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Part I: An Orchid Night

from The Garden Of Abandon by Monastery

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    -Art and poetry booklet
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    -Two CDs of Part I: The Summer Queen and Part 2: The Winter King in their own individual mini vinyl jacket sleeves.
    -20 page full color booklet with art, lyrics, and poetry for each song. (Same booklet as the cassette editions).
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    This is part of the 4th edition of The Garden Of Abandon. It's a double vinyl set limited to 200 copies (80 Transparent Green & 120 Black). Released in collaboration with Night Rhythms Records. The album has been remastered for vinyl and lightly remixed in a couple of places to enhance the vinyl experience. What's included:

    -Two LPs of Part I: The Summer Queen and Part II: The Winter King on 180 gram black or transparent green vinyl in a beautiful gatefold sleeve.
    -A full size 4 panel booklet with art and all poems written for each song.
    -A hand-numbered postcard with a handwritten excerpt from one of the poems in the album. Over the course of 200 postcards, every line in the album has been written chronologically. Postcard #1 has the opening lines of the album while #200 has the closing lines!
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    This is part of the 4th edition of The Garden Of Abandon. It's a double vinyl set limited to 200 copies (80 Transparent Green & 120 Black). Released in collaboration with Night Rhythms Records. The album has been remastered for vinyl and lightly remixed in a couple of places to enhance the vinyl experience. What's included:

    -Two LPs of Part I: The Summer Queen and Part II: The Winter King on 180 gram black or transparent green vinyl in a beautiful gatefold sleeve.
    -A full size 4 panel booklet with art and all poems written for each song.
    -A hand-numbered postcard with a handwritten excerpt from one of the poems in the album. Over the course of 200 postcards, every line in the album has been written chronologically. Postcard #1 has the opening lines of the album while #200 has the closing lines!
    -A randomly inserted green or red envelope with gold foil trim containing a download code and stamped with the NRR logo.

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    Comes in a large, vinyl box package w/ a full colour 16 page booklet including poems and art for each song.

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lyrics

“Die a Little Death with me…” said a Voice.
“Lay amongst the Orchids with me this night…
Abandon thyself to throes of pleasure,
Of sensuality, of desire…
Answer the call of the wolves’ serenade
And die a Little Death in the grotto…”

Musical speech calls her to the grotto…
Why on earth should she heed such a damned voice?
To be taken by such a serenade—
By such a Devil’s charm in the hot night—
Would make her but a thrall to desire…
But O wouldn’t it be such a pleasure…?

One should never be governed by pleasure
Or by some serpent in midnight’s grotto
Even if it is one’s true desire
To follow the words of that lovely voice
And disappear into the Summer night
Chasing the sound of the heart’s serenade.

“Yet, will can be bound in a serenade,
Harnessed, and evoked in acts of pleasure.
The words may be chanted into the night,
The ritual performed in the grotto…
The nature and sound of magic’s pure voice
Is revealed in manifest desire…

It is with the most longing desire
That we are to sing the spell’s serenade…
Without reserve, we must give our voice,
Body, and mind to a deepest pleasure
With which we may transfigure the grotto
Into a temple of magic this night.”

She made her decision and entered night
Intent on capturing her desire
Beneath Orchids in the starlit grotto.
The Garden moans with delight’s serenade
As she abandons herself to pleasure,
moving in rhythm with the chanting voice…

Listen to the night and its serenade:
“Follow desire and embrace pleasure
Without guilt in the grotto… Hear my Voice!”

(21.i.19)
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[Dedicated to Austin Osman Spare.]

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from The Garden Of Abandon, released March 15, 2019
Art by Edward Burne-Jones.

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