Pompeii

Harbour

Remembering Me

Video https://youtu.be/nK739k4ce5M

The first single from Ora Cogan's upcoming album, Formless. 
Pre Order here: https://oracogan.bandcamp.com/album/formless

Ora Cogan - vocals, electric guitar 
Justin Devries - drums 
Finn Smith - percussion 
David Parry - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass
Liam Gibson - keyboards

Written & arranged by Ora Cogan 
Engineered & mixed by David Perry at Risque Disc 
Mastered by Tom Deis at Pineapple Room Studio
Produced by Ora Cogan & David Parry

Cowgirl

Here in the Pitch

Life Is

Empty And Silent

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Defense

### Part I: The Seed (The Descent)
Brightly seeing down,  
a quiet, simple thing,  
dedicated to down,  
a song i have to sing.  

### Part II: The First Unfolding (The Journey)
Brightly seeing down,  
a quiet, simple thing:  
the other side of the lake,  
a country i’ve never known.  

descending easily,  
a feeling all my own,  
down, down, down,  
always will be shining.  

### Part III: The Second Unfolding (The Reflection)
Descending easily,  
a feeling all my own:  
i wish my voice had been  
a little warmer, less furled.  

thinking of a small candle,  
a quiet, simple light,  
a warm, timely corner,  
in the middle of the night.  

### Part IV: The Convergence (The Realization)
Thinking of a small candle,  
a quiet, simple light:  
happy musical down,  
a cherished, fading color.  

and a river holding on,  
a feeling, a sad, familiar holler,  
down, down, down,  
dancing to a lonely, tired page.  

### Part V: The Coda (The Embrace)
One should not be clear,  
just letting go, you see,  
leaving through down,  
embracing everything that’s me.  

it is the sun,  
a glowing, quiet star,  
and i’m just here,  
creating about my home, from so very, very far.  

Down Down Down by Lori Yamamoto

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Brean Down

Home to You

Cate Le Bon is an artist hailing from Carmarthenshire, rural West Wales. Be it on her more minimalist, acoustic-leaning 2009 debut album Me Oh My or critically acclaimed, liquid-riffed 2013 LP Mug Museum as well as 2016s Crab Day and the Mercury Award nominated Reward, Cate Le Bon’s solo work — and indeed also her production work, such as that carried out on the recent John Grant album, Boy From Michigan, or  Deerhunter's Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?  (4AD, January 2019) — has always resisted pigeonholing, walking the tightrope between krautrock aloofness and heartbreaking tenderness; deadpan served with a twinkle in the eye, a flick of the fringe and a lick of the Telecaster.

New album Pompeii bears a storied title summoning apocalypse, but the metaphor eclipses any “dissection of immediacy,” says Le Bon. Sonically minimal in parts, its lyrics jog between self-reflection and direct address. Written primarily on bass and composed entirely alone in an “uninterrupted vacuum,” Le Bon plays every instrument (except drums and saxophones) and recorded the album largely by herself with long-term collaborator and co-producer Samur Khouja in Cardiff, Wales.

The songs of Pompeii feel suspended in time, both of the moment and instant but reactionary and Dada-esque in their insistence to be playful, satirical, and surreal. From the spirited, strutting bass fretwork of “Moderation”, to the sax-swagger of “Running Away”; a tale exquisite in nature but ultimately doomed (The fountain that empties the world / Too beautiful to hold), escapism lives as a foil to the outside world. Pompeii’s audacious tribute to memory, compassion, and mortal salience is here to stay.

Remembering Me

Cate Le Bon

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