Wonderful, wonderful!!! Bloody fabulous piece!! As great as many a great English Folk song... Bravo, Ali!!!!!

most delicious wedding waltz I've ever heard! loving the guitar and your voice is gentle... very cool - did u write this it reminds me of the owl and the pussycat - love love love :-)

Only just heard this. Brilliance on every level.

Can't believe I haven't seen this before.  It has been mad, wedding wise, and I've had a number of job interviews as well inbetween (none successful, yet).  My son is best man, by the way, and he would prefer to be an eagle, not a snipe.  Just so you know.

...I dig the hamerons! "A pious Gnu"! Yea!!! ...where were you in my childhood!? Thanks for giving a little piece back!! Lord knows, we need it these days :] What a lovely, uplifting tune :]

...thanks for the hight quality download! 

wonderful....Lear comparisons just to obvious but I'll make 'em anyway!

Rodolfo https://soundcloud.com/rplanes first shared this beautiful piece with me 2 years ago, which has had a gradual development since I first wrote the lyrics back then. More recently Ce Mastro https://soundcloud.com/cemastro added some exciting backing vocals which transformed the chorus and then even more recently we invited Dave McKeown https://soundcloud.com/dave-mckeown to contribute some lovely sax that we believed was just what the song needed. Rodolfo's song has such a feeling of romantic innocence yet with a wonderful rhythmic flow, that I hoped the words might feel from a simpler time. We hope you all enjoy our song of innocence (and inexperience) which thankfully is a work of fiction. Thanks again to Rodolfo for sharing this magical piece and his great skills as well as Ce and Dave's unique gifts to make this one happen. 
We thank you all for taking the time to listen.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix.
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals
Me - Lead vocals and lyrics
Dave McKeown - Sax solo and fills

Almost Lovers (by Rodolfo Planes / Mark Bennett)

Once we were almost lovers, without a care.
We weren’t like all the others, somehow we just didn’t dare.
We never faced the fact,
What we had wasn’t real,
Didn’t have to deal,
With the truth while we were putting on an act
We’d have to pay,
And quite how that would feel.

The moment when I discovered, not wanting to share,
You with any of the others, that I just couldn’t bear.
But when my back was turned,
You made out with a guy,
I thought was my friend.
Then I knew that my world had been overturned,
Put out to dry,
And what a way to end.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Were never really lovers, just make believe.
Like sister and brother, with only ourselves to deceive.
I should have known right then,
I’d be out on my ear 
Instead of in love.
Waiting for the finale, not knowing when,
I’d disappear,
When the push comes to shove.

It’s not the way that I’d hoped this scene would play out,
Leaving the stage in the first act. 
It was cruel but at least I was left in no doubt.
C’est la vie, as a matter of fact.

Almost Lovers - Continental Collision featuring Ce Mastro and Dave McKeown

ver a tu tita

The Town Where I'm Livin' Now

Rodolfo Planes offered me this great arrangement and suggested the title of 'Professional Liars' as a starting point. I changed the title to Career Liars as it scanned better with the melody and although we didn’t discuss the subject closely we both had our own ideas who these usual suspects might be. You all may also have your own choices other than these potential ‘Comeback Kids’. 

This was first written in 2022, but has developed gradually over the last two years with Ce Mastro’s spectacular chorus harmony arrangement lifting the song to astonishing new heights, then lastly Georg’s additional sax work giving a renewed energy and power. Thanks to everyone for their valued collaboration on this. Thanks for taking the time to listen.

Rodolfo Planes - Music composition, instrumentation, arrangement, production and mix - https://soundcloud.com/rplanes 
Me - Vocals and lyrics
Ce Mastro - Backing vocals and chorus vocal arrangement - https://soundcloud.com/cemastro 
Georg Boehme - Sax solo and fills - https://soundcloud.com/georg-boehme

 Career Liars by Rodolfo Planes and Mark J Bennett

How are you ever able to live with yourself? 
What do you really care about? 
You can cope just as long as you’re not left on the shelf, 
Hear me out. 

Are you ever conscious of the harm that you do?
 Or is all fair in love and in war?
And there is no depth that you and your crew won’t sink to. 
We’re done for.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
Big high flyers,
 Falsifiers.

Making all of your deals with your old cronies,
I think that is all that you’re good for. 
Nothing is ever sincere coz you’re real phoneys.
 Show them the door. 

Lying for a living, as long as we’re forgiving,
 We’ve been truly hood-winked this time for sure.
 We’re learning a lesson about the true cost of living 
Now we’re all poor.

Career liars, 
Truth deniers,
 Big high flyers, 
Falsifiers.

Career Liars - Continental Collision featuring Ce Mastro & Georg Boehme

THE FOX AND THE CURLEW GET WED

The Fox and the Curlew
Decided to wed.
She wore fine feathers
And he dressed in red.
Their union was blessed 
by a pious Gnu.
When he said “Now will you…?”
They both said “I do.”

“Now who gives the hand
Of this Curlew to wed?”
“I do” the Giraffe
With pleasure he said.
The Service was held 
In an old caravan.
With Larks for their bridesmaids
And a Snipe for best man.

And when the service was done
And they’d both took their vows,
They feasted on biscuits
And cheese from the cows
And they toasted their marriage
By the light of the moon
Then danced all the night
To Squinancywort tunes.

Now some folk may think
That it’s rather absurd
For a fox to be wed
To a small gentle bird,
But love conquers all,
And their love was true
And that is the story
Of the Fox and Curlew.

© enlimila 04/08/2011


The Fox & Curlew Get Wed

LYRICS:
"Plastic hearts and thimble heads all wrapped up with rubber bands
hunted by toy buffalo kings, bad dreams poison everything
shoot their arrows - pop their guns;
you lose yourself in ghost radio. In a signal made of smoke.

Our feet are lost in the willow trees. Sound alarms. Frost bite comes to eat
You shove em out in the quaking light, their shining breasts bend the light
in velvet crumbs they die and tower, where all the hours go.

They say they love you but only they need, like hummingbirds come to feed;
boys and girls on mounting pins, under a glass in a dusty bin; with worn limbs tattered at their seams, 
on empty beds, unbuttoned eyes and heads;
would you look at all the mess!
Don’t recognize them. Melted and burned, by the wrath of ray gun baby feels.
Mouth glum. Hearts of power. Warm to the bone, the bandages on fingertips hold the little ones 
hold the hands that shake!


Crooked eyed queens and fat little kings. Sucking on flowers. Fucking on dreams. Their nibs and stoles on pillow trees, drinking of reek and smoking bees. And I'm afraid their apple brains had all grown roots, unglued the stars from their beds, knotted limbs from wooden heads "



Artwork: 'Madame McAllister and the Twin Sippers' used with permission of the voraciously talented Kristian Adam

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Unbuttoned Eyes

Tearing Through the Surface and Diving Into the World Inside the World

Cover of Sufjan Stevens - for the widows in heaven and the fatherless in ypsilanti
performance Copyright The Tinbox Boys (Mark Wiggins, Alex Smith & Milly Vincent), Graham Vincent, David Mitchell & Kevan Tildesley
GV mix

See a video of us recording this https://youtu.be/wTqs4FC8F20

For the Widows in Paradise and the Fatherless in Ypsilanti - Cover

For the Widows in Paradise and the Fatherless in Ypsilanti - The Tin Box Boys (and friends)

The Beermoths - King of the Fairies

When She Loved Me - Sarah McLachlan (cover)

when the oaks go gold

I am a worn and slightly broken cake
But I think music fun to make
And sometimes when I have the time
I may even put a bit to rhyme....

or is it rhythm....? ...not sure any more...
If anybody knows where my slippers are please send me a clue....

http://soundcloud.com/enlimila/audiobiography-enlimila

The Fox & Curlew Get Wed

enlimila

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