Get all 4 Osamu & the Peripheral Ghosts releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Honey-Golden Hours, Downwind, Losing Light, and On Broken Trails.
1. |
Fireside
03:08
|
|||
|
Fireside
I've come to you in my dire hour of need
For company, for sanctuary. Oh
I've come to you like Thoreau to Walden:
Forsaking ire of grey cities, walled in.
Everyone is leaving yet I'm far more
Transient, carefree.
They are blurred in motion, trembling.
Yet I will be fireside tonight.
I've come to see our world for what it is:
A spiral shell, a spread of love, ourselves.
I've come to realize what we have done:
To break apart the single cell of harmony
Into smokestack towns.
Everyone is grieving yet I'm far more
Translucent with glee.
They are buried in notion, grimacing.
Won't you meet me fireside tonight?
Praise it to me, the beauty you see
All around, and abound.
Sing it to me, will it to be free
For all time.
It's true: nature's clock has no hands.
It shows no time,
It shows how you can be at one.
|
||||
2. |
For the Tree
03:52
|
|||
|
For the Tree
We're filled with vanity
And desperate for some therapy, yeah.
Practice some modesty
Under Mother Earth's authority.
We can't see the forrest for the tree.
We can't own the scenery with our phones.
We sell what's untamed, priceless - free.
Ooh
Drastic changes from magic
To plastic commerce.
How toxic.
We concoct policies
With disregard to the ancient guards and
Don't police governments 'till
The status quotient's in the garbage.
We don't see forrest
For all the trees have such great fires to feed.
And we can't sleep under the stars
For the city lights outshine them all.
|
||||
3. |
Moab
02:15
|
|||
4. |
Stellar Serenade
02:57
|
|||
|
Stellar Serenade
Long time coming for me.
Alone, time is calming for me.
I serenade the sparks
And in the dark, they believe they are stars.
We all feel pretty strained
So come suffer this, clamber these hills.
We're bruised, breathless.
So come bother these ageless wise trees.
Yes,
The sun is shining.
You gotta feel it somehow.
The world is turning,
That's why you're dizzy in your head.
The stars are falling all 'bout yourself
Yet none can keep you amazed.
You flail into the flame, ablaze.
|
||||
Osamu & the Peripheral Ghosts Long Beach, California
A nature-loving Japanese musician born in Germany and raised in Japan/UK now hailing from southern California sings songs about wanderlust, parallels between life and the meandering trails, and other random musings that occur to a tired hiker's mind.
Osamu & the Peripheral Ghosts recommends:
Nightmare Machine [Side A]
by Waves and Particles
They draw influences from metal, grunge, indie rock, synth wave, movie soundtracks, and even a little jazz and classical. Their music is oddly soothing/poppy/heavy. Also, recognize the guitarist? ;)
go to album
I am a fan of Screaming Trees and think Mark Lanegan was one of the best voices of the grunge scene.
go to album
Elliott Smith: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition
by Elliott Smith
I enjoy his music, but I add him here because people have brought up similarities in our voices when I sing softly. He seems to be a musical brother of mine, and I am in excellent company.
go to albumIf you like Osamu & the Peripheral Ghosts, you may also like:
Isasa makes contemplative and emotionally rich fingerstyle guitar in the mode of John Fahey and Jack Rose.
go to album
The Edge of the Land
by Katie Spencer
Spencer's indie folk sophomore album was recorded live in the studio over the course of two days.
go to album
Tales that drift and whisper
by Along the Wind
Soft and soothing acoustic compositions from this Italian guitarist with melodies that flutter like leaves on a breeze.
go to album
