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MAKE FOR ME A MASK
Make for me a Mask, one of camphorwood & jade / The kind that might be cast to take the breath away / Make for me a Mask to conceal these scars I wear / To incinerate the past and avert the cruel stare / I said Make for me a Mask / Cover this anomaly / Descend unto this task / Obscure this vague monstrosity / Make for me a Mask of that strange Victorian kind / One that makes the witness dance, or weep or want to go blind / Make for me a Mask that makes the people strong / That shows them how to survive on nothing but a song / I said Make for me a Mask to conceal me from the Law / To annihilate the past, make it from a jackal’s jaw! / Make for me a Mask – I beg your mythic intercession / Lock away my face at last against the world’s transgressions / Make for me a Mask – to hide me from their eyes / I’ll wear it when I fast for you & dance the Fool’s Surprise / I said Make for me a Mask, inscribed, encrypted and rough / Lead me from this path, have I yet done enough? / …I went alone to the misty garden, to the place where I often ask / Upon the waters, I heard her tender Voice / “It is not for you to wear the Mask…”

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from ANCIENT CHAINS, released December 7, 2020

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John Terlazzo & Voices in the Hall York, Pennsylvania

Voices In The Hall: Songwriter / Poet John Terlazzo on vocals, guitar, Indian harmonium, Kristina Machusick on vocals, flute, recorders & Paul Wegmann on vocals, lead guitars. Together
they have become one moving, breathing creature, offering up a rich array of "Modern Surrealist Gypsy Folk", & described as "Marc Chagall gone aural" and "Leonard Cohen meets Rumi".
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