Album artwork for the-natural-world
Artwork by
Christian Degn

The Great Equalizer

from The Natural World

August 4th, 2023
12 tracks
50:44
The Natural World
The Natural World
The Great Equalizer
0:00
3:37
The Great Equalizer
Moray
Step back from the mind See through every eye Observing the vacuous sight Reflected in unending life Know dark in the darkness Hear silence which calls Emptiness prevailing Echoes from black wings Inhaling the deepening empty Formlessness eroding itself Collapse walls surrounding our hearts The dust from which we sculpted meaning Falls back into a soft black absolute To rest on stone within the ego tomb Shedding the chrysalis of material existence Discarding hierarchies which serve to separate Relinquish the nature of time And the concept of self Known physical properties Dissolve in the gaze of The great equalizer Ash of selves commingling The soil swallows Roots grab at bone As a mind returns Blurring fragments Tessellate The braid unraveling As it is wound Lives guided Through their moments A constant flowing Everything Step back from the mind See through every eye Observing the vacuous sight Reflected in unending life Know dark in the darkness Know the light that leaks in Hearing the voices of time Emptiness prevails
4:26

The Natural World is a story woven through drawings on paper, a solar eclipse, the printing press, dreams of a dead artist, the birth of a litter of cats, a religious man's crops dying, empty night skies and the lives held beneath them.

Credits

Guitars/Bass/Vocals/keyboard: Christian Degn
Drums: Robin Stone
Banjos/Recorder/Pump Organ: Benjamin Swisher
Additional keyboard: Randy Cordner
Mixed and mastered by
Randy Cordner at Beast Mansion Studio in Provo, UT
Produced Randy Cordner and Christian Degn
Art by Christian Degn
Logo by Stephen Wilson
Recorded in Provo, UT