'Eaves and Boughs' is a simple musical picture depicting deeper themes. 
On the surface, pretty pop rock overlays a lyrical backdrop of mountain romance. Underneath, a to-and-fro story of melancholy and softly breaking hearts comes to life amid long notes of recessed reverb. The song was written in 2013 in wistful tribute to the gentle ease that love can bring, as well as a tribute to the mixture of strange, ferocious beauty a great lover often represents to their paramour. Remastered in 2016 and released as part of 'C Side Volume 6 - Fading Shadows'.

LYRICS:

Hey come and stay
Lie here with me

The misty mountains
Not your lover today

Hopelessly
Stare into me

In this doorway
We are never afraid

I won't be the one who ran away
We will never speak of it again
Hold me like you mean the things you say
Ferocious beautiful and ever strange

Gone tragedy
Love is our key

Never see 
Another tear again
Never again

I won't be the one who ran away
We will never speak of it again
Hold me like you mean the things you say
Ferocious beautiful and ever strange

Eaves and Boughs

Eaves And Boughs

'Fading Shadows'' marks part six on the 'C Side' re-release journey.

Returning to previous themes of metaphoric iconography, catharsis through struggle and skewed romance, this collection rambles through a variety of sonic styles.  Big drums, soft piano, epic guitar solos, acoustic sweetness and old time harmonies appear in a diverse miscellany of sound. Each track has been remastered while peaks, hiss and live errors are retained for an authentic garage experience.

As with previous 'C Side' titles, the story is woven across seven songs, presented on a single continuous track.  Much of the material draws on periods of extreme emotional turmoil, a beneficial energy for the subject matter. While 'Fading Shadows' touches on both universal and internal questions, each song stands alone as an autobiographical portrait told through poetic device and external inspiration. 

This compilation features new and old songs, as well as antique and modern instrumentation. An odyssey of rough, sweet, dour and upbeat, 'C Side Volume 6' is a unique window into the heart of a crazy artist.



TRACKLIST 
1. Hell
2. The Weaker Sex
3. Eaves and Boughs
4. Smoke
5. Every Rainbow
6. Miss My Miss
7. Shelter

C Side Volume 6 - Fading Shadows

In 2008 life was a roller coaster of simple contentments and complex emotions, every day a different experience. Consequently the birth of 'Reasons' culminated from rumination, introspection and staring for too long at the ocean. It's easy to get lost in the small things and forget the big picture, and equally easy to pretend understanding of universal precepts while wallowing in the details.  The song deals in discovering one's meaning, and the constant of change; the relevance of ourselves to each other, and acceptance our part in the grand scheme. Offered to A Name Will Come and Flowers For Lily unsuccessfully, 'Reasons' was a bedroom song until its online release in 2011 and features antique acoustic guitar and an Indian Harmonium among the instrumentation.

C Side Volume 7 - Pull the Plug

 Reasons

'Trash Violin' is a single taken from from 'Grey Meadows' released October 23, 2016 and available at the following link:

https://jimmyskymusic.bandcamp.com/album/grey-meadows

Trash Violin' was written on the spot while performing to a handycam in 2015. A wistful recollection of love, betrayal and catharsis following a prophetic dream regarding a loved one and a famous person. The original live recording was made during a bout of illness. 

Watch the video for 'Trash Violin' here: 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTk66677jSg
lyrics

'Trash Violin' written by Jimmy Sky. 
Performed live to a handycam, then treated with post effects. 

The second instalment of 'Grey Meadows', an upcoming lo-fi release. 

LYRICS: 

All I get to hear my dear 
Is how happy you are 
Your voice seems frail with fear 
Say how difficult it was to throw me out 

Like trash with a violin 
Like trash with a violin 

With every word you speak 
It seems you're glittering like summer gold 
You look at me and what you see 
My works are wandering but mostly getting old 

Like trash with a violin 
Like trash with a violin 

Somewhere deep inside you hide a truth 
It boils like oil upon a setting sun 
You blame me to my face disgraced I do the same 
But mostly we just miss the fun 

Like leaves on a dying wind 
Like leaves on a dying wind 

I can't hate on anyone for very long 
Least of all not you my dear 
The wish we have is end the fear 
For all your joy this little boy recalls 
The fall from grace your face would bring to me 
A golden hollow meant to be 

Now I'm whispering 
Now I'm whispering 
Like trash with a violin 
Like trash with a violin 
Like trash with a violin 
Like trash with a violin



Performed live to a handycam, then treated with post effects. 
Written, performed, recorded and edited by Jimmy Sky.

Grey Meadows

Trash Violin

'Something Old' is Jimmy Sky's ninth bedroom studio release. The title closes off a marathon year for Jimmy, one that included seven self-published EP releases and a live acoustic session, complete with hand-designed photo art for each track. A constant thread links each release to the next, and in turn photographic self-portraiture wraps the record into a single theme, yet each song remains a personal story wrapped in metaphor; an emotional ride pinned to a wry rock and roll grin. 
More than ten years in the making, 'Something Old' draws on previously unreleased music to surprise and delight long-term fans. Continuing a long-running theme of raw, garage-esque sound, the LP purposefully avoids high-end recording techniques, instead sticking to the limitations of early digital software and single-input interfaces. The result is a unique production style designed to subtly remind music lovers of their favourite lo-fi records.

TRACKLIST:

1.  All I Own
2. Playing God
3. In the Face of Envy
4. Constancy
5. Of Sunlight and Pale Skin
6. Great Procrastinations
7. Rock n Roll Hero
8. Last Show

9. Flowers For Lily (bonus track
10. Stoneheart (bonus secret track)

Something Old

Something Old - Full LP inc. bonus & secret tracks

Something True’ will be the tenth online-only, ‘digital-vinyl’ release from eclectic Australian art-musician Jimmy Sky.

The album features 11 hand-recorded tales told through the medium of song. Each track was crafted in a bedroom studio using Jimmy’s unique ‘C-Side’ recording style, purposefully mixing a single microphone, simple digital interface and old software. The result is a lo-fi, demo-esque sound bursting with a sense of live realism.

Previous record ‘Something Old’ was characterised by rock, metal, distortion and the unearthing of lost material, but ‘Something True’ speaks a different sonic language. Sustained mostly by acoustic guitar and piano, each composition swings between lush and minimalist musical themes. Songs such as ’12 and 37′ were written in free-flow, recorded immediately after, and the entire collection comprises newly created material.

Jimmy describes the record as ‘folk-punk’ in reference to the recording method as well as musical style. With influences reaching from Cohen to Bowie to Elton John and splashes of dub, punk and pop, ‘Something True’ draws on real events, using poetic devices to transform autobiographical anecdotes into emotional aural experiences. Each song is a journey, whether it’s pop-rock single ‘For Sara’ –  a tale of imagined childhood romance – or the downbeat, piano driven melancholia of ‘Knives’.

‘Something True’ is due out on December 2, 2017 – available through the usual online retailers and streaming services. To celebrate the release, Jimmy will perform on New Year’s Eve in Brisbane as part of Ear Candy #15, a local festival hosted by the New Globe Theatre. Music from Jimmy’s latest record, as well as previous releases, will also feature heavily on the soundtrack to ‘Tough Love’, an upcoming Australian arthouse drama presented by The Big Movie Company.

9 - Jewels On A Distant Past Horizon

8 - Suddenly Something

6 - I Hated Myself

5 - Girls In Violence

4 - For Sara

2 - Down In Old St Kilda

'The Last Song' is a single from upcoming album 'Something True’, the tenth online-only, ‘digital-vinyl’ release from eclectic Australian art-musician Jimmy Sky.

The album features 11 hand-recorded tales told through the medium of song. Each track was crafted in a bedroom studio using Jimmy’s unique ‘C-Side’ recording style, purposefully mixing a single microphone, simple digital interface and old software. The result is a lo-fi, demo-esque sound bursting with a sense of live realism.

'The Last Song' was written in 2017 while on holiday overlooking a waterfront. Put simply, this is a love song, an homage to lives lived and love lost. All writing, composition, performance, instrumentation and production by Jimmy Sky.



LYRICS:

You light up a smoke
I know what it means
When you pull it like that
You tell me it's better 
Than doing heroin or crack
So maybe I'm crazy
But I swear you're amazing
And my only religion
Is to die with a smile
In your arms

Cause I don't want to live here
Anymore
If it isn't with you

You didn't like the joke 
You somehow included
My soul in that
You promised me
Hell and  purgatory 
And back
I know I'm a child
I'm fragile and I'm wild
If I hear another word
About that other boy
I'll shatter in two

Cause I don't want to live here
Anymore
If it isn't with you
No I don't want to lie here
Anymore
If it isn't with you
Said I don't want to be here
Anymore
If it isn't with you
No I don't want to cry here
Anymore
If it isn't with you

Like a full moon
Like a full moon I'm unfair
Hiding my green-eyed stare
Honey I want to be here
But it's out of my hands
My heart just loves you
My heart's just ripping
Right out of my chest

It can't be helped
You said it yourself
The universe made
Two beautiful people
In incompatible trade
And I say it every time 
It's the last song I'll devise
But another one's bleeding
Like ink from my eyes

Cause I don't want to feel love
Anymore
If it isn't for you
And I don't want to feel pain
Anymore
If it isn't from you
No I don't want to breathe
No not at all
If it isn't with you
No I don't want to live here
Anymore
If it isn't with you

Something True

The Last Song

A new single from Jimmy Sky.

Film clip and recording both created in the lo fi indie tradition using Jimmy Sky's 'C Side' method.

Written, performed, sampled, recorded and mixed by Jimmy Sky
Mastered by LANDR 

Video shot on Sony Experia Camera Phone on location at Hartz Mountain, Tasmania
Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To8fVXyMmoU

(c) Copyright Jimmy Sky 2018
All rights reserved

Peanut Butter

A gloomy new folk-love song from Jimmy Sky. 
Recorded live with a 12 string acoustic guitar. 

Lyrics:
So compulsive how we pick up the phone
Like it's doom we could send
A blackened dull sky
The moon is a twinkling star
Distant when it should be my friend
Some crazy old man 
Through your looking-glass
Walking away from a screen
An anxious new world
Pushing at numbers and dreaming
What we might have been

You wouldn't answer
Please be my wife
You'd never answer
I wasted my life

Come, come to your window my beating heart
Put your lips to this wine
Hell was a place
Responding to fun-size and serial pictures online
Our radiant history 
Littered with dynamite digital crime
Maybe we'd laugh 
Helpless and blissful
In love on a human timeline

If you'd only answer
Like courage in flight
If you'd only answer
My voice in the night
Lover please answer
Turn on the light
Darling please answer
Or maybe just write

Copyright Jimmy Sky 2018

Voices

'Creepy Lulu' is a melancholic folk song featuring attractive layered harmonies and 12 string acoustic guitar picking. Fans of America or Bon Iver might enjoy this song. 

"I kept the paper the song was written on locked inside a little wooden box for a while, but eventually it demanded to come out. The song and I came to an agreement regarding what it would be about, then recorded it in my bedroom studio together. We hope you enjoy listening to the story of Creepy Lulu."
~Jimmy 
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LYRICS:

If this body isn't to your liking
I will wait until a better life comes asking
If that's all you give that's all I get

I will act like I don't care
For a hundred or so years
Go on 
Call me creepy
If you need to
Call me creepy

If this soul just isn't built for your beliefs
If I get nothing at all that is what's meant to be
Swallow your rejection no need to fear

I still act like I don't care
For a billion or so years

Honey 
Call me creepy
If you need to 
Call me creepy
Write you letters 
Call me creepy
Love forever
Call me creepy

And if you never bother
If you out me to the others
Well it was fucking worth it
Oh it was fucking worth it

So
Call me, creepy 
If you need to 
Call me, creepy
Love forever
Call me, creepy
Write you letters
Call me, creepy
Will you ever love me
Call me, creepy
I'll die in heaven
Call me, creepy
.
.
.
Lyrics and Music by Jimmy Sky
Recording and Mixing by Jimmy Sky
Mastered with LANDR
Cover Art by Jimmy Sky
Copyright James Trevor Sky and Incan Mayan Media 2018

Something New

Creepy Lulu

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