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'Rest Your Head' - Music and Lyrics by Joe Hicks

Produced by Sam Winfield and Joe Hicks
Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Sam Winfield studio91.net

Vocals, Guitar and Percussion performed by Joe Hicks
Keyboard performed by Sam Winfield
Drums performed by Ed Broad
Bass Guitar performed by Lenny Brown

Artwork by Joe Hicks
Photography by Jack Margerison www.jackmargerison.co.uk/

'Rest Your Head'

I can tell that, you are out of luck,
you’ve lost everything you love that made you whole.
Just a shadow of your former self,
there’s no air for the flame in your soul.

You’ve got to see you can fight this.
Just take a breath and ignite it,
and you’ll feel love, fill your lungs
just gotta believe.

So come and rest your head on me, if you’re feeling low,
cos I can’t bear to find you falling on your own.
I’ll do anything if I see the signs.
You deserve to shine with a blinding light.
So come and rest your head on me if you’re feeling low.

There’s a cloud as black as night in your mind but I’ll,
do everything I can, to help you find gold, linings of gold.

You’ve got to see you can fight this.
Just take a breath and ignite it,
and you’ll feel love, fill your lungs
just gotta believe.

So come and rest your head on me, if you’re feeling low,
cos I can’t bear to find you falling on your own.
I’ll do anything if I see the signs.
You deserve to shine with a blinding light.
So come and rest your head on me if you’re feeling low.

But you’ve got to see you can fight this.
I’m telling you you can fight this.
You’re strong enough to ignite it,
if you can believe.

So come and rest your head on me, if you’re feeling low (feeling low),
cos I can’t bear to find you falling on your own.
I’ll do anything if I see the signs.
You deserve to shine with a blinding light. 
So come and rest your head on me if you’re feeling low (low).
So come and rest your head on me if you’re feeling low.

Rest Your Head

This song feels like a whispering secret to me. There's times when it's hard to make sense out of everything we live. Sometimes the only thing we need in order to feel we're not alone is just a gaze into our eyes. 

LYRICS: 

I was chasing down my luck 
You went walking through the bar, 
I’m just looking for a gaze into my eyes 

There’s a full moon in your dress 
There’s a filled up void inside my head 
I’m just looking for a gaze into my eyes 

I long to hear your voice 
before I feel I’m lost 
inside this maze, amazed by beauty’s loving grace… 
beyond the wall of smoke, 
meet my eyes… know my soul 

I’m looking for you 
I hope you’re looking for me too 
It’s sad to be wandering 
wondering who am I for you 

It’s ten years past that summer night 
I remember it like it’s tonight 
I’m still looking for a gaze into my eyes 

A secret lies within this song 
that goes on and on and on… 
it’s “to be” and it means “yes” 
in my mother tongue... 

I long to hear your voice 
before I feel I’m lost 
inside this maze, amazed by beauty’s loving grace… 
beyond the wall of smoke, 
meet my eyes… know my soul 

I’m looking for you 
I hope you’re looking for me too 
It’s sad to be wandering 
wondering who am I for you

A Gaze Into My Eyes

"Simple" from Bluebird - the 3rd studio LP from indie-folk artist, Canyon City, released April 5th, 2019.

Simple

Taken from the Album Salt catch Michael Baker on tour
March 19th The Brunswick Brighton
http://bit.ly/39wJpfG
March 29th The Duke Whitstable
free admission
March 30th The Finsbury London 
http://bit.ly/3awkRUf
April 5th The Loft (Above The Kings) Portsmouth

BIOGRAPHY, by NME’s Andrew Trendell
“I lived in my van for two and a half years to pay for the making of my first record,” casually laughs singer-songwriter Michael Baker. “I moved into the van after a typical period of heartache. I had nowhere to go, but it was pretty good actually!” 

From this, you can gather a lot about the Anglo-French troubadour. Mainly, he takes nothing for granted and lives for his music.  

Spending his childhood near Brighton (where he went to the same school as Rag N’ Bone Man), Michael got his first guitar aged eight after seeing Oasis live and needing to learn ‘Wonderwall’. In his teens, the songs soon started to flow. It wasn’t long before the purity of his voice, the direct rawness of his writing and the sheer scope of his sound found him regular gigs and a devoted fanbase – one that only grew bigger and more in love with the release of his magnificent debut album Dust & Bone. 

A soaring collection of heart-wrenching indie-folk and cinematic sounds, Dust & Bone was recorded with Massive Attack collaborator Dan Brown, and was a staggering first showcase of Baker’s ambition and soulful style. “I’m really proud of the songwriting on that record,” he admits. “I was in such a bad place in my life when I made it, but it got such a great response from the people who heard it.”

Early sessions for Salt started when Baker hit the studio with Dan Brown and Oliver Baldwin, who had recently finished making Aldous Harding’s acclaimed album Party with PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish. While promising Michael says ‘’It felt like I needed more time to experiment than we had scheduled in.” So Baker headed back to record and produce the album with long-time friend Ed Martin. 

After discovering that his childhood home would be empty for a few weeks while his parents were in the process of moving away. He went in and stripped everything away, begged and borrowed all the equipment he needed, crammed the band in, drank a lot of wine, got a little stoned and naturally just flowed through the album – playing all day and all night. The recordings were so impressive, that Baldwin agreed to mix the record at Real World Studios and gave the songs a whole new dimension (as well as inviting Jack White’s pedal steel player Maggie Björklund to play on the album too). 
“I absolutely love artists like Cat Stevens and Bon Iver,” says Baker. Salt is a record that maps Baker’s journey through darkness and vulnerability to something a lot more hopeful. 
Among the key tracks that show Baker’s road to recovery, ‘Baby Books’ was inspired by being in close proximity to someone taking their own life – and totally changing the way he saw the world. Single ‘They Look Just Like They Know’ also deals with how “the mind can be a deadly place” and “feeling trapped in the prison of your own vision”. He’s looking for the sunrise on the horizon, too. Baker’s personal favourite ‘Claire’ celebrates the “the beauty of space in a relationship” and the escapist ecstasy of ‘One Good Damn’ has won over scores of new fans with its feel-good magnetism. 

Salt is a towering accomplishment that will win hearts with its adept handling of love, loss and hope, and there’s more to come. For now though, you’re about to get to know the real Michael Baker. “I feel like I have too much of a personal relationship with anyone who says they like my music,” concludes Baker. “I’ve been getting letters and messages from people saying that my songs have got them through a very hard time, and I don’t know how to reply to them other than as if I’d known them my whole life. That’s the way that I would do it. I hope that my music gives them as much as it’s given me.”

One God Damn

How Can I

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📝 Lyrics:

I saw you today when I wasn’t looking
There was a sway in the trees about that told
Told me you were near
And I heard your voice when I wasn’t listening
There was a sweet noise I’d never heard before
Singing in the breeze

Oh the pain, oh the needless pain we bear
Oh this world so full with all its cares
But you make me innocent again

And I thought I found you but you found me
Oh I thought I found you but you found me

Well I tasted sweetness when I was thirsty
The warm summer rain on my window pain is life
Falling from the sky
And I felt your hand when I couldn’t feel a thing
It was the touch of my baby boy
He loves me and doesn’t yet know why

Oh the pain, oh the needless pain we bear
Oh this world so full with all its cares
But you make me innocent again

And I thought I found you but you found me
Oh I thought I found you but you found me

Even the darkness cannot hide your face
And in the shadows I’ll rest in your grace
Oh even the darkness cannot hide your face
And in the shadows I’ll rest in your grace

Oh the pain, oh the needless pain we bear
Oh this world so full with all its cares
But you make me innocent again

And I thought I found you but you found me
Oh I thought I found you but you found me
Oh I thought I found you but you found me Lord,
I thought I found you but you found me

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Arbour Season - Arcadian (with lyrics)

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________

Lyrics: 

We Have To Discover

Like a cabin in the middle of nowhere
In the void you’re my bottle of air
You’ve been the one and only
That took care
Saw the pain we share

You gave me your hand and you led me
To a whole world, you were the key
After years spent in prison
My heart beats
And my chest feels free

You taught me that I’ve been right
When my shadow in the mirror said that I was wrong
And even in the darkest night
You give me a reason to be strong

I can let it go, let it pass by
No more wonderin’ why
Oh we have to discover
The storm’s eye
To find the wide blue sky

You taught me that I’ve been right
When my shadow in the mirror said that I was wrong
And even in the darkest night
You give me a reason to be strong

You taught me that I’ve been right
When my shadow in the mirror said that I was wrong
And even in the darkest night
You give me a reason to be strong

Even in the darkest night
You give me a reason to be strong
________

Music & Lyrics: Unknown Neighbour
Producers: Unknown Neighbour & Sascha Bercik
Mixing: Sascha Bercik
Mastering: Dimi Conidas

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We Have To Discover

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