The always awesome Bawl Slant (https://soundcloud.com/bawl-slant) sent me over a track to do some vocals for. Not really sure where the theme came from🤣 We decided to put it out on my page enjoy and behave 😉

All music and mix: The Bawl Slant
Vocals/Lyrics: Default Sensor

Bite Me!! (with The Bawl Slant)

Written for IOC Songwriter Sessions 4th May 2022

# Lyrics

It’s not like I know
How to be whole
Its more a feeling in my heart that comes but goes

Its not like I see
Things slip from me
Just let my eyes fall to dark spaces in between

A sudden sense of urgency 
Reaching for the neck
With all the will you have to steal
Just try to believe it

Its not like the world
Will let me take a breath
A thousand foolish fates await the ones that’s left

It’s not going to change
It’s not going to wait
It’s challenging everything you can before too late

A sudden sense of urgency 
Reaching for the neck
With all the will you have to steal
Just try to believe

A sudden sense of urgency 
Reaching for the neck
With all the will you have to steal
Just try to believe it

A sudden sense of urgency 
Reaching for the neck
With all the will you have to steal
Just try to believe it

Try to Believe

Ekmeles live world premiere recording at the crypt of the Church of the Intercession, New York City on Friday 27 May 2022. 
Editing and mastering: Murat Çolak 

Commissioned by Ekmeles, the piece reimagines the songs, cries, lamentations, incantations, and sighs of M. NourbeSe Philip’s book-length poem Zong!, which is itself a reworking of the 1783 legal transcript of the Gregson vs. Gilbert case that details the drowning of 130 enslaved Africans, having been thrown overboard the British slave ship, Zong, en route to Jamaica.

Voices initially emerge from a meditative chorus of harmonicas, an instrument associated with Afro-diasporic sorrow, uttering fragmented text, and chanting biblical passages that conjure images of bones, tendons, and flesh, whilst classic(al) tunes referencing water interweave the textures from tiny wind-up music boxes.

I am deeply grateful to M. NourbeSe Philip for granting the permission to set their iconic, and groundbreaking text for this commission.

this is but an oration of loss

A-Memories of Butterflies

Out of the Box January 2023
[tip-toe alert at 3:15]

Mostly Ghostly Dub

Dragging down victims with me

MY LOVE MY GOD MY FORGIVENESS

YOU ARE MY EVERYTHING
I AM THE NOTHING KING

When The Warden Wanted Her Way

Rob Brooks suggested adding a further part for strings. Here it be, with my thanks to Rob for his kind recommendation.

Piano/String Part 2

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MAGNIFICAT. Latvian Radio Choir/Conductor Kaspars Putniņš. 2023

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The second track for the new EP. A personal one and one I'm hyped to keep building.

this is but an oration of loss

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