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The Age of Tourlou

by Prins Obi

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1.
Anatolian Rock, you make me feel so incompetent Anatolian Rock, I feel like I'm being beaten Anatolian Rock, I think I'm only spinning Anatolian Rock, on this iPod you're only winning Blackwood secrecy, a band from Japan can't compete with your genuine brand eastern flourishes, arpeggios from hell perfect grooves, I'm a fool for you Anatolian Rock Anatolian Rock, you're teasing me can't really foresee where I'm gonna be a girl from Venus and a flower child can't compare to your eastern vibe (Anatolian Rock, you make me feel so incompetent Anatolian Rock, I feel like I'm being beaten) Royal secrecy, not even Steely Dan can't compare to my unrequited love snakes on fire chanting for Allah aphrodisiac vibes, I'm a fool for you Anatolian Rock
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Common Sense 01:21
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place your faith in friends, learn to absorb guide the spinning wheel, don't be too demanding embrace the challenges stirring up your life there's also wealth in quietness, never be too demanding take your lover down, show her around she can have everything, never be demanding your superstition takes a lot of your brain time to get over it, you're too demanding hearing their whispers, kissing the tide don't get too formal, you will end up more wise place your faith in friends, learn to absorb guide the spinning wheel, don't be too demanding embrace the challenges stirring up your life there's also wealth in quietness, never be too demanding take your lover down, show her around she can have everything, she can't be demanding this constellation is a ghost of the past relics and remnants, time is too demanding there's dust on the water, the leaves begin to sway cherish the moment, nothing really stays the same look up their faces, see yourself through their eyes they're here to help you, not alone in this fight
4.
every facet of the galaxy transforms into you there's little time for the big surprise, we've got to assume in a minute, we won't be there, we'll disappear is the vacuum-star-eternity the same as fear? It's your burnt emotion blazing in the dark and your stranded devotion from the other side you kept me waiting somewhere in between just a victim of your meteorite (meteorite) with a shockwave of centurions you left too soon (too soon, too soon) you can't really blame the Cylons for the sinister move (their move, our move) you're the source of inspiration when you're kicking your wife (your wife, your wife) or disrupt the harmony with your vicious mind (your mind, their mind) It's your burnt emotion blazing in the dark and your stranded devotion from the other side have you kept me waiting somewhere in between? just a victim of your uncertain kind you're a deft companion swimming in a stream I think I'll follow, you're my everything and your widened vision hiding in the dark distant cousins of the finest kind, big surprise
5.
you felt it in your precious moments staring at that look in her eyes those ringing sounds don't seem so scary the tweeting birds have eased your mind into the void… and I start to fall into the light… and I fly once more confined in your self-imposed exile you taste the sorrow in your mouth waiting for the non-believers their talking tree begins to sprout into the void… and I start to fall into the light… where I glide
6.
Rafinity 02:07
let not the mighty man boast of his might Lord, I'm going home tonight for all that you wished for for all you've left behind love, I'm coming home tonight those distant, gilded treasures banished from my sight they fell into a sea of glitter buy I got you by my side let not the mighty man boast of his might Lord, I'm going home tonight for all that you wished for for all you've left behind love, I'm coming home tonight the distant, golden pleasures now they seem obscene I have to cross the limits giving birth to a sparkle deep within
7.
take your artifacts and make them shine like the fiercest glaze if it works for you, hit the wall you need someone to blame let the phonies in, control your life now you've got it made quitting everything and everyone before it is too late I always tell you, "finish what you start" but you're hanging around don't you know I have the mind of a Guru? despite the facts I'm not better than you but you're crossing the line I know you live the life of a Zulu dipping your fingers in the huge cosmic hole the world is so small I think you're losing your way like a monster with dope in his brain half-finished stew maybe we're going insane pack your things and leave this town back into the wild save your prayers, keep them underground sing them for a while for the ugly elements locked inside the safe won't restore the evidence and let you glide into the light I always tell you, "finish what you start" but you're hanging around don't you know I have the mind of a Guru? despite the facts I'm not better than you but you're crossing the line I know you lead the life of a Zulu dipping your fingers in the huge cosmic hole the world is so small I think you're losing your way like a monster with dope in his brain half-finished day maybe we're going insane
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lean on the promise of the eastern delight learning to speak with half-closed mind floating around on a piece of a ground have you gazed at the signs of the eagull? lost in the jungle chasing baboons kissing the silence and the empty spoons one step at a time and the words really rhyme have you noticed the flight of the seagulls? take the promise of the eastern delight learning to sleep with half-closed eyes floating around on a piece of a ground have you gazed at the signs of the eagull? wondering why the song doesn't rhyme have you noticed the signs of the seagulls?
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I sit here feeling lonely I miss everybody's moaning in my heart I'm feeling empty and some people are a distant memory I wish I could stop pretending that a bigger world awaits for me now I am older and the childhood dreams have ceased to be and I have grown colder the walls are coming closer I need an ounce of magic to release me from the tragic... …situation that I've put myself again and again feeling lost, lost, lost mama, I'm not a hero at least I'm not a zero I reserve the right to fail but I still remain afraid now I am older and the walls are coming closer I need an ounce of magic to release me from the tragic… …situation that I've put myself again and again and I've caught myself sick of this fight feeling lost, lost, lost, lost
11.
Galactika 02:46
Battlestar Galactika, aaa
12.
Heavy Feet 03:21
heavy feet, where do you go? seasons fly against you now let the sun show you where's the gold starry eyes, you are afraid did you learn how to behave? I can tell you are in denial in this universe of abdication where is your inclination? your refusals begin to shutter and you feel that you're just a modern man in this universe of accusations you are starting to lose your patience your excuses are your bread and butter 'cause you know you're just a modern man confrontations will surpass your aggression is world class and your decompression will not last tell me now, is it a fraud? is it you and isn't it hard to arrange your field of regard? in this universe of different options what's the point of your rust corruption? you can tell me that you cannot be bothered but I know you're just a modern man I don't care what you are after I don't care for your sarcastic laughter when I see you I don't mean to stutter but I guess I'm just a modern man
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lean on the promise of the eastern delight learning to fall with the western demise spinning around in a whirlpool someone dies for you tonight lost in the jungle chasing baboons kissing the silence and the empty spoons when all those innocent seagulls became birds of prey? where is the sound of the silent alarm? reaping your mind like a thunderous bark forget the monsters with dope in their brain I'm wondering if you could hear those golden whispers lean on the promise of the eastern delight learning to speak with half-closed mind spinning around in a whirlpool I could die for you tonight where is the sound of the silent alarm? reaping your mind like a thunderous bark forget the monsters with dope in their brain I'm wondering if you could hear... …those golden whispers kissing the tide crossing the airlines, kissing your mind there's blood in your nostrils, a flock of baboons nowhere to lean on, it's the age of tourlou
14.
Flower Child 03:52
I got love and no restraints into my heart again so please tell me your little secret before I die in vain all these people going nowhere am I one of them? trading essence for connections they just buy and sell flower child, flower child you just whisper little secrets into a dying tree (dying tree) reaching out for protection can you just let them be? (let them be into a dying tree) flower child (flower child) flower child (flower child)

about

Once Prins Obi completed recording the fourth Baby Guru album with his other three friends and band co-members, everybody was happy but he, in a moment of an unfulfilled creative need, proposed to others to continue to record and make the album a double LP. The remaining three, advised him to leave the album in peace (and they did very well so).

But a need for further expression was eating him up inside, so he decided to put aside the space opera (called "Fanfare for the Astro-Man") that he was working on but to keep its most interesting musical moments, which he recorded at Sundayman’s Inhousemusic Studio with the artist’s valuable help. Alongside he jammed at King Elephant’s Marginalia Studio with the new Dream Warriors (with members from The Voyage Limpid Sound, Chickn and Baby Guru) and occasionally with Baby Guru themselves, trying to put in order the ideas that he composed during his free weekends by the sea.

The result of all these is called ¨The Age of Tourlou”, a project of multi-sided philosophy and at the same time a tribute to pop culture. An album about the collapse of ideologies and mockery of the modern Western world, but also the necessary lightness that a man has to seek at certain moments in order to cope with the unbearable weight he is bearing.

¨The Age of Tourlou” will be out on limited edition red vinyl LP (+cd version) and digital album on Record Store Day 2017 via Inner Ear.

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released April 22, 2017

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Written and produced by Georgios 'Prins Obi' Dimakis except "Into the Light" (additional music by Sergios Voudris), "Finish What You Start" (additional music by Angelos Krallis), "Heavy Feet" (lyrics and additional music by KU) and "Flower Child" (additional music by King Elephant)

Creative assistance by King Elephant, Sergios Voudris, Angelos Krallis, Sundayman and Kon Kon (God bless The Dream Warriors)

Recording sessions for this album started in February 2016 and concluded in June 2016 (Athens, Greece)
Mixed by King Elephant at Marginalia Studio (July-August 2016)
Mastered by Yiannis Christodoulatos at Sweetspot Studio (September-October 2016)

Artwork by Kostas Pantoulas
Graphic design by Ifigenia Vasiliou

"Into the Light", "Astro-Man Theme" and "Chasing Baboons" are excerpts from the soundtrack of the (yet) unfinished space opera "Fanfare for the Astro-Man"

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Prins Obi Athens, Greece

Prins Obi is the moniker of Georgios Dimakis: songwriter, producer and ex-member of Baby Guru, Electric Feat & Duke Abduction. He has released five solo albums & four EPs. He performs live with The Dream Warriors or alone.

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