i ain't got a man's voice i got my voice
ARMAGEDDON WHAT I CAN GET
I was a Mother to my Mother

Asha's Album

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Lyrics

Kindly teach thy bride in secret
In the long and dreary evenings
When you're sitting at the fireside
Teach one year in words of kindness
Teach with eyes of love a second
In the third year teach with firmness
If she should not heed thy teaching
Should not hear thy kindly counsel
After three long years of effort
Cut a reed upon the lowlands
Cut a nettle from the border
Teach thy wife with harder measures u-uh

In the fourth year if she heed not
Threaten her with sterner treatment
With the stalks of rougher edges
Do not touch her on the forehead
Nor upon the ears nor visage
If a ridge be on her forehead oh
Or a blue mark on her eyelids
Then her mother would perceive it
Her father would take notice
All the village-workmen see it
And the village-women ask her
'Has thou been in heat of battle'

Hit me baby one more time
Hit me baby one more time she says and I will kill you uh-u

Shame her thus to do her duty
Strike not yet, though disobeying
Should she disregard this warning
Gather all thy sticks in silence
Gather quietly the birch-wood
That the father may not fancy
And the mother not imagine
That thy calling came from anger
And thy noise from discontentment
Hide it underneath thy mantle
That the stranger may not see it
Show it to thy wife in secret

Hit me baby one more time
Hit me baby one more time
Hit me baby one more time she says
Hit me baby one more time she says and I will kill you uh-u

Bride's Farewell

Lyrics: 

I was a boy with visions of a bright future
A little freak, a little chic
But the future wasn't ready for me
Became a toy for silly men to walk over
Bad kid, placid
Always doing what I was told

My whole life I was begging for permission
Only to find I didn't need it from anyone
And inside, I found a songbird
I came alive, I'm dead no longer

Felt I was on my last breath
Seconds from sudden death
So meek, tragique
But something new was born inside me

My whole life I was begging for permission
Only to find I didn't need it from anyone
And inside, I found a songbird
I came alive, I'm dead no longer

I finally feel alive
I finally feel alive
I finally feel alive

My whole life I was begging for permission
Only to find I didn't need it from anyone
And inside, I found a songbird
I came alive, I'm dead no longer

Dead No Longer

Debut

Countdown

"A Tear In The Fold (Single Edit)", taken from the E.P. "A Tear In The Present" (and the original version taken from the album "Bloody Saturnalia"), out 26th January on all download/streaming platforms.  "Bloody Saturnalia", released 24th November 2023 on The Colour Inverted Records is available on digital/gatefold 180 gram vinyl LP formats.

Music & lyrics by Nick Carlisle. Produced by Nick Carlisle.
Digital master by Nick Carlisle, vinyl master by Julian Tardo at Church Road Studios, East Sussex.
Vocals & keyboards: Nick Carlisle
12 string & Portuguese guitars: Foz Foster
Backing vocals: Rachel Horwood
Drums: Simon Adams

The lead song from the “A Tear In The Present” E.P., “A Tear In The Fold” was written in the wake of the passing of Nick’s Dad. Lyrically it takes comfort from the idea that time isn’t linear, and that those precious moments with loved ones are forever as present as they once were. Nick contributes vocals, piano, synthesizer and mellotron, and is joined by former Bamboo bandmate and Bas Jan drummer Rachel Horwood on backing vocals, and Foz Foster (The Monochrome Set / David Devant & His Spirit Wife) on 12 string and Portuguese guitars. The E.P. is released to coincide with two sold out performances of “Häxan With Live Score By Nick Carlisle” at the Barbican, London on the 28th January. The two extra tracks on the E.P., “Present Times” & “The Sleepwalker”, were recorded on a piano that once belonged to Keith Emerson no less, & are taken from the score Nick composed for the film (neither track appears on the “Häxan - A Soundtrack” album of highlights).

Nick Carlisle has played an integral role as writer & producer in a handful of projects on the UK DIY music scene over the last 15 years, from Peepholes (Upset The Rhythm Records) 2006-2014, through Bamboo (Upset The Rhythm) 2014-2020, Katy and Nick (Gob Nation) 2017-2022, and Lean Logic (O Genesis Recordings) 2020-present. Originally from rural Northern Ireland and now residing in Brighton, England, Nick’s music blends vintage analogue electronics & acoustic instruments with more contemporary digital sounds and samples to paint a world that’s instantly recognisable but simultaneously unfamiliar & often unsettling. Whilst this is Nick’s debut solo album of songs, in 2022 he released a largely instrumental album Häxan - A Soundtrack having been commissioned by QFT to compose and perform a new soundtrack for the 1922 horror film of the same name, as part of the BFI In Dreams Are Monsters season. Nick performed the soundtrack live at Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast, and the Ulster Folk Museum Picture House, Northern Ireland again earlier this year, and on 28th January 2024 takes the live score to the Barbican in London for two sold out performances.

A Tear In The Present E.P.

A Tear In The Fold

A Tear In The Fold (Single Edit)

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