Novedades: Folk y Cantautor

This is another track composed for my "Clutha Project" and is actually two tracks in one. The first part is an instrumental and the second a song, but both were inspired by the glittering reflections one often sees on the River Clyde at night.

I was always in awe of this view and was lucky enough for a while to live in a house that looked out over the Clyde towards Greenock and Port Glasgow and would spend hours just staring out of the window late at night. I was also lucky enough to go sailing on the Clyde and our crew even won a prize. We travelled over to Gourock in a small motor launch for the prize-giving and after a heavy night of partying we came back again in the launch in the wee small hours across a river that was smooth as a pond. The water was full of bio-luminescent plankton that glowed greeny-blue when disturbed and we left a soft luminous trail behind us as we crossed. Probably one of the most magical journeys I have ever made. 

In 1997 we learned that my father was dying from a previously mis-diagnosed cancer. I would frequent the shoreline at night to vent my helpless fury by lifting the biggest rocks I could manage and fling them into the water whilst shouting obscenities at Fate and Life in general. Shortly before my father died, there had been an attempt to blow up the mighty Goliath crane across the water in Port Glasgow to make way for redevelopment. The operation failed, however, and it only partially slumped to the ground, like a huge wounded metal beast, and lay there in limbo for several weeks, waiting for the inevitable end. To me, this seemed like a metaphor for my father. He outlasted the crane, but not by much.

Once the fury had passed though, there was always the beauty of the twinkling reflections as consolation.


This track contains a field recording of Eider Ducks made by David M and published on the Xeno-Canto Website, used with his kind permission. XC343114 - Common Eider - Somateria mollissima
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Reflections at Midnight

It's midnight at the riverside.
The stars are all so clear.
I'm hurling rocks at water
To hide my rage and fear.

The ripples break reflections
Of the twinkling lights ahead
But the reflections all reform again
And their beauty cools my head.

Gentle as old ladies,
The Eider ducks they call;
Cooing in the darkness
Saying "Nothing's wrong at all".

Far off on the other shoreline,
Lights move as cars go by.
The Titan Crane stands silent
And does not ask me why

I'm crying by the water
In the middle of the night,
Throwing rocks into the river
As ripples break the lights.

He's been there for a long time.
He's seen it all before
And lost count of all the hopeless rocks
Folk have thrown in from that shore.

He knows his time is passing.
They're coming for him soon.
No more we'll share the rocks here
Below the silver moon.

Still the lights they twinkle
Across the gentle Clyde
And the Eider ducks are calling
As they drift off on the tide.

(c) enlimila July 2018

(Clutha Project) Reflections at Midnight

(Clutha Project) Reflections At Midnight

Here is the first single from my forthcoming LP, 'seventh sense libido'.

Written, performed and recorded by Jack Conman 
Bass by Will Milton
Additional mixing & mastering by Klk

Purchase from Axolotl Records -> https://axolotlrecords.bandcamp.com/track/chewing-at-the-waste

LYRICS -----------------------------------------
I would blame god, but fuck knows how he's feeling, I would frame you but you're just a stone's throw from my being and you just live across the hall, the hall of deranged, so cynically brain dead and chewing at the waste. She's so tight below the waist, how can I exchange this groan for raunchy taste?
I got no money for you, myself. Like pride propaganderous bate my ego's on the shelf, next to a picture of my dearest sister.

Call me a bad friend 
Call me a bad friend 
I'm just a bad friend 

 cause you're the inner city kind. I don't trust a soul... mind you I trust myself to get me over the bread line, over the red line, over my wrecked life, and down past the road signs. Cause lately I ask why, but that rips my brain clean out and makes me sorry to be alive, So hand me the bread knife, and I'll try my best to hurt you with my weak inner fight. 

Call me a bad friend
Just call me a bad friend 
Cause I'm just a bad friend 


"Rude young woman" said everybody else, but to me you're just well spoken, till your dad's head hit the curb. And you just got referred, you got some tablets, I hope they work, if not I'll wrap my head around ya, love ya till it hurts, but you don't seem to feel it. Don't seem to feel nothing. Why don't you feel nothing? Maybe it's cause I'm nothing, in the grand scheme of things.

Seventh Sense Libido

Chewing at the Waste

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📝 Lyrics:

There is life beyond the pines, 
Through the trees that’s calling out my name 
And I’ve been wondering
 
There’s a path for us to follow,
Dirt and dust will cover up my face,
But I will be okay
 
Out in the valley, over the rocks and clay
I’ll be chasing trails until I find my way
Don’t need saving, I’ll find home one day
I’ll be chasing trails until I find my way
 
The moon is high, but I keep walking 
Through the night, the dark won’t haunt my dreams 
He ain’t afraid of me
 
On and on the trail keeps winding 
All along, I was so damn hard on me 
I can finally see
 
Out in the valley, over the rocks and clay
I’ll be chasing trails until I find my way
Don’t need saving, I’ll find home one day
I’ll be chasing trails until I find my way
 
Oh Oh Oh, Oh Oh Oh
 
Out in the valley, over the rocks and clay
I’ll be chasing trails until I find my way
Don’t need saving, I’ll find home one day
I’ll be chasing trails until I find my way
I’ll be chasing trails until I find my way

Chasing Trails

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guitar, mixing and production by @derrick-boo
vocals and co-production by me
photo taken by @singularbalance, edited by @derrick-boo

leaves spread flowers shed i see myself next to you
through your skin it starts to thin im in love with all you do
im in love with all you do
branches drop and blossoms bloom
never feeling blue
when im next to you

cold coat, love notes 
i can sense your touch again
last stop, get off
this train will finally end
into the garden where we'll spend
our final days until we ascend
i cannot comprehend
these feelings for you my friend

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next to you w/ derrick boo

ILLENIUM:
@illeniumofficial | facebook.com/illenium | twitter.com/illenium

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Lyrics:
I didn't mean to hurt you
When I hurt myself
It's just an empty voice screaming out for help
No I didn't mean to scare you
But I couldn't see
That when I went to hell I was taking you with me

When I close my eyes
I'm climbing in the dark
Trying not to fall apart
Sometimes I get so high
Falling is the only out I see
and I don't wanna take you down with me

(Take you down
Take you down with me)

This life is like a razor
When it cuts I bleed
But it's in my hand and I'm doin' it to me
Sometimes it's like an ocean
And it gets too deep
There's no way now you could rescue me

When I close my eyes
I'm fighting in the dark
Trying not to break your heart
Sometimes I get so high
Falling is the only out I see
And I don't wanna take you down with me

You need to let it go now
Before you drown
I know that you won't understand
But you need to let go of this hand
Cause I'm going down
And I don't wanna take you down with me

Letter:

Yo Fam,

I've been wanting to share something super personal for a while and just wasn't exactly sure how to do it. I'm at the point now where I've heard countless stories from you. Some of you have said my music changed your life, helped you through depression, addiction, a lost loved one, the list goes on. Honestly, I feel bad because you don't know how much that truly means to me, because I've been there too... In the depths.

Six years ago I overdosed on heroin. I struggled with opiate addiction from a young age. I was trapped in it, had no passion, no direction, and truly hated myself. It was such a dark time for me and my family because when it gets bad enough, hope begins to dim and there's no escaping reality. I'm not telling you to preach or say how I found some magical cure or that everyone needs to live like I do. I'm the biggest advocate for people living their own lives and spreading their own love in their own ways. I'm just sharing my story and relating because music saved my life too. With everything that has been going on with my career, I always keep reminding myself of that. My main goal with music is to try and help people overcome their struggles and also enjoy the moment.

With all that said , 'Take You Down' is about my struggles with addiction and what it can do to families and loved ones. It's more specifically about my mom, and how no matter what, she never gave up on me and always continued to see the good even though all I was doing was messing up. To anyone struggling like I did, not just with addiction but anything in life, I hope you guys can find peace in your struggles and know that anything can be overcome. I've been clean since that overdose and I owe that to finding my passion and being surrounded by the most loving people I could ever ask for. Thank you for always listening and being open. Thank you for sharing your own stories and your love of music with me. Love you all forever :)

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ILLENIUM - Take You Down

This is my spill-over page for newer stuff. The older material is at https://soundcloud.com/enlimila.

Thanks for looking. :-)

(Clutha Project) Reflections At Midnight

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