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Ashes and Wine drifts like smoke through a dimly lit lounge, It's a trip-hop elegy of longing and surrender. Sultry vocals weave through slow, moody beats, brushed jazz drums, and atmospheric piano. It’s a song of intimacy and loss, where desire tastes of smoke and every shadow carries memory. Both noir and tender, Ashes and Wine is persona Noira’s confession at the edge of night.

lyrics:
Glass on the table, lipstick stain,
The night remembers, it whispers your name.
Smoke in my lungs, a ghost in my chest,
Every kiss I swallowed was never at rest.

Ashes and wine, tangled with time,
I drink the silence, I call you mine.
Every shadow tastes like sin,
I lose myself where you begin.

Curtains are heavy, the candle is low,
I bleed in the rhythm of secrets I know.
Your voice in the static, your hand on my spine,
I burn and I wither on ashes and wine.

Ashes and wine, tangled with time,
I drink the silence, I call you mine.
Every shadow tastes like sin,
I lose myself where you begin.

All that we were drifts into smoke,
Every vow is a word I choke.
But even broken, I still incline,
To drown again in ashes and wine.

Ashes and wine, tangled with time,
I drink the silence, I call you mine.
Every shadow tastes like sin,
I lose myself where you begin

Ashes and Wine

Ashes and Wine

Ashes and Wine

Ashes and Wine

Written, produced, and performed by Luke Carter (AKA Sammi Dae)  
Vocals by Thea (an artist created by Luke Carter)  

Original Composition: © 2011 Luke Carter (Sammi Dae)
Original ISRC (2011): GBER71902076
New Sound Recording: ℗ 2025 DGG Productions Ltd
New ISRC (2025): UKVGE0558122

Luke Carter (DGG Productions). Email: luke@dgfproductions.com. Phone: +44 7821 189857. Publishing & Master: 100% Controlled by DGG Productions

Artist: Sammi Dae feat. Thea
Produced & Written by: Luke Carter (Sammi Dae)
Performed by: Sammi Dae using AI vocals from Thea, created and developed by Luke Carter
Label: DGG Productions Ltd
Genre: Cinematic Neo-Soul / Indie-Blues / Contemporary R&B
Key: G♭ Major | Tempo: 225 BPM

🏠 A song of swagger, intimacy, and finding strength in love.

“No Place Like Home (Back To Me)” fuses expressive swagger rap and soulful harmonies with delicate piano, warm strings, and ambient textures. With Thea’s angelic yet confident AI-driven vocal performance, the track captures the push-and-pull of distance, devotion, and the irresistible pull of home. It’s both playful and deeply emotional—laying smooth intimacy alongside vibrant, rhythmic expression.

At the core of this release is a bold artistic experiment. In a music industry dominated by image and youth, Luke Carter (Sammi Dae) has created a groundbreaking roster of AI artists—including Piper, Ziah, Sacha Rome, Devyn Cross, Chrohm, Haystacks In The Sky, Tom B-Lyve, and Thea. These aren’t faceless voices but fully realized digital performers with distinct sonic identities, designed to reinterpret Carter’s human-written, produced, and originally performed songs. Together, they bridge human storytelling and digital performance, redefining what it means to connect through music.

With "Back To Me", the production leans into a slick, punchy groove with reverb-soaked intimacy, a catchy bassline, and a confident laid-back flow. Thea’s vocal balance of sweetness and swagger makes the song perfect for reflective storytelling, romance montages, or soulful late-night listening.

🎧 For fans of: Yebba • H.E.R. • Anderson .Paak • Silk Sonic • Daniel Caesar

🖤 Mood: Soulful, Confident, Playful, Intimate
✨ AI Meets Emotion: As part of DGG Productions’ visionary AI-artist series (Grandad Smoking A Pipe, Paradise Girl, Best Friend (Club Mix), Wings Of A Dove (No Exit Mix)), “No Place Like Home (Back To You)” showcases how classic soul-inspired songwriting and future-facing digital artistry can create a timeless yet innovative sound.

No Place Like Home (Back To Me)

I mourn peace and freedom. I mourn checks and balances, and the democratic consensus. I mourn every innocent victim of war—every child, every dream crushed by every tyrant. How could I not? How can you not?

Being pro-people and pro-peace isn’t being anti-anyone, it’s refusing to let pain justify cruelty. I love my Jewish friends, but I also mourn the moral consensus we once called “Never Again.” Because safety matters—yours, mine, theirs, ours. Everyone’s safety matters… That’s why my heart can’t stop singing and praying for world peace. I’m not anti-anyone. I’m anti-dehumanization. My hope is that the Jewish story can end in healing, not repetition. 

I can’t help but hope… because I believe we can protect each other without inflicting new wounds. Empathy isn’t a zero-sum game; it’s what makes us human! It’s what helps us survive and thrive as one earthly, democratic tribe. In fact, empathy is the ultimate weapon against evil! That is exactly why those who cannot feel it try to divide and conquer by calling empathy weak or dangerous.

Simone Weil wrote: “Imaginary evil is romantic; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren.” So when I hear friends glorify revenge to justify genocide, I weep… as if trauma could explain violence because it gives despair a proud story; as if moral drama, fueled by hubris, could heal the multigenerational void of helplessness left by past and future trauma. When a pacifist says “no more heroes, no more villains, just humans,” it’s treated as a threat, as if “you’re with us or against us” were unquestionable truth. 

But Nietzsche warned that those who fight monsters must be careful not to become them, and Hannah Arendt reminded us that fear of being a victim can make us accept the role of the oppressor. Real humanism doesn’t erase trauma, it transcends it! Pacifism isn’t naïve; it’s a radical commitment to ending the cycle of identification with force. 

Winning means grounding ourselves in moral coherence. Life is sacred. It’s not about picking sides between nations (or parties)… it’s about choosing compassion over cruelty. Sigh. 

And so well now, of course, I wrote yet another song—another “Letter to My Friend,” about Never Again. 💌

—
@bananasutra – Lyrics: “Letter to My Friend”

Hey love, 
I’ve been thinkin’, the air’s gone strange.
We built a bridge, but fear made the range. 
When did caring turn into crime? 
Since when did heartbeats choose a side in time?

You think my tears forgot their tribe, 
But pain’s one language, that’s the vibe. 
If I cry for Gaza, do I leave you dry? 
Or can both our ghosts learn to sigh and fly?

I’m not your enemy, babe, I’m the echo that remains. 
Every love I add don’t steal your chains. 
Peace ain’t a prize that one can win; 
It’s a wound that heals when we let it begin. 
Oh, Bananasutra sings again…

Your roots run deep in haunted clay, 
I feel that tremor every day. 
But if walls keep empathy out of sight, 
Ain’t we just living in longer nights?

You guard your story like sacred wine, 
But I sip my sorrow... it tastes like thine. 
Can’t “never again” be a door, not a wall? 
Must one rise so another can fall?

I’m not your rival, love, I’m the ache that understands, 
Two trembling souls with open hands. 
My heart don’t subtract when it starts to expand; 
It multiplies truth in foreign lands.

Pain is pain; it don’t wear flags. 
It needs no borders, no tags. 
Fear’s a thief, babe, it steals our sight, 
Makes day look wrong and wrong look right.

Would you rather win, or rather heal? 
Would you rather numb, or rather feel? 
If trust could hum a new refrain, 
Would you hear my note through your pain?

I’m not against you, I’m just against cruel. 
Love ain’t a weapon; it’s the rebel’s rule. 
Let’s rewrite Never Again for all, 
’Cause peace built on pride’s just another wall.

So hey, my friend, come dance instead? 
We’ll sing for the living, not just the dead. 
Bananasutra’s heart don’t bend, 
It blooms, it breaks, it mends. 🪽


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