The Strokes- Call It Fate, Call it Karma (slowed)

Asleep

an old reference track/demo i didn't get around to finishing.

If You're Unhappy

Mazzy Star - Look On Down From The Bridge (original)

Elliott Smith - Between the Bars

Radiohead - Sail To The Moon

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

Julian Casablancas (The Strokes)
Call It Fate Call It Karma

Comedown Machine

Julian Casablancas (The Strokes) Call It Fate Call It Karma

To all of you, American girls, it’s sad to
Imagine a world without you
American girls I’d like to
Be part of the world around you
Driving a car by the seaside
Watching the world from the bright side, yeah
To all of you, American girls in the movies
No one can tell where your heart is
American girls like dollies
With shiny smiles and plastic bodies
I wish I had an American girlfriend…
I cry sometimes walking around my own place
Wondering why she cries sometimes
Talking about her own place
Somewhere around the mountains
No one could dry her fountain
Till she got tired to complain
That’s when I fly to the wildland, to your land

Zaycev.Net

Syd Matters – To All of You

these days - nico

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Acclaimed American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick is set to release his new solo album Blackberry on 28th August via Erased Tapes. This is a digital surprise release with the physical release following on October 30. Blackberry is Peter’s first vocal album in five years, since 2015’s Colours of the Night. The entire album was recorded in Peter’s bedroom in London during the summer of 2019, hence Peter’s description of it as “Experimental-Bedroom-Folk-Pop”. All instrumentation is by Peter with additional vocals on the last track by his wife, singer Brigid Mae Power, and his stepson, Seán Power. 

The subject matter of Blackberry is wide-ranging. He touches on family and on the connection we all need as social animals. He writes about technology and whether it will save or doom us. And of course, he writes about nature, about foraging, about the importance of engaging with the outside world in cities and in the country. Peter and his family recently returned to Co. Galway as they have a great love for the Irish countryside, having lived there before their move to London in 2019.

Peter explains the idea behind the album and its name, saying: “It is with all seriousness and great reverence that this album is named Blackberry. In a time when us humans are coming face to face with the impact of our actions on the environment at large, I strongly advocate for engaging with our local landscapes. When I first became obsessed with foraging edible wild plants a few years back, I wasn’t particularly excited about the humble blackberry, but I would soon return with great passion to this familiar fruit of my youth. Even in our most urban environments, the gnarled and resilient blackberry vines continue to weave themselves throughout, as if to keep reminding us where we come from.”

Peter Broderick is perhaps most well known as a live member of Efterklang, the Danish indie-rock group with whom he played from 2007-2013. In recent years he’s been kept busy working on the archives of Arthur Russell, being hired to perform audio restoration, editing and mixing for the latest posthumous release by the cult icon. Peter has also released over twenty solo recordings in the last thirteen years, as well as composed music for film and dance, most recently the multi-award winning animated film Two Balloons. Not wanting his creativity to be reined in by any one genre, Peter has explored gospel and soul, spoken word and beat boxing, through to folk and rock and classical. He thrives on constant experimentation and collaboration with like-minded creators. Early 2020 saw him performing in the band of Tim Burgess (Charlatans), whose latest chart topping solo album features Broderick on violin.

The first vocal line on Blackberry is “You can only be as happy as the world that you live in…” — a sentiment that all of us can relate to as we struggle with climate change, with a global pandemic and resulting lockdown, with an uncertainty about the future that the modern world generates in us all. But as musicians like Peter soundtrack these turbulent times, they provide us with a lifeline, a way of looking at the world that is hopeful and full of wonder.

“Richly honest folk” ★★★★ — The Irish Times

“It is absolutely exquisite” — Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC 6 Music

Tracklist:

1. Stop And Listen
2. But
3. What Happened To Your Heart
4. The Niece
5. Ode To Blackberry
6. Let It Go
7. What’s Wrong With A Straight Up Love Song
8. Wild Food

Peter is on Twitter @BroPeterick
www.peterbroderick.net
www.erasedtapes.com

Blackberry

Let It Go

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Peter Broderick - Let It Go

Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

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