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CloudQuartered EP

by Airborne Mark

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Recline & Watch Me 03:51
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I’ve built so many walls around me They say I’m suffocating But at least I’m painting They say I’m chasing the wind At least I’m away and up from the ground I’m breaking This is the land of plenty The land for the few But nothing for the plenty I strive to mark it out For you, for me, for children we yet to have Look at me, Look at me, Still flying my Celestial Kite For courage, for perseverance Only dead fish swim down a river The net is closing, I’m turning and tossing Skywalking Look through the keyhole I’m fighting the behemoth On your behalf To be Is to create It’s all I am It’s all I have CHORUS: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Who’s the Flyiest of them All Of Them All Like you I need to fill the plate Hand to mouth Mouth to bless Trooping verses over loops I am a professional dreamer too Man shall not live by crumbs alone So I work these words Like steppingstones Mediocrity is NOT my home I’m present by my absence in your comfort zone If the unseen Is the wave of the future I’m surfing to legacy’s abode On stage like in the classroom No sunglasses on I remain transparent Look inside Look inside Eyes are the skylight of the soul So I piece back the kaleidoscope I spy an uncharted map on the vanguard, Not simulating but ever so stimulating Forever trailblazing CHORUS: You’re laughing at me because I’m all different I’m laughing at you because you’re all the same I’d rather struggle with few words to see you awake Than be a ring-tone rapper Why is accent a mark of artistic excellence? Why is money a mark of success? You are in the charts I Occupy Where Clouds Abound Zone in I make the most of space, mater and time Squared Over stand If you have more wrinkles than scars You haven’t lived your life So I Walk like a man but dream like a child I’m not stationary I’m upwardly visionary No surprises here but More snakes than ladders I’m climbing up Never ending story Paper-Planes Shall Fly Regardless CHORUS:
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BeyondNess 03:00
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One step ahead of the man in the mirror I’m not all flesh Eternity fuels my interior Let the exterior reveal the invisible All we amass in this vapor of live is perishable A collectible I’m here to give Lest this frame will implode Eyes fixed beyond this spinning globe Nice to see you, I see you nice I cherish you beyond me, myself and I I’m not perfect Walk by my side On this desert alone, More thoughts towards you than grains of sand Beyond the horizon A treasure lies Beyond the grave echoes your smile Laugh in the sunshine, cry in the rain We’re knitted together Whatever I cannot do, you can Whatever you can’t, I pray we shall achieve It works when it’s all about you Not about me I Sing Pictures I Paint Songs Keeping it Celestial With you in mind for eternity and beyond I Sing Pictures I Paint Songs Keeping it Celestial With you in mind for Eternity and Beyond
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CloudQuartered 03:34
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I fly around with gusto Upwards and Onwards Writing my name with integrity Only in daylight of course Not a rebel of the night Anymore Some do it out of anger Some do it for fame Some for artistic value As for me The latter I’ll never let graffiti to fade So give me a ladder To splatter free-hand skills my ANTI-swagger With A handful of Molotov A heartful of colour A headful of tomorrows In this deplorable world I sing with acrylics on the wall It’s gloss It’s mat It’s Skinny Pro It’s New York Fat My life on the Uppity Up It changed from Chrome and Black dubs To technicolor art CHORUS: I Paint, I Rap My Heart is an Origami Cloud I Rap, I Paint Airborne is the name My Mark so high I’m hailing from above My paradigm is pictorial Stop your puffed-up editorials Who cares? If high brow annalists Deem it worthy to be A.R.T At the end of the day Like At the end of the line It’s everyone’s personal choice Right How to use restless hands As for me, I respect my neighbours So I leave their property untagged By all means I still get up I still fly around Paper plane here Paper plane there Here There Everywhere The Difference I’m in it For a long run I mean it I paint my own dreams with a permit paint Radiant walls power smiles around I used to wreck havoc on the streets Today unmasked I elevate at school assemblies So catch me If you can I’m the real deal aviator Since 95 I spray in peace I spray in love CHORUS: I Paint, I Rap My Heart is an Origami Cloud I Rap, I Paint Airborne is the name My Mark so high I’m hailing from above 99 percent of all I’ve painted is long gone But it’s o’key The reminder is enough to soldier on The only indelible mark I’m left with Is my eternal soul I got hooked since the day dot The smell, the sound The lifestyle In the land of the tangible On walls, on canvas or in a pad I wear my heart on sleeves indeed As well as shoes, tops and scarves By and large I’m Ivory white But mostly My default pigmentation is that of Elmer the elephant I have nothing to hide Never on the run A Hobby is just adding to life Not Graff It’s my focal point In my creative zone Bespoke Origami Purveyor I am Singing Pictures Painting Songs Beyond “Six Folds and a Throw” I breathe it to inspire you all There are more vacant rooms aboard Cloud Quarters a self-whispered abode So open your heart before crashing the door CHORUS: I Paint, I Rap My Heart is an Origami Cloud I Rap, I Paint Airborne is the name My Mark so high I’m hailing from above
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Shimmer 03:33
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You’ve found me Immeasurably abstract outside Too afraid to draw from the inside I suppose my Antenna and feathers Can take anyone aback I hope there’s some-one to take a risk My heart so inESTimably spacious One could fly a kite In your words I am a cool creative guy With a slight fetish For heavier than air Things that glide You can’t bear the fact I’m splattered with paint front to back I admit I kind of stand out This antenna is set on a FREquency band To follow windswept lines Not your scarecrow yet Cloudscapes are my garden patch Come rain or shine I hash tag flourish and thrive CHORUS: Up to the horizon To tightrope between earth and sky First step of many To take in all that shimmers behind I’m not looking for my other half I’m not broken I'm just invisible. When I put my goggles on you don’t see me... I’ve finally figured it out I’m SO puzzling people can’t relate There’s Narnia in my wardrobe That I go in every night It’s the only place I’ve found Where it doesn’t matter where you from But where you at! Hey Precious Why getting cold on Wuthering Heights Will you fly this kite? I’m the water in your reservoir Cup me in your hands Never let me vaporize I have this innate tendency to go up… Can you hold the string? Will you let it snap? I promise faithfulness on my side Keep yourself pure and I’ll reimburse With a heart-load of stars from my UNIverse CHORUS x 2 Up to the horizon To tightrope between earth and sky First step of many To take in all that shimmers behind Am I such an odd fish? I have a unique style indeed It’s called weird I’ve been thinking out of the box how to fit in Stuff it I’m getting right back in Aboard my wicker basket I’ve been MEANING to tell you I react to you like a balloon to helium Let me take you across the Pleiades With No Jet-Lag guarantees And for the start of this lifetime travel At the crossroads – a promise I’ll buy you a bouquet of the red radish Cause this LOVE is so organic I struggle to find the right words Upside down you’ve turned my world So Instead let me paint this song Like an arrow shaped flock of origami cranes pointing you home CHORUS: Up to the horizon To tightrope between earth and sky First step of many To take in all that shimmers behind
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OverCast 04:57
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I'm Checked in All my baggage left on the ground Anchored fast to grey and silver Stop playing hand shadows cross the map Come up hither Or Spiral down through a break in the overcast My pride the very giant I’ve never thought I would have to face Its been 8 / long / lean / years in L.O.N.D.O.N - Seen my fair share Learnt the hard way 3 decades yellowed my birth certificate Spirits STILL high and pristine Goggles heavy Incessant On this / Raps / Beats / Caps regime - Every time I step up I sow in famine Expecting a hundredfold return I’m a long distance runner Many so passionless They only serve Mammon - Switching lanes B. to Z. plans Making dreams come true for every new fad Your spark, a flash in the pan - Since the first wall Since the first rap I AM my only retirement plan CHORUS: I'm Checked in All my baggage left on the ground Anchored fast to grey and silver Stop playing hand shadows Across the map Come up hither Or Spiral down Through a break in the overcast A fraction of time squandered is like losing forever a piece of the puzzle Once your spirit's gone from this vessel No one else can live your essence - A life WELL spent on being me You do YOU Write a vision, aim and shoot - The greater tension, the further it goes My faith like an arrow Not an empty quiver of aspirations Hour after hour Perseverance is my anti-gravitation - I train in a way I want to fight At the stroke of adversity one doesn't rise To an occasion. Wake up, We always sink to levels of foundation - They say NEVER come face to face with a fantasy Yet the longer your stay in the game, the cards finally show up It's not about the prize but the process we get lost in To finally discover who we really ARE My life's chapter documented right here This EP is my whereabouts I'm Checked in All my baggage left on the ground Anchored fast to grey and silver Stop playing hand shadows cross the map Come up hither Or Spiral down Through a break in the overcast

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CloudQuartered EP Official Press Release:

Clear blue skies are well overrated...
Having sunshine overhead day in and day out would be rather monotonous...
Clouds are Nature's poetry to be read like a person's countenance...
Cloudscapes are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul...*

Look up, Airborne Mark is back with his latest music release.

The new EP comprises five cloud themed songs which cover very down to earth aspects of journeying through life. Relationships, identity and perseverance are the subject matter that echoes strongly throughout the record. Narrated from author’s perspective in a reflective spoken word manner.

The EP was recorded over five months mostly at The Lab Studios under production of Byron Hosking. Each track meticulously layered with live instruments creates perfect musical landscape for Airborne Mark's narration. Vintage synths, piano and the electric guitar proved to be perfect tools for Byron Hosking to capture energy and emotion of each track.

CloudQuartered EP also features a song produced by B Szczesny (Rebeka, Brennnessel), a long time Airborne Mark's collaborator, and is released with BeyondNess video produced by Rahul DeCruz.

Where are my Cloud-Spotters at?

* The Manifesto by The Cloud Appreciation Society

Cover photography by Cormac McGloin, design by Dan Kitchener.

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released April 8, 2013

Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5 produced and mixed by Byron Hosking.
Track 2 produced and mixed by B Szczesny.
Mastered by Byron Hosking at The Lab Studios, London, England.

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Airborne Mark London, UK

Graffiti artist by day, rapper by night. My heart is an origami cloud...

Singing Pictures & Painting Songs for Eternity and Beyond...

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