Ashes of a Man is one of Luminor’s most personal and emotional works.

It tells the story of a father broken by heartbreak, depression, and drink — a slow decline witnessed by his family, who tried to save him. By the time he was ready to accept help, it was too late.

Woven with lines from a personal poem written for him, the song is both a eulogy and a confession — a heavy but beautiful reminder that love and grief are inseparable.

This is Luminor stepping into darker, heavier territory, continuing the intimate journey that began with Little Kingdom and All That Remains.

Ashes of a Man

Lyrics:

If I could find an army
To do as I command
If I could paint a picture, love
To help you understand
If I could dig to China
Without making a sound
Then baby I’d be nowhere to be found

If I could kill a giant
With the tiniest of stones
If I could keep a shooting star
From falling alone
If I could kiss the sunrise
Each time around
Then baby I’d be nowhere to be found

And it’s a long time to lie
A child beneath an endless sky
Who can only reach so high
And I love to wonder why
I feel I’m left with only my disguise

If I could find the secret
To how the world began
If I could hold the key of life
In the palm of my hand
If I could take you with me
And slow the turning down
Then maybe we’d be nowhere to be found

And it’s a long time to lie
A child beneath and endless sky
Who can only reach so high
And I love to wonder why
I feel I’m left with only my disguise

And I love to wonder why
I feel I’m left with only my disguise

Music & Lyrics: Nicholas L Gunty & Brian Eugene Powers
Produced by: Frances Luke Accord
Mixing: Nicholas Gunty 
Mastering: Sage Audio
Special thanks to Chaz Hearne (banjo) and Caitlin Urbain (backing vocals)
© 2016 Frances Luke Accord Music Publishing (BMI)

Fluke

Nowhere to be Found

Nowhere To Be Found

a track I wrote on Friday night. 
A simple song... a little rough around the edges

EP release 26 May 2017

Lyric Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmE40ECqxxM

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LYRICS

Verse
Do you mind if I sing to you
I was told it's the best thing to do
To keep me running through your mind
Wasting all your time wondering
Where I am
Do you mind if I place your name
In between words that I can't quite say
Spin romantic rhymes
You'll start seeing signs
That point straight to me

Chorus
(But I'll) Probably just play it
Without the words
Stay the best song singer that you've never head
Probably just sing some song you already know
I won't show the best side of me
Incase you don't like what you see

Verse 2
And with every single line 
(you'll fall) Into these wild words of mine
We'll be madly in love
Leave the others in the dust
(and just) run away somewhere

Chorus

Bridge
Maybe the next time
Or the one after that
I will

Chorus

What You See

Recorded in Southsea, UK
Mastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, CA

EP 'Bedroom Sessions' out late May 17

So Glad (I Got You)

This song is about traveling with the one you love. Making memories and feeling free. I wrote this song with Yori Swart. This is the rough version after we wrote it together. But I kind of like this one.

Bag full of dreams

Mastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering, CA

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iTunes - http://apple.co/2mANL1u

Man Overboard

The single 'Over My Head' was released May 18, 2018
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~ Lyrics:

I saw the fire of an old burning house
and up by the window
the smoke and light came out
right over my head

I felt the thunder here on our shaking earth
and down by the gutter
the streaming tide came out
right over my head

I heard the whisper of the many foreign years
and until the door burns
the beating time slows down
right over my head
right over my head
right over my head

Over My Head

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Freyr Flodgren - Over My Head

Taken from the Album Salt catch Michael Baker on tour
March 19th The Brunswick Brighton
http://bit.ly/39wJpfG
March 29th The Duke Whitstable
free admission
March 30th The Finsbury London 
http://bit.ly/3awkRUf
April 5th The Loft (Above The Kings) Portsmouth

BIOGRAPHY, by NME’s Andrew Trendell
“I lived in my van for two and a half years to pay for the making of my first record,” casually laughs singer-songwriter Michael Baker. “I moved into the van after a typical period of heartache. I had nowhere to go, but it was pretty good actually!” 

From this, you can gather a lot about the Anglo-French troubadour. Mainly, he takes nothing for granted and lives for his music.  

Spending his childhood near Brighton (where he went to the same school as Rag N’ Bone Man), Michael got his first guitar aged eight after seeing Oasis live and needing to learn ‘Wonderwall’. In his teens, the songs soon started to flow. It wasn’t long before the purity of his voice, the direct rawness of his writing and the sheer scope of his sound found him regular gigs and a devoted fanbase – one that only grew bigger and more in love with the release of his magnificent debut album Dust & Bone. 

A soaring collection of heart-wrenching indie-folk and cinematic sounds, Dust & Bone was recorded with Massive Attack collaborator Dan Brown, and was a staggering first showcase of Baker’s ambition and soulful style. “I’m really proud of the songwriting on that record,” he admits. “I was in such a bad place in my life when I made it, but it got such a great response from the people who heard it.”

Early sessions for Salt started when Baker hit the studio with Dan Brown and Oliver Baldwin, who had recently finished making Aldous Harding’s acclaimed album Party with PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish. While promising Michael says ‘’It felt like I needed more time to experiment than we had scheduled in.” So Baker headed back to record and produce the album with long-time friend Ed Martin. 

After discovering that his childhood home would be empty for a few weeks while his parents were in the process of moving away. He went in and stripped everything away, begged and borrowed all the equipment he needed, crammed the band in, drank a lot of wine, got a little stoned and naturally just flowed through the album – playing all day and all night. The recordings were so impressive, that Baldwin agreed to mix the record at Real World Studios and gave the songs a whole new dimension (as well as inviting Jack White’s pedal steel player Maggie Björklund to play on the album too). 
“I absolutely love artists like Cat Stevens and Bon Iver,” says Baker. Salt is a record that maps Baker’s journey through darkness and vulnerability to something a lot more hopeful. 
Among the key tracks that show Baker’s road to recovery, ‘Baby Books’ was inspired by being in close proximity to someone taking their own life – and totally changing the way he saw the world. Single ‘They Look Just Like They Know’ also deals with how “the mind can be a deadly place” and “feeling trapped in the prison of your own vision”. He’s looking for the sunrise on the horizon, too. Baker’s personal favourite ‘Claire’ celebrates the “the beauty of space in a relationship” and the escapist ecstasy of ‘One Good Damn’ has won over scores of new fans with its feel-good magnetism. 

Salt is a towering accomplishment that will win hearts with its adept handling of love, loss and hope, and there’s more to come. For now though, you’re about to get to know the real Michael Baker. “I feel like I have too much of a personal relationship with anyone who says they like my music,” concludes Baker. “I’ve been getting letters and messages from people saying that my songs have got them through a very hard time, and I don’t know how to reply to them other than as if I’d known them my whole life. That’s the way that I would do it. I hope that my music gives them as much as it’s given me.”

One God Damn

Go Careful

"Something More" available November 15, 2019.

Visit Joshua Hyslop online:

Official Website: https://joshuahyslop.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joshuahyslop
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/joshuahyslop
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshuahyslop
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL628EC84319644197
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iTunes: http://www.itunes.com/joshuahyslop

Ash & Stone

Joshua Hyslop - Something More

Check out the music video aswell: https://youtu.be/9tZAAvE2Uxs
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/30DeXgk
iTunes: https://apple.co/38o6SyL
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2G88QaE
Artist website: https://unknownneighbour.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unknownneighbour
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unknownneighbour

________

Lyrics: 

HOME

You’ve been brought up 
In an unfamiliar town
And boy you got used to 
Strangers and their frown
They brought you up
By holding you down
By holding you down

It felt so rough
To stand on your own
With no scope for
Somebody to moan
It’s been so rough 
To have a room but no home
A room but no home

But you grew up and you swore
To add chapters of ease
May they cover your core
Like the rings of old trees

I will hold yours
And you will hold mine
I’m gonna hold yours
And you're gonna hold mine

________

Music & Lyrics: Unknown Neighbour
Producers: Unknown Neighbour & Sascha Bercik
Mixing: Sascha Bercik
Mastering: Dimi Conidas

Under exclusive license to Revanche Records and Sony/ATV

Home

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Songwriter from the South Coast.
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Man Overboard

Ed Patrick