Ah, it's just gorgeous, back to listen. Like an old friend

nice and easy to my ears like bryter later

I went to my favourite bench just beyond the Tanworth-in-Arden churchyard (here's the view) around noon on the day of Sonya Chenery's memorial service and sat and recorded this tribute of one of her and James Edge's songs on my phone. You can hear the wind, birds and schoolkids in the background. A nice lady from the church came nearby and said how nice it sounded.

NDG 2022

Autumn's Fountain - outside (2022)

Open G ditty

Becoming
From In The Hills, The Cities by James Edge And The Mindstep

Music and Lyrics by James Edge

James Edge - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar 
Andy Waterworth - Double Bass
Calina De La Mare - Violin I 
Alison Dods - Violin II 
Sophie Sirota - Viola 
Sarah Willson - Cello

String Quartet arranged and directed by Robert Kirby

Produced by James Edge 
Recorded by Tom Aitkenhead 
Mixed by Tom Aitkenhead and James Edge 
Mastered by Ade Emsley

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Becoming - Released 26 Feb 2016 on Folkstock Records

all of the way down...

it's a heavy sort of floating,
please don't let me fall,
please don't let me fall all the way down...

i've been locked inside for days and days,
dreams telling me: "do what the Master says"

Archie please,
broken knees,
wearing the weather,
keep it together,

 Fast-Food-Tantalus,
and his worry warts,
cast the coins,
but the oracle won't answer,

Archie Please,
dream disease,
the corpse of his Mother,
to give to his Brother,

pick it up/put it down...

Archie Please

The sixth of my tunes, written and recorded during the lunar cycle to coincide with the full moon. 
Its another short  piece, written about the inverse of normality.

Writing Pen  (#6 August 2012)

it's been a very long time,
since i had a friend of mine you know,
i no longer align,
with the outside world and so,

if i say what i mean,
and i mean what i want,
and i speak all the pain,
all the pain n my heart,

it'll go:

Rh'eep U'hn'arhy,
Awaigh-haigh-haigh,
 A-Rh'eep a-bin-Fiyn,

Oh no it'll go,

suffering, suffering,
mmm-ba-badada,
far away
mmm-ba-badada,
away-hey-hey,

Coping Mechanism

Ben & Jason - Joe's Ark Strings Only

Eli Berman performing an original piece for voice and tape based on a Slovak trávnice of the same name. Trávnice are hay-making songs traditionally sung by women in the mountains of present-day Central and Eastern Slovakia, where many of Berman’s maternal ancestors once lived. All sounds made from Berman's voice, reverb, and delay. Performed August 2019.

Veru Mi Je Dobre (live demo)

A Yiddish piece for solo voice and live electronic processing. Performed by Eli Berman (2019). 

Check out this video of another performance of Zey Zaynen Gelofn by Eli Berman at Yiddish Summer Weimar 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gidWiQ75P1c&feature=emb_title

Zey Zaynen Gelofn (live demo)

An original song a wrote at 16 years old with my dad on harmonies. Thanks for listening <3

Becoming - Released 26 Feb 2016 on Folkstock Records

James Edge and the Mindstep

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