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City Freak

by Postman

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1.
If you don’t exist Can you be outside of yourself? The moon is full It lights my way back home. If you don’t really care Then how d’you know what's wrong? The moon is full It lights my way back home. I feel I’m breaking out In a cold cold sweat As I get close to the strangest place on Earth. They say balance is all you need, I need less advice to keep it then. Just like every city freak I feel the pressure I can’t sustain. I wish I was the man I trust. The tiny glimpses of inner joy Lead my thoughts towards the past. Seems like nothing good, little boy. And I feel I’m breaking out In a cold cold sweat As I get close to the strangest place on Earth. The moon is full It lights my way back home.
2.
This city seems abandoned, It blesses its sons and daughters. I’m diggin’ a hole through the planet To show you there are stars beyond us. This city asks for a minute To remind me I’m a possession. Will I miss it if I leave it? For now I leave it as a hanging question. My friends don’t bother to call me back, I took my father’s chain off a neck. Would you put me back if I fall? Won’t you go away and shut the door? I know that all I see is not everything. I’m waiting for the summer, I hope you’ll understand, I may no longer go with you. You missed all the boring pages, 16 floor blocks on the outskirts. Do you feel that essential strangeness When you shy away from the darkness? Yeah, in a while it all becomes distasteful, Day after day you don’t feel the difference. But when you feel that your time’s being wasted You don’t ask to repeat the experience My friends don’t bother to call me back, I took my father’s chain off a neck Would you put me back if I fall? Won’t you go away and shut the door? I know that all I see is not everything. I’m waiting for the summer, I hope you’ll understand, I may no longer go with you.
3.
Voda 04:19
Будь як вода - говорили вони із зонтом в руках. Ніхто з них не дихав вогнем, як був колись, давно вже затлів. Їхні серця поросли мохом, північ з кожної сторони. Пил мертвих слів осів на їх вустах. Він знав, що світ сам знайде стежку до серця його уві сні. Будь як вода - говорили вони і сміялись вслід. Старанно завчили слова, ніколи не дізнавшись їх зміст. В кожному з нас зерно - ти сам собі земля чи пісок, В кожному з нас, ти сам собі диявол і бог. Він знав, що світ сам знайде стежку до серця його уві сні. Старість прийшла і вони молилися кожну ніч. Їх мучив страх, спрага не давала їм сну. Хто став як вода - брав з дощів і віддавав солоним морям. Зникав і знову падав із неба, сильніший від усіх.
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You always have more dreams than time So you don’t wait for a second chance To set your heart on fire That’s the only thing that breaks. Your mental make-up makes you so desensitised, The music in a club became so lame. You need a similar pill For different sorts of pain. Now you can fill me up with your thoughts How to fill the space in between What we got and what we want. Are there any chances to win the war with everything? It took a little bit more time than I thought To recover from your master plan. You'll always have your place In the dead parts of my brain. Now you can fill me up with your thoughts How to fill the space in between What we got and what we want. Are there any chances to win the war with everything?
5.
When there’s no one around I’m afraid of myself. I’m standing in front of the rusty gates to the promised land. But there’s no need to be sad, nothing forced me to leave. Someone considers home at the parent’s house, mine is at the wheel. Keep it moving or keep it still, You just keep it still. Even if one day you will stem the tide, One thing you should learn - an ocean’ll always be stronger than you are. It will strike back when you go too far, when you go too far. I stroll along the crowded street, I try to smile - they don’t engage. And I feel that I just don’t fit To this thing they call a modern age. But then you let yourself Be tired of walking, be tired of talking, Be tired of not being able to be the one you wanted to be when you were a kid. So you take a boat For a couple of hours To see the shores and the distant islands. They won’t define the thing they will teach you, You always have someone ahead, someone you never reach. Everything is happening on the slopes But you don’t have any sides if you don’t have a top To see where you were coming from. When there’s no one around I’m afraid of myself. I’m standing in front of the rusty gates to the promise land.
6.
Він доплив до самісінького дна І відкрив що ховає глибина - Там нічого нема. Він літав там, де небо має смак І пізнав те, що знає кожен птах - Там нічого нема. Він знайшов де кінчається Земля, Він дійшов до абсолютного нуля - Там нічого нема. Скільки людей він зустрічав і проводжав? Він мав ключі від всіх дверей і їх по черзі відкривав - Там нічого нема, там нічого нема. Він присів на край найвищої гори І зрадів - навколо жодної стіни. Все, що є в нас - це тільки ми. Все, що є в нас - це тільки ми. Все, що є в нас - це тільки ми.
7.
I shuffle my feet and catch the first rays of morning sun, It peels off the layers of dirt from my troubled mind. The things she must unlearn are the things I would rather choose. The lie can be strong but it will never become the truth, Unless it is. She says her loneliness’s so pure, can’t be mixed with anything, But every farewell draws a wrinkle on her skin. Does it make you sad? Like the sound of a last train leaving, Like the sound of a mother crying, Like the sound of desert praying for the sun. I got tears in my eyes, I got blood on my fist, I got rust on my strings, but I got the wind in my wings. Her loneliness’s so pure, can’t be mixed with anything, Though every farewell draws a wrinkle on her skin. Does it make you sad? Like the sound of no fucks given, Like the sound of a father crying, Like the sound of desert praying for the sun, I got tears in my eyes, I got blood on my fist, I got rust on my strings, but I got the wind, yeah, I got the wind in my wings.
8.
Дозволь мені не знімати ярлики із наших спільних друзів. Вони повільно помирають від нудьги на вічній злітній смузі. Нічний сеанс, порожній і холодний зал, поганий фільм в самому центрі міста. Чи ти колись дивилась серіал у ролі сценариста? Тут так багато якорів - нема де стати. Коли так потрібні ті слова - нема де взяти. Ти і я з’явилися на світ у колисці вітру І задихаємось майже в унісон у брудному повітрі. Не дивуйся, часто люди роблять речі просто так, без жодного мотиву. Чи ти колись дивилась серіал про справжніх детективів? Тут так багато якорів - нема де стати. Коли так потрібні ті слова - нема де взяти. Тут так багато якорів - нема де стати. Коли так потрібні ті слова - нема де.

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Vinyl release is scheduled for May 2020.

‘City Freak’ is the second studio album by recording artist Kostiantyn Pochtar, known as Postman. The record is due to be released digitally by the Kyiv music label WATRA on November 28, while the vinyl version is scheduled for spring 2020. This is his first album recorded with a band that takes him far beyond the boundaries of traditional guitar-lead folk music. The album consists of 5 songs in English, 3 tracks in Ukrainian, and one instrumental track.

For ‘City Freak’, Postman uses Hutsul folklore as a reference, as well as 60’s psychedelia, Ravi Shankar and Radiohead, Bob Dylan and Nick Drake. All this made the album exceptionally diverse and complex, going from the austere 'Voda' born deep in the Carpathian Mountains to the acid-fused jam in 'True Detective'.

The centerpiece of the album is the protagonist’s relationship with the big city which attracts and repels him all at the same time. It cherishes stories about urban crazies, lost tourists, drug dealers and barflies, hitchhikers, prostitutes, people who look for truth, adventure, and real friends among them. ‘City Freak’ is the soundtrack to the eternal journey from town to town, from home to another hotel with paper-thin walls.

Kostiantyn: “A megapolis is like an ocean, it will always be stronger than you, no matter how hard you try to stem the tide and resist. The only way is to let it dissolve you, to be like water. You adapt to its whimsical forms and fill the graffiti-covered streets, walk through the dark downtown alleys without looking back; breath in the smell of wet asphalt with stars shining underneath. Or drop by your favourite bar at midnight only to hear bad music that for some reason plays several nights in a row. Taste the sky before the brightest Summer sunrise and then, without saying Goodbye, walk up the highest mountain, transform into a quick cold stream that flows towards the sea. On ‘City Freak’, I wanted to ruin the division between real and abstract”.

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released November 28, 2019

Released on WATRA. Cover by Andriy Boyar
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Vadyk Lazariev at Lipkyzvukozapys

Kostiantyn Pochtar - vocals, guitars, bass, piano
Oksana Sagalata - violin
Andriy Beat - drums (tracks 02, 04)
John Sleeper - bass (track 01), backing vocals (tracks 01, 05)
Semenchik Zapekanka - drums (track 05)
Oleg Skakun - flugelhorn (track 07)
Vadyk Lazariev - organ, drums (track 08)

2019, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Postman, given name Kostiantyn Pochtar, is a Ukrainian musician, multi instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter who splits his life between Kyiv and Wroclaw. Postman represents the wave of Ukrainian music that emerged after the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity. Although his main influences come from the 60's, his music is modern city folk at its finest.
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