From the album, Not So Deep as a Well, available here: http://tunes.mamabirdrecordingco.com/album/not-so-deep-as-a-well

There was a rose that faded young;
I saw its shattered beauty hung
Upon a broken stem.
I heard them say, "What need to care
With roses budding everywhere?"
I did not answer them.

There was a bird, brought down to die;
They said, "A hundred fill the sky-
What reason to be sad?"
There was a girl, whose lover fled;
I did not wait, the while they said,
"There's many another lad."

Myriam Gendron - Solace

I took an oath to stand my ground when the feeling comes
And greys the day
Listen carefully, I hear the song
The wind brings along to help carry on
ooooooooo oooooooo
Doesn’t it feel good?
oooooooo oooooooooo
Enjoy it while it lasts

Through snow we ran, I recall her glance
Then the ray fades and we split ways
The moment you know that this will end
and stay a memory, or a beautiful dream.
Ohooooooooooooo Why waste time
when there is none
Ohhhhhhhhh
Enjoy it while it lasts

As Written In The Stars

Enjoy it while it lasts

Second single from Liverpool writing duo 'Katie and I'
Taken from the Wolves EP: https://itun.es/gb/xZti_
Produced by Mark Butler 
Artwork by Dominic Veakins

Massive thanks to... 
Richard Welsby - Drums, Jonny Taylor - Bass, Jessie Solange - Violin, Sophie Winter - Cello 

Lyrics:

Well they say it takes more than one thing to make a man,
Like slugs and snails and puppy dog tails.
Well they say it takes more than one thing to make a girl,
Like sugar and spice and all things nice. 

But where will these bags of bones go to rest?
And where will these reels of skin go to peel out?
And when when will these hands and cogs go to wind down? 
And when will my blood finally run out? 

Well they say it takes a lot more to make a man,
Than walking tall, baring defeat, and still standing proud.
Well they say it takes a lot more to make a girl, 
Than loving so hard that you forget how it hurts.

But where will this heart of stone go to feel concrete?
And where my nerves of steel choose to meet?
And when will these iron lungs start to deflate? 
Like a thief in the night will a part of me slip away? 

Where is it we go?
When we're gone x2 
Is it someplace far? 
Further than the sun x2 

For now I'll keep holding on x 4 

For now l'll keep holding on
(Where is it we go? When we're)

For now l'll keep holding on
(Where is it we go? When we're gone)

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Bones

She Knows

"An hour or two from the nearest town.
On the edge of a deep, dark forest.
Somewhere that’s perched just next to a vast expanse of the Atlantic."

Roo Panes - Silver Moon

The riff had been stuck in my head for years. This is what it became.

Special thanks to @.Grid.shift.

Sepia (Demo)

Listen to Chase McBride's new single 'Good Love', released September 21, 2018

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📝 Lyrics:

Hidden there, under your gaze
Are all the options, that you could weigh
There’s a cool rain, here today
With all the pretty words, that you could say

Good love is coming
Good love is on the way

There’s an ocean, in my brain
Where all the liberties, they fade away
A little postcard, with your last name
I’ll be better now, now that you’re safe

Good love is coming
Good love is on the way

Good Love

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COVERS II

Lucky Man (ft. Molly Jenson)

The first album from the latest installment of the Penguin Cafe with Simon Jeffes' son, Arthur. Limited print-run.

“Penguin Cafe continues to occupy a unique place in music: nothing else has ever sounded quite like it. Eccentric, charming, accommodating, surprising, seductive, warm, reliable, modest and unforgettable: it's a true friend” ∼ Brian Eno, February 2010

The Penguin Cafe Orchestra were a uniquely innovative, exploratory set of musicians who enjoyed a cherished period from 1972 to 1997, and continue to hold a special place in many hearts. Their inception was as original, imaginative and idiosyncratic as the music they created…

During the summer of 1972 the English composer Simon Jeffes had a dream, experienced during a severe bout of food poisoning in the South of France
"I was laying in bed delirious, sort of hallucinating for about 24 hours. I had this one vision in my mind of a place that was like a modern hotel, with all these rooms made of concrete. There was an electronic eye which scanned everything. In one room you had a couple that were making love, but lovelessly. In another room there was somebody just looking at himself in the mirror, just obsessed with himself. In another room there was a musician with a bank of synthesizers, wearing headphones, and there was no sound.
This was a very terrible, bleak place. Everybody was taken up with self-interested activity which kept them looped in on themselves. It wasn't like they were prisoners, they were all active, but only within themselves. And that kept them from being a problem or a threat to the cold order represented by the eye.
Next day when I felt better, I went to the beach. As I sat there a poem came to me. It began ‘I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe. I will tell you things at random.’”
The music of the Penguin Cafe, Simon broadly regarded as "a very big yes to the survival of the heart in a time when the heart is under attack from the forces of coldness, darkness and repression." When forced to describe it more precisely, he called his music "imaginary folklore" and "modern semi-acoustic chamber music." He very much liked the comment of a Japanese girl who attended a Penguin concert in Japan and who said afterwards that the music sounded strange, because it was as if she'd heard it a long time ago.

To realize this somewhat fevered dream, Simon utilized many different instruments and orchestrations including elements of African, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Classical & Minimalist music, using a variety of instruments from strings, pianos, harmoniums, slide guitars, cuatros, kalimbas, experimental sound loops, mathematical notations and more.

The last official Penguin Cafe Orchestra release was Concert Program recorded 1995, a document of the touring set they were playing at the time...

Sadly in 1997 Jeffes passed away, marking the closure of that period of Penguin Cafe’s history. However, in 2007, to mark ten years since Simon's death, his son Arthur Jeffes, re-assembled the original musicians to perform a last run of concerts, spanning three nights at London’s Union Chapel, in tribute to both his father and the music that he created. The reception to these concerts was an affirmation that the music held a vibrant life of its own and subsequently Arthur felt that it was appropriate to embark on a more extensive revisiting….

Commissioning a fresh set of musicians ranging from luminaries from The Royal College of Music to notable performers and members from bands such as Suede, Gorillaz, Delakota and Razorlight, the newly envisioned incarnation of the Penguin Cafe undertook a series of performances under the name Music from the Penguin Cafe.

The first of these would be invitation from The Teenage Cancer Trust to perform at The Royal Albert Hall, to be filmed for a future charitable release.

Following this, over the next six months, Music from The Penguin Cafe appeared at various festivals, venues and Arts events over the summer of 2009, initiated by a debut at The Manchester Royal College of Music. This was to be followed by appearances at Port Eliot Literary Festival, Glastonbury, Bestival, The Big Chill, Womad, Edinburgh Arts Festival, the Snape Proms, and the arts festivals of Galway and Milan. Each performance was met with glowing receptions, and heart-warming reviews.

It was during this period that Arthur Jeffes had also began to incorporate his own new material, universally received as natural yet inspired extensions to his own father’s work, thus marking the beginning of a new episode in the Penguin Cafe's rich and turbulent history...

By the end of this run the band was newly invigorated, and the music now seasoned into a fresh, confident and redefined style. With this in mind, it was then decided to bolster the Royal Albert Hall filmed footage with a live studio recording of the set performed over the summer shows. These recordings book-ended this first chapter in the new band's history, mirroring the last record made by the original Penguin Cafe band.

On the 9th day, of the 9th month of 2009, at 9.00am, these 9 musicians walked in to Air Edel Studios and over the next 9 hours recorded 21 tracks live. So much for numerology….

The CD of tracks recorded that day have now been coupled with a DVD of the filmed recitals from The Royal Albert Hall, to be released as a single package under the title 'Music From The Penguin Cafe - Live at the Royal Albert Hall', with all proceeds from this release are going to The Teenage Cancer Trust.

Moreover as everyone involved in this project generously donated their time and talents for free, from performing, filming, editing, recording, mixing, artwork, mastering and manufacturing, when you pay £10 (plus vat, sadly) for the album, Teenage Cancer Trust receives £10.

ARTHUR JEFFES “We're immensely proud of the music on this record, the performances therein, and being able to donate it all to Teenage Cancer Trust. This whole process has proved to be the first steps on this new journey for the Penguin Cafe and 2010 will see both a new album and tour.”

Inspired by the both the process & reception of this endeavor and the events of the previous summer, it would seem that the doors to the Penguin Cafe have opened once more.

Perpetuum Mobile

Seed Of Joy feat. Brian Fallon

A cover back from 2016. 
Guitar : Ankit Suwal

Phosphenes

Don't Know Why(cover)

Stream or purchase COVERS II: http://smarturl.it/CoversII

LA singer-songwriter Greg Laswell has a rare gift for employing metaphor, mystery and honesty with equal acumen. Indeed, those that have spent time with his music over the years have had the distinct privilege of sharing profoundly personal moments with him – even as he left just enough open to interpretation.

Yet when he reimagined songs by the likes of Kate Bush, Kristin Hersh, and Echo & the Bunnymen for his 2009 album Covers, he revealed something else entirely by means of divulging his own most essential musical influences. A decade later, he is revisiting that undertaking with Covers II – which finds him this time communing with Depeche Mode, PJ Harvey, The Verve, even Peter Gabriel.

His 2018 album Next Time, which Popmatters said “brims with introspective imagery,” was arguably his most accomplished to date. But it was 2009’s Covers that still seemed like so much unfinished business. So, Covers II could not be coming at a better time, to reignite the dialogue about those that have influenced him and continue to do so.

Lucky Man (ft. Molly Jenson)

GregLaswell

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