Wow! thrilled to have made Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music show and Fresh Faves 14.2.22!! This is from my 2nd album The Awakening. Made using loops/samples with love, by Helen Meissner.
How often do we ask ourselves ‘who do we want to be?’ It’s something that gets asked a lot of us when we’re younger isn’t it? But with a twist, everyone wants to know WHAT we want to be.
As an adult, after years of conditioning, we might need to go back to that question, and look behind the masks. It’s difficult because for many we have become the persona we felt society demanded of us. So in a way it’s clean slate time, time to ‘play’ in a way. To really fantasise. And it’s not easy. We’re conditioned to conform and fit into society, seamlessly and obediently.

New roles emerge and old roles change throughout our life. Masks are worn. Pretty much all the time. What’s appropriate in one setting most certainly is not in another. We often learn the hard way. And it’s sometimes toe curlingly embarrassing. And we struggle to forgive ourselves. It’s a real problem. It stops us getting out of the boxes we’ve allowed ourselves to be put in. And gradually saps our energy and joy til we might feel like a 2D version of ourselves.
Am I being too dramatic here? Sorry if this does not resonate. I know it will for a number of people reading. Our fear of doing something which is ‘wrong’ or which makes people think we are a loser, or which makes people talk about us in a way we feel to be disrespectful or unkind is palpable. Which is a million times worse if we find we actually agree with some of it at some level (or would if we’re being honest with ourselves). Being ‘found out’, being called a fraud, a fake... does that strike fear into the heart of you? Make you feel sick? If so we have to go there.  It’s also sometimes called Imposter Syndrome. What if someone realises that I am actually winging it and making it up as I go along? Join the club!
Perhaps we’ve striven to be the child our parents always wanted? The pupil the teachers were proud of? The friend that never let anyone down? The lover who always excited? The star at work? The parent who loved unconditionally and didn’t ‘fuck their children up’? (thanks for that ironic cross to bear, Philip Larkin). And perhaps we’ve not been 100% successful in those quests?
The reality is we cannot please all the people all of the time. And anyway, how people react really does say more about them than about us. We might have inadvertently touched upon one of their red flags, one of their insecurities about themselves and they then overreact to something that really, is NOT a big deal to other people. Ever noticed this?

Well we all have a choice about how we react to someone else’s behaviour towards us. And I have learnt to, in the most part, notice it, assess it and then move on. 
As we can’t guarantee to please others, we might as well please the most important person in your life. You. And as a bonus, if you are comfortable and accepting of yourself, kind and perhaps loving and tolerant(like you would be to a friend?), you will draw people into your life who recognise those qualities. And do yourself a favour. Others, manipulators or narcissists, will be attracted too as they will see that they can have a very nice life with you, thinking you are a pushover. Please always notice your interchanges and exchanges with them. And as soon as something happens which presents a red flag for you, investigate it, discuss it and act on your instinct if you realise this person is not as good for you as they might have appeared early on. People CAN change and you might be the first person to have pointed this unacceptable behaviour out to them. So give them a chance to redeem if that’s what you both want. But just keep an eye out for your own red flags and don’t ignore them. It’s better to be in a good relationship with yourself than a bad relationship with someone else.

So WHO do you wanna be – NOW?

Who Do You Wanna Be

Inspired by the work of Phillip Glass

Recorded at Campbell Road Studios in Brighton by Ree Melody in October 2021
Mixed by Bob Cooper 
Mastered by Grant Fader of FaderMastering

Print by Richard Marsden 
Type and Layout by Ronan O'Brien

Clap Song

Woman That I Know

Beat https://youtu.be/iCg6RZFTtC0

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Esidarap 
2nd Kitchen Sounds
Hit Or Miss

Ruth prod by Vrdnyn

High of You

This is my brand new single 'All I Need' set to release on the 27th of May. The song started off as a jam I had with EKA (Ebenezer Koya) in his DIY studio in Sheildfield. I then introduced it to the band(the KBB) who instantly vibed with it as well as Andy Bell from Blast Recording. This song has really brought us together as musicians and friends, with many late nights in the studio creating. This song is the start of a further project I have coming up called 'Divide and Rule' which touches on more political subjects such as misogyny, violence, and mental health.  
All I Need is heavily influenced by funk and hip hop as I had been listening to a lot of female rappers at the time. It is a song about falling in love and being scared of the vulnerability that comes with that feeling.

All I Need- Kate Bond

T.S. Eliot’s poem set to music by Antonio Cipolla (2005). Recorded November 2019. Song dedicated to my friend Andi, and to his haughty but gorgeous cat, Pushkin. 

THE NAMING OF CATS
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey--
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter--
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover--
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.
(T.S. Eliot)

THE NAMING OF CATS - song from the poem by T.S. Eliot (Original Music)

Erik

Angel At My Window

'Love in The Falls' from Honest Men's sophomore album 'Field of Vision', out now: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/honestmen/field-of-vision-2

Written and produced by Honest Men.

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Lyrics:
You gave me time
You gave me something to believe in
Smile
I'm saving face another weekend
Fake another cry
I'm feeling older
Read some other words to win me over

Safe to say you're never gonna leave me
Hate to say my mind is ever sleeping
Complicate the truth I'm never given
Hesitating every single moment

I'm feeling fine
I'm feeling lost
I'm feeling broken
Catch another trend to feel emotion
Pulse is running low
I'm empty handed
Pulled by every lie you reprimanded

Can't you see I'm living in the moment
Blinded by the screens on every corner
Harmonize with sounds of adolescence
Digitizing every single lesson

Wandering back in time
I'll reason with the devil that's in my eye

I found love in the falls
You know I feel it in the throes
Anger lift off my shoulders
It's a fight but no one knows
Carry all the liberty on my way
I finally get to where I'm going
Feel the water
Fatalist all my days
Oh I found you in the

Another life
Another soul that's given to me
Take a look inside to find the meaning
Happiness and love are not the same thing
Pour a little wine to numb the feeling

I'll admit she's never gonna save me
Life will blur the line
It's like another day without the sun again
A gathering of severance

Time goes by

I found love in the falls
You know I feel it in the throes
Anger lift off my shoulders
It's a fight but no one knows
Carry all the liberty on my way
I finally get to where I'm going
Feel the water
Fatalist all my days
Oh I found you in

Take another step until I'm falling free
Take another breath until it's all I see

I found love in the falls
Anger lift off my shoulders
Take another step

I found love in the falls
You know I feel it in the throes
Anger lift off my shoulders
It's a fight but no one knows
Carry all the liberty on my way
I finally get to where I'm going
Feel the water
Fatalist all my days
Oh I found you in the

Field of Vision

Love in The Falls

'Helpless' from Honest Men's sophomore album 'Field of Vision', out now: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/honestmen/field-of-vision-2

Written and produced by Honest Men.

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Lyrics:
Oh can't you see it
The smoke of a cigarette
In your teenage mouth
At your parent's house
I wanna believe it
The lies that I thought I'd live
When I didn't care
What the pastor said

We were wrong
Wrong
Wrong
Wrong
We were wrong
Wrong
Wrong
Wrong

Sneak out the window
And into your sister's car
With the lights down low
We can see the ghosts of the
Past behind us and a
Timid future on its way
We're still okay

But we were wrong
Wrong
Wrong
Wrong

Helpless
We were
Helpless
We were
Gone beyond repair
We were
Helpless
We were
Helpless
We were
Young and unaware

But we were wrong
Wrong
Wrong
Wrong
We were wrong
Wrong
Wrong
Wrong

Helpless
We were
Helpless
We were
Gone beyond repair
We were
Helpless
We were
Helpless
We were
Young and unaware

Helpless

'Facade' from Honest Men's sophomore album 'Field of Vision', out now: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/honestmen/field-of-vision-2

Written and produced by Honest Men.

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Lyrics:
Tell me yet again now, why do you
Leave another letter on the floor
Telling me I'm due to face my trial
It's another caller on the line
It's another reaper of my time
It's another way to say I'm done

But I'm trying so hard to
Face my feelings oh my
It got away
I told you, it's almost embarrassing
Lying for you, no
Dying for you to know
I told you
I have no opinions

Give me another day like that
Belief when I fall away off track
It sounds like you're telling me
It's all a dream
So I carry another big let down
Tell you I never left this town
Cause faith is just admitting I was wrong

But I'm trying so hard to
Face my feelings oh my
It got away
I told you, it's almost embarrassing
Lying for you, no
Dying for you to

Know
I was gone
But I'm fine
I think I got it wrong

Tell me I don't need this
Thing they call ability
I don't need this
Thing they call man's sorrow no

Tell me I don't need this
Thing they call ability
I don't need this

Pulse flat in the mezzanine
When you dared to hold my hand
Cold sweat when you're listening
What's it take to be a man

Restart on the seventeenth
Another year to learn it all
Become who I wanna be
I won't fall oh

Tell me I don't need this
Thing they call ability
No I don't need this
Thing they call man's sorrow
Not alone without you
I'll walk off against the pack
No I don't need this
It's all a facade

Helpless

Honest Men

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