Composed in the afternoon of Sunday 30th Jan, 2022.

O Love, Welcome to Our Love

composed, arranged and played by Miriam Briggs
mastered by Paul Clark

Same Thing (Demo)

Wind Into The Valley

You, at the End

Anticlines Outtakes

Errors of Skin Variante

Sideways Knowing Glance is the debut single from London based experimental pop duo the mermaid café, out on the 10th of July 2020.

The track emerged from improvisation and experimentation using voices with loop pedals; through collaborative development, it’s grown into a 10 minute dream-pop cloud of honeyed vocals, rich and complex textures, glitchy synthesis, and intricate, intimate storytelling.

Whilst the song has been in gestation for a long time, this release was predominantly recorded and mixed whilst in lockdown in Newcastle. Whilst remaining honest to the mermaid cafe’s roots in DIY and intuitive music making, this single represents a turn towards pristine post-production shimmer in their sound.

This release is the culmination of two years of the mermaid café performing, writing, and improvising together, developing their songwriting practice. the mermaid café represents exciting, fresh collaborative thinking, bringing together many layers of artistic influence: both Ruari and Joanna do work ranging across songwriting, experimental and contemporary classical composition, multi-instrumental and vocal performance, research, activism, and visual art. Joanna is currently studying Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and Ruari is working as a freelance musician and writer.

This track was mastered by Jeremy Warmsley, and the group has worked with graphic designer Emily Tonkinson-Sharp to develop the cover art and merch for this release.

All music & mixing by the mermaid café
Lyrics by Ruari Paterson-Achenbach
Master by Jeremy Warmsley
Artwork by Emily Tonkinson-Sharp

Sideways Knowing Glance

A concert jazz suite in the traditions of George Gershwin and George Shearing. In 4 movements: Lethargy, Fidgety, Elegy, Energy.
Premiered live by Orchestra Teleradio Moldova.

Suite in Y for orchestra

Hollow

I’ve still got my legs but I can’t go
I’ve still got my head but I don’t know 
All is there but all is there hollow
All is where my fears will not let go 

Hollow 
Is life a show
That no one cares and no one knows
Why we’re here, and where to go?
Before we know, it’s all hollow 

Hollow

I can see the lights but feel so cold
I have flown so high but feel so low 
The world is one big flow we must follow
Go along the flow and we’ll dissolve 
Go against the flow and we’ll dissolve 

Hollow 
Is life a show?
That no one cares and no one knows
Why we’re here, and where do we go?
Before we know, it’s all hollow

Hollow

A permutational piece written for piano in January 2021 about finger positions on the piano.

Matt Geer, piano.

Positions (piano, 2021)

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musician &҉ psychogeographer

Same Thing (Demo)

Flâneuse