Life or Debt

ERSATZ EMOTIONS

Dying To Tell You

A hypnotic dance with a driving rhythm which builds and builds to a climax. This piece for orchestra keeps a C major triad, a basic building block with simplistic almost primitive connotations, driving the piece from start to finish.
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Solstice (Orchestra)

The Umbrellabirds version of Trent Miller's Nowhere Road.

The Umbrellabirds - Nowhere Road

Hegemony out on 7" vinyl with download link for a Midsummer release
Website: http://www.chalkhorsemusic.com/video

Our new single Hegemony is coming out midsummer. It's a hybrid of traditional song Sweet Lemeney, collected by The Copper Family, with lyrics from Green Gartside's reinterpretation in 1978 and our own arrangement.

It's being released as a 7” vinyl with download link, along with b-side The Devil and the Farmer.

It was only last year we realised Hegemony's folkloric links and that it had been inspired by the traditional song Sweet Lemeney, that's traditionally sung at midsummer. The melody we've used is closer to the traditional version and I'm grateful to Green Gartside for allowing us to use his ever relevant lyrics without hearing what we would do with it.

Hegemony... leadership or dominance, especially by one state or social group over others

hegemony, hegemony
you are the fairest creature
you are the fairest creature that ever I have seen,
and it's all for Monopoly
on all those pretty sensibles
that rot and raze a nation the capacity for change

hegemony, hegemony
you are the foulest creature
you are the foulest creature that set upon a race,
you can generate and dissipate
but only very stupidly
such it is the splendour of popular control

how do you do this?
how can you do it to me?
when all you are is ordinary, it's pretty common sense
you are natural, immutable and everyone exquisites you
as common sense
and common sense is things just as they are

In seeking licensing permission we approached Rough Trade’s Geoff Travis. He said, ‘a very pleasant surprise… didn’t expect those horn blasts… a lovely spirited full-bodied version.’

Hegemony

Toronto based singer-songwriter Stan Simon joins us on Episode 525 of Folk Roots Radio to chat about his third album, "Songs From Strange Places", a lovely new country folk recording that takes its lead from the great singer-songwriters and balladeers of our time, on a reflective collection of songs that explore themes of love, loss and spiritual exploration. We also check out more of the latest new releases and this time around hear from Sarah Jarosz, Chalk Horse Music, The SteelDrivers, Jake Blount, Josh Kimbrough, Lynn Jackson, Mark Erelli and Ken Tizzard & Music For Goats. More at https://folkrootsradio.com.

Folk Roots Radio

Episode 525 - feat. Stan Simon - Songs From Strange Places & More New Releases

Stream Birds: https://linktr.ee/stJasper

Produced and engineered by Louis Milburn
Mastered by Hallam Robinson

Artwork by Raissa Pardini

Birds

Released Date: 23rd October 2020
www.arboristmusic.com

The Mountain Will Come To You

written & produced by George Moorey & Shane Young
Vocals: Shane Young
Piano & Guitars: George Moorey
with Roy Dodds (drums) & Simon Edwards (bass)
mastered by Katie Tavini

Lyrics:

There was a ring
Crafted from ore
From foundry to miller to jewellery store

There were the rocky times
The price for her band
Time smoothed the edges
Like pebbles in sand

There were some pictures
Of times raw and real
Stacked like a deck of cards
Cut here to reveal

There was the tristesse
An act of three parts
And yes there were diamonds
Sometimes the hearts

The joker presented
A lilting romance
Strike at the anvil
In the sparks, in the sparks you dance

There were some flames
But wary of heat
On many occasions 
He’s out on the street

There is the deck again
She’s cut it quite deep
He’s there on another card
She might choose to keep

The long summer’s ended
The evening grows dim
She stands on the patio
Waiting for him

But jokers get sad too
Saddest of all
He’s not in the best state
To dial the call

There is the deck again
It’s cast in the dirt
Long grows the garden
To bury the hurt

The joker presented
A lilting romance
Strike at the anvil
In the sparks, in the sparks you dance

Joker come back
Into the pack
Come back come back
Come back a better man

In The Sparks You Dance

from propeller (inner workings), released December 4, 2020 
https://hungersleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/propeller-inner-workings

An unplugged version of The Cage from GRICE'S album Propeller featuring the late (magnificent) Raphael Ravenscroft on sax.  

The album cover and track artwork images are also early incarnations of the Propeller CD artwork. (original artwork courtesy of British artist Elizabeth McAlpine)

GRICE: lead vocals, electric guitar, horn arrangements. 
Raphael Ravenscroft: saxophone. 
Joe Breban: drums 
Jerri Hart: trumpet 
Ondrej Pochyly: acoustic and electric violin 

Album cover images originally from 'Quintet’ courtesy of Elizabeth McAlpine. 
Cover designs: GRICE 

Recorded at Sound Gallery Studios, UK 
Engineered by Duncan Chave & GRICE 
Mastered by Duncan Chave 
Composed, arranged and produced by GRICE 

www.gricemusic.co.uk 

© 2020 GRICE 
℗ 2020 Hungersleep Records

Propeller (inner workings)

The Cage (Bird Cage mix)

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Ultramodern

Music inspired by the folklore, landscape and legend of Sussex

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