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Forteana EP

by Tomistoma

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1.
Revelations 06:11
Day of wrath and doom impending Earth and hell in ashes ending Death is struck, and nature quaking All creation is awaking And now the holy are confounded Doomed to flames of woe unbounded Righteous Prince of Sin’s Pollution Grant me thy gift of absolution
2.
Villager ill Comes to him For the medicine Breath heavy, heart beating Fast, like ritual drum and Then they are still They are lost They buried low White powder ground By bokors In a sacred fashion Spiders and ash Broken glass And tetrodotoxin Toad skin and skulls Broken bones From the little ones Wake from your sleep From the deep And become the dancer Rise from the grave As the slave Of the Necromancer Heed to the call In the thrall Of the darkest master Move to the beat Of the drum To the voice you answer Nobody knows Where you are You have disappeared Loved ones have mourned At your grave Far worse than they feared Lost days and night In the fields Under sun and shower Worked in the heat Broken feet Underneath his power Until the day When he fails To maintain his spell And broken by those That he broke He is dragged to hell
3.
No one knows What skin hides Dead inside They just can’t look you in the eye You can’t see The shadows in their soul Eyes grown dark Just like tunnels in the coal

about

“Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly.”
― Charles Fort

Electric piano, organ, vox and drums by Cai Brown.
Written, recorded and produced by Cai Brown.
Artwork by Ernst Haeckel, edited by Cai Brown.

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released July 4, 2018

HEAVY BLOG IS HEAVY REVIEW:
"This is truly the stuff that makes blind bandcamp trawls rewarding: confidently bizarre, self-aware but not jokey, and, above all, committed to a unique artistic vision free of any commercial expectation. Charles Fort himself would surely be proud. Forteana’s template is unique from the start: no guitars of any type appear on the album. Instead, electric pianos and organs do the heavy musical lifting, accompanied by understated percussion and one-man bandleader Cai Brown’s dry, lulling vocal delivery. The three tracks that comprise the EP are jazzy and riff-focused, full of psychedelic and cult-like wandering grooves that fully lean into the organ and keys-led nature of the band. The result is something like doom by way of The B-52s if, instead of devoting themselves to fun loving kitsch, the Athens new wavers slipped down a rabbit hole filled with conspiracy theories and mescaline."

Full review at Heavy Blog Is Heavy: www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2018/07/25/doomsday-july-2018/

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Tomistoma Stoke On Trent, UK

Reptilian piano-led doom from the darkest heart of Stoke-on-Trent, England.

www.facebook.com/Tomistoma-160865648118198

New EP, "Cathedral City", out 07/09/2023.

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