SHEDARK / MIROSA (2020), by Yusuf Yoshi Misdaq

SHEDARK / MIROSA (2020)

by Yusuf Yoshi Misdaq

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Bits_of_Lily This is one of the most diverse albums I have ever heard, and I love the music style captured in each song. The Stoney Waves reminds me of Bauhaus! But, instead of wrapping me in a goth punk ambience, Stoney Waves wraps me more in a strong hold of intense notes of conviction. Your Dark Myriads has a great sense of beat and a bit of rapping to it, but then envelops me in some kind of lovely chant/spiritual affirmation that makes my heart feel soft. Baboe is a grooving, hip swaying expression Favorite track: Your Dark Myriads.

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Receive the music on a stick of clear Crystal & Rose Gold, along with a pink salt crystal formed of cambrian evaporate, aged roughly between 540-600 million years; the package is wrapped up with a few drops of precious Neroli oil, which was harvested in 2019 (a fine year, we can all agree) from Springtime's first orange blossom buds (Nangrahar, Afghanistan).

INSTRUCTIONS: Listen to the album with the pink crystal on your forehead or on your chest, or somewhere nearby. Touch it, play with it, kiss it if you like. Crystals like these were abundant around the studio during the making of this album (as well as Citrine, Pink Quartz, and a lot of wood + water). Finally, before listening to the song Rose Gold, take a deep inhalation of the scent of Neroli oil (which is both subtle and strong, and should permeate the package that arrives on your doorstep, as well as the pink crystal itself). Rose Gold is a song that is as intimately tied to Afghanistan as the flowers buds that offered us their precious oil.

INFO: Crystal / Rose Gold USB stick has 2GB capacity. Pink crystal pieces vary by colour. Neroli oil is not visible in the package, it can only be smelled and enjoyed; it is provided in collaboration with the fine work of Ishkar and Turquoise Mountain.

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1.	Your Dark Myriads 03:51	lyrics	buy track
Guitar, synth, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq Sensual in a sleepy way She never has much to say Reminds me of cream, chocolate Almond eyes on the sides, better She's a silent woman She responds to the quietest touch Light incense on a full moon Slows me down when I feel the rush Tomorrow (Saba) We all got to get (Eliana) Tomorrow (Saba) We all got to get (Eliana) It's hard to say Words to silence Beautiful, mystic And vibrant I want The go to flow my way Some things that I need to say: We could be a mega-reality Stones overturned for the sun We could be an arching gallery Smooth dome 2 feel like one Tomorrow (Saba) We all got to get (Eliana) Tomorrow (Saba) We all got to get (Eliana) New vanilla with spice in the cloud Some spice that they haven't discovered Sweet smile, on mute feels loud Perfect height for my hugs to cover Lay low Under the moon~glow Crystal stone upon her eyelids Send out lanterns on the river Go send our vibes to the windy pilots ... Drugs! Fall from the sky Drugs! Everywhere in your eyes Drugs! I'm addicted and I'll follow I know I shouldn't, but I'll swallow Get me in trouble with life Take me to places not right I can't live in a dream Can you step out and meet me In the midstream? I'm here In the shallow puddle Gush~waterfalls That's my heart in my chest Just come, come and see me on the double I wanna see if you're serious Just want to see you if you're serious Yes, wanna be with you for these periods Yes, wanna stare into your myriads Yes-You and your beautiful silhouette, yes Put you inside my warm pyramid Gave you the key so Get rid of it
2.	Scars 00:59	lyrics	buy track
Synths, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq
3.	Agree 03:33	lyrics	buy track
Guitar, vocals, drums, synths Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq Guitar solo, Farhad 'Zink' Hossain Send me to somewhere I can't be here My life is breaking up While I walk into the dark Let me find somewhere Somewhere I still believe My heart's faded from my chest And it's not even on my sleeve Give me to someone Place my hand over hers Let me cover her In dark furs With pink flowers inside Pink flowers inside Pink fleur When I draw the curtains The eyes came first To be sure we were certain Hands of silence Lips agreeing on the small things Before we get to all things Send me to somewhere
4.	Say What's On Your Mind 03:27	lyrics	buy track
Synth, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq I think it at you Throw it at you Invisible statue I had it Pensive Massive edits Passive aggressive Never impressive Stone face (Not my own face) A secret word that undoes grace Secret thoughts Untidy shoelace Heavy weights I carry through the days It's true they say You can rue the day Wish you said that clever phrase That showed em What you felt What you are What they dealt You just crashed Piece of trash Worthless, wasted Full of gas I'm too old to hold a match Catch the smoke All the smoke I inhale the fumes and go Dark into a room She dark Memory-arc I'm in Noah's ark We hurt our hearts And we take it hard I got my two hands on guard I go through my life on guard Careful I don't move my parts Careful, I won't move my parts Careful, I won't move (I won't move) And I won't ask And I won't take part And I won't start Say What's On Your Mind You're Only Human After All Say What's On Your Mind You're Only Human After All Say What's On Your Mind You're Only Human After All The Things You Are ... Gave all my trust away All for your pretty eyes... You were gone too soon I let it go, 'cos I had pride, I... Offered all my jewels to some Hungry, street, slice-seeker... I undervalued trust Traded it for some sprinkles... Mixed my love 'n lust, and now I'm faded, played 'n wrinkled
5.	No Safe Spaces 01:37	lyrics	buy track
Synths, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq There are no safe spaces There are no safe spaces You will not be heard You will not be heard They will try to kill you By placing a soft pillow Over your face ... There are no safe spaces You will not be heard
6.	The Stoney Waves 05:23	lyrics	buy track
Guitar, synths, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq I will ride From the start Write you poems From my heart. I will sing Make you art Trace your face And vibes on my heart I will think Think of you Read your mind Think like you You will call Call to me Beckon me With your powerful energy Upon the edge of the stoney waves Time sinks in my eyes and my face Will you still be here when I'm old and grey? I'm trying not to make more mistakes I will doubt With fear in my brain Stain this present With my future rain I will hold Back my words Scared to commit Scared of the verbs The buzz has gone But the vibe remains Your open heart Has it all arranged I can't resist The pull of the drift I fall in deep But something's amiss Upon the edge of the stoney waves Time sinks in my eyes and my face Will you still be here when I'm old and grey? I'm trying not to make more mistakes Fire and dust and Termite days I don't want it to go But they take it away The wooden ship I have made Too primitive Can't be saved I wear my suit Sit in my seat They've designated A number for me I see some pieces Of perfect plastic Placed perfectly Nutritional Supplements I guess I can eat The tomb rips open And I fall out the sky 33A, with my seatbelt I fly So calm, as I See the spinning sea I don't ask 'why?' or cry I finish my tea I know where I'll be With the fishes of eternity Two hundred year old Turtles will carry me You tell the tales Of the things I did Big up my legend Tell them how I lived
7.	Together (Fell / Failed) 04:17	lyrics	buy track
Synth, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq I was on my way when you stopped me Was on my way when you stopped me You just had to keep on believing You just had to wait for me, unreasonably I would have flowered I would have flowered I would have been the man of the hour I would have rescued your heart Saved your life Kissed you one more time Could have kissed you one more time We would have gone back in time We would be in another time We would be still-always as one We would be never in no sadness Never in no hatred Never in no enmity No loneliness Why do we choose it? Why do we choose it? Why do we choose it? Why do we choose it? We fell together We'll be falling forever We'll be always falling forever Because we fell together We failed together We fell together We failed together We fell together We fail together We fell together Failed fragrances Flowers-of-a-memory Imaginary This is getting stale Like a fairy tale You've lived inside me For years You lay there dormant Like fears When I'm low You come near When it's too noisy I hear My voice is showing you Your face with a stain of regret I can taste the taste of loss It's kind of hard to forget There ain't no reset Just replay the secret I lost a keeper I got left with a t-shirt My family can see hurt I stand by the sea, hurt There's silence in the speaker With mouth closed Nobody knows My pride won't let me reach her Blinded by the sun It's a preacher, man Take a look at my hands How many more times? Deepening lines My face showing the grind White hairs of time They call it wisdom That's a humorous line I walk it narrow It used to be a bridge But now it's thin Like a sparrow On the side of a garbage lid Thin Like a sparrow On the side of a garbage lid
8.	Mirosa 02:37	lyrics	buy track
Synths, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq
9.	Baboe 02:33	lyrics	buy track
Synth, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq Eyes of diamonds Rise, I am finding They "why's" - they are hiding Your sighs, they confide in My prize - time - biding Patiently I'm riding On the waves you see me sliding "It's fun," you say - you're right and I smile like Joe biden I'm in touch with pride and I know how to cry and The universe, it widens Multi-verse, we're driving It's so easy to try me My body's in the drive-seat Can't nobody see me My soul mixed with sea-weed You say, "it tastes salty" I say, "don't you eat me I've got babies And they need me I've got babies..." My name? Rocky Balboa Original Stone thrower I'm not that new knock-off I vote remain I'm a stay-in-your-brain Seed-grower Ramases-knower Great ancestral Raggedy rower Out on the ocean Push-me-Pacific I been known to coast and I need the new air The feeling there and (Yeah, yeah) I seek the rhymes that are ultra-rare, and I won't stop 'til I See it with my eye Push me Let me fall down (I'll fly!) Like a bird I'm in Merv Fly to the courtyards of Mazar Where I swerve To Bukhara My name? Yusuf Misdaq, the truthful Insha'Allah Insha'Allah
10.	We're Going to America 01:33	lyrics	buy track
Guitar Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq
11.	Indésan 04:44	lyrics	buy track
Guitar, synths, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq There was a old time It was a gold time It was all amber, and Warmly lit There was an olden time It was a golden time It was all amber-ful In California I remember (California) The beauty-particles (babyfornia) The extra armfuls (1980's) Of golden drugs (golden dragons) I remember (I remember) The party whirling ones (turning ones) The sugary girly ones (early ones) In the sun (in the sun...) In the sun It do become Leave your Christmas tree In the sun In the sun In the only one Leave your dungarees out In the sun Leave your wet heart to dry In the sun Time - the sun There'll be a golden time They'll call it the olden times You gotta be the open mind If you want it to find you Time scans me like a Scanner, with moving light Runs up and down upon me Like a disco ball of light I want to be glittery I want to reflect everything Make you so beautiful Whenever you're near me I wanna be them blingy shoes I wanna be the one to choose I wanna dark escapade Whenever I'm near you In the sun In the black sun Midnight maiden In the sun In the sun In the only one Leave your dungeon drum and Come to one Leave your bleeding heart to dry In the sun Time - the sun I see you granulating Aviating Awaiting me in the fields You are there for me You are there in the fields My beauty bravery My beauty, bravery You want my rain to be You want my rain Well I'll rain on you I'll rain on you I'll rain on you ... I sleep on a bed of hope I wake up feeling dope I smile simply like village-folk I stretch and crack my bones Like egg-yolk Pour me into the day Where I stay woke and Get my payload, steady As I pass the railroad Ready, set, go, I stay Never in safe mode Don't do a thing just because you say so Listen to my heart And my instincts I pray yo Every single day When I feel the volcano I pay no mind To the hatred in the times I go slow I so know How to maintain my rapid, rapid fire flow How to maintain this Beautiful inner-glow Others be slick They get tricked And get cynical Running after love and likes So minuscule I'm in the background Smiling invisible Standing on a mountain that's Symbolic and spiritual Angels in my hair saying, 'Yeah, this the pinnacle,' Sun in my eyes Give me highs and minerals I can take a walk See my thoughts And see yours We're on a string It's a fabulous thing The inter-connectedness of All living beings I'm your mother And your brother I'm your daddy Your favourite caddy I'll follow you into the fire of the sun (Follow you into the fire of the sun!) I'll set you free in the light of the sun (Set you free!) Yeah, and I'm here for you (I'm here for you) And I will be here (I will be here) But I'm going to bed now (I'm going to bed...)
12.	Rose Bushes 01:11	lyrics	buy track
Synth, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq I once was a little boy Running in the garden I once was a little boy Running in the rose bush I once was little boy Wilting in the soil and I once was a little boy Running to my freedom I was a big boy I was a love boy I walk with angels I touch the flower Rose bushes in my heart Rose thorns, they touch my thumbs Everybody laughing with me I am touching The things that you see
13.	Morena 03:41	lyrics	buy track
Guitar, synth, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq Yo me soy la morenica Yo me soy la morena Yo me soy la morenica Yo me soy la morena Yo me soy la morena Yo me soy la morena... Lo moreno bien mirado Fué la culpa del pecado Que en mi nunca fué hallado Ni jamás se hallara... Ni jamás se hallara... Ni jamás se hallara Yo me soy la morenica Yo me soy la morena Yo me soy la morenica Yo me soy la morena Yo me soy la morena Yo me soy la morena... Soy la sin espina rosa Que Suleman canta~y glosa Nigra sum y formosa Y por mí se cantara... Y por mí se cantara... Y por mí se cantara Yo me soy la morenica Yo me soy la morena Yo me soy la morenica Yo me soy la morena Yo me soy la morena Yo me soy la morena... Yo soy la mata~inflamada Ardiendo sin ser quemada Ni de~aquel fuego tocada Que a los otros tocara... Que a los otros tocara... Que a los otros tocara I don't have much to say Except tomorrow is better than yesterday When the sun comes out in my heart It glows all day until it gets dark In the evening... In the evening... Sometimes I take a walk at night time The wind so gentle on my skin and my spine And I feel so delicate I feel so delicate I wanna dedicate this to you And life and all my memories Seems like a perfect ivory illusion A balloon filled to the brim with Psychedelic dreams My life and all the joys and All my pains now behind me I walked through them And I’m still walking through them (And I’m still walking through them)
14.	Spiral Staircase (Dreambreaths) 03:44	lyrics	buy track
Synth, drums, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq You want to step up and see me Got to climb light years Just to get near me Climb into the beautiful sky Until you hear me You might maybe get dizzy Going round and round Just like a firefly It's just like walking But as well as going forwards You rise You rise You rise It'll feel like prison sometimes Where you are Holding on to twisting guards Standing behind bars You won't get there directly It's a scenic route Yeah, I take the scenic route It's a circle game It's a circle game Mama said go upstairs to dream Mama said go upstairs to dream Dream! Dream! Dream, dream Dream Dream (Breathe!) Dream. Dream.. Dream... Dream....
15.	Rose Gold 09:33	lyrics	buy track
Synth, harpsichord, drums, rose gold, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq Say what you said before Say what you said before I wanna know the score Before I go to war Wanna know the score Before I go to war Flowers waiting at your door Like a baby boy Flowers waiting at your door Like a baby boy Would you say yes to the rainbow? Would you say yes to the rose gold? Yes to the rainbow? Flowers waiting at your door Like a baby boy Flowers waiting at your door The way you walk in joy Would you say yes to the rainbow? Yes to the rose gold? Yes to the rainbow? Yes to the rose gold They say no-one wants you anymore, rose gold But I will always treasure you I will always treasure you I saw you as a child when I woke up in bed And I was warm and safe and I remember rose gold My memory, rose gold You glowed all rosy when I saw mum and dad Laughing together in the kitchen and I remember rose gold Contented, rose gold I felt you shining when mum's friends with Anime-eyes looked down at me Enraptured by my eyes "He's so beautiful!" Rose gold And they were beautiful, rose gold And the first time we loved We stared at each other in bed And then we hugged it was Almost a drug Yeah my darling, rose gold I needed you, rose gold I needed you, rose gold I needed you I need you Go back to me Come back to me Shining, shining, shining over my life, rose gold Beautiful staircases, I want to climb this mountain of mine Your face on the mountaintop Rose gold, rose gold, will you rose me, rose gold? Will you let me gold you, rose gold? Will you buy me roses? I can buy you rose gold I'll give you from my garden, rose gold From my growing rose gold From my inner-rose gold My heart gold, my heart going gold With you my heart's going old and getting cold But with you, I'm going gold as I get old and go cold, rose gold, rose gold Will you see me, rose gold? Beautiful rose gold My beautiful rose gold My beautiful rose gold Autumn to winter We never get spring Dark days coming What is that you sing? Mysterious in dark golden times Maybe we could never be But I feel we rhyme Dark-eyed woman In a distant land Do you think of me When you see the sand? Heart like rose Delicate and long Archetype-tone You inspire the song I'm way past begging Or gentle pleas I'm just gonna stay here Amidst the trees Deep is my heart In a beautiful wave Cover me When I return home from the cave Lay down your weapons All of your dreams Everything I say Ain't all what it seems Take my secrets My open palms Recite me a surah Then sing me a song Clean and pure Are the eyes at dawn Smells like heaven In its early form Bridge out the darkness This is the way I'll kiss your hand And trust what you say My rose gold My heart, my rose gold My rose gold My heart My rose-gold
16.	Black Shadow 03:17	lyrics	buy track
Drums, guitars, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq Bass guitar Jerohme Spye No cars No places to go Cafés and hearts All closed People on auto Talking all that info But I'm just here With my shadow Lazy and dissatisfied Kinda like something in me died Feels like two years since I cried Why'd you dim the lights? Your signals gone dry Lots of ladies crowding around me To see what I've been through Everybody asking about me Is it really true? Do we still care about each other? Do, do we do? We've got so many flowers to give But they seem to be stuck with glue Stuck with glue Stuck to you Shut me down outside (Shoot me down) Lock me down on my good side (Keep me down) I'm here alone with my face (In concrete) I got clean water, but I can't taste (I can't breathe) Someone shake me on my shoulder Stop me right now from getting older Or let me go, cos I don't care, yo I'm good right here with my shadow Crying babies stop when they see me They can understand So much sprouting, natural beauty All across this land In the blackness I see neon pink and purple stars Your black shadow tells you where to go And it's telling you Who you are: Don't go too far Stay as you are Don't lose your star Don't lose your star.

about

In the dark fog
There are no drugs left
That can rain into our veins.
There are no new domains.

We’ve been cast aside
Left alone. Fend for yourselves.
We’re too tired to lash out, it’s just
Echoes and boring shadows and vague
Hopes about something called a vaccinated
Tomorrow.

The world left us
Our hearts were broken
We know, now, the right way
If only the doors opened again
If only the lights came on again.

Until then we have little choice
But to sit in our darkened rooms
Solace to ourselves in thoughtfulness
As we put on new, chiming, velour waves
Nostalgic essences that swirl into our caves
The men before had called it music, but they had
Resorted to using it as a numbing agent, rather than
Entrusting their full hearts unto it and using it to guide
Their daily directions and larger decisions, where music
Becomes a stitch in the fabric of their all. ‘Perhaps now,’ say
The music makers, ‘They will begin hearing again what they'd been
Stilling and numbing before.’ A beating heart, evaporating away
From blood into the softest feeling of love, all of us together
Congratulating one another on our beauty and rejoicing in
Our shared act of being, as we clap each other on the
Back and say let us begin again on that bright yellow
Road, leading into the black future of blue lights.
'The children were right all along,' our
ancestors and descendants sing
In a bedizened harmony,
'It was pink!'

With love,
Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq (Quarantine, Earth, 2020)

credits

released September 11, 2020

Written, Produced & Performed by Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq at Nefisa Studios, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 2020.
Mastered by Dennis Kane, Washington DC, 2020
Cover photograph by Ahmad Bromund
...Jawharat al-Kamal...

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MASTAKAI Los Angeles, California

MASTAKAI, (previously Yoshi / Yusuf Misdaq) has lived many lives in many places. He was making beats, writing lyrics, producing music and singing songs long before he was born. He is from Afghanistan. He will die there, and be reborn again there.

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