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Cover image, sunWukong, for the song Golden Braid, Neural Fire
Cover image, sunWukong, for the song Golden Braid, Neural Fire

Golden Braid, Neural Fire

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Theme: anger observing itself, enraged at nothing, then enraged at that fact. Part of "Four Stages of Solastalgia", by Eli Mercer, out soon on St33v™ records.
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Golden Braid, Neural Fire

Theme: anger observing itself, enraged at nothing, then enraged at that fact.

[INTRO – 0:00]
[Minimal pulse, low-pass filtered synth, distant taiko heartbeat]
[Almost clinical, calm]

I note the temperature rising
Without assigning a cause
No threat identified
Yet the system prepares to strike

[VERSE A – Observer – 0:30]
[Spoken-sung, measured, steady]

There is heat without object
Voltage without direction
A reflex rehearsing itself
After the danger has left

I catalog the symptoms
Muscle, breath, impulse
Anger present
Target: undefined

[VERSE B – Monkey – 0:55]
[Shakuhachi enters, bending notes]

A thought leaps
Another follows
Tail on fire
Teeth bared at empty air

The sky tightens
The ground refuses
Nothing moves
Nothing yields

[INTERLEAVE – 1:20]
[Lines alternate rapidly]

(Observer)
I watch the process initiate
No author, no order

(Monkey)
The ring bites
The ring burns
Why does it burn

(Observer)
Feedback loop detected

(Monkey)
I rage at the band
I rage at the rage
I rage that I rage

[BUILD – 1:50]
[Percussion layers multiply, timing destabilizes]

The model diverges
Predictions collapse
Certainty spikes
Meaning evaporates

[BREAKDOWN – 2:20]
[Glitching synths, distorted taiko, fragmented vocals]

Band tightens
Head splits
Thought fights thought

Nothing to strike
Strike anyway

Nothing to blame
Blame everything

I know this is nothing
I hate that it’s nothing
I hate that I know

[CRESCENDO – 2:50]
[Full sonic overload, shouted / fractured delivery]

ANGER
AT NOTHING

ANGER
AT KNOWING

ANGER
AT ANGER

ANGER
AT SELF

ANGER
AT NO SELF

[VERSE A – Observer – 3:30]
[Breath, single sustained synth note]

The system exhausts itself
Energy spent on absence

No victory
No release

Just heat
Cooling

[OUTRO – 4:00]
[Shakuhachi returns, hollow, restrained]

The monkey sits
Still bound
Still breathing

I remain
Watching

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