This is weird weather
This is the wettest dream
On the cold leather
In the first scene

Smoother than water baby
I see right through your skin
Veins a roadmap to
Where we haven’t been

I am the lighter fluid
I bring a bright spark
We are the fire starters
Silencing the dark

(...I fall apart inside…)
(...to bring you back to life…)
(...we will go farther still...)

These bones are steel baby
Heavy metal heart 
Enamel finish baby
Grinning in the dark

My insides fall to pieces
But we won’t break down
We have the surface baby
Lighting up the ground

(...I fall apart inside…)
(...to bring you back to life…)
(...we will go farther still...)


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Recorded by Frances Libeau between Tāmaki Makaurau & Ōtepoti, Aotearoa.
Mixed & mastered by James Goldsmith.
Written & produced by Frances Libeau.
Single artwork by Archi Banal.

Weird Weather

Written, produced & performed by Frances Libeau.
Flute by Imogen Taylor.
Recorded by Frances Libeau in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Mixed & mastered by James Goldsmith.
Single artwork by Frances Libeau.

Wetlands

Written & produced • Frances Libeau
Mixed & mastered • James Goldsmith

Flute on Wetlands • Imogen Taylor
Spoken word performance on You would be forgiven • Nisha Madhan
Vocals & cello on The Gloam • Cello Forrester
Pūoro on Starrey Gazey Pie • Abigail Aroha Jensen
Saw on Starrey Gazey Pie • Angus Zoë Tahere Hayes

Album photograph • PICTVRE
Design • Billie Fee

The making of this record was assisted by Creative New Zealand & the Audio Foundation Residency Programme.

With gratitude to: Angelo Libeau, James Goldsmith, Imogen Taylor, Abigail Aroha Jensen, Nisha Madhan, Cello Forrester, Veronica Crockford-Pound, Joseph Griffen, Selina Ershadi, Billie Fee, Holly Mia Paynter, Tru Paraha, Georgette Brown, Sam Longmore, Sriwhana Spong, Biljana Popovic, Charlotte Ryan & Dudley Benson.

Special thanks to Karen, Conan, Mapu, Ray, Debbie & the wider Hayes & Tahere whānau.

An earlier version of Weird Weather features in the Biljana Popovic film 'Something Entirely Natural' as part of the show Synthetic Baby at Physics Room, Ōtautahi, 2018.

An earlier version of The Gloam was written and performed for 'The Gloaming', curated by Tru Paraha, as part of Tempo Dance Festival, 2019.

An earlier version of Prayer to the Pill features in the Sriwhana Spong film 'a hook but no fish', first shown at the Pump House Gallery, London, 2018.

Prayer to the Pill

Starrey Gazey Pie Ft. Abigail Aroha Jensen & Zoë Angus Tahere Hayes

As It Stands

The Gloam Ft. Cello Forrester

You Would Be Forgiven Ft. Nisha Madhan

Have You Seen [REDACTED]?

Wetlands Ft. Imogen Taylor

Country Justice X

DUMP NO WASTE FLOWS TO SEA

"We’re never gonna survive, unless we get a little crazy.”

Released November 10, 2015 
Recorded at the Second Ave Sleep-out and Bach 62 

i.e. crazy
Drums ~ Catherine Cumming 
Acoustic and noise guitars ~ Sean Kelly 
All else ~ Maggie Magee 
Mixed and mastered by Sean Kelly at Bach 62 

Special thanks to Sesh, Cat, and Alex

You're a Stranger (to me now)

Recorded at the Second Ave Sleep-out and Bach 62 
By Maggie Magee with Alexander Knight 

Drums ~ Catherine Cumming 
Noise guitars ~ Sean Kelly 
All else ~ Maggie Magee 
Mixed and mastered by Sean Kelly at Bach 62 

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There is an incident on the edge of town; all the local lawnmowers drown it out. Brown paper bags barricade the drain; white feathers turn grey in the rain.

It doesn't take a full room to be crowded out!! 

I saw something on the green; something caught beneath the wheels; and a body smiling shouts - it's ONE MORE IN & ONE MORE OUT.

Looking back on all those teenage nights; two of us the small ones were forced to fight... walking home from school; black hair on the grass, she doesn't say a word, she only runs as fast as she can! 

It doesn't take a full room to be crowded out; it doesn't take a full moon to act insane.......

I saw something on the green; something caught beneath the wheels; and a body smiling shouts - it's ONE MORE IN & ONE MORE OUT....

In the passenger seat, there's a hanging head; as though it's attached to a taut and jerking thread. There's a shop en route that sells mannequins... 
I will take one home 
just to eat with it.


An Incident on the Edge of Town

“I’m not going to be ignored, Dan.”
– Alex; Fatal Attraction

Multimedia show @ mother?
Tāmaki Makaurau //  December 2018
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CW: THIS WORK CONTAINS TRIGGERING AND DISTURBING CONTENT: sexual violence, domestic violence, emergency service responses & media reportage of violent crimes, child abuse, religious abuse.

- National Rape Crisis Helpline: 0800 88 33 00
- Are You Ok? (Domestic Violence Helpline): 0800 456 450 
- Shine (Domestic Violence Helpline): 0508 744 633
- Shakti (women, children and youth of Asian, African and Middle Eastern origin who have experienced sexual abuse, domestic violence and discrimination): 0800 SHAKTI (0800 742 584)
- 24/7 Suicide Helpline: 0800 LIFELINE (0800 54 33 54) or free text HELP (4357)
- Youthline NZ: 0800 376 633. Free text 234. Email talk@youthline.co.nz
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mother? presents Women in Love with mother? by Claire Duncan; an inquiry into psycho-sexual feminine power and the forces that seek to constrain it. The ongoing performative & recorded work of i.e. crazy (aka Maggie Magee) gathers shards of sonic debris and forgotten pop-culture detritus and braids them together with refractive, idiosyncratic narrative-folk voices. Tendrils of conventional reportage are splayed and teased out with ex-scientific mores in an attempt to interrogate the complex lattice of sensuality, power and violence that comprises feminine identity.



Cover image by Leah Mulgrew

Women in Love w/ mother?

As it stands………..I am turning the wheel
As it stands………..there’s nothing left here for you to steal
As it stands………..I haven’t seen you for weeks
As it stands………..you’re doubling through these sewer stained streets
As it stands………..I shoot it down, you know you don’t mean a thing
As it stands………..I step slow motion from the flaming machine
As it stands………..you know that I don’t want it to die, but
As it stands………..I know I’ll never leave this alive

It’s got nothing to do with you
Just the fear of forgetting
The bodies & nights that I’ve been used
& I used you too
……………….......……..like a cheap perfume

As it stands………..the only teacher is time, but
As it stands………..this lesson will be my whole life
As it stands………..I know that it is all in my head, 
As I stand…………..a rising escalator to a cliff edge, &
…………………….........I know I’m being obvious, a whale on the beach, but
As it stands………..we both know who is wearing the leash
As it stands………..I’m walking with my head in my hands, just
…………………......…...waiting for the moment when you stab me right back

It’s got nothing to do with you
Just the fear of forgetting
The bodies & nights that I’ve been used
& I used you too
……………………..........like a cheap perfume
……………………...........like a blow-up doll in a backstreet brawl
……………………...........like strangers sharing a bathroom stall
……………………...........gives me panic stabs from a casual glance
……………………...........gives me swollen glands from uncertain chance
……………………...........& I’m seeing stars in a boxer’s hand
……………………...........a one-night stand with a pension plan

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Recorded by Maggie Magee between Tāmaki Makaurau & Ōtepoti, Aotearoa/New Zealand, & Leipzig, Deutschland/Germany.
Mixed & mastered by James Goldsmith.
Written & produced by Maggie Magee, with exception of featured samples from the films "Like Crazy" (2011), "Titanic" (1997) & "The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant" (1972).

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