs From A Chamber​-​Chris Cunningham, released July 12, 2017
Chris Cunningham- guitars, harmonium, vocals, engineering and mix, co-producer
Carter Burwell- midi accordion, piano, co-producer
Mieczyslaw Litwinski- harmonium, vocals
Bob Muller-tabla, percussion
Hearn Gadbois- dumbek, percussion

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FOTHOU (Fall of the House of Usher) Minneapolis, Minnesota

FOTHOU (Fall of the House of Usher) is:
a collective of musicians and composers in Minneapolis, MN.
Many are in the same family.

FOTHOU has been described as:
lifting from the world's deepest groove pockets- East, West, and North African, 80's No Wave funk, Sun Ra, and more.

The solo albums by Chris Cunningham (Neverwas) are from the same vein of the mine, with more acoustic folk influences.
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