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Who Would Be Born

by Ensemble Mik Nawooj

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"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas." - Demian (Hermen Hesse)

JooWan Kim: Always loved the passage in Demian and after discovering more on Abraxas for being such a rich and ambiguous character within the canon of Gnosticism, I thought it really fit into the mythos of Mik Nawooj we have been developing for a bigger theatrical work called the Great Integration. When we first began EMN, we started with programmatic pieces with a loose storyline, simply because the MC at the time wanted me to tell him what he was supposed to rhyme about. After several pieces and assigning certain episodes as well as moods, the character Mik Nawooj was formed. The whispers at the end of this piece are magical syllables within the Mik Nawooj universe called “Syllables of Transmutation”, which allow the user to open up all five energies of internal organs and transform into a god.

The general idea of this piece was to portray the end of the old and beginning of the new. Quite often these great changes are violent.

lyrics

Sandman low in the cut
Every showdown I’m showin’em up
They’re not knowing enough
To stop showing their bluff
So they’re throwing a fit
While I’m holding my nuts
They talk falsehoods
What they say not true
I poke holes in their stories
And watch their plans fall through
Like, bye bye salude
You’re the only one to blame for what you fall prey to
Yea y’all made loot
But it ain’t stop your demons from collecting their due
And they won’t take cash or pardon you
Until the milks gone bad and your cheese (is) all blue
Sad you’ve been had
In the pit(t)s like your dad is Brad
And your fix ain’t fixing that
Your ex-wife split with your cash
And the women ain’t hitting you back
And in a fit of madness
Your tripping traffic
Cameras get to clicking and flashing
Now your pic’s on the internet
Look at that you’re looking an ass
You look at the caption
It says “look at this has been”

CHORUS:
So what are you famous fo(r)
Can’t show your face no place to go
Get medicated though
Get shit faced and waste slow
Don’t know your friends from foes
Get shit faced and waste slow

Oh lord it's the return of the gods
Soon as I drop no one can hold their applause
Only because I won't fight for the facade
Bullshit walks
And the false gotta hold their remarks
It's the golden heart
And I roll with a squad
Of light bodies to the party
Where we glow in the dark
In the middle of the floor
Where i show them gloss
And they don't comprehend the glow
Because it wasn't something they bought.

CHORUS:
So what are you famous fo(r)
Can’t show your face no place to go
Get medicated though
Get shit faced and waste slow
Don’t know your friends from foes
Get shit faced and waste slow

credits

released February 23, 2021
Composition/Piano - JooWan Kim
Lyrics/Rap - Sandman
Soprano - Anne Hepburn Smith
Flute - Joyce Lee
Oboe - Liam Boisset
Clarinet - Davis Hampton
Bassoon - Jamael Smith
French Horn - Craig James Hansen
Violin 1 - Clare Armenante
Violin 2 - Laura Keller
Viola - Ivo Bokulić
Cello - Evan Kahn
Bass - Michel Taddei
Drums - Lyman Jerome Alexander II

Mixed and Mastered by Jeremy Goody (Megasonic Sound)

All music composed and orchestrated by JooWan Kim
All lyrics written by Sandman
Produced by JooWan Kim and Christopher Nicholas

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Led by composer & pianist JooWan Kim, Ensemble Mik Nawooj samples hip-hop & classical, rendering metamusic.

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