The Sparrow in the Lemon Tree [from Lupa]

Arms Around Sleep [from wake:sleep]

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Holy Comet Lands

Animal Temple

The Sparrow In The Lemon Tree

Kora Heart

04 The Hollows [WHY]

03 Cold Blooded [Smog]

01 Goddess Eyes [Julia Holter]

Originally published as audio and text in 2015 by Open Pen Magazine (London).

A collection of short stories written and read by James Vella.

An English Dead

An Ecstatic Lightning Of Strange Birds

Taken from Ten Drones on Cassette (released on cassette only, May 2017)

01 Hildur [extract]

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis vs Last Poets & Dead Prez - Panther Train

A collection of interviews, readings, lectures and monologues, and an attempt to soundtrack these personal expressions with musical pieces that reflect a sentiment or an emotional undercurrent I believe to be hidden somewhere within the words. I am interested in the stoic stubbornness in Sun Ra's lecture, the lamenting hope in Woody Allen's confessional, the underlying calmness in Kerouac's depiction of a raucous jazz scene. These are words spoken by important creative minds; this is an experiment in listening to the voice of the mind as much as the voice of the throat.

Compiled and mixed by James Vella / A Lily

1. Jack Kerouac reads from On The Road / Oneohtrix Point Never - Remember
2. Phil Ochs - On modern music / Pan American - Both Ends Fixed
3. Bob Johnston - 'The Music Man' / A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Symphony Pathetique
4. Charles Bukowski reads When All The Animals Lay Down / Nick Kuepfer - Kettle
5. Woody Allen - 'What Makes Life Worthwhile' / Max Richter - Journey 4
6. Gastr del Sol - I Only Speak English
7. Ivan Karp on Andy Warhol / Mount Eerie - [something]
8. Neal Morgan - It's Man or Mouse Now
9. Nick Drake speaks into his dictaphone / Richard Skelton - Threads Across the River
10. Jorge Luis Borges - The Metaphor [Harvard, 1967] / Stefan Christoff w/ Sam Shalabi - Duet for Abdelrazik #6
11. Sun Ra - I Don't Want to be Treated Like A Human Being [Berkeley, 1971] / Labradford - Recorded and Mixed at Sound of Music, Richmond, VA.
12. Mark Albert Vella reads The Swallower / Angelo Badalamenti - Audrey's Dance
13. Dan Aykroyd - Why I Believe in UFOs / Aphex Twin - Avril 14th

FatCat Records podcasts

Unspoken Inferences mixtape

I'm Away Now. Thanks

A Lily is James Vella from yndi halda & also a writer.

Music written alone in my bedroom with help from my friends occasionally.

Music written on instruments and no instruments.

Music written for the hell of it.

A Lily

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