ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTO

VOLUME 1

1 4 Skies

2 Simply Are

3 Illuminated

4 The Prize

5 Personagem

6 Child Prodigy

7 Ridiculously Deep

8 Complicity

9 Invoke

10 Reentry

11 Combustível

12 Ondina

The Prize

Privacy

Pony

Erotic City

Invoke

Maneiras

O Mais Belo dos Belos

Garden Wall of Guitar

Illuminated

Simply Beautiful

Estação Derradeira

Wall of Guitar

VOLUME 2 (LIVE)

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VOLUME 1

1. 4 SKIES(Arto Lindsay/Amedeo Pace)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Amedeo Pace (BMI)

Arto Lindsay: Guitar Amedeo Pace: Guitar Brian Eno: SonicsProduced by Arto Lindsay

One sky is orangeSome skies are greyOr the deep dark blue that gave blue its nameA sky like a room at the top of a houseA most violent sky hanging low over waterI need a way to say you’re scorchingA seething, crumpled, teeming sky

One sky on stageHeathen and roundHeat removes what was left of soundBraid two snakes, cover clouds with your armBlack hair turning red, sunset on a sweaterWhy do we feel like it might break?A seething, crumpled, teeming sky

2. SIMPLY ARE(Arto Lindsay/Marisa Monte/Davi Moraes/Andrés Levin)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Monte Songs Edições Musicais Ltda (Admin By EMI), ZB, Cool Banana Music (ASCAP)

Davi Moraes: Acoustic Guitar, SurdoMelvin Gibbs: Bass, Surdo Peter Scherer: Keyboards Ryuichi Sakamoto: Keyboards Andrés Levin: Keyboard, Programming Naná Vasconcelos: Repique, Stand Up KitProduced by Arto Lindsay, Andrés Levin, Melvin Gibbs

I do love your lack of all expressionFind it not at all distressingLife was tailor made for our refreshmentWhile life is rarely lacking dustCovered with details and fussYou are one of those creatures who simply areSimply beyond whySimple as okay

Let me provide whatever bravery’s required

Whatever necessary fractionBut nothing more than it takes to provoke a reactionDaydream your way around the roomThrough intersections and agressionsYou are one of those creatures who simply areSimply beyond whySimple as okay

Pay enough attention to be fairNo need to get up from your chairShower me with evidence of pleasant dispositionDaydream your way around the roomWalk right past frowns and gloomYou are one of those creatures that simply are

3. ILLUMINATED(Arto Lindsay/Andrés Levin/Melvin Gibbs)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Cool Banana Music (ASCAP)/Archetext Music (BMI)

Andrés Levin: Programming, Guitar, KeysMelvin Gibbs: Bass Stephen Barber: Keys, GuitarProduced by Arto Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs, Andrés Levin

I’m a student of just one masterI’m only afraid of one monsterI stand illuminated

All my visions crowd down to one bead of sweatMy whole life bears down on one hourI stand illuminated

I know the world holds many wordsPearls hang down in necklacesIslands come round in archipelagoesI get all my light from one light bulbI stand illuminated

I’m devoted to a telling detailI’m awash in overall impressionsI stand illuminated

I only roll down the one staircaseI only have foresight the first timeI stand illuminated

4. THE PRIZE(Arto Lindsay/Andrés Levin/Melvin Gibbs)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Cool Banana Music (ASCAP)/Archetext Music (BMI)

Melvin Gibbs: Bass, Programming, Keyboards, FiltersAndrés Levin: Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Rhythm 700, Stylophones, PandeiroDavi Moraes: Timbal, Caixas, Surdos, PandeiroSkoota Warner: DrumsStephen Barber: Strings and Horn ArrangementsBob Malach: Saxes and ClarinetsSandra Parks: ViolinSharon Yamada: ViolinRobert Rinehart: ViolaAllen Stepansky: CelloVinia Mojica: Additional VocalsProduced by Andrés Levin, Melvin Gibbs

When did I emptyMy empty mind?Did you see me let go of myself?Before I lose sightOf that picture of youBetter place it face down on the bed

Notice how natureReplaces what was mineBut still leaves me to drown in my styleReinvent remind meHow we stuck to our fastFasten me down

Rub words awayRoll back in the shadeViolent and hectic and wisePeace in disguiseDust covers the prizeViolent and hectic and wise

Bite marks and scratchesElbows and kneesIn our dollhouse the furniture’s capsizedRushing and stalling in our disbeliefFolded back into our own surprise

5. PERSONAGEM for Paula Hiroe (Arto Lindsay/Kassin/Melvin Gibbs)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Esponja (Som Livre)/Archetext Music (BMI)

Melvin Gibbs: Programming, Bass, Keyboards Davi Moraes: Guitar Marivaldo Paim: Surdo, CaixaKassin: ProgrammingMarcelo Camelo, Felipe Pinaud: Horn ArrangementsBidu Cordeiro, Mauro Zacharias,

Jeferson Victor: Horns Produced by Arto Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs, Kassin, Berna for Monoaural

Ela faz o personagemMão enfiada no bolsoChega ameaçandoE semi-malemolenteE nós conhecemos bemTodos os seus lindos desmaiosSeus colapsos de paixãoQuedas de sofrimento

Ela é mestre na arte de ser atrizDona do jogoDa verdade do fingimento

Ela é soberanaDos tecidos transparentesReina sobre os descendentesDaqueles povos mais decentesEla pensa e dispensaSolta e improvisadaSéria e compenetradaChora entre gargalhadas

Ela é mestreDo meu andamentoSenhora do tempoDona das cadências

Única e lindaDevassa e gloriosaO avesso da modéstiaEntrega-se aos ventos(Se entrega aos comentários)

6. CHILD PRODIGY(Arto Lindsay/Caetano Veloso)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Terra Enterprises Inc. (BMI)

Vinicius Cantuária: Guitar, Percussion Ryuichi Sakamoto: Piano, Synthesizers Naná Vasconcelos: Cymbals Produced by Arto Lindsay

His own private math is as big as lifeIt’s all aftermath, burns in stripes so bright

He sees right through walls, right through the writing on themTwo years old and playing those games

He’s not tame, he’s not slim yetFeed him, give him to eat – child prodigy

His head is barely hard, he’s so hard headedHair isn’t hardly parted he’s a man of parts

You can’t be jealous, he just makes you feel biggerTwo years old and he’ll never be the same

He’s not trained to put you through your pacesFeed him, give him to eat – child prodigy

Child prodigy, all wizardry and charm is yoursA children’s child, child of a child, prodigy

Take it all in till you cryThere’s always more blueGrazing, grazingMore laziness to make you cry

7. RIDICULOUSLY DEEP(Arto Lindsay/Vinicius Cantuária/Melvin Gibbs)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Tucuman/Archetext Music (BMI)

Melvin Gibbs: Programming, BassVinicius Cantuária: Acoustic GuitarNaná Vasconcelos: Drums Produced by Cycle 7 with Patrick Dillett, Arto Lindsay, Andrés Levin

Maple opaqueSevere and chicIs will power possible?Falling duskLights unclearBalance is less than useless

Chill at the neckIce, cheeks and earsMy sense of touch is worthlessExpensive chestsRampant, repleteFear would make the most sense

Eyes blink ridiculously deepSecrets of unfolding leisureDespise any motive shy of fateSleek and all indecisive

Looming allureHigh storied livesIn a roar of splintered musicDangling, crisp

Like border guardsSighs are rarely louder

8. COMPLICITY(Arto Lindsay/Vinicius Cantuária)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Sony Music Publishing Brazil (BMI)

Gustavo di Dalva: Boghan, Marcio Tchin-surdos, Caixas, BacurinhaVinicius Cantuária: GuitarPeter Scherer: Wurlitzer, KeyboardsMelvin Gibbs: BassRomero Lubambo: Additional Guitar DJ Spooky: Additional SamplesProduced by Arto Lindsay, Andrés Levin, Camus Maré Celli

Complicity Unconscious witBorders without borders under eyebrowsSilent as scentHair curls like smokeLet’s talk about another kind of violence

Terrifying face of pleasure in the paintingRed palms and soles stand out against blue skinStanding on one leg with her long back displayedWhile the other leg wraps itself around him

Day in a faceVoices erasedAt the center of a savage kind of halo

Hopelessly phrasedI’m not a birdYou are not lying in a hammock

How biological can this clock really beIf it doesn’t get you going until midnightIt’s an unconscious cult we don’t even know we’re in itLet’s make out like two bilinguals in the hay

9. INVOKE(Arto Lindsay/Melvin Gibbs)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Archetext Music (BMI)

Melvin Gibbs: Bass Skoota Warner: DrumsMark Batson: Keys Sandy Park: Violin Stephen Barber: Violin Arrangement

Nanny Assis: PercussionProduced by Arto Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs, Andrés Levin

I call your image to mindCall and recallTactile and olfactory signsI list your numerableAnd innumerable partsAll your limbsTogether in a single motion

Feast after feast goes badMany many winds hold their headsThere’s no rest to be had

I invoke, I invoke, I invoke

I summon your side effectsYour side kicks, a side stickSummon and applyResonance and slapbackI summon illusionsEspecially the flimsy underpinningOf temporary things

I invoke, I invoke, I invoke

On my knees in a new memoryWrapped up, set upBeing visualizedPanting and life-sizeI call out to youUp to my waistIn a howling windAnd all the trash it brings

I invoke, I invoke, I invoke

10. REENTRY(Arto Lindsay/Vinicius Cantuária)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Sony Music Publishing Brazil (BMI)

Melvin Gibbs: Programming, BassVinicius Cantuária: GuitarProduced by Cycle 7 with Patrick Dillett, Arto Lindsay, Andrés Levin

I’m watching youDon’t feel a thingWhat might that be?

I see your smile

In the center ringBright lights and lack

What’s all that dust? Can you see me back?

Reentry on my way outReentry why take me backA real ending is it too much to ask?Why can’t we leave it at that?

No special airNo autumn lightWhere might they be?

Back to the roomWhere time still movesSubject to me

Reentry on my way outReentry why take me backA real ending is it too much to ask?Why can’t we just leave it at that?

A movie deathClutch stumble rollYeah stretch it out

Dreams into steelHigh ceilings, words gone with the rest

It was some partI played that part

11. COMBUSTÍVEL(Arto Lindsay/Melvin Gibbs/Lucas Santana)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Archetext Music (BMI)/BMG publishing

Melvin Gibbs: Programming, KeyboardsMarivaldo Paim: Surdos, DjembeArto Lindsay: GuitarWebster Santos, Lucas Santana, Arto Lindsay: ChorusProduced by Arto Lindsay, Melvin Gibbs, Kassin, Berna for Monoaural

Cortejo afro chegandoÉ a rua em combustãoMe acabaMe cortejaMe arrasta pra conflagraçãoCombustívelTá escasso

CombustívelGenerosaMe cortejaMe arrastaCortejo afro chegando

Tudo que lambeÉ madeiraAçúcarPapel crepomÉ língua afiadaMuito pôr-do-sol

Tudo que ardeÉ chicoteDecoteMetais ao solE a gasolinaNão se bebe não

Tudo que queimaÉ pimentaÁgua-vivaÉ ateréIsqueiro no ventoSol sem protetor

Tudo fogosoÉ amanteCavaloAsfalto no péLume à vontadePreto e azul

12. ONDINA(Arto Lindsay/Andrés Levin/Melvin Gibbs)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Cool Banana Music (ASCAP)/Archetext Music (BMI)

Melvin Gibbs: Bass, Programming, Keyboards, FiltersAndrés Levin: Acoustic Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Rhythm 700, Stylophones, PandeiroDavi Moraes: Timbal, Caixas, Surdos, PandeiroBob Malach: Tenor Saxes Stephen Barber: Horn ArrangementsDougie Bowne: Additional Keyboards, BeatsSkoota Warner: DrumsProduced by Andrés Levin, Melvin Gibbs

In Ondina do you rule like beforeDo you brave the thick and fists on your ownDo you know you throw me off

Are these questions I should askAre those the kinds of things I really want to know?Do you steal all you can takeGive it back before you go homeDo you still steal ‘til it’s gone?

Do the daughters of Oxum turn you onCan I ask you where you spend what you’ve earnedDo you frequent the same streetsWhat do you give up your hearing forDo you have to get too close before you know?

VOLUME 2 (LIVE)

1. THE PRIZE (Arto Lindsay/Andrés Levin/Melvin Gibbs)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Cool Banana Music (ASCAP)/Archetext Music (BMI)

*lyrics on Volume 1

2. PRIVACY(Arto Lindsay/Peter Scherer)Virgin Music Inc. (ASCAP)

Standing by the window looking out doorsCould be any port in any stormTwo shiny things getting very snugYou’ll never get that giraffe through that door

Sitting in a penthouse with no floorFire would like to say goodnightI like the way you hold your horsesCan’t buy a tree house on a storm

Your privacy all around meYour privacy Is my poverty

Working on a tan in my fireplaceDressed to impress your delicacyCan’t stand the way you swallow your tailYour roots are showing and it’s starting to snow

Your morse code mouth my piracyAll these strings all this confettiTry to pretend you invented secrecyFish swallow fish tail first

3. PONY(Arto Lindsay)Firma Ltd. (BMI)

I’m so afraid of myselfMy skin is red to the touchI’m so ashamed of myselfThe title pony might buckPrepare the ice cubesPrepare the glueStand up and cry feverHelp me change my luck

I’ve lost the will to read or writeTurn away from the lightBend me over your kneeWhile I giggle and squealSo prepare the mopAnd prepare the teaI’m so ashamed of myselfI’m so ashamed of you and me

4. EROTIC CITY(Prince)Controversy Music (ASCAP)

All of my purple lifeI’ve been looking for a flameThat would wanna be my wifeThat was my intention, dream

If we cannot make babiesMaybe we can make some timeThoughts of pretty you and meErotic city come aliveWe can fuck until the dawnMaking love til cherry’s goneErotic city can’t you seeThoughts of pretty you and me

Every time I comb my hairThoughts of you get in my eyesYou’re a sinner, I don’t careI just want your creamy thighs

If we cannot make babiesMaybe we can make some timeThoughts of pretty you and meErotic city come aliveWe can fuck until the dawnMaking love til cherry’s goneErotic city can’t you seeThoughts of pretty you and me

5. INVOKE

(Arto Lindsay/Melvin Gibbs)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Archetext Music (BMI)

*lyrics on Volume 1

6. MANEIRAS(Sylvio da Silva)Warner Chappell Edicoes Musicais Ltda

Se eu quiser fumar eu fumo, se eu quiser beber eubeboEu pago tudo que eu consumo com o suor do meu empregoConfusão eu não arrumo, mas também não peço arregoEu um dia me aprumo, pois tenho fé no meu apegoEu só posso ter chamego, com quem me faz cafunéComo o vampiro e o morcego é o homem e a mulherO meu linguajar é nato, eu não estou falando gregoEu tenho amores e amigos de fato,Nos lugares onde eu chegoEu estou descontraído, não que eu tivesse bebidoNem que eu tivesse fumado pra falar de vida alheiaMas digo sinceramente, na vida, a coisa mais feiaÉ gente que vive chorando de barriga cheiaÉ gente que vive chorando de barriga cheia

7. O MAIS BELO DOS BELOS(Adailton Poesia/Guigio/Valter Farias Braga)Paginas do Mar Prod Publ Ed Musicais

Quem é que sobe a ladeira do Curuzu?E a coisa mais linda de se verÉ o Ilê AyêO Mais Belo Dos BelosSou eu, sou euBata no peito mais forteE diga: Eu sou IlêNão me pegue não, não, nãoMe deixe à vontadeNão me pegue não, não, nãoMe deixe à vontadeDeixe eu curtir o IlêO charme da liberdadeComo é que é?Deixe eu curtir o IlêO charme da liberdade

8. GARDEN WALL OF GUITAR(Arto Lindsay)Firma Ltd. (BMI)

9. ILLUMINATED(Arto Lindsay/Andrés Levin/Melvin Gibbs)Firma Ltd. (BMI)/Cool Banana Music (ASCAP)/Archetext Music (BMI)

*lyrics on Volume 1

10. SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL(Al Green)Irving Music (BMI)/Taiyo Music

If I gave you my loveTell you what I’d doI’d expect a whole lot of love out of you

You got to be good to meI’m gonna be good to youThere’s a whole lot of things you and I could do

What about the way you love meAnd the way you squeeze me

Simply beautifulSimply beautiful

When you get right down to itWhen you need me i’ll be right thereSimply beautiful

Sometimes when you’re feeling low

Simply beautiful

So many good things i could say about you girl

When you’re feeling lowAll you got to do is call me

Simply beautifulSimply beautiful

Simply beautiful

11. ESTAÇÃO DERRADEIRA(Chico Buarque)Marola Edições Musicais Ltda

Rio de ladeirasCivilização encruzilhadaCada ribanceira é uma nação

À sua maneiraCom ladrãoLavadeiras, honra, tradiçãoFronteiras, munição pesada

São Sebastião crivadoNublai minha visãoNa noite da grande Fogueira desvairada

Quero ver a MangueiraDerradeira estaçãoQuero ouvir sua batucada, ai, ai

Rio do lado sem beiraCidadãos Inteiramente loucosCom carradas de razão

À sua maneiraDe calçãoCom bandeiras sem explicaçãoCarreiras de paixão danada

São Sebastião crivadoNublai minha visãoNa noite da grande Fogueira desvairada

Quero ver a MangueiraDerradeira estaçãoQuero ouvir sua batucada, ai, ai

12. WALL OF GUITAR(Arto Lindsay)Firma Ltd. (BMI)

Recorded at Berghain, Berlin January 17, 2011Concert produced by Deutschlandradio Kultur/Klangkunst and BerghainOriginally recorded for broadcast by Deutschlandradio Marcus Gammel (producer radio)Andre Jürgens (producer Berghain)Matthias Schurz (sound radio) Raimund Becker (sound radio)Thomas Doktor (assistant radio)

Recorded at HBC, BerlinNovember 16, 2011Recorded by Sylvain CarrozMAXMSP by Stefan Brunner*Special thanks to Max Dax and Luci Lux

Recorded at Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklynby Hiroshi Sunairi, May 8, 2012

Mixed by Patrick Dillett at his studio, August 2012

Mastered by Tom Durack at his studio, January 2014

Produced by Arto Lindsay

Art Direction: Diego CortezDesign: Tony Morgan / Step Graphics Inc.

Photos of Arthur Lindsay Sr., and George Gunn taken in Davidson, North Carolina, 1944 (photographer unknown)

Color photos of Arto Lindsay © Ports Bishop, 2012

European booking: giuseppe@ponderosa.itUSA booking: peter@inlandempiretouring.com

Product Management: Ryu TakahashiGeneral Inquiry: info@artolindsay.com

Special thanks: Patrick Dillett, Tom Durack, Noah Minamoto Lindsay, Paula Hiroe, Norika Sora,Ryuichi Sakamoto, Art Lindsay, Tony Morgan, Diego Cortez, Kassin, Titti Santini, Melvin Gibbs, Arty Erk, Chris Wool, Ryu Takahashi, and Sam Hillmer.

p & c 2014 Ponderosa Music & Art. www.ponderosa.it

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTO

p & c 2014 Ponderosa Music & Art. www.ponderosa.it