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Never Seen The Roof

by Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen

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1.
World Ender 06:05
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You came to me like petals of amber would fall to the street all shaken and scattered I let you swallow me whole and true Sweet world ender I breathed a life like none that I'd ever I didn't ever think to ask for no shelter There’s just something about the way you are Sweet world ender Walk with me right to the ends of all of our reality And nothing will be as it always seemed You melt into me this state of our fantasy Hold me like you do in fields of surrender It makes me feel makes my nerves tremble These days now they seem so easy to be Eternity traces its finger to when we came to be one in each other It’s just like we were wound in a single dream Sweet world ender Walk with me right to the ends of all of our reality And nothing will be as it always seemed You melt into me this state of our fantasy
2.
Days Like These 03:20
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3.
Saint Missileheart 04:34
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I happened down the street where she took me once to see doors that lead on everywhere that I don’t want to be Saint Missileheart is dead and it’s just the way she led She said to me that love sees its better days when the best of times they seem to tease so awfully Sitting by the beams of the January blaze My thoughts go to the only one who walked like we deserved some peace Saint Missileheart is dead and it’s just the way she led
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She's All I Want 02:22
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5.
Never Seen The Roof 02:48
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Some day We're gonna get where we' wanna go You know I've got you You've got me We always get by For gotten can be Oh yeah And we've Never Seen The Roof It's alright The days Their long with pre tense Time don't count so good When we ain't free to dance Natural superior believer Shut their door Say no one get in free (Oh news to me) Well it's way too late When it speaks to your soul We ain't got a need for the limit they know And we've Never seen the roof Nothing's new
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Gettin There 04:48
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about

Never Seen The Roof is a concept album on love as a disruptive possibility. The album was created through an exploratory narrative approach - as multiple propositions on mad, exhilarating, tragic, desperate, sweet love. Setting these visions on Jujon street, the reverberation and decay of these times we live in.⁣⁣⁣

The album sounds the moods of the folks that graze along slowly among the decays of Jujon Street. Between their exchanges and their isolations - of reckless abandon, of creaking hankerings, of the acceptance and rejection of what is to come.
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Analog equipment and put-together modifications and instrumentation - including different recording mediums on multiple tape decks as well as modified instruments were incorporated. Thinking composition and recording between the traditional and experimental. The intention was to tease out elements of sonic chance in noise, tone and artifacts. Allowing for fluctuations based on variables of time, history and place.

It was created and presented as a soundtrack installation to the group exhibition 'only losers left alive (love songs for the end of the world)' curated by Louis Ho, at Yeo Workshop, from July 10 - August 29 2021. It was sold in limited hand-painted cassettes.
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With the release being a soundtrack to the happening of the exhibition, we wanted to play in such ways, toward musical and sonic setting and expectation. To propose a small gesture of thoughtfulness in the sound of relations, where chance can hold the possibility of love. Perhaps by the melding of the visual and tactile with the sonic space of the show, teasing the question - was, being 𝐭here, what love as some disruptive possibility could or does feel like?

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released August 7, 2021

Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Percussions - Mark Chua
Piano, Drums, Vocals, Clarinet, Trumpet - Lam Li Shuen

Produced by Frank and Lily

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ARE is an independent art rock band based in Singapore created by Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen.

The duo brings experimental arrangements, art rock and free improvisation to their releases and happenings.

They have performed and recorded in Iceland, Japan, Australia and Singapore. ... more

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