So beautiful and uplifting. Thank you for sharing your music

I love You Ben! Thanks God You are on this planet.. <3

Brought tears to my eyes... thank you for this song.

I've been sort of lurking, listening to this occasionally when I don't mind turning on the tears, or when I need to. This is one of the most stunning covers or interpretations of a song I've ever heard. Absolutely sublime.

Idesia - Onacloud

We started tracking these songs one night in our dim, second-floor living room on Oakland Avenue in December of 2011. This album is for the places we lived, the people who also shared those spaces, and everything that happened during the three years it took to make it.

Cello/bass on tracks 2, 7, 10, 11 by Colin Matsumoto 
Trumpet on tracks 4, 7, 12 by Phil Liddell 
Lyrics on track 3 by Colin Matsumoto 
Lyrics on track 10 based on poem, "Fond", by Julia Kindall 

Artwork imagined and created by Emma Kindall 
Artwork post-production by Katie Kramer & Emily Seipelt 

Recorded and mixed by Drew Williams 
Mastered by Carl Saff (saffmastering.com)

Three Years

Peter Broderick - Colours Of The Night (Satellite Version)

Official Video - https://youtu.be/OBdkA6RjCcY
https://www.fictonain.com   -  https://www.facebook.com/fictonian   
Lyrics:
I've been swallowing the words i'm pondering,
the nights are my days and i'm seeing the world as a melody,
and it's not fictional.

I've been colouring the thoughts i'm wondering,
the worlds on my walls and the pictures have poured out in front of me,
and it's not fictional. 

I'll paint you a boat then i'll push you along,
lets un-batten the hatches and jump out to join everyone. 

See that star, it isn't too far, 
If it's in your heart, lets make it be ours. 

Don't look back, it's only a memory,
and i've been told - to never feel old...

We'll ferry from island to island for free,
then we'll sing and we'll dance and we'll bury the book in the sea. 

See that star, it isn't too far,
If it's in you heart - lets make it be ours. 

Make it Be Ours

Sightlines

New single from Tenterhook. Released June 8th on Cartoon Records.

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What I Like

‘Illuminate’ will be available digitally on April 24, with a limited edition 10” vinyl EP, featuring two exclusive covers from Dustin and Danny, available on June 5, via Cool Accidents Singles Club.

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Illuminate

Disarm

Hyperballad is written by Björk
Arranged by Luke Howard and Ben Abraham
Mixed by Hadyn Buxton
Mastered by Mandy Parnell

I love this song.

'Hyperballad' came out as a single 20 years ago today (Feb 12, 1996).

To celebrate the fact, I approached some talented friends to help me work on a cover — composer Luke Howard and producer Tim Shiel.

The collaboration resulted in two beautiful versions that I am very proud to be a part of.

Luke's string arrangement makes the song feel like it could be a hundred years old; a testament to Björk's timeless songwriting. Tim's version, with electronic sparseness that pays homage to the original, reminds me that the song could have come out yesterday and it would still be fresh and arresting, and like nothing I've heard.

The lyrics have also become a personal narration for the stage of life I find myself in. I suppose that's what compelled me to want to record it. The exhaling that comes with singing the line "to be safe up here with you" is one of the song's many gifts.

Songs like this feel alive to me.

It's daunting to interpret such a canonised work and the original certainly didn't need to be added to or taken away from.

So with the utmost respect, here are the efforts of three friends who live on the other side of the world from this remarkable artist, celebrating her work with work of our own.

You can listen to Tim's version here: https://soundcloud.com/benabraham/hyperballad-with-tim-shiel

Hyperballad with Luke Howard

Written by PJ Pearson
Produced by James Bragg

I came down to earth on a satellite somewhere
Near the cape of good hope
And covered in rags they were taking your picture
You had cut all your hair
And I was there in the back of the church with Diana
If god gives you landmines
You hand him back flowers

It’s Sanctuary Blues
Sanctuary Blues
These Sanctuary Blues

Everyone stood like Halloween costumes
Pretending that death was a friend of a friend
So I rode for Jerusalem
With an artichoke heart
On the back of a fire engine
Handing out lemons
If anyone asks
It’s the church of indifference

And people
People are just like stars
Moving in no direction
And I try not to read them all
And people
People are just like leaves
Left floating in the bottom of my tea
And I try not to read them all

These Sanctuary Blues

I was there on the edge drinking coconut water
And in glorious gesture you leant me your bible of Frankie O Hara
Where you’d marked out the pages with candy bar wrappers

And everything matters
It’s a matter of atoms


Hyperballad with Luke Howard

Ben Abraham

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