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So Common, Pts. 1 & 2 (Live)

by Carlo dell'Aquila

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SO COMMON, PTS. 1 & 2 (LIVE) is a single from Carlo dell'Aquila.

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Uncoiling from a palette of lush fingerpicked acoustic guitar and hushed vocals, the harrowing narrative of "So Common, Pts. 1 & 2" immediately positions itself as one of the most personal offerings from Carlo dell’Aquila thus far. Based on a collection of recurring dreams experienced by Beck over the past seven years, the first part of the track finds the duo at its darkest moment: unable to escape from the throes of a vicious nightmare, Beck is visited by an omnipresent evil that exposes him to such appalling horrors as dismembered corpses and the scorched fingers of ghouls reaching out from the depths of the darkness. But the morning gives rise to a lightness, an awareness of the futility of resistance toward the inevitable, and an ultimate call to arms: "Lean into this, and dissolve in bliss."

Recorded, mixed, and mastered on 16 April 2022 at West 36th.

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I woke up from a dream so common.
I had locked myself inside
my parents’ bedroom in
my childhood home.

I turned out all the lights,
and I hid in the darkness,
praying not to be seen by
strangers prying at the door.

I could not escape their evil;
it was all around me. I could
see their blackened fingers reaching
from underneath the bed.

I lie frozen, paralyzed by
the visions of dead bodies
with mangled limbs detached
and torsos severed from their legs.

Everything was still and quiet
except the screeching of
the frigid metal gears
within my mind.

I held my breath and checked the apartment,
expecting to find a stranger
in my closet, waiting to put his
hands around my neck.

But all I saw was my own reflection:
in the darkened mirror, I stared
deep into the formless blackness,
and terror took its shape.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

But don’t you know that we
can’t change the past?
And all of these ghosts
will follow us into our graves.
But what’s the use of trying
to pretend we’re someone else?

Lean into this,
and dissolve in bliss.

(ad infinitum)

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released April 29, 2022
Dylan Beck: vocals, Indiana Scout, lyrics, production, mixing, mastering, photography, videography, cover artwork

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Carlo dell'Aquila Kansas City, Missouri

Uniting once again, Dylan C. Beck and Danilo Uomo are Carlo dell'Aquila.

Conceived originally as a spiritual successor to late-era Talk Talk, Carlo dell'Aquila combines the haunting lyricism of Sufjan Stevens with the swirling dream pop of the Antlers and cosmic mysticism of the Microphones; the result is a sound that demands to be heard. ... more

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