The Abyss - KNOWER
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- New KNOWER Album June 2
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LYRICS
Bulls--t season no longer in sesh
We're here to the resc
What a f-----g mess
X-rate nursery rhymes on pillars of hype
Heard with the eyes
We are not allies
Our purpose is appearing
To balance what we're hearing
Inside of this stream of piss
We're the abyss
Hit record
Shut the f--k
We're filling voids in shape of us
Balls are blue
Full of true
Got a load to save all you
I'm not naming names you know your name
Pawns in the game
S--t ass hall of fame
Total eclipses all over you bitches
Full f-----g moon
Dark side facing you
Our purpose clearer each day
To show a better way
Inside of this stream of piss
We're the abyss
Hit record
Shut the f--k
We're filling voids in shape of us
Balls are blue
Full of true
Got a load to save all you
CREDITS
The Abyss. Written by Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi
Genevieve Artadi: Vox
Louis Cole: Drums
Mononeon: Bass
Rai Thistlethwayte: Keyboard
Sam Gendel: Saxophone
Video by Louis Cole & Genevieve Artadi
All production by: Louis Cole
Mixed and mastered by: Louis Cole
Audio engineer: Daniel Sunshine
Cameras: Daniel Sunshine, Richard Thompson, Chiquita Magic, Max Zemanovic
All Rights KNOWER
Publishing: Because Music Editions
Management/Licenses: alliz@songololomusic.com
when musicians start soloing in a knower song its always like the final battle in a super hero movie.
aka when Louis Cole has anyone else in one of his songs?
I STG I was thinking it looked like Rai was playing for fear of his life during his solo lol
@@TheSaltyOG +1. I felt Rai's solo big time. The keyboard sound was perfect for it, something like a fuzzed up rhodes maybe?
Except KNOWER is real.
I think it is just that.
That is a God tier rhythm section right there
On the level of Jaco Pastorius & Jim Gordon
Like, I'm at a loss for words. It is disgusting how tight they are.
🐎🐎🐎
I don't know about Jaco pastorious. Jaco took more of a lead role as opposed to supportive. Mono is playing much more subdued and supportive on this track. I prefer his covers of knower songs where he is making more of an upfront statement, flipping the script w his bass being more like a lead instrument like the great jaco did w joni mitchell. More melody less bottom. I also love monos own music.This is mono playing super controlled. his covers of knower songs are more more closer to Jacos outside the box support the bottom while taking more of a lead melodic approach.
Seriously tho, almost shit myself when I saw MonoNeon lmao
Man, i remember back when this came out like 32 minutes ago. Those were times.
We were all more innocent then.
Now you're a bunch of Boomers complaining about the new music from five seconds ago.
I remember walking to school and just jamming out to this two days ago on my Rio 500. 64 Mb was a lot of memory back then. My buddy also gave me a VCD of the video that he made with his burner. Good times had by all.
I’m just discovering this old track, is this what people liked listening to in your days? I kinda like it, am I retro or what?
We Live So Fast --Heaven 17
I'm an older guy and musician who grew up listening to Frank Zappa and I remember how many people didn't appreciate how incredible his music was until way after he had left us..... I would hope that people truly appreciate the genuine genius of this band and Louis right now because this music is really unbelievably exceptional in craftmanship and execution !!! Way ahead of our current time Louis but much needed now !!!
This is a cool take. 100% agree.
The Zappa comparison is REAL.
Wouldn't say ahead of our time but very great song they got here
Zappa is STILL a legend!
Totally agree. I get elements of the MOI and Level 42 and (dare I say it) Emerson Lake and Palmer with this band.
I'm mind-blown by their virtuosity.
The drummer & sax player pair up so well. They should do a crazy side project of some sort. 🤡
That would be awe… sh*#.. toilet break brb 😬
Yeah but make it REALLY fucked up!
I got that reference…
That would be dope. But like Theog said, really messed up like maybe urinating blood on the side of the road, something like that. Maybe.
@@marks7192 That's a good idea!
Mononeon + Knower finally together feels like some sort of prophecy fulfilled.
As it is written in the ancient text. Amen
Yeah, that worked
MOWER
+1 to this.
Mononeon will still cover it
It was so crazy, Mononeon just showed up and said "IT'S KNOWING TIME" and he knew all over the place. Funniest shit I've ever seen.
Truly one of the knowers of all time
@@oscargill423 media.tenor.com/KXVgsfB_Q3EAAAAd/we-know-this-dr-wayne-wenowdis.gif
He knew all over my face. My mouth is dripping with hot milky knowledge.
Gendel had to wear safety goggles to keep his eye sockets from being torn to shreds by his own solo
😂
I'm laughing my as off!!!!!!!
can we all just appreciate sam gendel here? so stylish in those safety goggles and his subtle yet impactful playing
I've listened to this video several times over a few weeks and Sam's parts seem to stand out more each time. They "fit' so well what is happening with so many little ear hooks included.
I'm just speculating, but when you jam with a drummer on a horn for long enough on the highest level, you develop some telepathic rhythmic abilities
drip straight out of a deployed motor pool detachment, iykyk
Killer shit!! All around, every one of you buggers! mind blown! Exquisite!
The beginning of that sax solo absolutely floored me the first time I heard it. Also every other time I heard it. Also the whole solo
When every single musician is at the top of their game. Everything, everywhere is melted.
Including the vocal musician! Lots of other comments overlook a principal contributor/composer
"X-rated nursery rhymes on pillars of hype, heard with the eyes" - wow, is there any better summary of the state of pop music today? More brilliant, immaculate work from yet another dynamite combination of artists. Well done and thanks to all of you.
I didn't know that was the full lyric. It's pretty deep and dope.
@@k-mac9798 lyrics in the desc
S--t ass hall of fame .. literally :)
You're welcome.
They’ve got it on every level.
When you’re such good musicians that you can make killer recordings using $30 sound foam all engineers tell you not to use. Hallways Forever 🎉
Just goes to show that you don't need expensive equipment to make good music
When your crappy environments are so tiny that your HOUSE is a booth :)
Just compress the shit outta everything lol
You didn’t mention the blanket. 😄
It is definitely the talent we are hearing, not the $30 sound treatment. That dead sounding drum set is soaring with Louis Cole on it. I'd make it sound like a dusty fart
Unique feature, no plagiarism, direct message, monster groove, electronic jazz fusion in the vein, sweet vocals, alien musicians, a psychedelic touch. Now hit all that in the blender and tah dah! KNOWER!
i love this comment
monster groove++
This comment tho… 💯
in the spirit of what the song is about (I think) this is what happens when you put highly motivated highly talented musicians together.
no soul vampire execs in offices writing bleed-you-dry contracts, locking in earnest and talented sell-outs who only really wanted to share their gift. non label music will never die, no matter how big and legal the labels get, because there'll always be people like this in a house like that, fucking crushing it.
lol. "sweet vocals'. this whole song is made of curse words! my daughter is a senior in high school, working as a music teacher; ex-church-pianist; going to Notre Dame to become a proper pipe organist. but her boyfriend is a drummer that's into clown core. she thought this was nuts.
I appreciate how clear Mononeon is about his passion for branding.
Who ?
which one was mono neon?
@@jazdosanjh1566 I think he was the guy riding the horse.
BRO THE ABSOLUTE SKILL OF EVERY SINGLE MUSICIAN IN THIS SONG IS INSANE
No idea that Rai was such an unbelievable pianist. What a band of weapons, wow.
i always rewind rai's solo in the overtime live sesh to listen to it twice.
Pretty cool seeing him here as I only knew him from Joe Satriani's current live band!
@@XcaptainXobliviousX Yeah, I was gonna suggest that OP listen to Overtime live sesh. Rai's solo is absolutely brilliant.
Listen to his Australian band, Thirsty Merc. Especially the AAA (acoustic anniversary album)
Does... Does he play something else?
So cool to see Mononeon on the track, I remember finding his bass covers of KNOWER way back.
Mononeon and Louis locked w/ that bass line + that bass drums and drum breaks, the overall funkiness, the cleaver chord changes Genevieve's beautiful vocals and melody, the quirky lyrics, Sam and Rai's short but killin solos, the spooky cryptozoology video references, the now classic hallway settings, all combine to give Knower an unmistakable artistic and sonic personality.
Something about the pause in the music and the inhale Genevieve does before verse 2 really makes it hit hard
1:33 sounds like something I heard in a van once
I thought the exact same thing to
Love this band...a group of explosive free individual virtuosos that are as connected and tight as can be.
Now you understand what a good jazz band is all about.
That guy on the keys is such a wizard! Huge tune guys !
Rai is mind-boggling. Look at his other stuff with Knower, especially Overtime live sesh.
ruclips.net/video/KZlvRWGEwZg/видео.html
His name is Jesus Christ Jr.
@@kane6529 No wonder he's so handsome & has so much HOLY FUNK.
And he writes Aus no. 1 pop rock songs for fun
KNOWER understands the importance of solos being a prolonged "check this shit out"
Beautiful to see the pride on Louis's face at the end knowing the group has essentially nailed the song and made something incredible
Louis Cole is a phenomenal drummer. That hihat work was mind blowing.
That “one more and then we got it” at the end hit me like a fucking truck
Moknower Kneon
Just when I think I can't appreciate Genevieve any more than I already do, she goes and wears SR-71 earrings! Supersonic indeed!!!
Yup, I only saw the pic on the right and was like, huh? Rewound and naturally...
Guitar Center shirt is an L, though.
is that what a 'preciates 'bout her?
Louis Cole makes me want to play the drums SOOOOOOO much!!!
Do it
He's so good he makes non-drummers want to play and drummers want to quit
This kind of reminds me of this one Rod Stewart side project called clown core
1:12 it's not a Knower music video unless there is pr0n playing on a tablet/laptop in some corner somewhere.
absolutely sick playing too
Live seshes of "Time Traveler" and "Overtime" were beacons of unstoppable joy and amazement since 2018. And now this quality is back.
So excited for the album! Hope it would have this home quality on it, I really think it captures something unique.
Exactly I listen to those two all the time!!!
I still listen to those two tracks all the time. Just bought the new album and snagged those 2 live seshes while I was at it. I paid more than tiny asking price. Seemed like the right thing to do with how much joy I've gotten and continue to get from them! 😍
the music obviously slaps hard as f**k but the lyrics and the sentiment from this band rules too, they get it, they understand this hell we are in.
They aren't called I Don't Knower
@@Jared_Letos_Panties LOL that got a chuckle out of me, cheers
@@Jared_Letos_Panties Touche!
english not being my first language, i'm not that familiar with metaphores and innuendos i guess, can you help me briefly understanding the lyrics?
@@user-ff5yt5dy2h I didn't do it myself but I asked GPT-4 to give an interpretation. It's spot on, and the only deficiency is being too timid at really explaining the explicitly sexual stuff ("balls are blue" / "got a load"...):
These lyrics have an abstract and confrontational tone, and interpreting them can be subjective. However, I'll try my best to give an interpretation:
"Bullshit season no longer in sesh / We're here to the resc / What a fucking mess" - This could be speaking to a perceived time of deceit or misinformation ("bullshit season") that the singer believes is now ending. They're ready to step in and rectify the situation, suggesting they feel it's chaotic or in disarray ("what a fucking mess").
"X-rated nursery rhymes on pillars of hype / Heard with the eyes / We are not allies" - This may express a critique of culture or media, perhaps suggesting that society has been exposed to explicit content or messages ("X-rated nursery rhymes") through media that's overly promoted ("pillars of hype"). The line "heard with the eyes" might refer to consuming visual media, and "we are not allies" suggests a conflict with or rejection of these entities.
"Our purpose is appearing / To balance what we're hearing / Inside of this stream of piss / We're the abyss" - Here, the speaker might be saying that their purpose or mission is becoming clear: to counterbalance the negative or harmful messages in society ("stream of piss"). They see themselves as a contrasting force ("the abyss"), possibly implying depth, mystery, or even fear.
"Hit record / Shut the fuck / We're filling voids in shape of us / Balls are blue / Full of true / Got a load to save all you" - These lines could be an invitation to listen or record what they have to say. "Balls are blue" may be a metaphor for frustration or anticipation, suggesting a strong desire to convey their truth ("full of true") which they believe has the potential to benefit or "save" others.
"I'm not naming names you know your name / Pawns in the game / Shit ass hall of fame / Total eclipses all over you bitches / Full fucking moon / Dark side facing you" - These lines sound confrontational, and might be aimed at people who the speaker believes are responsible for societal problems. "Total eclipses" and "full fucking moon / Dark side facing you" could imply that these people's time of power or influence is about to end, and they will face the consequences or hidden aspects of their actions.
"Our purpose clearer each day / To show a better way / Inside of this stream of piss / We're the abyss" - Here, the speaker reiterates their purpose of standing against the status quo and striving to show a better way, amidst the same metaphorical "stream of piss."
The repeated chorus of "Hit record / Shut the fuck / We're filling voids in shape of us / Balls are blue / Full of true / Got a load to save all you" may emphasize their determination to make their voices heard and their belief that they can bring about change.
I want a framed picture of Louis Cole "One More and Then We Got It" on my wall
Technical masterpiece of grooves.
MONONEON AND LOUIS COLE!! This and the scary goldings with Scofield are absolutely mad collabs. Keep em coming
Can we please all just take a second to acknowledge Rai's hair??!! Good googly moogly! What an astounding video on all levels!
*GREAT googly moogly 🤝
Zappa?
@@loudy.atey4 Mother Mary and Joseph.
@@billmilligan7272 Why don't you sharpen it then?!?!?!
that thang is juicy
It's KNOWER season again, my dudes!
lol frog
AAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!
I look up the lyrics and try to sing along. Genevive is just as much a genius as everyone else. Like someone needed to say it.
Absolutely don’t disagree, but I’m really curious to know if she does actually write the lyrics. They’re both credited, but my suspicion is Louis writes and Genevieve brings it. Thematic the lyrics are really similar to a lot of Louis’s solo stuff.
From cultureontheoffensive interview: “With Knower, as Louis gets better and better at production and arranging, he has become the person responsible for playing most of the intruments. I do the song-writing and determine what the sections of each song will be like. I write instrumental parts and he mostly plays them. But our role in the band is always changing. I’m planning on doing more and more production, as time goes by.”
@@jmpstrnl2007lick a diddy circus?
2:42 bruh
bobby listens to good shit
so clean dude i love knower
Really enjoy your music. Unique yet familiar, experimental yet classic 👍
dude, on point description!
6 minute old knower is peak serotonin
Straight life-affirming. Suicide risk peeps need to hear this shiz.
This song is so loopable. im going to be listening to this all day
The Quilted One and LC must share some type of psychic subsonic rhythm section turbo-bond. This is too good!
that kick at 1:01 is amazing
I have such mixed emotions. I'm a huge Mono fan... and I'm a huge Wilkes fan. Thrilled to see Mono, but miss Sam. I think you should have a song with both guys. Seriously.
I missed Sam on there too. I love his playing, but also the faces he makes when he's playing. He contributes to making the whole thing more "fun" to watch, if that makes sense.
Bass is a Highlander situation. There can only be one.
Having this tight groove should be ILLEGAL, amazing
Coming from you that says a lot!!!
Holy cow this song might have the sickest breakdown and solos KNOWER has done and that’s quite a feat.
So super tight. Amazing musicianship. So inspired by all these guys.
Neon is insane!! Upside down and left 5 string action is certainly not anything would consider when I pick up a bass. Respect and a half. Slick jamz.
Crazy, impressive, melodical, jazzy, funky, electro funky-this song is masterpiece
My soul has been replenished. Well done guys
So far, this one's my favourite from the recent releases! Tight as possible
Why is this band so good? Like, it's just insane.
This shit is TIGHT and I just bought the album. I discovered Louis Cole by accident because some dude over at music engraving facebook group posted his transcription of choir section from Blimp, and then I checked him out, and then Knower. I'm a piano teacher and now that exams in music school are over, we're listening to some music on those few last lessons. I slapped this track and they like it. Easy my life.
Life becomes 10% better when a new Knower song comes out
At least is 10% for every time now on you listen to it. Make the sum :D
Particularly good Gendel solo on this one. 👍🎷 And Mono got in some tasty licks amongst the sick grooves.
1:44 blows my mind, that sax player needs a raise
Killer jam. Very talented musicians. Great singing.
Discovered these new tracks yesterday and Ive watched this video over 5 times already. Psyched for the album!!!!
When you thought that Knower couldn't get any better, too amazing!
I love the incorporation of more jazzy elements into these songs, absolutely amazing
How does the editor manage to capture all of my errant thoughts in such accurate little zoom ins and cutaways?
Louis is the editor
@@welcome2wyzard didn’t ask
@@TAZEROXFORD you kind of did and that answer was enough 😂. Louis Cole can do anything creative
@@begg3495 literally where did I ask “who is the editor?” Reading comprehension is at 0%
@@TAZEROXFORD Louis Cole is the who AND the how.
"How did you win this pickup game?"
"Lebron James is my teammate"
Lebron is the how. Louis Cole is the how.
So happy Mononeon is in the band this time. Even more happy that all others too are still here. Incredible but true the only 2 artists I bought on Bandcamp are Knower Louis Cole and Mononeon. I know that's my fault about all others on Bandcamp but that's it.
That fat base note that Rai throws in at around 2:26 just makes this song. Crazy to say, but if you have some good headphones or are playing this at appropriate volume in the car, you feel it. I don't know anything about music, but it has "gravitas" compared to all other base notes in the song.
Mononeon！どのパートのリズムがキレッキレで気持ち良すぎ！
Saxとキーボードのソロめっちゃかっこいい
Louis' solo into Sam's sax was absolute madness. Flows so well.
this video perfectly encapsulates everything that's great about playing music with people
My goodness! The rhythmic section blew my mind away! The fill on 2:43 caught me off guard and I almost fell from my chair! You've done it again, guys! Love ya!
HOW TF have I missed this until now. By Zeus you guys are so awesome. :) Thanks for the vibes.
This is the year that Knower will finally get the appreciation that they deserve. Instant Classic!
Louis Cole booked for Glastonbury
How do people even get this good at music 😮💨
SR-71 "Blackbird" earrings for a supersonic track 👌🔥🔥🔥
Next thing to Overtime!!!
They managed to reach that same level of tightness...more like this, please...
The fire was appropriate.
Phenomenal, can't wait to feel that funkadelic energy in London on Friday!!
I’m jealous. I shouldn’t be because I’ve seen Louis twice in the states in the past two months, but I still am. Enjoy!
The solos are just like overtime.
This feels like an overtime sequel lol
Awesome !!!
They're out there! Jimmy Hasllip, McCartney etc... Saw Mono the other day with new video playing with the Knower band, & just realized it today haha. Righty strings played by a lefty (upside down) blows my mind
I'm always just waiting for that kickdrum fill tho lol
The bassist is wearing an outfit made out of quilts. The creativity of these guys is on another level!
This is my first time discovering KNOWER and feels like the perfect video to discover them on. Time to play catch up!
Yeah, same here. Blown away, last album seems gorgeous, 7 years ago?!
The dopamine hit I get when I see a new KNOWER video hit my feed 💥
I’m not the first to say it, but I get serious echoes of Frank Zappa and DEVO from Knower. This is a killer track, getting more hyped for the album.
Just so we're clear on this, he's a left handed bass player, playing a right handed five string upside down.
I wish the bass players got more solos in these ... but they do admirable work making the tracks their own.
This band deserves so much recognition man
It's so nice seein' some familiar faces! c: Awesome song. That thing Mononeon did at 2:52 gave me goosebumps, the energy in this was just... ugh, so fucking good.
やばすぎる！
I spy with my little eye something beginning with MonoNeon
I love the fact that mono neon plays bass upside down. That is to say that he is a lefty in a right-hand world. The bass he is playing is a right-handed bass set up exactly like a right handed player would play it. He could literally hand that bass to me. I switch the strap around and play like it’s my own bass and I’m a right hander. Years ago, I saw a guitar player that played this way and I had to ask him why he did that. (Instead of a standard setup for a southpaw) The reason made total sense to me- before he had his own guitar he had to borrow other peoples guitars. Everybody else plays right handed. Left handed guitar players and bass players are more rare than lefties in general. So their instruments are hard to find. And a giant pain in the ass. so he just learned to play wrong, as it were. Instead of fat string on top, it just goes fat string on bottom. I am absolutely certain that if I were a left-hander, I would have done the same thing. Otherwise, every time you go to a music store, you are touching all these foreign instruments and wondering whether they make a left hand model at all, or what kind of Frankensteining needs to happen to this instrument so that it can be played. Being a left-handed player and being able to just grab any right handed players instrument and go is like a magic trick. And playing upside down like that has got to influence your style. Not to mention your sound potentially. Some of Jimi Hendrix’ sound comes from the fact that when you take a right handed instrument, then turn it around and string it for a lefty to play, but don’t make a whole bunch of other fiddly adjustments to the saddle and bridge, you get weird overtones and harmonics. God bless lefties. They put up with so much crap.
THIS SONG MAKES ME FEEL LIKE IM PARACHUTING ON COCAINE STRAPPED TO A BOBCAT !!!
These people are in another dimension of talent.
Man... i was wondering when Clowncore was coming back. Now I see Knower is back, so im happily content 😌
I’ve never been more excited for an album for a band I found out about half an hour ago. Yes I’ve been looping this video for half an hour
Thirsty Merc no longer thirsty after this.
amazing, fantastic band KNOWER MUSIC ,,,,,,,greetings Renee
They finally did it, they got the neon
When G's voice comes in---hooked.
Mononeon killed it!
I can't help but wish I could hear what Sam Wilkes would've done; he's a breed that there's only ever been one of.
Clown Core is sounding even better these days
MonoNeon, what a beast. I recall Steve Miller's bass player was also a lefty playing with a right handed bass, like MonoNeon: Gerald Johnson.
2:52 this bass part is stuck in my head, it's so powerful
just unbelievable