Paradise

Wasted Light

Skeleton Key

All We Do

Don't Bury Me In Love

Lyrics:

When do the fables come to pass?
Why do the good times never last?
Catcher of falling knives beware
No I'm drowning just coming up for air

Expectations high
Into something I
Could never be

Feels like my spirit's drained away
Gathering losses every day
Imagine fading that demand
Letting it slip right through your hands
Wasting the payments in advance
Just hoping to get that second chance

Expectations high
Into something I
Could never be

Preview coming what's in store
Many that have been before
You'll see
Could never be

© Daniel Trakell 2023

Folk Song #2

Written and performed by Daniel Trakell
Produced, recorded and mixed by Josh Barber
Guitars, clarinet and Mellotron by Daniel Trakell
Percussion, bass, keys and vibraphone by Josh Barber
Pedal steel by Matt Dixon
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield @ Audible Oddities, California
Released by Dumont Dumont 

Lyrics
One day we’ll leave and we’ll never come back 
Ditch the roads, cross the rivers and cover our tracks
Find places on maps few have seen
As far from the city anyone has been
Take on despair whatever the cost
Find a beautiful, beautiful place to get lost
And if we take our time, reclaiming all we find

You’ll see everything change
To be exactly as you imagined it to
Into the blue

Far from the sins of mankind
Beyond distractions, all we left behind
Let the stars in the sky light the way
Across landscapes the sun breaks
The first light of day
And if we take our time, reclaiming all we find

You’ll see everything change
To be exactly as you imagined it to
Into the blue
You’ll see everything change
To be exactly as you imagined it to
Into the blue

Into The Blue

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Still

Out Of Time

Waves

Never Satisfied

Words Of The Saviour (Praise Your Name)

When The Lights Go Down

Second Time Around

I'll Watch Over You

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Lyrics
With my last breath, waking the once departed
Talking to God, mending the broken-hearted
Before I leave, will any clarity bequeathed
Stay with you or follow me?

Don't bury me in love, don't carry on and on
Don't bury me in love

As I approach, my final destination
A shooting star, or some distant constellation
And I concede, that any clarity bequeathed
Will stay with you not follow me

Don't bury me in love, don't carry on and on
Don't bury me in love

All of the serpentine surrender
All of our subtleties collide
What happens to all of the answers,
All of the love we leave behind?

Paradise EP

Written by Daniel Trakell
Recorded mixed and produced by Joshua Barber at The Aviary, Abbotsford 
Drums, Bass, Piano & Xylophone played by Joshua Barber
Strings by Jonathan Dreyfus
Background vocals by Emilee South and Brooke Russell
Mastered by Lachlan Carrick at Moose Mastering

Official video out now: https://youtu.be/NnCFJKSPse8
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Recorded and produced by Joshua Barber at the Aviary, featuring Ben Franz on pedal steel, fellow Melbourne songwriters Emilee South and Brooke Russell on backing vocals and Nick Pietsch on trombone.

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So Long is the result of Daniel teaming up again with good friend and producer Joshua Barber.  Recorded at Alex the Great in Nashville featuring Josh Barber on drums, piano and Wurlitzer, Adam Ollendorff on electric/slide guitar and bass by Adam Keefer. 
The song is about saying goodbye to a close friend, written during the final months of his Dad's battle with cancer.

So Long

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Recorded and produced by Joshua Barber

Lyrics
I’ve been born and died
Lost and I’ve
Waited for a lifetime just to be denied
Would you pay the cost?
Are you strong enough?
No guarantees, no trading back the years you’ve lost

What are you waiting for, a sign?

Wisdom, boredom
Sideline, stardom

All this back and forth
Such a frantic sort
Reaching out and grasping for somebody’s hand to hold
But you’ve come so far
Seen so much since then
And what was once, will never be enough again

What are you waiting for, a sign?

Wisdom, boredom
Sideline, stardom

Wisdom/Boredom

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Produced and mixed by Josh Barber in Nashville, Tennessee and Melbourne, Australia. 

Lyrics
Take the sermon in your head
Throw it out, see what takes root instead
All that weighs heavy on your soul
Let it go, before it takes a hold
I needed someone to take me down
A moment to turnaround
A second to steady myself
From falling
You needed someone to break your heart
A moment to fall apart
A second to steady yourself
From falling

The television glows from down the hall
An empty room, for living no more
The people who lived there once upon a time
One by one, moved on left you behind

I needed someone to take me down
A moment to turnaround
A second to steady myself
From falling
You needed someone to break your heart
A moment to fall apart
A second to steady yourself
From falling

You weren’t invited you’re just there to watch the scene
You’re not entirely sure what keeps your conscience clean
You never lived until you found what’s surely been no reason to

Turnaround

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Recorded at Alex The Great Studios, Nashville.
Produced and mixed by Josh Barber, engineered by Stephen Mowat. 
Upright bass by Adam Keafer, acoustic guitar by Adam Ollendorff,  percussion by Josh Barber. 
Vocals, acoustic and electric guitar and clarinet by Daniel Trakell. 

Lyrics
Take down these words tonight
I'm falling behind
More than I care to say
So please be kind

Headstart, tombstone
Carry me home

Let me be
Let me be

Roll out your latest score
Laid out in lines
More than you could afford
But what's yours is mine

Headstart, tombstone
Carry me home

Let me be
Let me be

Let Me Be

A Melbourne, Australia based indie/folk-rock artist with 70s piano pop influences, Daniel Trakell's double-tracked vocals and songwriting style have drawn comparisons to artists like Elliott Smith and The Beatles. After winning a Triple J Unearthed competition in 2016 to make a music video Daniel released his debut EP the following year, with the video for the title track "Paradise" being debuted in October 2017 by Rolling Stone Australia, who noted the track's "haunting, melancholic isolation and just-off-centre obscurity."

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