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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Double vinyl in beautiful gatefold sleeve of the self-titled debut from Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    For the first time on CD, we release the eponymous debut from Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth alongside The Mending Tour, live from Wiltshire Music Centre.

    Comes in a 6-panel digisleeve with 28-page booklet. Upon release, you will also receive a separate email with links and download codes for the digital audio and video of The Mending Tour.

    First 50 copies sold include a copy of the original Mending Tour programme with notes by Billie Bottle.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Bought the digital album but still want full size artwork?

    Bought the CD or vinyl but need a copy to display?

    In dire need of a focal point for your Home rituals?

    Look no further!

    This unique mandala and Shibboleth beach scene artwork is available for your wall, shelf or shrine!

    Includes free album download 'cause what the hell!

    (Please note, this is the Album gatefold cover only - no inner sleeves or double vinyl. Frame and cheese plant not included).

    Includes unlimited streaming of Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics

Black Swan (Bottle/Darke)

On our journey through the process
Somehow we got to Churning day
A rupture in the myth of progress:
Behold the chart of exponential decay

Hold on in the time of Churning
To an unforeseen event
We’ve all run from the gift of learning
Another black swan could change our shape again

Flowing from the darkest mountain
We can’t let a crisis go to waste
In the shadow by the fountain
Relinquish what you thought you needed to taste

(We are Churned)

There is no other world than the one we’re in
There is no other tide for the time we’re in
There is no other world than the one we’re in
There is no other tide for the time we’re in
There is no other mess than the mess we’re in

After this initiation
Returning to community
This is not a simulation
We are alive to unfolding melody

So hold on in the time of Churning
To an unforeseen event
We’ve all run from the gift of learning
Another black swan could change our shape again

There is no other planet that we’re living on
We know one day that all of this it will be gone

credits

from Billie Bottle's Temple of Shibboleth, released March 31, 2023
BB: Voice, piano, acoustic guitar, synth bass, electric piano, keyboards, mellotron, drum programming, programming, swanee whistle, vibraslap
VGD: Flutes, voices
RH: Alto sax
AB: Bassoon, hoover
Wyverne: Call
Martine Waltier: Voice
Rowan Porteous: Trumpets

Original version editing and engineering by Billie Bottle
Engineering and drum programming by George Shilling
Produced by George Shilling

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