Crocodile Eye

I made two songs this month made while writing and painting and learning about minor chords. The title track comes from a wild dream I had about killing a digital crocodile by carving an ancient glyph into its eye, and it contains a looped bit from the three-thousand-year-old Maitri Upanishad read by Paul Casselle in episode 14 of Paul Cooper's excellent Fall of Civilizations series.Now the part of him which belongs to darkness, that is called Rudra. That part of him which belongs to obscurity, that is called Brahma. That part of him which belongs to goodness, that is called Vishnu.He being one becomes three, becomes eight, becomes eleven, becomes twelve, becomes infinite. Because he thus came to be, he is the being, he moves about, having entered all beings, he has become the Lord of all beings.That is the soul within and without, yes, within and without.The B-side is dedicated to my fascination with Carthage, which is such a heartbreak, and includes samples of friends breathing,…