9. The Only One

Refracted's set recorded live on Friday, 9th August 2024 at Paral·lel Festival in Port del Comte, Spain.

Refracted @ Paral·lel 2024

Written by HYLA
Engineered and Mixed by Ben Hayes
Produced by Ben Hayes and HYLA
Mastered by Chris Waitt
Initial Artwork by Lilli Unwin
Artwork by Lilli Unwin, Jethro Cooke, Shawn Soh and Matt Robinson

We Went Blind

Track 1 off my Summer EP is a cover of Kanye West's "Bound 2".

The Summer EP is a colourful and eclectic journey channeling Rufus Wainwright and Animal Collective in a dreamscape that evokes The Beach Boys.  Inspired as much by the minimalist sounds of Steve Reich as jazz greats such as Charles Mingus and Herbie Hancock, slam poetry and hip hop, it is a sound world that defies categorisation.   

   “I wanted the Summer EP to sound like a city, a jungle, and a good dream.  The music is an illustration for the poems that lie at the heart of each song.. Bound 2 and Summer are basically stream of consciousness raps about the colour and magic in everyday stuff.  They’re really tributes to Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. They’re about where romance lies, in the small things, in the stuff you overlook, and about falling in love.  The lyric to Buried Alive however was culled from 86 pages of lyrics to try and encapsulate what it feels like to lose love and takes a lot from early Rufus Wainwright.  Come Home To Her is back to desire again, the cycle continues.  I wanted to get a bit of Jeff Buckley live at the Siné and John Martyn here with a live take of scat vocals, on my own, lonely with the reverb.”

Bound 2

Ainsworth

Puttnam

Diagne

'Once Around The Park' written by Paul Motian
Lyrics written by Lauren Kinsella 
Voice - Lauren Kinsella
Piano - Kit Downes

Lauren Kinsella / Kit Downes 'Once Around The Park' by Paul Motian

Donato Dozzy, Terraforma 2017 Secret Closing Set 25th, June 2017

Singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist

‘…Skilful and accurate… wistful soulfulness’ John Fordham (The Guardian)

‘…La Loba (September 2020) marks Bearman out as one of contemporary music’s most imaginative song stylists…’ (Peter Quinn, Jazzwise)


On 'Burn The Boat' (Two Rivers Records, 2016)
‘…A stunning album..A thing of unsurpassed beauty.'
**** 'recommended' Peter Quinn (Jazzwise)

9. The Only One

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