Haunted Clockwork Music

We've heard of singing telegrams, but here are vintage headlines sung by Masha Solo of Archmage Band.  It's "Let's Undo" by Nine Inch Nails, remixed by Neons Gone Mad.

An album of collaborations between Sigfus of Sweden and Neons Gone Mad: Among Rabbits and Runes, on Spotify.

We're honored that WRCT 88.3 FM played Neons Gone Mad's "Sojurn in the Holo-Desert" on Aug. 28, 2024.  

A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.

New music by Sigfus is here performed with lyrics and vocals by Neons Gone Mad.  Our lyrics found themselves rooted in Edda's epic poem of Odin, "Hávamál."  The theme is a quest to decipher mysterious messages, with references to ancient Iceland runes runes as well as modern-day enigmas like Numbers Stations and other weird shortwave coded broadcasts.  The speaker's lonely quest for the runes involves meeting a companion; as stanza #47 of the poem says:

Young was I once, I walked alone,

and bewildered seemed in the way;

then I found me another and rich I thought me,

for man is the joy of man.

But we linked that stanza to #49, which says:

My garments once I gave in the field

to two land-marks made as men;

heroes they seemed when once they were clothed;

'tis the naked who suffer shame!

So there is a subtle implication that the friend our speaker meets is actually a monolith.

The rest of the lyrics are inspired by Christine Tindall.

Black smoke signals
on moonless nights
Unlike 
Boreal arrayed Northern Lights
Arcane
Icelandic runes
Proffer foresight
So

[adapted from Edda's Hávamál, #47]
Young was I once
Walking alone
Bewildered, I
Found a fellow
Joy of man
Sought hidden spells
Graven tokens
Interpreted
Augurs spoken
Time began

Morse code flashes
Ultravi'let
Quite like
Numbers stations
Inviolate
DJs
Playing backwards
Palindromic
LPs

[adapted from Edda's Hávamál, #49]
My garments once
I gave freely
To a menhir
Made genteelly
Naked shame
That landmark seemed
A vanquisher
Dressed in my clothes
A languisher
Not my name

[adapted from Edda's Hávamál, #79]
All will prove true
Asked of the runes
High powers wrought
Passed down from gods
Time outran

[adapted from Edda, #137, 163]
Myself to mine
Own self given
Secrets safest
Known to but one
Songs are sung

Black smoke signals
on moonless nights
Unlike 
Boreal ar-
rayed Northern Lights
Shortwave
Stations broadcast
Imagal noise 
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Here's our remix with vocals of Hawaii's rare and wonderful Wunderfish (hit him up on Spotify):

We're honored that Honolulu-based musician Wunderfish wove sound bites from a Penetralia episode into his series of one-minute tracks.  He also made a video for it.

Our vocal version of Sigfus of Sweden's "Shout It Out" is now on Spotify and all the other places.  And here's a sneak peek at our video version of the song.

We're so very pleased to see this release of our clockwork remix of Archmage Band's "I Was Astounded," available at Bandcamp.

Why we can't trust carbon dating.  Neons Gone Mad remixes Symmetry Netwerk.

Thanks to Mark Mori, who said, "It's a beautiful tribute to the light of the darkness. The voice is sublime! You have captured the emotion and the beauty of this magical moment."