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“Time To Love” is the fifth single release from The St Buryan Sessions. The song is a co-write with Gerry O’Beirne, who produced Sarah’s first three albums.

From the album “The St Buryan Sessions”, recorded live in lockdown in St Buryan Church and released 15 October 2021 on CD and limited-edition blue vinyl double LP.

Words and music by Sarah McQuaid & Gerry O’Beirne
Sarah – vocals and guitar
Production and recording by Martin Stansbury
Mixed by Martin Stansbury at Cacophony Cottage Studio – https://cacophonycottagestudio.co.uk
Mastered by Stuart Bruce

Recorded and filmed live (with no audience due to COVID-19) on 1 July 2020 in St Buryan Church, St Buryan, Cornwall, UK, by kind permission of Canon Vanda Perrett and the St Buryan Parish Council.

Lyrics:

What are we doing here now 
What are we dreaming now 
Up and down the street 

If we only had time 
If we only had one more day 
If we only had time 
Time to love 

How can we take this moment now 
And try to make it better now 
Then let it go 

If we only had time 
If we only had one more day 
If we only had time 
Time to love 
Time to love 

I woke up laughing 
I don’t know why 
To see you sleeping 
Beside me 

What are we doing here now 
What are we dreaming now 
Up and down the street

℗ & © 2021 Sarah McQuaid t/a Shovel And A Spade Records. All rights reserved.

The St Buryan Sessions

Time To Love (The St Buryan Sessions)

https://www.beatport.com/release/bass-jumper/3521811

The Next Level

Bass Jumper

Bass Jumper (Blanco Y Negro Music)

We Won't Even Know It (the birthday song)

01 GABRIELE PRIBETTI - RAIN PROJECT

Telling the story of Shakespeare's 'Tragic Hero' (Macbeth, Romeo), this song is inspired by the upbeat synth pop of the 1980s (Sweet Dreams Are Made of This, Take On Me, etc.) Tragic Hero was written, recorded and produced by me in my room.

Available everywhere: https://ffm.to/mmla2qp

Tragic Hero

Single 2 from upcoming album 'Broken Spells' by Jo Beth Young

Released March 18th 2022 via wildness rising records

Adversity - Jo Beth Young

The Best is Yet to Come

I've finally gone through and exported all of my finished songs, so there's going to be a whole load more uploads to come...FINALLY!

Make sure you follow my socials to keep up with new releases and get little snippets/the opportunity to get free downloads before songs drop! (links in bio).

XS - Undergrowth

Debut release from Experiment 637.

Experiment 637 is an electronic / indie / folk two-piece band from the UK, and was formed around the same time that both members were experiencing break-ups - in one case the abrupt end of a previous band, the other the end of a personal relationship.

Determined and focused on doing something positive, the friends began writing in the summer of 2019, and managed to play just one gig together that November before the pandemic put the brakes on their plans to continue writing together. However, over the following two years in short and intense bursts of collaboration between lockdowns, the duo completed their debut album ’Sleepwater' in late 2021 and are set to release this in September 2022.

Mickey tells us about the debut single:

"Plains was written and recorded in a day when we were finally able to get together during a gap between lockdowns. I awoke to beautiful sunshine and sketched out the basic idea on piano. Ronan came over mid-morning and we took the idea into our little studio. We tried (and failed!) at a Flaming Lips ‘Race For The Prize’ approach, settling on something more dreamy, glitchy and reminiscent of Beta Band or ‘Elephant Eyelash’ period Why?.

After recording the instruments, Ronan jammed out the lyrics on the sofa before heading towards ‘the good microphone’, nailing it in two takes. We added a bell, some low-budget orchestral stuff, drank wine and mixed it the next morning". 

Ronan added, "After almost 6 months of not being able to be in the same room together, this was a day that we won’t easily forget".

EXPERIMENT 637 - Plains

Verse:
They say home is where the heart is
But its also where my pain lives
Cause we keep too many secrets
We dont do communicating

Watch us start another fire
See the ashes start to build up
Then it all falls down upon us
No one wants to clean the mess up

Chorus:
Sometimes blood doesn't run thicker
Sometimes blood won't make it go away
If you strip it back you see we're human
And we all make our own mistakes

Sometimes blood isn't enough
To mend back the hurt
To reverse the curse

Verse 2:
It's minus two degrees and silent
And my tears are overflowing
How can you not be concerned
With all the things here that are broken

Well there's no one stopping me
I could just get up and leave
Bound by blood I bear that cross
But it don't bridge you & me

Chorus:
Cause sometimes blood doesn't run thicker
Sometimes blood won't make it go away
If you strip it back you see we're human
And we all make our own mistakes

Sometimes blood isn't enough
Mend back the hurt
To reverse the curse
If you strip it back you see we're human
And we all make our own mistakes

We all make our own mistakes
But will it ever change
Blood wont fix the heavy weight
Talking it out is what it takes

Blood

Now the lockdown enforced break from Jodie’s session singing career with artists like Royal Blood and Liam Gallagher and Alastair’s producing career gave space for some new songs to appear. ‘Waiting’ is the first single from the mini E.P ‘Another Breakup’. A track about the need for something that will never arrive and the longing of imagination that keeps people together. The breakup album is a reunion and a mature new cooler sound from the band, retaining a trip-hop dark tinge. While Josh remains a member; this song adds Giom, smooth drummer from Prep and the addition of vocal duet Toby Couling and Lydia Clowes, all great artists in their own right.

Waiting single

Waiting

Waiting (Radio Edit)

'Dust-Up' -- Petravita prod. Fuzzy Pocket

Double Back Is a single promoting my upcoming debut project
Aura Of An Underrated PRODiGY 
Droppin on the 6th Of June 2022
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Ykay da Great
©️Prodigiosity

Double Back.mp3

Green Radio Edit

Clueless In The Sense

FABRIK - Demoness(DBE-MONESS Remix)

Vitriolic

Wasted

This track was inpsired by Bjork, simple hypnotic bass line, grooving drums and  messy guitars and beautifal vocals.

Hallowed be thy name
The devils in my house
Sit on my shoulder
Whispering my name
 
I was your angel
Now I am lost
Situations change
and of
 
Maybe I could swim
Maybe its too late
I see it your eyes
Sad and disgraced
 
Holding on
Holding on 
Just a little 
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
 
Hallowed be thy name
The devils in my house
Sits on my shoulder
Whispering my fate
 
Holding on
Holding on 
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
Just a little bit
 
Hallowed be thy name
Hallowed be thy name
Hallowed be thy name
Hallowed be thy name

Hallowed

Sleeping Pills
Bruce Panagopoulos

Lyrics:

[VERSE]
I'll go
To meet you
Out way
Where you flew

[CHORUS]
Beside
The Moon

[VERSE II]
I'll walk
With you
To the end
We flew

[CHORUS II]
Beside
I lay
The Moon
With you

[OUT]
To the end.

All Credits: Bruce Panagopoulos

Sleeping Pills (Single)

Sleeping Pills

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