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What do you do with a Manioc?

from North Pacific by Mr Diagonal

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited edition of 500 CDs.
    It's a groovy digi-sleeve format, plastic-free, with 12 page booklet with full lyrics.
    Designed by mr Diagonal, with a little help from his kids (who did the beach writing).
    Please note there is no photoshop involved: the cover is a photo of a photo on a photo.
    A final triumph of CD design, just before the format becomes extinct; not so much an object as an artifact.

    The Cd contains an exclusive final 'track' that is not on the download.
    It's not a song but a sound I heard in a dream, woke up, and added to the master.

    Please be careful when you open the CD, there is a slight design flaw. Comes with free elastic band (you'll see why).

    For bulk orders please contact daniel.barbenel@gmail.com

    Includes unlimited streaming of North Pacific via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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  • North Pacific desert island disk with folding boat. Inside you'll find a treasure map with a download code for the album, plus a private video link to build your own origami boat. Made from recycled bottles, each piece is handmade and unique. Limited edition of 200.

    Includes unlimited streaming of North Pacific via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about

The question every castaway asks himself.

lyrics

What do you do with a Manioc?

What do you do with a manioc?
Could it be stewed to make a hotpot?
But I haven't even got a half stock cube...
I'm feeling blue,
what do you do with a manioc?

Whoever designed the manioc
didn't have in mind a quick snack.
I tried to eat raw, I got hiccups;
now my belly's sore,
what is this manioc for?

Could you identify a manioc?
It looks rather like a big brown cock.
Sometimes I used to spy it in the night shop,
but I never stopped to ask myself
'what's that big tuber for?'
Now I'd adore
to know what a manioc's for.

In the dark interior night winds shiver.
Beneath the wisteria the python slithers,
hunting the native beasts that haunt the river,
bearing bilharzia to devour your liver...

How do you do? I'm a manioc.
Let me help you to get unblocked!
Just pound me into pulp with a big rock,
then pass it though a sieve or an old sock!
Then you can make wine
if you ferment brine of the manioc.

credits

from North Pacific, released July 23, 2021
words and music by mr Diagonal

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Mr Diagonal Brussel, Belgium

mr Diagonal (aka Dan Barbenel) is a multi-faceted musician/ songwriter at the frontiers of
pop, cabaret and theatre music.

In true diagonal fashion, he always cuts a dash and declines to cut corners.

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