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Monks of Babylon (with drums)
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Greg - guitars, Joe - Bass, Ed - Drums
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The Mothership Music Group catalogues recordings of Joe Levis and friends. An eclectic mix.
Cover Art The Hoodoo Swamp BanJoe Boogie EP. ***New Recordings Posted! X-Mas jam 2010 in Miami. Hoodoo, Joe, and Brian live from the living room.*** Lift Off - Greg and Joe distance colaboration Las Brisas Vol. 1- We have beamed aboard a several tracks from a session at Las Brisas, Florida featuring Joe and Brian. I've added a couple more tracks from this jam. 10/26/2007- Hunter's Moon jam with Jesse on double bass and mandolin Cathedral of Sound - Jam at Brian's De Grey's Theory - concept album ideas Florida City Field Trip - 11/25/07 - Cool jam for an hour or two at Steve's Caedmon's Canto - 12/1/07 - Jesse en Lago Valor Yakobius 2 - 12/8/07 - The car hole Relaunch - 2/8/09 - Grandview Heights The Next Generation - 6/9/2009 - Jesse's Hollywood Crib Saturnian Moon - 6/26/2009 - Jesse and Joe at Joe's Apartment Grandview Heights - first recordings using new Logic system - 11 tracks The Sawgrass Boys - 7/25/2009 - Joe, Brian and Jesse at Joe's Apartment - Florida Swampgrass Blues Trio - 13 tracks Neotraditional Avante Jazz - 2/2010 - Joe, Brian and Greg on Ejamming E-Jamming Sessions - 11/2009 to present - Jamming with Greg and Brian online through E-jamming. Some selections posted. Find more and download AIFFs (CD quality files) on Archive.org: MMG: Love Song - 4/1/2010 - 4/4/2010 - St. Louis, MO. Mixed and mastered by Greg Munteanu. Brian's Living Room - 5/1/2010 - Mix by Joe Levis. Mastered by Greg Munteanu. Hoodoo Live (Or the Hoodoo Swamp Banjoe Boogie) - 12/2010 - Live jam Robert Levis - guitar, vocals; Joe Levis - banjo, vocals; and Brian Best - mandolin, harmonica, vocals.
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Alternative • Experimental
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Peak #181
Peak in subgenre #37
Author
Levis/Munteanu
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October 2007
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October 15, 2007
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MP3 5.8 MB • 128 kbps • 6:19
Lyrics
The word of prophets Transcribed by the hands Of ordinary man Sitting in a skriptorium And aren’t they only words really? Only words. . . words. .. really? The Monks of Babylon Walk smiling to the Diamond Gates of hate As they profit, they plunder Get rich off a paper shell game But isn’t it paper really? Isn’t it only paper The passion of belief Causes tidal waves of grief As the passage of time Controls minds in rewind Backwards through time We are controlled by unseen hands writing pages of history from a smoky room. And if you listen closely, you might hear the cackle of Crowes, or the chattel of chains, or is that the coffers filling with the pennies of the forgotten damned? Listen . . . listen for the sound of ice-cold blood pumped through the frost-bitten heart of an evil genius. Listen for the pen striking paper as it strikes away your liberty and mine. The Monks of Babylon Are smiling in their living rooms Watching the TV news on cable As they make another million dollars Sippin Champagne Aren’t they only words: “In God We Trust” Or the eye of the pyramid Shining down from above? Or the eagle that flies Every day of the week? Or the almighty dollar Is it that which you bleed? Or are they words from above? The words fall.
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