The Separation Circle

Open up those petals, flower.
Dance as you drink in the sun.

Now spread those wings & fly, young seagull.
Touch the sky above the clouds

[Recognise?]

Though I pine
  I yield that life yet mine
  lends chance for redesign
  to turn and face the stars

[Space Travel Backwards]

Eastward from Krakatoa (Parahyangan) - The Separation Circle

Space Travel Backwards - The Separation Circle

And beneath the stars we sat down.
She calmed my trembling hands.

And the heavens dark parted the clouds
to reveal the Moon
[Forbidden]

Your life and my life
are swept aside

[Glass Bubble Home]

Light touch linger flying sparks connection
Wide-eyed gaze yearn come in this direction

[Must Be The Seat]

Here shall stand gravestones -
tombs empty yet, tomorrow filled.
Inscribed o’er fresh bones
names that the gods will have willed

[Nocturnal Howls Surface]

“Perhaps” brings a different perspective to the familiar Separation Circle theme of attachment, separation & loss, with some joyfully discordant backing vocals too.

The Separation Circle wishes to categorically deny the unfounded & frankly contemptible reports that we have written & recorded a Country & Western song.

“A Carthorse Chasing After A Gazelle” juggles semi-incomprehensibly some challenges & conflicts between ageing & sexuality & the music is bloody good too.

“Could Be” offers a listening ear & speculates about what might be possible and how. The joys of amateur psychoanalysis.

Two people who rarely connect with others, connect with each other instead - but what of the future? “A Seduction of… (souls?)“ details their encounter.

A tale of two bicycles & a wooded hill:-“Exhilaration Daze”

“No Idea” is a sort of reawakening - but what IS that woman’s name?

One of the greatest privileges of my life was a relationship filled with laughter. “We Laughed All The Time”.

What is the value of a flower? “A Reluctant Gardener” suggests that in some circumstances, it can be more than £2.56.

“Portrait in Halls with Tall Bare Walls” is an unintentional epic & undoubtedly one of the finest songs I have accidentally assembled. Judge for yourself - although if you disagree, you’re wrong.

I hate horror films. I hate zombies. I hate running. It therefore seemed logical to write & record a song called “Run! Zombies! Run!” - and here it is.

“Attachment, Separation & Loss (part 493)” is the latest, delightully delicate exploration of infant psychoanalysis set to gentle, lullaby-like tinklings.

If you’re in the mood for a gentle ballad, it’s just possible that “Sock Man and Invisible Monkey (It’s not easy being a superhero)” is not what you’re looking for.

ALBUMS / SONGS

BAD TUNE MEN
- Band of Legend

FEATURED SONG

MOST RECENT

RECENT (but not as recent as MOST RECENT)

This is indeed the website of the glorious Separation Circle, purveyors of bloody awful music aimed primarily at masochists & the tone deaf. Enter & explore at your own risk.

In addition to the alleged music, there are also songwords which are intended to stand in their own right as poetry. Whether or not they do is not for you to say; it’s for us to say & we say they do. So there.

Musical themes explored from time to time include playing with chord progressions, discord, rhythm, time signatures & seeing how they bend. The Separation Circle does not claim to be unique in carrying out such explorations but we like to think our style of exploration has a certain putrid panache to it.

Verbal themes explored are most of the usual ones: life, breath, space travel, pigs, monkeys, airports, birds, a loss of the ability to fly, cafeterias, harbours, shoes, missing limbs, a dead octopus, indoctrination, train journeys to be avoided & the elaboration of attachment theory.

There’s other stuff too: but we’ve tried to hide it as well as possible.