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The Berlin Sessions

by M. Lamar

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    The Berlin Sessions was recorded live at Kleiner Wasserspeicher a former concentration camp in Berlin in the fall of 2021. The four song Ep features never before recorded songs from M. Lamar's ongoing work in progress A Lynching Suite.
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It's a murder of crows in the trees
 It's a murder of crows in the trees to devour
 the dismembered
 to devour
 the dismembered
 It's the tree of blood It's the tree of Blood It's the tree of blood Nothing but the blood dripping down And a crowd gathered round It's in the trees
 of blood It's in the trees
 of blood It's in the trees
 of blood
3.
on the auction block I stand naked before you the auction block demands a slave becomes you a slave that needs a master The master becomes the slave on the auction block the auction block the auction block
4.
The Tree 06:20
lift me up
 don't cut me down in these limbs
 my soul be found lift me up don't cut me down in these limbs
 my soul be found the tree
 the tree hang me from the tree the tree
 the tree hang me from the tree string me up
 and swing me low
 to my death I wanna go string me up
 and swing me low
 to my death I wanna go the tree
 the tree hang me from the tree the tree the tree
 hang me from the tree

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The performance of “The Lynching song” has become central to M. Lamar’s performance practice. Inspired by the work of black liberation Theologist James Cone’s bringing together of the Christian Cross and the Lynching tree as modern day crucifixions, Lamar endeavors to engage a scared practice of remembrance, praise and sacrifice. Like the ritual singing of hymns Lamar’s hope through the continued performance of these songs for the deepest spiritual and moral transformation. “I have always seen these Lynching songs I write as a continuation of the African American spiritual. These songs are surely how we have maintained the profound connection to our own humanity as well as to those who have enslaved and oppressed us. There is never in these songs a thirst of vengeance or even anger. There is only love and a longing to be free even if freedom means death.” Lamar is calling this ritual performance of The Lynching” song at Kleiner Wasserspeicher. The Berlin Sessions.

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released December 3, 2021

Words and Music by M. Lamar
Voice and Piano by M. Lamar
Recorded Live at Kleiner Wasserspeicher. in Berlin
Produced by Creamcake Berlin and HAU Berlin
Mixed and Mastered by Nicholas Djukic Cocks

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