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Meet Me Halfway

Taken from debut 4 tracks EP 'Soap Carv' released on Nov 25th 2013 on Tape Club Records.

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Alligator

Fitt 1.

1.194-8

And a long, tied thong lacing it tight 
was strung with gold bells which resounded and shone.
No waking man had witnessed such a warrior 
or weird war-horse - otherwordly, yet flesh and bone. 
-
And knit together with a knotted thong 
Along which a row of bells rang brilliantly.
No one watching had ever before beheld
A horse like that - and such a horseman had never crossed their

Fitt 1. 'No one watching had ever before beheld'; 'otherworldly, yet flesh and bone.'

2. 487-90 

But mind your mood Gawain,
keep blacker thoughts at bay,
or lose this lethal game.
you've promised to play. 
-
Harrison Translation

Now, Gawain, think of your quest,
And let no terror quell
Your courage in the test 
You have take on. Think well!

Fitt 1. 'Keep blacker thoughts at bay'

Fitt 2.

3. 509-15

Birds burble with life and build busily 
as summer spreads, settling on slopes as it should.
Now every hedgerow brims
with blossom and with bud,
and lively songbirds sing
from lovely, leafy woods.
-
Harrison Translation 

Birds start building, they call out loudly
For the calm of summer that spreads its balm on valleys and slopes.
Rich hawthorn-blossoms swell 
And burst in rows; in the copse 
New bird-sounds run, pell-mell,
Through the glorious full tree-tops.

Fitt 2. 'Now every hedgerow brims with blossom and with bud'; 'New bird-sounds run, pell-mell,'

4. 740-7

Next morning he moves on, skirts the mountainside,
descends a deep forest, densely overgrown,
with ancient oaks in huddles of hundreds
and vaulting hills above each half of the valley.
Hazel and hawthorn are interwoven,
decked and draped in damp, shaggy moss,
and bedraggled birds on bare, black branches
pipe pitifully into the piercing cold. 
-
Harrison Translation 

Through the morning he rides on merrily, beside a hill,
Into a dark wood, wonderfully wild. 
High hills all around; below, a grove of oaks,
Huge and Hoary, more than a hundred of them.
Hazel and hawthorn were tangled together there, 
And everywhere rough mounds of hairy moss.
Hunched on bare branches, doleful birds
Piped out pitiful calls in the bitter cold.

Fitt 2. 'bedraggled birds on bare, black branches pipe pitifully into the piercing cold.'

Breaking Out

as i get closer and closer to being able to announce the film score i'm doing this year, i thought it might be nice to finally throw out this little piece.  its what i put together for the blade runner 2 trailer when they called on me.  i was honored to even be thought of. almost every sound apart from percussion was created on the same type of synth vangelis used for the original blade runner score.  its unmixed as i only had about 2 days to whip it together and send over.  enjoy.

love, el

EL-P'S REJECTED B RUNNER TRAILER DEMO UNMIXED

Serfs Up!

I Believe In Something Better

Connecting Flights

Lost Goals

"Lost Goals" - Jacques Labouchere

Written by Nadedja
Produced by HATi
Mixed and Mastered by John 'Trafik' Elliot
Artwork Original Photo by Michael Sreenan
AWAL Digital Limited (Kobalt) (on behalf of Nadedja); Sentric Music Publishing, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc.

Lyrics

It seems like
This is the step I take
To see you
It seems like
Halfway here
I lost the truth

Empty mugs
All that I am
On the kitchen floor
Vulnerable me
Dripping down the sink
All that’s in between

And I shift and change
And I rearrange 
And I fill with rage
And I try again
And it’s all about
The way I hold my mind
And I if I keep you close
I might free your mind

And I hold your body 
Like you’re holding mine
And I feel the cure
Running down my spine
It’s a strange exchange
The way we’re shattered now
But I feel alive

When I hold on to you
Unfold you
Hold on to you
Hold on to you

Let me be
The one who holds you close 
Intertwined 
I’m your ghost
Our veins, blood
Flows through me

It seems like
This is the step I take
To see you
To see you

And I shift and change
And I rearrange 
And I fill with rage
And I try again
And it’s all about
The way I hold my mind
And I if I keep you close
I might free your mind

And I hold your body 
Like you’re holding mine
And I feel the cure
Running down my spine
It’s a strange exchange
The way we’re shattered now
But I feel alive

When I hold on to you
Unfold you
Hold on to you
Hold on to you

Unfold you (unfold you)
Unfold you (unfold you)
Hold on to you (unfold you)

(C) 2021 Nadedja Leal

Unfold

‘Son Of Styx’ is the fourth single since the band’s 2019 debut offering, ‘Snakes’. Of the track, frontman Joe explains; “ We wanted to make something that can be both fetid and jubilant with energy to rival our happy go lucky peers, afterall we live in pre-dystopian times where monsters are very real”.

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SON OF STYX

KIMO - HOME ALONE

an ode to 2020

‘GONE TO POT’ is the Fourth single since the band’s Dec 2019 debut offering, ‘Snakes’. Of the track, frontman Joe explains; “Gone To Pot is an anthem for the existentially challenged, its sort of a reflection of all the insecurities of moving from your 20s into your 30s. During a lockdown where being social and active has all been but halted, we just tried to celebrate the slow physical and mental decline with a little humour and jubilance”.

Gone To Pot

Reuben

Ruth wrote Way the Wind Blows when she was 12 years old. The lyrics reflect on missing her dad whilst growing up as he worked as a touring musician. Now 23, she has reimagined the song with her band, featuring guitars from James Cooke, recorded by Mark Lewis at Germanium Studios in Manchester.

Way the Wind Blows

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