How Can I Possibly Sleep When There Is Music - Limited 2xLP

Issued as a limited 2xLP with booklet, this Luka Kuplowsky and The Ryokan Band set stretches folk song, chamber textures and spoken-word cadence into a quietly immersive cycle. The title piece, 4 Poems, Dreaming Of Li Bai and Fugitive Song show how deeply the record's poetry-led approach shapes the music.

SIDE ONE:
1. Elixir Of Immortality
2. To Pi Ssu Yao (Du Fu)
3. How Can I Possibly Sleep When There Is Music (A Response To Ryokan Taigu)
4. Generous Fool
5. Formal Meditation (Ryokan Taigu)
6. The Rain Has Not Yet Cleared
7. Self-Portrait (Bohdan Ihor Anyonych)
8. Don't Be Jealous (A Response To Jalal Al-Din Muhammad Rumi)
9. Thoughts In Exile

SIDE TWO:
1. If Your Heart Remains Unchanged (Ryokan Taigu)
2. I Knew It Would Be You! (Ryokan Taigu)
3. I Pass The Evening Slowly
4. 4 Poems (Yosano Akiko)

SIDE THREE:
1. Dreaming Of Li Bai (Du Fu)
2. Thoughts While Travelling
3. Ars Poetica 2 (Bohdan Ihor Anyonych)
4. The Frog That Wants To Make Itself As Big As An Ox (Jean De La Fontaine)
5. Midsummer (Ryokan Taigu)
6. If Birds Are Silent (WWE Ross)

SIDE FOUR:
1. What Luck! (Ryokan Taigu)
2. You Made Me Sing! (A Response To Jalal Al-Din Muhammad Rumi)
3. Elixir Of Immortality (part 2)
4. Wasting (Li Bai)
5. Fugitive Song (A Response To Rainer Maria Rilke's "sonnet #3")