XI, by XI

XI

by XI

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1.	Contradiction of Self 03:43	lyrics	buy track
Contradiction of Self This arid state of maturity This desert drought of thought This poisoned air of faith This enveloping smog of freedom This suffocating rain of vision This violent storm of peace This turbulent flight of opportunity This flooded land of creativity This vital sea of fear This fatal avalanche of courage This overcast sky of clarity This darkened cave of love This rocky path of good This motorway of hell This carnivore of pleasure This single cell of honour This written word of truth This proud ignorance of life This contradiction of self How you say it How you wannit How you feel it How you do it How you know it We are no longer prisoners Of routine Of foresight Of expectations. We are no longer tortured By the wealth Mistook for comfort Disguised as respect. We are no longer angry At the forced wind of change That haunted our only view And captured our single dream. We are no longer weakened By thoughts of injustice By regrets of time By wasted talent. We are no longer fooled By other’s demands By other’s guilt. The guilt is not ours And never will be. And never will be. This contradiction of self How you say it How you wannit How you feel it How you do it How you know it
2.	She Within Her 04:42	lyrics	buy track
She Within Her Her hands run deep in the soil Turning each grain Between her grasp Asking to hold on To every life That passed through This land of Gold. Snow-capped mountains With majestic voices Sail the Skies Beyond her view Of Life, Her Life. A nomadic Queen, born of free Wanders the streets of constraint. Memories envelop her crown. Diminished moments are faint Within her Becoming her. She fills her soul with power And listens to her word, The ancient word of the land Of one step forever forward Within her Beyond her. Headlights blind her, Street lights light her way. Her balance falters But her strength never sways Within her Forever her. She recognized herself As the woman who crossed the land From blood to society From culture to culture, Enveloping all Adapting to all. Emerging as a distant Queen From distant thought And knowing. One born of native blood, A nomadic soul, A wandering heart. She enters, and leaves. And enters again The unknown lands Known by many. A voice unheard, She rises up, And speaks her truth To those around. Risen from the blood of Celtic warriors, Nomadic in her way. Light-footed upon the sand, She wandered trail after trail Searching for her soul, Searching for the Queen within herself. Step by step She discovered her land. As night did fall, the enveloping skies Fell upon her and enriched her deepest dreams. She no longer felt a Queen, But felt her womanhood rise up within her, Fractured with sensual desires, Forbidden truths from cultures lost. Mountainous winds blew her off balance And tugged at her flesh. As winds entangled her feet, She lost her step, Her rhythm slowed. She felt the stillness, The power within. She knelt before herself And asked for forgiveness That she had turned From that which is hers, That which is she, She that is her. Her within She. She within Her. Her within She. She within Her. Her within She. She within Her.
3.	Silent Voice 02:21	lyrics	buy track
Silent Voice From the depths of our inner layer Calls the silent voice of longing. The missed moments that blur into a cloud Of insignificance, Haunt our every thought as if beating quietly Upon our conscience, Reminding us of our commitment made Before we exhaled our first breath. The first inhale lingered as an unspoken promise In the air, of a loved one just departed, The one who loved us enough to give birth to our soul. I read words written a life time ago and my heart Tightens with a yearning to return to that self Who wandered through life, Connected to an inner voice, Which leapt out onto the page And viciously captured the injustice Of the ever present moment creeping into the past. This past, I now live in the present.
4.	Seven Sisters 04:47	lyrics	buy track
Seven Sisters The fading light up yonder Beckons me to consider you, Even though my solitude reigns above The desert winds as They circle the crevices And bow down to the canyon. The first star of the night Begins to shimmer in view Of the arid horizon, Allowing others to join By his side In the vast suspended ocean. The perfumes of the evening Plants, plant themselves Upon me, Flowering me with their beauty And protecting me with their Essence. never alone Beneath the blue black sky And millions of stars. I fantasize phantoms from the Rocks, and befriend their Souls with my hypnotized vision. The seven sisters tower over Me, shading me from myself. And then, She graces me with her presence. Her glow proceeds her with Temptation. Her body follows with fertile Form and translucent soul. She governs. She masters the motorways of wind. She reigns her night kingdom With power and glory, Inviting her subjects to fall silent In her grace. She is my queen And always has been. I may shine, as I rule my own sun, But she marks my word And enlightens my darkest hour.
5.	Oil 05:56	lyrics	buy track
Oil As government begins to auction We sell our soul for a third of it’s true value. The 28 billion will only half cover the debts We have incurred over years of human existence. To own treasuries makes no sense When the most precious asset we have is our belief In the self In the Universe In the balance of the two. Earnings that continue to feed the mouths Of greed Of religion Of war Will only draw us closer to the worst poverty of all. The poverty of thought The poverty of opportunity The poverty of creation. The population of underdeveloped man Has no relation to the place of settlement, But all to do with the state of maturity Of mind Of body Of soul. In this time of instability Let us not feed on stocks and shares Let us not feed on dollars and dow Let us not feed on the decline of trade, But instead Learn Without shame From the debt we owe To ourselves. Awareness Consciousness Intelligence Creativity must reign, As king And his court As Queen And her chambers, To govern Man Through This volatile land Laced in oil We call his soul.
6.	Woman 04:58	lyrics	buy track
Woman Illuminated eyes burn through The reflection of an encased Prison of influence. That of elevated sensational Thought. That of a collective synergy with All perceptions born of a certain Spirit. That of woman. Woman that breathes, Woman that dreams, Woman that becomes the Earth. Shadowed beings hover with out-stretched Limbs, clutching to the Journey of an innocent thirst. The following rendez-vous Is obscured by layers of Molecular essence, Gliding through hemispheres Divided only by command Of thought, enhanced Only by the breath of music, Perceived only Through the knowledge Beyond touch. Suspended under the light Of diamond encrusted Thought, an engraved Impression laces reality Unto a sonic ground Orchestrated within a Tortured performance. The hour of recognition Is surpassed only by The denial of time, Pulsating rhythmically To the demands of once Before.

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XI, the self-titled inaugural release, denotes the Self which is past, which continually passes, the I-entity that is released once the transformation of Self has begun. XI is a tale of transformation. Our protagonist is driven by the power of the Word and is on a quest toward realization, an awakening of consciousness, as she embarks on a journey of Self-Knowing.

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released September 24, 2021

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XI Los Angeles, California

XI is a spoken song duo duo grounded in poetry, sonic expression and visual storytelling, created, curated and realized by @reidwilkie and @eddiehulten.

XI is derived from the multi-faceted X, representing the expanse of musical experimentation, coupled with the singular power of I, representing the Word as much as the Self.

XI, the self-titled inaugural release, denotes the Self which is past. ... more