Penrose Stairs is the first single from A Fugitive's forthcoming debut-EP called 'Coincidence'.

Lyrics 

We’re waking now 
A Sunday in May 
As I’m enfolding you like it’s just another day 
I feel it’s working out 
Soon I’ll be leaving to introspect 

But I am going down neverminding your so-called selfrespect 
Soon I’ll be walking down your never ending stairs 

I can’t seem to recognise me in these streets 
Cause she can’t feel the longing to merge to my beat 
Can’t wipe the tears from her eyes from this distance 
Can’t seem to put myself there 
The most promising thing I’ve seen, I have seen 
Can’t seem to find the end of your never ending stairs 
Keep going till it scares 

I will try not to forget how I felt 
From this distance, from this distance 
Until she affected me 
From this distance, without resistence 
You feel this?

Credits 

released August 22, 2016 
Music and words by Rosan Rozema 
Mixed and produced by Chris Hamilton 
Mastered by Zlaya Loud

Penrose Stairs

Restless Coincidence is the second single from A Fugitive's forthcoming debut EP called 'Coincidence'.

Restless Coincidence

Music and words by Rosan Rozema 
Mixed and produced by Chris Hamilton 
Mastered by Zlaya Hadzic

Cortex Orbitofrontalis

released December 18, 2020

credits
Music and words by Rosan Rozema
Engineered by Chris Hamilton
Mixed and mastered by Camiel Daamen

lyrics
Tell me what I have done
Tell me what I'll become
I've cried myself to sleep

Every once in a while I dream of meeting in the deep
To find out there are no reasons I can keep

Keep, keep, keep me close
Keep, keep, keep
Keep

Tell them what is gone
Oh, tell them that I have become
but i'm not depending on you while you are depending on me
You see?

Every once in a while I dream of meeting in the deep
Where I decided to bury it and start on my own

There's no way we get back
cause your damage can't be undone
Oh, in my dreams, in your dreams
I'll get back

When there's no way where you could run
You run as fast as you can
But in your dreams, yeah your dreams, I'll get back

Cause there's no way that we get back
cause the damage can't be undone
Oh, in my dreams, in your dreams, I'll get back

A Fugitive - Keep

A Fugitive was born while fleeing from a bit darker place when acceptance became appropriate, rather than resistance against inevitability. It gave Rosan Rozema the reliance she needed, and made her realise that she had to trust on fate and to which grounds it was taking her. And most importantly: that everything has happened and will always happen for a reason.
 
The first single ‘Penrose Stairs’ lets us hear a track based on a low reverberant acoustic piano that transcends slowly but unobtrusively to a distinct dark pop song that roars of virtuosity. 

Second single ‘Restless Coincidence’ gives us a more uptempo song with haunting vocal hooks and well thought-out soundscapes. The song also includes a music video directed by Rozema herself and a team consisting of Johanneke Dijkstra and Jan Martien Dekker. The short film invigorates A Fugitive’s concept by telling a story of a young woman making her way back home while several events are taking place around her, with one event more noticeable than the other.

Finally, on the third song ‘Cortex Orbitofrontalis’, a part of our brains that is responsible for processing emotional stimuli and decision-making, we hear a wider range of sounds. Heavy rumbling drums set the tone for a build-up accompanied by shimmering synths to a climax full of extreme vocal eruptions and intrusive guitar riffs.

On ‘Coincidence’ we hear Rosan intuitively contemplate her beliefs in three intimate songs. 
A Fugitive combines influences ranging from ambient, trip hop, post-rock and neo-R&B with intense vocals. Drum machines, heavy rumbling drums and ambient synths and guitars come together in stories about surrendering to fate and how to trust on it when you’re feeling lost and restless. The EP was produced by Chris Hamilton (known for Torres’ ‘Sprinter’ and Kite Base’s ‘Dadum’) in London.

‘Coincidence’ will be released as a limited cassette by Tartarus Records on April 1st.

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