You almost have an early Joni MItchell sound to your vocals. That's a great thing! Really nice songwriting, performances, and recordings here throughout. Love the sound and tones you create with your music. Most enjoyable listening.

Thanks for posting here, Hanne. Sounds just amazing to me! :D Great job on everything and the mix is really superb. Such a catchy tune, excellent songwriting and performance. 

Ballad of the Pike River Mine

MY LOVELY LETTERBOX
Steph Casey & Gary Sunshine

Steph explains:
"I went for a morning walk one day last week and decided to take some photos of random things along the way. I took a few shots and when I got back home I took the photo above, of my letterbox. I quite liked the pic and posted it on Facebook with the caption "my lovely letterbox". Gary saw it there and commented that "my lovely letterbox" would make a good song title. I replied that yes it would, and a little while later he sent through some great lyrics and said "let's write it". Wow - COOL, I thought! So I put some chords and a melody to the lyrics, and we had a rough sketch of the song, which then improved by about 300% when Gary added his phenomenal guitar and vocals… !"

MY LOVELY LETTERBOX
Steph Casey & Gary Sunshine

My lovely letterbox  
It holds the key to things 
I lost the key to it
My lonely letterbox 
It waits for words of love  
I watch for signs of life

The rain rains down on it 
The sun dries most of it  
The wind blows softly by  
The car that almost hit  
My lovely letterbox

My only letterbox  
I find the newspaper  
It said that you were gone
I played the music box 
You gave me at sixteen  
It broke my heart again

The rain rains down on it  
The sun dries most of it  
The wind blows softly by  
The car that almost hit  
My lovely letterbox

My trusty letterbox 
It's barely standing up  
I need the key to it

The rain rains down on it  
The night hides all of this  
The wind blows softly by  
The car that almost hit  
My lovely letterbox



My Lovely Letterbox - w/Steph Casey

Dave Friend liked my little bare song You Excite Me many many months ago and offered to make a track on condition that i sing it... so i of course jumped at that chance.. .anyone who has heard Sun Tower or The Musical Crucible will know of Dave's genius..... anyhoo... this is the music he made out of my little chords (unbelievable) and this is his mix... Shael also a member of Sun Tower (with a voice of gold) also contributed with the organ on this track and in lending ears to the final mix.. THank you thank you thank you guys... <3 this track and what you did...... Please visit their sites asap and hear what i mean.

The link for Sun Tower: http://soundcloud.com/sun-tower
The link for The Musical Crucible: http://soundcloud.com/the-musical-crucible

you excite me (The Musical Crucible music magic worked on my song, vocals me)

A Scottish stream meanders and dances down a leafy valley - and pours into a deep dark pool.

 

Dance time

DID YOU MOVE TO NEW ORLEANS OR TEXAS?
a song by gary sunshine

As I lay there dying or at least I think I was
smiling all the way to the grave
I thought of things you used to tell me on the phone
I hardly was listening but now I'm all alone

so did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
the odds are you didn't move at all

like some kind of common criminal 
with a name on my back
with a toothless bleeding past
you were worried
like drugs & heartache & misery & pain
you were falling into pieces like that bracelet in the rain

so did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
I hardly even knew you then

well I wonder if we went back well I wonder if we went back well I wonder if we went back
so did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
I hardly ever knew the way

did you move away just to get away did you move away just to get away

so did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
did you move to New Orleans or did you move to Texas?
I hardly ever knew the way

well I wonder if you went back well I wonder if you went back
that bracelet in the rain 
what about I miss you and I miss you and you miss me and you miss me

Did You Move To New Orleans or Texas?

From my debut EP 'Watch over me', released 24 March 2013
For more tracks, lyrics and photos, go to www.hannejostensen.bandcamp.com
Drums: Nick Brown
Bass: Jim Walmsley
Guitar: Steph Casey
Keys: Martyn Galea
Vocals: Hanne Jøstensen 

Recorded at Braeburn Studio, Wellington, by Robbie Duncan
Mixed and mastered at The Lab Studios, Auckland, by Oliver Harmer

Straight Back

Debut EP out now on www.hannejostensen.com
My website has links to reviews and other media coverage. Thanks for visiting!

Straight Back

Hanne Jøstensen

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