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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lyrics
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
credits
from SHEDARK / MIROSA (2020),
released September 11, 2020
Synth, harpsichord, drums, rose gold, vocals Yusuf 'Yoshi' Misdaq
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.
All proceeds from this hard-hitting industrial techno compilation go to benefit relief organizations helping Ukraine. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 24, 2022
