Oh you're such a middle child
Always tryna keep the room calm
But inside you're a hail storm

I can't imagine how it feels
Going back home to your father
Saying "Dad I'm still your daughter"
But he can't meet your gaze

So you leave in the dead of night
With a heavy dose of insight
Well you look perfect in the diner light
You look perfect in the diner light 

You've been heavy since a child
Always carrying their feelings
No space for you anymore

They'll never see you as you are
They need the pain to just be over
He says "you look just like your mother"
He just can't let her go

So you leave in the dead of night
We get hungry off the turnpike
Well you look perfect in the diner light
I think you're perfect in the diner light

Diner

Volcano Choir "Comrade" (All Tiny Creatures Remix)

Jealousy

Released 28th October 2022
Buy/stream: https://LateNightTales.lnk.to/withoutstarorcompass

Kennebec is the critically acclaimed musical outlet of Eric Phillips, a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist living in Portland, Oregon. Drawing from an eclectic array of influences to create his own unique style of cinematic electronic music, he is set to release his sophomore album ‘Without Star or Compass’ on the 28th October via Night Times Stories, the sister label to LateNightTales. 

Releasing his debut album ‘Departure’ at the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, ‘Without Star or Compass’ was written and recorded during a phase in Phillips’ life which allowed him to re-examine his motivations. “The first primary influence for this record is that, more so than ‘Departure’, I wanted to write this record for my friends and others rather than for myself. Maybe it's also a product of maturing, but I wanted the music to communicate more clearly to others, and be less of an exercise of some kind for myself.” 

From the subtle electronica of ‘Leaving The Canyons’ featuring the distinctive vocals of Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring, the expanding electronic beats of ‘Tall Tales’ featuring Hemlock Ernst (the rap moniker of Samuel T. Herring) and US singer Sudan Archives, to the effortlessly cast rhythms of ‘The Great Divide’ featuring Yazz Ahmed on horns, Phillips set out to make an album which was more direct with sparser arrangements and distinct melodies, while still maintaining the eclectic and creative nature of his debut. “I think if I were a writer, my words would be all setting and very little narrative. I'm really trying to evoke a sense of place and motion and journey and environment but the facts of the story are left vague.” 

On working with Herring, Phillips adds, “I think our styles just resonated well with one another, and we clicked naturally. We sent some ideas back and forth remotely and then he flew out to Portland and we recorded all the vocals in three days together. It was so fun and inspiring - and really deepened my appreciation for his craft. He's such a nice guy and a total genius. Sam's lyrics really hit a beautiful balance between that sense of magic and folklore in the natural world that I'm after, while really bringing his own sense of narrative. He's really amazing at constructing lyrical concepts in a way that I think compliments my own strengths (and weaknesses).” 

Throughout ‘Without Star or Compass’, Phillips masterfully creates an evocative sense of place and motion in a cinematic way, in part due to his love of soundtrack music, a heavy influence on the album. ‘Castalay's Fountain’ was inspired by classic JRPG music such as ‘Zelda’, ‘Chrono Trigger’ and ‘Final Fantasy’, while instrumental tracks ‘Friendship song’, ‘The Great Divide’ and ‘Calyptra’ are rich in cinematic grandeur.  

In addition to the Kennebec project, Phillips has composed the music for numerous feature films, documentaries, podcasts and games. In 2020, alongside Mark Orton (of Tin Hat Trio) and John Hancock, Phillips co-composed the soundtrack to 'Wind of Change', a podcast created by New York Times Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe and produced by Spotify, recorded the Moscow Bowtie Orchestra for the feature-length film ‘12 Mighty Orphans’ starring Luke Wilson, Robert Duvall and Martin Sheen and scored Northfork Studios documentary ‘Chehalis: A Watershed Moment.'
 
Running since 2013, 'Night Time Stories’, the sister label to LateNightTales, is a platform for original artist material, hosting artists connected by a common thread of authenticity. 

#Kennebec #NightTimeStories #LateNightTales

Kennebec - Open Air Feat. Samuel T. Herring

When We Meet Again

Hesper

http://n5md.com/discography/246/Mutogibito

Dalot - Lift

SUDDEN LOVE 



V1 
My heart is still here 
Sometimes it disappears 
Buried underneath the years 
Bottled in fear 
And when your sudden love appears 
I find I’m nowhere near 
Hidden deep and dark unclear 
The number of tears 


V2 
My heart is saving its thoughts 
Up for the sidewalks 
And pockets are lonely with no one to talk 
Over the walls 
My feet have faltered and hands are distraught 
Holding a heavy plot 
As my heart reaches the door that it locked 
I feel what’s been lost 



CH 
And the hardest part this time 
Is knowing you might be right 
And the hardest heart inside 
Is hoping you might be mine 


V3 
Slowly my loneliness opens its eyes 
Issues an alibi 
There inside your hand where it tries 
To push back aside 
When the quiet speaks and we tremble inside 
Feeble hearts revive 
I can’t explain though I will not deny 
What happened tonight 


CH 
And the hardest part this time 
Is knowing you might be right 
And the hardest heart inside 
Is hoping you might be mine (2x)

Sudden Love (Acoustic)

From the album Modern Country, out June 3, 2016 on Merge Records.

Modern Country

William Tyler "Kingdom of Jones"

Sonic Adventure Project - Waters In Motion

The fourth single from our upcoming album, Songs from the West Coast.

Written & produced by Freedom Fry.

When We Meet Again

J.R Alexander