HOW DO WE WANT OUR FUTURE TO SOUND?
Using field recordings made by Greenpeace during years of vital action on behalf of our planet, this song has crafted a wild array of unique sounds: Insects, Cutting Acai, Palm trees, Ship Radios, the Amazon rainforest at dawn, and the incredible voices from communities in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
The track is a call out to forgiving ourselves for our mistakes and remembering our place - as part of an ecosystem. The inspiration is that if we have a connection to something, we are more likely to protect it. The song was developed in a "biophilic" way, i.e. natural sounds are so powerful to us because they have a rhythm, but are not able to be precisely predicted. As such, every sample was "hand-placed" into the track, which had no metronome or fixed tempo.

LYRICS:
She's been calling your name.
Calling out,
Crying for
Your heart to return.

Falling for our mistake.
Fall on the Earth, and
in love again.

Biophilicall

LYRICS:

#VERSE
Clouds on a sunny day
Yeah they're fading out
Clouds on a sunny day
Yeah they're shading ground
Cows on a sunny day
Yeah they're lazing about
Cows on a sunny day
Yeah they're grazing ground

#CHORUS
You walk by with your head in the clouds without a sound
You walk by with your head held high
You walk by with your head in the clouds without a doubt
You walk by with your head held high

#VERSE
Timing is everything
We will come to see
Late in the afternoon
Is it too late for me?
Fate I'm unsure about my
Our destiny
Clouds on a sunny day yeah
They're parting the way back to you and me yeah

#CHORUS
You walk by with your head in the clouds without a sound
You walk by with your head held high
You walk by with your head in the clouds without a doubt
You walk by with your head held high

#INSTRUMENTAL

#CHORUS
You walk by with your head in the clouds without a sound
You walk by with your head held high
You walk by with your head in the clouds without a doubt
You walk by with your head held high

#OUTRO
You walk by with your head in the clouds without a sound
You walk by with your head held high

Clouds

The song was first written inside a dream...

LYRICS:

#VERSE
I can talk about the move
I can talk about the move

#CHORUS
But you
It would only break you
But you
It would only break you

#VERSE
We can talk about the moon
We can talk about the moon

#CHORUS
But you
It would only break you

#VERSE
We can talk about the move
(We can talk about the moon)
We can talk about the move
(We can talk about the moon)

#CHORUS
But you
It would only break you
But you
You don't wanna know

The Move

[Verse]
Painting words on cardboard, we will tell them
Armed with chants and finance, we will help them
Tight inside our moral highs, we're seldom

[Chorus]
Cos' we know
Until the system's overthrown
Some-ol'-kun will get to call this home
We're complicit, and we know
Yeah, we know
While the gentry remain in control
One street back will get carved up and sold
We're complicit, and we know

[Verse]
Don't let them erase your past for present
But we're grateful for the hosing of the pavement
Yeah maybe our economy will help them...

[Chorus]
Though we know
Until the system's overthrown
Some-ol'-kun will get to call this home
We're complicit, and we know
Yeah, we know
While the gentry remain in control
One street back will get carved up and sold
We're complicit, and we know

[Refrain]
The banners come down and the rates go up
The facepaint comes off and
Facebook comes on
Our actions will fade
And our addictions endure

[Verse]
But for now we're here to solve a problem
It breaks my heart to watch while we just rob them

[Chorus]
Though we know
Until the system's overthrown
Some-ol'-kun will get to call this home
We're complicit, and we know
Yeah, we know
While the gentry remain in control
One street back will get carved up and sold
We're complicit, and we know

[Outro]
We know
We know
We know
We know
We know
We know
We know

One Street Back (Live)

Sense of You (Live)

Biophilicall (Live)

Where I Was Last Found (Live)

DUEL NATIVE is the musical alias of Stephen Choi, a Half-Trinidadian, Half-Hong Kongese multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer based on Kaurna Country (Adelaide, Australia). Blurring the lines between folk-rock, dream pop, and British indie, DUEL NATIVE draws influence from Björk to Bob Marley and beyond. Since 2021, his discography evokes a kind of unique nostalgia that is both fresh and difficult to confine.

As Fruit Sonic describes it, “...a timeless quality that shows off DUEL NATIVE’s ability to bring old-school and nu-school styles into a singular whole.”

A product of the East and West, Choi was a founding member of the pop-punk band Greyhound Green, where he shared stages with The Libertines, The Maccabees, Alabama 3, and Tjinder Singh (Cornershop) - sometimes in a packed London basement, sometimes on MTV Europe.

Beyond crafting DUEL NATIVE’s songs of melancholy and hope, Choi is also a renowned architect and a leading voice in the environmental ecology of music.

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