Souvenirs

by The Gathering

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After a successful release of the EP Black Light District in 2002, the Gathering release in 2003 their most precious Souvenirs.

Again the Gathering rock, groove and take you on a exciting journey through highly impressive emotional music, in which Anneke van Giersbergen reflects on her mental "souvenirs" of real life experience. Souvenirs breathes a fascinating modern dark sound in which a perfect musical balance between organic and electronic sounds go hand in hand with more psychedelic film music.

Together with producer Zlaya Hadzich [Motorpsycho, Sonic Youth, Low, Agresion] the band streamlined a mere 50 minutes of music and is joined by Trickster G [Ulver], who sings the song A Life All Mine together with Anneke. With the release of How To Measure A Planet? [1998], the Gathering invented the term "triprock" to escape the pigeonhole community and with Souvenirs again they prove to be pioneers in bending modern sounds into beautiful, experimental and emotional music.

credits

released 24 February 2003
Line-up:
Anneke van Giersbergen
Hans Rutten
René Rutten
Hugo Prinsen Geerligs
Frank Boeijen

Produced by Zlaya Hadzich
All songs composed, performed and arranged by the Gathering and Zlaya Hadzich
All lyrics by Anneke van Giersbergen except Monsters and We Just Stopped Breathing by Zlaya Hadzich, A Life All Mine by Trickster G. and Anneke van Giersbergen
Recorded @ E-Sound Weesp, Loud Amsterdam and A1 Amsterdam
Engineered by Zlaya Hadzich, Sietze Gardenier, David Klooker and Ignaz Bruens
Mixed @ A1, Loud and E-Sound by Zlaya Hadzich, René Rutten and Michael Buyens
Mastered by Alan Ward @ Electric City, Brussels
Artwork design and dtp @ iNDEX Utrech
All photography by Esther Marbus except flowers by Niels Coppes
Endorsement by Kock and Jac Bogers

Guests:
Trickster G. - lyrics and vocals on A Life All Mine
Dorothy - backing vocals on You Learn About It
Wouter Planteijdt - electric and acoustic guitar on These Good People and You Learn About It
Mathias Eick - trumpet on We Just Stopped Breathing
Kid Sublime - beats on We Just Stopped Breathing
Michael Buyens - bass on You Learn About It and Monsters

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Track Name: These Good People
He worries no more than he
Necessarily needs to fill his void
As big as space never ending thrill
He meets his will by choosing hate

Why choosing?
Need us to smile too?
Alright

Struggling to prevail

Foretaste
The aftermath
Which will be black
As black as waste

We’ll throw in an extra dance
For just a little over 5 pence
Need us to smile too?
You’ll turn our limo into a hearse
Weighing just enough to run it over your curse
Need us to smile too?

You lie, you lie, you lie
Track Name: Even The Spirits Are Afraid
You think you were earning
Burning the church of your god
You were yearning
Learning the birth of your dirt
Did you think you earned it
Burning your god
That you thought messed up your life?

You spill red
On my cloudy carpet

You think you were earning
Burning the church of your god
You were yearning
Learning the birth of your dirt
Did you think you earned it
Burning your god
That you thought messed up your life?

You spill red
On my cloudy carpet

Your skin turns dust
On my cloudy carpet

You think
You were earning
Burning
Your skin turns dust
No more you were yearning
Burning
Burning
Your skin turns dust

Your skin turns to dust
When holding it close to the sun
And it burns the skin from you're your precious sun
It burns the skin
It burns the skin
It burns the skin
Track Name: Broken Glass
Strange vibe
circles round
Tries to comfort
buzzing sounds

Form an arrow
point at us
We the target
are the one

Place your bet
on the best
The fastest horse
you can find

Drop yourself
in the grass
Breathe the air
at last
Hold on tight
don’t fall down

Breathe the air
trough the water

Form an arrow
point at us
We the target
are the center

Find the key
lock the door
Close your eyes
for encore

Drop yourself
in the grass
Breathe the air
at last
Hold on tight
don’t you fall down
Breathe the air
trough the water

Find your peace
turn inside
You the target
you the center

Find the key
lock the door
Close your eyes
for encore

Drop yourself
in the grass
Breathe the air
at last
Hold on tight
don’t you fall down
Breathe the air
trough the water
Track Name: You Learn About It
Now that we’re through
the hell with you
We dont mind
We just give it a sigh

We hardly knew
what you were capable
of doing
But why don’t you give it a try

Oh, you learn about it
Oh, you harvest [untill you can make no more]
All that’s eating inside
All that’s eating inside

We hardly knew
what you were capable
of doing
But why don’t you give it a try

Oh, you learn about it
Oh, you harvest [untill you can make no more]
All that’s eating inside
All that’s eating inside

Can’t take no more..

Oh, you learn about it
Oh, you harvest [untill you can make no more]
All that’s eating inside
All that’s eating inside

Can’t take no more...
Track Name: Souvenirs
Jump in heat
Plunge to your truth
Agree with your youth
Consider defeat
Part and part
And separate
We will

Brand new paths
In ways to soothe
Never disagree with your youth
Part of your heart
Will separate
It will

The gift of your life
All what was concealed
No skin-deep a dive
Your childhood revealed

You jump in heat
Plunge to your start
Don’t underestimate
You’re own point of view
Don’t part your art
Or hesitate
Your will

The gift of your life
All what was concealed
No skin-deep a dive
Your childhood revealed

You peel all the layers of forever
You start the beginning of the end
Breathing is bridging the gap
Between black and light

And now you feel alive!
And now you learn to dive you know!
Breathing is bridging the gap
Between black and light
Track Name: We Just Stopped Breathing
Lying - down on
Sidewalk - lying
Running - tears down
His ears - lying
Lying - brought us fear

Where do we go from here?

One day - sixteen
Woke up - sixty
Gasping - hurry
Hurry

Where do we go from here?
Track Name: Monsters
All you need all you need
All you need
Is all is now

All you need all you need
All you need
Is not what you're getting

All you live all you give
All you live
Fits in a teardrop

If you come closer
I'll show you how it feels

All you need all you need
All you need
Is all is now

All you live all you give
All you live
Fits in a teardrop

Give what's worth remembering
Give what's worth dying
Give it al
Oh, back for more

You just give it all
Oh, back for more

If you come closer
I'll show you how it feels

High is high
Low is low
Love is gone

The best ones are the first to
If you come closer
I'll show you how it feels

High is high
Low is low
Love is gone
Track Name: Golden Grounds
As the sand
spreads wide open
and the glow of the sun
pearls the skin
All hope is craving fluids
and the yearning to where we’ve been

Golden grounds
so absorbing
When the heat of the sun
boils the skin
We have to stand the test of nature
to return to where we’ve been

Hold on my saviour
Keep my heart in holy dimensions
Drag me on your back
for one more day
One more day

One more day

You give
You learn
You live
You learn
I guess what ever you may find
It's all right to eat a piece of your mind
Track Name: Jelena
My friend
She tipped over
Out of childhood into sadness
She’s always shining
But nevertheless
Her beautiful heart is drowned in grief

Sugar horse, lives inside
Like a friend
In need

Far and wide she’ll gaze
Upon the flowers bloom
Jaded, her mind in a daze
From the medicine gloom

They leave her with her friend
A force of nature filled with strength

Sugar horse, lives inside
Like a friend
In need
Track Name: A Life All Mine
Razor sharp I cut
The bull from my life
Too blunt your knife
To slay this dreamer

We might be dogs astray
No running line will hold us
So rather kick and kill me
I'll be butchered all the same

No words are spoken
But the world is broken

'Cause I want something
Something all wrong done
A life instead of mere living
Folding crumbling withering oh hell
What difference when working the way

The crown of my work
Is what I shall gain
At the end of my days

Daylight awake to a puppet world
No strings attach to this body of mine
Folding crumbling withering oh well
The punished pushed along the line
All my actions, all my moves
A life all mine to lose

The crown of my work
A life all mine to lose
A life all mine
Is what I choose
At the end of my days