Limited edition hand made cassettes. Series of 25. Made by gf.os. Includes a tape, stitched lyric book and bonus track at the end of the cassette. <3
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Gingerbee 2023 Summer Tour Cassette
Cassette + Digital Album
Left 5 tapes in socal and can't get em to the east coast in time for tour. It's bandcamp time.
made in canada
comes with stickers
limited to 50
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Gingerbee Summer Tour 2023 CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
left 4 CDs in socal and have no way to get em to the east coast in time for shows.
limited to 50
come with stickers
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Title and some lyrics paraphrased from "The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, and Encyclopedia Pertaining to Scientific and Practical Culture of Bees" by the Amos Ives Root Bee Library.
"For ages bees have pursued the relentless policy of dropping out the old bees. When an old bee has toiled, worked aImost an entire season, contributing its mite to the wealth of the colony, its wings become so frayed and worn that it can no longer fly. The younger members of the colony are not at all grateful to this old bee for helping to fill up the hive with honey they will eat. They seem to take particular delight in picking up these old bees and dragging them to the entrance where they die of starvation, or in carrying them up into the air and dropping them a half-mile away. They cannot fly back and they cannot walk back, so they die.
Similarly any young bees that are ‘born” with defective wings or legs, or any other bees that are not perfect in every respect, are pushed out and allowed to die in front of the entrance. But some of these bees wilI crawl back again, the able bodied control bees will carry these defective bees out into the air and drop them a half-mile away where they perish like the old bees."
Citation:
Root, A. I. The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture, and Encyclopedia Pertaining to Scientific and Practical Culture of Bees. A.I. Root Co., 1947.
lyrics
It's hard but I'm trying my best
I will do all I can
Digging my nails into my shins
I'm so sick of my bullshit
Given a life to live too anxious to enjoy it
"Now its wings have become so frayed and worn it can no longer fly... and the old honeybees are often carried a quarter mile away from the hive and left to die (Root, 1947)"
