STARBOARD - Abaia [FULL ALBUM] 2021 **including lyrics**

’Abaia’ is the debut album of Finnish (funeral) doom/dark jazz band Starboard released in 2021. 01 The Pale Usher 0:00 02 Call Me Ishmael 13:32 03 The Vengeance Of Jonah (interlude) 24:25 04 Abaia 26:55 LYRICS: 01 The Pale Usher 0:00 “Who thundering comes on blackest steed With slacken’d bit and hoof of speed? Beneath the clattering iron’s sound The cavern’d echoes wake around The foam that streaks the courser’s side Seems gather’d from the ocean-tide Though weary waves are sunk to rest There’s none within his rider’s breast -Excerpts from “The Giaour“ by Lord Byron-“ ***** 02 Call Me Ishmael 13:32 “Alone, alone, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony. The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And all the thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. I looked to heaven, and tried to pray