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YES IT'S ANANIAS III: THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE THIRD ERA

by YES IT'S ANANIAS

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Title-Poetry THE COMMENCEMENT (INTRO) And this is how it starts. With an end. Therefore when you are birthed, death has already positioned itself in your path for longer than you might have recognized. New Principles and a new hope dawning within the sky. But to await and celebrate the morning’s heat we must await the very darkest night of nights. The 7 steps of the new you are being proposed to you.
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Title-Poetry THE THIRD ERA Have you yet realized, you’ve been in the middle of an awakening? Aren‘t you listening? Are you deaf? Is your heart not working anymore? The older two eras are over and within your power of crafting yourself a new sky (you’ll paint it silver-blue), so may the sky lead you to the very shiny place you’re not even capable dreaming of. The spotlight in a dark old forest where you learn to wait and starve. Where you teach your body to not let you down and never spill a drop of a heavy raindrop that will wash you clean but yet makes you cold in the darkest night. But with the awaited dawn of light, you might find the sky’s white bright. The third era has arrived.
3.
Title-Poetry FUNERAL WITHOUT A DEATH Step one: Close your eyes and listen to everything you’ve forgotten. See them appear and kindly greet you while they float on their way to further souls. To far off distances than what your body could carry yourself. You do not have to let go, you need to pass them. Greeting the dead is but a journey of a deeper understanding of life. Step two: Learn that life starts with something that is not moving. And slowly it starts to shake. To breath. But this is not about our luxury, or, our generous life within such an endless and valuable source of love. The heaviest load is not a dead corpse, but an old yourself that you need to let go and throw into the rivers of all of your old yourselves. Within that very river it will flow and guide the old you to your new you. Step III: Open your eyes again at the Delta of Salocin and you will hear the melodies of a funeral without a death.
4.
Title-Poetry PRINCESS HEINRICH You got a new skill. You got it. You got a new skill to relief and believe that you can approach something you do not expect. Sometimes our silence can be the loudest most painful noise you have ever felt. Therefore noise isn’t something you hear, it’s something you feel, since frequencies are something of a part of our physics, it is reaching out to you and shake through your body. A royal feeling that is my friend. Like a naked princess who has to learn to dance without her clothes. It happened on the island years ago.
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Title-Poetry QUEEN'S MAGNOLIA Almost forgetting where you come from, you’ll have to understand that it won’t be necessary anymore to protect your history, but to engage with your now you’re living in. Because the most powerful figure in a kingdom will and always has been the female ruler. The lady and the queen of your life. From a foreign royal family she has been sent. And without looking for a King, she will know when it’s time for him to meet her and thus his future. The past has erased old “yous”. The endless ending of a trip will seem very clear to you and your heart. It’s a fresh pumping organ full of its origin: The blood and the strongest muscle of the human body. Regulated by electrifying impulses. The Queen will hear it all over the distracting borders of destiny. Can you hear the birds whistle along the heartbeats at the end of the beginning? They are joyful and dancing on the bluest of blossoms in the far away forest. On a Queen’s Magnolia.
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Title-Poetry KING AXUM III. Heat has come upon the night’s walk and fulfills its existential purpose. You will find a Queendom on the otherside of the earth’s plate.
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Addis Atonal 02:06
Title-Poetry ADDIS ATONAL The eastern sandcorns are listening in the dunes of Haxaraniq. As random as nature seems, slight and mostly very fine winds will announce a trip upon which you’ll explore an additional skill. The skill of unusual rhythms and tastes. Dissonance hovers into your Auricula Auris and prepares something unlikely strange. It will smash doors of perception, crack giant walls of your mind and finally, at the very end of your trial, strength and subconscious power has been greeting you. You are entering 9°01'50.7"N 38°45'59.6"E.
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Treizeta 03:02
Title-Poetry TREIZETA Thirteen million seconds you were blind. But when the Mountain Crocodile told you that the blind man sees best and dances the Tezeta, you won’t be scared of the browngreen teeth of thy Lizardness. You have to face fear and conquer 43 heavy, unexplained letters. Hard to read. Hard to speak out. Three days of trial and error. But you will open a door for great ears and push boundaries for further years. Speak in tongues and teach them how to understand that hidden language.
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Title-Poetry HOT SNOWFLAKE PT. I (ICE-O-LATION) We are all sick. We can kill everyone with our conversation. With our balance on the road, we might get out of it alive and forget what is happening within the shortest of years. But what if after the many deaths we’ve read and heard about, there won’t be any more time? Will we witness hot snowflakes in isolation? Will we speak of past times where we played in the cold and threw gathered balles of snowmolecules with six edges? We have got to wait until mother nature takes its toll to develope something we can live with in harmony, zero despair and full energy for our beliefs. That is nothing but being together with the ones who show you love. Being patient is just natural. Or have you ever seen a Sequoiadendron Giganteum growing in your life? Water the ones who stand by you.
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Title-Poetry TREDICI DODI DI GIOCO The 13th Note of wisdom is showing you how to gain lust and strength for everlasting luck. It’s only costing you a one-time delivery of listening in the right moment and as well as the correct timestamp. An ignition of the beauty in front of the keys. Without knowing its tactics, but glowing inside and with that inner side, a pearl with its wholesome purity, she will guide you to an uncommon number of chords that will make a new artifact available in your toolbox. It’s glass clear. That is step four. Step five can take you a while but it’s possible for you to enter and accept a new era. The everlasting power. The Perpetuum Mobile. Always spinning and never reaches an end. Like thirteen dice rolling on forever once you’ve thrown them onto the table all at the same time.
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Vollenweider 01:58
VOLLENWEIDER The coast is always changing. The water bites within the smallest steps, chipping off some of the earth’s soil. The sea appears beautiful and refreshing. The sky is limitless, yet below you get reflections of yourself and there it is! Not far away you see a blurred version of you in the everlasting waves and splashes of the cold water. Long for silence. It’s calling you. It has written your name under its wrapped up coat. It will keep you warm forever. And ever. And the ever. Does it make sense that you see reflections because the light of the suns is beaming right on it? Yes? You see the inner Ananias in you that reflects the good and the bad? Can you call it out? The fifth step has approached, Yes. It’s Ananias.
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Title-Poetry HOT SNOWFLAKE PT. II (NUANCES OF THE WARMTH) Step six seems logical to you if you took every step, not step by step, but staircase by staircase. Life is not here to await. It’s only gone when you have lived it. So, live it well, be kind. And rewind. Wash your soul in the biggest assembly of molten snowflakes. The 8th of the seven seas. The inner ocean that is never quiet and always pushing you further. Let yourself remind you that it’s the beauty of true love and its smile that is recording your inside-coast. Never still.
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Title-Poetry MES YEUX SALÉES AUX SOLEILS The magnetic field of the giant sun will always pull its essence to its near. It can’t burn on its surface, but is only here to become one giant sun. To spread heat, life and a resourceful biological foundation. Light will always sparkle in the dark. Snowfields will always melt in the sun. Misleading forests always end up as one useless box of matches. Tears always dry when you get touched by the everlasting light. That light we all keep inside. And when two suns meet, they ignite. During the day. And during the night.
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Title-Poetry METAMORPHOSE CRIARDE ET LE MONDE NOUVEAU (OUTRO) Many steps of a foreign creature you have heard about. Several guidances you tried to carry with you. But no sign of a change. Within time you’ll recognize that the change will not happen during a certain moment but a very long period of wrapping up yourself like a worm inside its cocoon. It knows it’s got to eat a lot, it might get killed, but yet will not move a single muscle until it’s time to become what always has meant to be. Turning into a new state of a living soul and body. That is step seven. To acknowledge nature and it’s unforeseen gestures that the world has always had ready for the ones who close and open up naturally. It’s a process. It’s a new start. The commencement of The Third Era.

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All songs composed, arranged and improvised by Nicolas Streichenberg alias Yes It’s Ananias on the 5th until the 8th of February 2021. Without a script but liner notes, odours, memorable moving pictures in his head which were flooded through the pianist’s fingers because he was told to by unknown powerful machines beyond our understanding. The giant motor of Love.

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released January 21, 2022

Production: ho-fi ton; Chief Producer & Mentoring: Martin Hofstetter; Recorded at a miraculous rehearsing space in Höngg, Switzerland by Martin Hofstetter; Mixed at ho-fi ton Zürich, Switzerland, by Martin Hofstetter and Nicolas Streichenberg; Mastered at Monoposto Mastering Düsseldorf, Germany by Michael Schwabe; Vinyl manufactured by handle with care, Berlin, Germany.

A5’s Cuban Heels walking and an apple’s bite by Yes It’s Ananias; A5’s Last note tip-toeing-underneath-the-grandpiano-final-pedal-holding & B6’s Revox A-77 Tape Machine Live-Delays by Martin Hofstetter; B8’s Fireworks field recordings; Videoaudio recorded by Aramis Navarro at Casa Bonita on New Year’s Eve 2021 in Rapperswil, Switzerland; Additional re-amped field recordings by Nicolas Streichenberg;

Instruments: Steinway & Sons M-170 Grand Piano (1940), Fender Rhodes Mark II Seventy Three, Fender Bassman 50 Amp, Fender Twin Amp: provided by Silvan Stürzinger, Elka Rhapsody 610 String Orchestrator, Korg SV-1 Stage Vintage Piano, Uralbedho Monk Choirs, a dusty drumkit.


Artwork Photography by Tim W. III.; Artwork Design, Concept and visual mentoring: Lea Huser; Psycho Automatic Poems: Nicolas Streichenberg; Poem Editor: Hanya Leo; Studio Visitors and smilekeepers: Susann Pataki, Tim W. III. and the Mountain Crocodile; Fresh Ears: Malakoff Kowalski, Aramis Navarro, Hendrik Lenz, Lola Nachtigall, Fiona Good, Stephan Busslinger and Florian Amstutz; International Guidance and Caretakers: Cameron Allen at Royal Mint in Hanko, Finland. The Lehmanns
and The House Of The Rising Sun in Mulhouse, France. My brothers of other Organs Martin Zissel and Edouard Bertrand in Paris, France. Fenja Möller at Molotow Club in Hamburg, Germany.

Many thanks to Tastenwerk Zürich, ho-fi ton, Einwohnergemeinde Wohlen, C. & A. Kupperstiftung, S. & A. Streichenberg, Black Sea Dahu (Sorry for re-scheduling your rehearsals), Lola “magnolia acuminata” Nachtigall (Without you, I wouldn’t be me), Bodo, Carsten (Sorry for breaking your bone), The Buenos Dias Social Club, Christian Glatthard, Laura Mosimann, Grand Hotel Palazzo Livorno, Julian Huber & The Risa Hutwerkstatt AG, S. Loosli & R. Hilfiker, Fabian “Fai Baba” Sigmund, Manuel Egger & Suburban Sound Studios, Martin “Hofi” Hofstetter, G. Mayer-Sommer and Geroldstrasse 17, Eva Grätzer and SRF Kultur, every concert goer and supporter of Yes It’s Ananias since day three to experience my art and music to become one.

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With a first Improvisation-Single "Arrivinterval, Pt. II (Broken Heart Syndrome In GDL)" + "Departitura, Pt. II (Leaving Hirzel Palace)" off the upcoming work by Yes It's Ananias, recorded by a state-of-art recording engineer William Gonzalez at NomasMellow Sound Studios in the mexican Desert of Guadalajara, Jalisco, the Swiss psychoautomatic Pianist has done it again. A fully improvised Album.... ... more

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