Concentrate On Breathing

Gravity

Pockets Of Stones

Canyon

Heavy

Wonderful Oblivion

Miranda

Goodnight

Into The Well

As A Child

Bluest Colour

River

Concentrate On Breathing (Reimagined)

Treading Water (Acoustic)

Home

Rocked in this boat for who knows how long
Each piece of its wood is keeping me strong
Rocked for a while in one certain path
Then the wind may drift me into the dark

I’ll find the sun again, the big bright blue sky
Tropical fish swimming, seagulls that fly
Rippling waters and fresh salty air
I can’t deny currents that I know are there

Who knows when I will drift away from the seventh sea that I have called home.
Who knows when I will drift away from the seventh sea that I have called home.
Lead me sea creatures, lead me gods to a new place like home.

The sky then turns orange as the sun sets
The wispy clouds are pink and red
As I close my eyes day turns to night
I hope that the heavens will show me what’s right

Chorus

And for the time being
I’ll see the world as it is
I will wait for you…

To drift me away from the seventh sea and show me a new place like Home.
credits
from Home, released 01 August 2014
Charm of Finches are Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes
All songs written by Mabel Windred-Wornes
Harmonies by Ivy Windred-Wornes

Mabel: vocals, guitar, cello, glockenspiel
Ivy: vocals, glockenspiel


Produced by Michael Johnson
Recorded by Evripedes Evripidou at Emotion Studios, Melbourne
Additional Engineering: Fraser Montgomery at The Aviary, Melbourne
Mastered by Evripedes Evripidou 

all rights reserved
copyright Charm of Finches 2014

Home

"Sky Watching" is the first single from young sister duo Charm of Finches' soon to be released debut album, "Staring at the Starry Ceiling" (released  JULY 29 2016). 

MUSIC VIDEO: https://youtu.be/aoQpLe64pXc?list=PLoypTzPApxHaQ8ufjTilXEKW7xqbROnN_
All instruments were played by Mabel and Ivy including cello, violin, ukelele and glockenspiel. 

The song captures the wistfulness and melancholy of any kind of longing. 

The song didn't have a name for a long time and was just known as "the new song", until a small gig at Newport Bowls Club, where an elderly patron approached the girls after they had asked the audience to help them name the song.  He politely handed them a small folded piece of paper with the name "Sky Watching" written on it in perfect old-fashioned handwriting. 

Recorded at Head Gap Studio by Neil Thomason as well as by Nick Huggins and  Mabel Windred-Wornes.
Produced by Mabel Windred-Wornes and Nick Huggins in Point Lonsdale, VIC.
Mastered by Sam John at Precise Mastering, Scotland, UK.

Single cover photo by Loc Nguyen of W.D.N Photography

Sky Watching (Single Mix)

Charm of Finches, aka sisters Mabel and Ivy, aged 17 and 14, emerge from an eclectic musical environment of classical strings and Celtic folk, and have been likened to artists as diverse as Danish chamber songstress Agnes Obel, First Aid Kit and Gillian Welch.

They live in a rambling shack in Northcote with their family and a wild hermetic guinea pig named Pyramus.

Their debut album "Staring at the Starry Ceiling" features the duo's signature  sibling harmonies, with a distinct chamber-folk flavour coming from the instrumentation: cello, violin, guitar, ukulele, lyre, banjo, piano, glockenspiel: all played by the sisters.

The "singing finches" have played Australian folk and roots festival stages since releasing their debut EP "Home" in 2016.

Their song "Paper and Ink" won the 2015 Darebin Music Feast Songwriter's Award.

This album was recorded with the assistance of the City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program.


"The girls sang with an angelic beauty, hitting high notes with ease. Their harmonies rose and fell seamlessly with an impeccable blend. The performance captured the innocence of their youth, and the breadth of their talents. It was pure and natural and heart warming. "

speakertv.com



CREDITS:
released July 29, 2016

Charm of Finches are Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes
Written and arranged by Charm of Finches
Mabel: vocals, guitar, cello and glockenspiel
Ivy: vocals, violin

Produced and Engineered by Nick Huggins and Mabel Windred-Wornes
Mixed by Nick Huggins
Mastered by Sam John at Precise Mastering, Scotland, UK

Recorded at:
Nick’s studio in Point Lonsdale, VIC
Mabel’s home studio in Northcote, Melbourne




All Photography for album  by Emma McEvoy
except Mabel solo by Loc Nguyen-W.D.N Photography
Layout and Design by Di Diddle

Paper And Ink

Produced by Nick Huggins and Charm of Finches 
Engineered and Mixed by Nick Huggins
Mastered by Sam John at Precise Mastering, Scotland
Written, Arranged and Performed by Charm of Finches

Charm of Finches are:
Mabel Windred-Wornes: vocals, piano, guitar, cello
Ivy Windred-Wornes: vocals, violin, ukulele, glockenspiel

Photo by Adalita Srsen

www.charmoffinchesband.com
Media enquiries:  jowindred@hotmail.com  
p & c  Charm of Finches 2018


Melbourne's harmony weaving sister duo Charm of Finches release their new single, "The Bridge"Friday 20th July.
The song was inspired by an experience the two had while on tour last Christmas, heading up to play the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland.

"We were walking across a bridge when we came upon a group of young people, probably not much older than us, who were obviously grieving. There were flowers and beer cans hanging from the bridge, and we found out their friend had jumped off the bridge during a party and didn't make it.
This stayed with us all day. As a young person, how do you deal with losing someone who was so young and had their whole life ahead of them? We had also been through this experience and it's very intense and complex. That evening we wrote a song as a kind of ode to our experience that day."

The song was recorded in Point Lonsdale, Victoria, with producer Nick Huggins (Two Bright Lakes) and with its chamber folk feel of piano, glockenspiel, cello, violin, guitar and uke (all played by Mabel and Ivy) it is awash with the duo's angelic sibling vocal harmonies.
There will also be a music video released around the date of the launch, shot by Adalita (Magic Dirt) and featuring 7 teenagers on location in the Salt Lake country near Colac and the Otways forest.

The duo will launch the single at 
Horti Hall, Melbourne (home of Vic Opera, opp Trades Hall)- 
31 Victoria St Melbourne
Saturday 18th August, followed by a string of regional Victorian and interstate dates.
Doors 7pm. All ages. 
Special guest: Khristian Mizzi
Book through charmoffinchesband.com

SINGLE LAUNCH Tour Dates :
SAT 18 AUG Horti Hall, MELBOURNE
SAT 25 AUG The Skylark Room UPWEY VIC with Khristian Mizzi
SUN 26 AUG The Bridge Hotel CASTLEMAINE VIC 3pm
SAT 22 SEPT Cooee Arthouse, SA with Kacey Stephensen
SUN 23 Grace Emily, ADELAIDE 4pm with Loren Kate
WED 26 SEPT FolksWagon, Surry Hills SYDNEY 
THURS 27 SEPT Smith's Alternative, CANBERRA 9.30pm

Media enquiries: Jo Windred 0420925851

Release date:
20 July 2018

LYRICS:
I walked the way that you used to go
And I see your face in the cumulus clouds in the water down below
And I wonder why you ever came here
And you jumped so far that you'd always be falling until you disappeared

And oh, oh, oh what is there to say?
And all we have left is the wind

The silence now seems to swallow me whole
And our laughter it turned to howling when gravity took you in its hold
Now Christmas Day is bitter
carols silenced mid refrain
And I hear the sound of you hitting the water in their place

And oh, oh, oh what is there to say
And all we have left is the wind

You once told me you wondered what it would be like to fly
You once told me you wondered what it would be like to die

Taken to the air
You began your endless flight

(Mastered track: 16 BIT WAV file)

The Bridge

Melbourne sister duo Charm of Finches delivers intricate folk-pop that is simultaneously graceful and darkly bewitching. Their seamless blood harmonies traverse melancholy and wonder in equal measure.

The sisters, Mabel and Ivy Windred-Wornes, released their third full length album Wonderful Oblivion in 2021 through New York-based label AntiFragile Music to critical acclaim. They have since toured extensively through the UK, Europe and Canada in 2022/23.

Winners of the Australian Folk Music Awards Best Folk Album (2022) and Music Victoria Best Contemporary Folk Act (2021), their music has been nominated twice for the prestigious Australian Music Prize.

In February 2023 the sisters spent a month in rural Nova Scotia recording with acclaimed Canadian producer Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, Oh Pep!), inspired by the frozen beauty of the landscape and their transient life on the road with their music. The result is their fourth studio album to be released in 2024.

Charm of Finches

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