thank you for presenting the lyrics in addition!

Ae Fond Kiss (demo)

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With the constant barrage of noise from 'man made' things, fighting for our attention every waking second, many of us forget the soft call of natures voice.
'Jeanes' Debut EP 'Sleeping Leaves' tells stories of sleeping fields, breathing trees & drunken bees.

We are delighted that Folkstock Records are going to be releasing the tracks on this EP as singles over the next few weeks and the EP on 16th June.

iTunes order available here:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/jeanes/id384485866

Bandcamp order available here (including limited edition cd):
https://folkstockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jeanes-sleeping-leaves-ep

If you have any questions or need the tracks for radio/review please email Helen Meissner at folkstock@hotmail.co.uk’

Written after reading a quote from Roald Dahl about eye smilers, and photographs called 'Heavenly Creatures' by Benjamin Alexander Huseby of Behati Prinsloo, Felicity Gilbert and Romina Lanaro, showing two girls asleep, entwined in a summer field. Emily Grace Zornado recorded her beautiful layered harmonies and vocals at the height of summer, near a small national park in Danielson Connecticut.

Smiles With Her Eyes is the third track on the EP. It's been cleaned up and re mastered and is available for you to listen to now.
Russ x

Release date:
16th June 2017

Written by Russell Jeanes
Performed by Emily Zornado (EmilyGrace)
https://soundcloud.com/breathsupport

(smiles) With her eyes

when the pollen shoots climb
is the time to see the beauty arrive
under weeping trees, petals shake, anticipate
a smile in her eyes

then she arrives, flesh alive
in brighter skies, lay down beside
then let us lie
your legs entwined

when the forming fruit rise
see the morning sun and tomorrow arrive
honey bees in fields of blossom lakes
her skin awakes

and she smiles with her eyes
then she arrives, says she is mine
when spring is high, lay down beside
and see her smile with her eyes

Written by Russell Jeanes in a Yorkshire wood. Arranged and performed by the wonderful Emily Grace Zornado in America, to whom I will be forever grateful:)

Sleeping Leaves

Smiles with Her Eyes

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JEANES - Smiles with her eyes  - Arranged & Performed by Emily Zornado

Gradual slow build up to a soft ending, 95% Complete and generally makes me happy.

2016

Finally

Trees Hug Bees (iSaintJames Remix).


Words and music by Russell Jeanes
Guitar pattern developed by Scott Fraser & Russ
String arrangement; Tom Sidebottom & RJ
Performed by Léa Decan
Remixed by the wonderful iSaintJames
https://soundcloud.com/isaintjames

gold brown, fall down,
auburn, bourbon ....breathe trees


gold brown, fall down,
auburn, bourbon ....trees breathe

Trees Hug Bees (iSaintJames remix)

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Trees Hug Bees (iSaintJames Remix)

'With Leaving Birds'  will be available for pre order on itunes from the 20th of October from this link  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/jeanes/id384485866
and available to buy on the 03/11/2017 from Itunes and usual streaming sites.

‘With Leaving Birds’ sees Dougie Harley sing a story of goodbye from the banks of a Scottish sea loch.
The song tells of a lover compelled to leave, regardless of how much they are begged to stay. Set in autumn as winter approaches and the birds are called to other shores.

The 17th century English minister & scientist Charles Morton wrote a about how birds migrate to the moon and back every year. Ancient sailors believed birds returned from space to land on their ships.
Medieval encyclopedia’s have texts about barnacle geese growing from trees over water. From Ophelia and Shakespeare to Homers iliad the literary world is awash with stories of migration and water & sea. These are the inspiration for ‘with leaving birds’.
 
Written by R J
Vocal & guitar arrangement: Dougie Harley
String Arrangements: R J & Tom Sidebottom
 
Release Date
3rd November 2017
 
lyrics
floating down the water
she fills my thoughts today
as I can still recall her in the water
d'you know how it feels
to wave someone goodbye
to watch them disappear
to cast your love aside
 
slow goodbye the words absurd
since when did good, cause so much hurt
and goodbye, give me the words
my loves away with leaving birds
with leav-ing birds, with leaving birds, with leaving birds, with leaving birds
 
longing falls around you, pushing down you
now I know I've lost you, what can I do?
d'you know how it feels
to wave someone goodbye
to watch them disappear
along the riverside
 
slow goodbye
the drifting words
why can't my love just carry hers?
willow leaves will stroke her hair
from thistle downs to ocean air
 
float goodbye, please give me words
my loves away with leaving birds
snow geese come, as my love goes,
in reeds she slows and river flows, and ri-ver flows, and river flows, and river flows, and river flows,
my love she goes.

With Leaving Birds

Dougie Harley - With Leaving Birds (written by Jeanes)

Always wanted to try a mash up with Killing in the Name and Grange Hill theme. Messed about with Audacity and just had a laugh with it. Still very rough and I am no sound engineer!

Rage Hill

From the new album 'To the Islands' by The Magic Lantern, released on 2 November 2018. 

'Darling Day' is about the unique kind of anxiety that comes in the middle of the night. In the darkness and the near silence of the pre-dawn, worries and fears can grow fill the empty space. When that happens I am almost willing the dawn to break, for some sound to tell me I’m not alone and for the first rays of morning light to give shape back to the dark. 

Drawing on a wide range of influences from folk, jazz and contemporary music, The Magic Lantern is dedicated to remedying the anxiety and fear present in us all. 

“Extraordinary. Beautiful poised singing, amazing lyrics and hypnotic production”
- Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6 Music

"Excellent, intriguing and compelling, a man to watch"
- The Guardian

"Gorgeous, beautiful. This stopped me in my tracks. Slightly surreal, in all the right ways"
- Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2

Darling Day

Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser - All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun

Scottish, Singer, songwriter, artist and photographer. A creative soul never at rest.

Dougie Harley - With Leaving Birds (written by Jeanes)

Dougie Harley

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