I will not use the body's eyes today.
by Fire-Toolz
colinflower
colinflower
Fire-Toolz is some of the most unpredictable, engaging, and interesting music I've ever heard. I love every track Angel crafts—this album is no exception.
Favorite track: Soda Lake With Game Genie.
Leah Kardos
Leah Kardos
This record fills me up, there's no other way to explain it
Favorite track: Soda Lake With Game Genie.
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumFull color artwork on a double-sided insert. Art by Goo Age. Manufactured at Kunaki.
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Ltd. Edition Cassette
Cassette + Digital AlbumRun of 150 professionally duplicated cassettes for "I will not use the body's eyes today." by Fire-Toolz ! Transparent Red Shells with process blue ink imprints!!
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I’m relieved to repeat that you’re going to go
There’s no way you actually know
There is still secret pain bursting rain from your soul
Through your body collapsing on this path through the meadow
Punishment & love trip the light
Who will end up my strategy?
Who will i fight?
Every week you meet you
I tremble
Do you know your skeleton?
I’m oozing spiky gelatin
A rainbow shell within
I can’t landscape fast enough to pardon the strain & stress in my skin
Can’t be bothered to remember to move forward into quietude
Interlude to a new beatitude
Oh Lord stretch out my soul
This is why I chose this life
To stretch out my soul like a fawn in the face of fear until I compress my tears into a heavenly waterfall
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I’m a thought inside the one thinking
I’m thinking inside the one thought
Dancing in a ball room in which there is no material
Asking for swirling color
Physiological confirmation
But that's not your speaking sound
Gleam
Green
Gleam
Then blue
Squeeze the samba into a cube
Powerless i connect in the dark
Confirm our correspondence with goose flesh
Dizzy dreamer or plight
Faithless in light
Thunder in fright
Red life
Higher burning fires hire angel friars
Infinite immediacy of no mediation
No longer no delusion of no contact
Eternal essence is a contract
Eternal essence is a contract
Eternal essence is a contract
I keep to myself & to you to feel whole & real
Hidden in annointation
Gleaming green then blue
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A Moon In The Morning
04:41
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Self-radiant rays of radiation kickstart an environment of cultivation of potentiality for catalyst in which it *may* occur where the recognition of self, by self, of the self-healing properties of self self-heals
Muscles default to tension- progressive relaxation
Radical renunciation
Repentant returning to one-ing trains the rigid rope melting
A grace offering back to it all
A mended thread is mending everything
Another name for everything
For incarnation integration into the soft bed of infinity
The feeling of chewing on dirt
The thought and the porcupine prick
The veil and the councils, the rings of Saturn, the two Yahwehs, and the negative veins coursing through our world
Gardeners, pull up my weeds and feed them to me like embodiment would
Create a high & rooted world
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Jhana + Bhakti Sphere
02:32
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about
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The music of Fire-Toolz presents producer/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid in a state of constant flux and compositional overload. In contrast to more style-specific projects including the Weather Channel-inspired jazz fusion / prog of Nonlocal Forecast or the vaporous processed sample collages of MindSpring Memories (to name a few), the music of Fire-Toolz finds Marcloid drawing from every corner of experience and expertise in order to craft genre-agnostic works that bridge together far-flung disciplines into a stunning composite whole. I will not use the body’s eyes today. arrives as an EP-length release self-issued by Marcloid on CD and digital media formats. It follows four full-length albums on the label Hausu Mountain, most recently the double LP Eternal Home (2021), in addition to a catalog of releases with labels like Orange Milk, Big Money Cybergrind, and Kitty On Fire, among others.
Clocking in at around thirty minutes in length, I will not use the body’s eyes today. stands as a relatively compact song cycle that nonetheless continues the Fire-Toolz project’s long-standing capacity to confound and bewitch listeners with each hairpin turn in style and compositional arc. Containing more instrumental pieces in relation to its total duration than any Fire-Toolz release to date, the EP lets Marcloid sink into swathes of textural sculpting and ambient soundscaping that sit alongside some of the artist’s most labyrinthine songwriting in the combinatory style that has come to characterize much of the project’s catalog. As a one-person “band” brought to life by Marcloid’s performances on synths, guitar, bass, programmed/electronic drums, and software VSTs, along with all manner of production and processing techniques, Marcloid conjures up mental images of an enormous spread of instrumentalists performing hyper-baroque progressive music on a floating cybernetic stage. At the same time, the reality of Fire-Toolz songcraft casts the image of one artist seated in the computer room as night falls, poring over a vast spread of recorded sound sources in the digital workspace and crafting collage-like pieces laden with sudden upheavals in tone and narrative structure.
As impossible as it is to succinctly characterize any Fire-Toolz track, much less the chimeric sum total of the project as a whole, I will not use the body’s eyes today. offers listeners a world map of relative touchstones to steer them down Marcloid’s winding paths. Networks of smeared synth drones lace together with peals of saxophone before cresting into denouements of granular glitchery. On EP centerpiece “Soda Lake With Game Genie,” Marcloid explores the improbable interstices between 80s pop, jazz fusion, black metal, and progressive rock — a combination that illustrates the maximal tendencies of the Fire-Toolz project, but in a bombastic form here that testifies to Marcloid’s growing capacity to tug at our heartstrings until they burst. “Vedic Software ~ Wet Interfacing” gives Marcloid a chance to go full industrial, as lacerating screams flit around syncopated drum grooves and an ever-evolving bassline before breaking rank and sinking into pure electro-acoustic collage. On “A Moon In The Morning,” Marcloid’s palette of textures crests into sizzling distortion that overtakes the entire mix and fries the vocal performance to an even more terrifying demonoid howl, all struck through with harsh stabs of orchestral MIDI strings. Driving beat passages that channel tropes of Italo-disco, techno, and EBM appear within the chaos just as readily as instrumental breakdowns that highlight the long sustain of a plaintive acoustic guitar arrangement.
Discussing the influences channeled into the lyrics of I will not use the body’s eyes today., Marcloid draws up an index just as wide-ranging as the musical styles incorporated into the album’s production. In the artist’s words: “Vedic philosophy; Christian mysticism; fear of abandonment; emotional disconnection; attachment insecurity; self-sabotage; spiritual inclinations of consciousness; trauma healing; shame; emotional safety; connection to/interaction with God/source/spirit.” One gets the sense from listening to Fire-Toolz that Marcloid has committed to a path of self-education and personal development, in the form of both a forever-expanding toolbox of musical disciplines, and in a concordant pursuit of diverse philosophies and theologies that all funnel into an omni-directional perception of the world and its mysteries. Fire-Toolz embodies the impulse to always be adding more to the reservoir, to temper pre-existing conceptions with new knowledge or perspectives, to believe that the vessel always has room to expand — that no amount of new data or new emotion could ever break that which has no limits to begin with.
The music of Fire-Toolz presents producer/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Angel Marcloid in a state of constant flux and compositional overload. In contrast to more style-specific projects including the Weather Channel-inspired jazz fusion / prog of Nonlocal Forecast or the vaporous processed sample collages of MindSpring Memories (to name a few), the music of Fire-Toolz finds Marcloid drawing from every corner of experience and expertise in order to craft genre-agnostic works that bridge together far-flung disciplines into a stunning composite whole. I will not use the body’s eyes today. arrives as an EP-length release self-issued by Marcloid on CD and digital media formats. It follows four full-length albums on the label Hausu Mountain, most recently the double LP Eternal Home (2021), in addition to a catalog of releases with labels like Orange Milk, Big Money Cybergrind, and Kitty On Fire, among others.
Clocking in at around thirty minutes in length, I will not use the body’s eyes today. stands as a relatively compact song cycle that nonetheless continues the Fire-Toolz project’s long-standing capacity to confound and bewitch listeners with each hairpin turn in style and compositional arc. Containing more instrumental pieces in relation to its total duration than any Fire-Toolz release to date, the EP lets Marcloid sink into swathes of textural sculpting and ambient soundscaping that sit alongside some of the artist’s most labyrinthine songwriting in the combinatory style that has come to characterize much of the project’s catalog. As a one-person “band” brought to life by Marcloid’s performances on synths, guitar, bass, programmed/electronic drums, and software VSTs, along with all manner of production and processing techniques, Marcloid conjures up mental images of an enormous spread of instrumentalists performing hyper-baroque progressive music on a floating cybernetic stage. At the same time, the reality of Fire-Toolz songcraft casts the image of one artist seated in the computer room as night falls, poring over a vast spread of recorded sound sources in the digital workspace and crafting collage-like pieces laden with sudden upheavals in tone and narrative structure.
As impossible as it is to succinctly characterize any Fire-Toolz track, much less the chimeric sum total of the project as a whole, I will not use the body’s eyes today. offers listeners a world map of relative touchstones to steer them down Marcloid’s winding paths. Networks of smeared synth drones lace together with peals of saxophone before cresting into denouements of granular glitchery. On EP centerpiece “Soda Lake With Game Genie,” Marcloid explores the improbable interstices between 80s pop, jazz fusion, black metal, and progressive rock — a combination that illustrates the maximal tendencies of the Fire-Toolz project, but in a bombastic form here that testifies to Marcloid’s growing capacity to tug at our heartstrings until they burst. “Vedic Software ~ Wet Interfacing” gives Marcloid a chance to go full industrial, as lacerating screams flit around syncopated drum grooves and an ever-evolving bassline before breaking rank and sinking into pure electro-acoustic collage. On “A Moon In The Morning,” Marcloid’s palette of textures crests into sizzling distortion that overtakes the entire mix and fries the vocal performance to an even more terrifying demonoid howl, all struck through with harsh stabs of orchestral MIDI strings. Driving beat passages that channel tropes of Italo-disco, techno, and EBM appear within the chaos just as readily as instrumental breakdowns that highlight the long sustain of a plaintive acoustic guitar arrangement.
Discussing the influences channeled into the lyrics of I will not use the body’s eyes today., Marcloid draws up an index just as wide-ranging as the musical styles incorporated into the album’s production. In the artist’s words: “Vedic philosophy; Christian mysticism; fear of abandonment; emotional disconnection; attachment insecurity; self-sabotage; spiritual inclinations of consciousness; trauma healing; shame; emotional safety; connection to/interaction with God/source/spirit.” One gets the sense from listening to Fire-Toolz that Marcloid has committed to a path of self-education and personal development, in the form of both a forever-expanding toolbox of musical disciplines, and in a concordant pursuit of diverse philosophies and theologies that all funnel into an omni-directional perception of the world and its mysteries. Fire-Toolz embodies the impulse to always be adding more to the reservoir, to temper pre-existing conceptions with new knowledge or perspectives, to believe that the vessel always has room to expand — that no amount of new data or new emotion could ever break that which has no limits to begin with.
credits
released October 11, 2022
Lyrics & sounds by Angel Marcloid/Fire-Toolz
Sax on Soda Lake by Josh Plotner
Art by Goo Age, text by Angel
Mixing & mastering by Angel Hair Audio LLC (angelhairaudio.com)
Lyrics & sounds by Angel Marcloid/Fire-Toolz
Sax on Soda Lake by Josh Plotner
Art by Goo Age, text by Angel
Mixing & mastering by Angel Hair Audio LLC (angelhairaudio.com)
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