DIVE INDEX - Life On The Wire (Featuring Mark Gardener & Cat Martino)

This is for all the ladies to record their contributions to the Goddess Video.

1:Play this from another device like a laptop or someone else's phone

2: Please film yourself in PORTRAIT MODE on your phone dancing, grooving, lip syncing(miming) along however the song makes you feel. Being the Goddess you are!!

3: Email it to goddessvideos4cherley@gmail.com by MIDNIGHT MARCH 25th 2024 Include your name and location in the world if you're ok with that
This song is being released April 5th 2024       LYRICS ARE BELOW

GODDESS
Words and Music by Cherley Kane

I am Goddess oh yeah
I am Goddess oh yeah
VERSE 1
Be it do it light up the dark
Blaze it trail it making my mark
Taste it change it rewrite the part
Won’t let anyone steal my spark
Touch it tame it nothing can stop
Me from sailing right to the top
Embrace myself I am the star
It’s overdue now for me to heal those scars
CHORUS
I am Goddess 
Even when I don’t feel I am a
Goddess inside outside no matter what I look like
I am woman teacher mother and healer
Placing deals on the table or when I'm rocking the cradle of life


I am Goddess oh yeah
I am Goddess oh yeah

VERSE 2
Even in my dowdiest clothes 
I am empress down to my toes
Won’t let life grind me to the bone
I'm a soul star honey now strike my pose
Breathing easy in my skin
Is the way that I can begin
To get the most out of my life 
Raise your head up momma you’re dynamite


BRIDGE
When I’m having a bad day
I look in the mirror this is what I say
Don’t let a wrinkle on your face
Or any worries about your weight
Try and take away your faith in who you are 
Let’s celebrate
Come on sisters let me hear you say
You’re proud of who you are in every way
Come on sisters time to seize the day
Wanna hear you say


CHORUS
I am Goddess 
Even when I don’t feel I am a
Goddess inside outside no matter what I look like
I am woman teacher mother and healer
Placing deals on the table or when I'm rocking the cradle of life

I wanna hear you say
I am Goddess
Even when I don’t feel I am a
Goddess inside outside no matter what I look like
I am woman teacher mother and healer
Placing deals on the table or when I'm rocking the cradle of life

Goddess

Me playing Beethoven's moonlight sonata in the wrong key. Learned it as a child like that and it became a habit. Hope you enjoy something more creative than a potato! x

Eveshka Ghost - Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)

Features vocals by Mark Gardener (from Ride)

04 Love Like Ghosts (feat. Mark Gardener)

Improvisation to test the tape recorder. There are several like this. Right channel is a bit broken, but hiss was a lot worse before EQ.
(c) Eveshka Ghost 2019

Piano Improvisation on reel-to-reel & 1925 Römhildt Weimar

You could say your love blows strong than a gale
You could say your heart will never, ever fail
But do you really need to quantify?
Is that what you'd want if I were to try to weigh a whale without a scale?

You could say your love it weighs a thousand tonnes
You could say it's hotter than a million suns
Do you really need to analyse?
Love is love, it has no size
It's like trying to weigh a whale without a scale

You could say your love is braver than a lion
Or say your love is mightier than mine
But don't try to hard to classify
You'd think I were an ass if I
Were to try to weigh a whale without a scale

And even if it doesn't make much sense
hold on, enjoy the ride let's get a chance to taste it
And even if nobody understands, close your eyes 
And you can hold my hand, no time to waste it
Don't need to measure up give it a size
Judge distance, or whether it's wrong or right, you just embrace it
Don't weigh a whale without a scale
Just trust the way it makes you feel, intoxicated

Why do we ever play this game?
Why do we ever play this game?
Why do we always play this game?

How To Weigh A Whale Without A Scale

UK singer-songwriter Léanie Kaleido has announced she will be releasing a new album, entitled 'How To Weigh A Whale Without A Scale', produced by RIDE frontman Mark Gardener at his OX4 Sound Studio near Oxford.

No stranger to music, Kaleido grew up in a musical household. Her father Top Topham was the original lead guitarist in The Yardbirds and was signed to Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon record label as a solo artist.

On this long-play, Kaleido plays lyrically astute, laid-back pop, piano-based ballads with the odd quirky guitar ditty thrown in, showcasing Léanie’s eccentric look at life. This new release will thrill Léanie’s existing fans, giving them lashings of melancholia, but peppered with that ever-present tongue-in-cheek commentary that tells you she never has and never will take herself – or anyone else - seriously.

But this third album also cements her as a consistently accomplished songwriter, unbound by the notion of what is ‘cool’ as she sits back and enjoys the thrill of writing unabashedly from my heart and soul.

Léanie, who grew up ‘snogging my posters of Ride and wanting to be PJ Harvey, has, over time, settled into the acceptance that her songs just come out the way they do. "Not especially cool", she says, but lyrically she's proud of what comes out.

Kaleido's 50th year went off with a bang thanks to Gardener's open-armed invitation to record at his Oxford studio. After four or five sessions throughout the less locked-down parts of 2020, and ten songs later, an album was born.

"The songs on this album represent the highs and lows I’ve encountered over the past few years, how I’ve dealt with them and what I’ve learnt through the process. It’s a mixture of love, regret, philosophies, humour and hope. I’ve always been a late developer, and so this to me feels like a coming-of-age album," says Léanie Kaleido.

"Mark Gardener was determined to make my vocals and lyrics 'the stars of the show' and this has steered my sound to something more stripped back and atmospheric. Mark is a top bloke. He made me feel at ease straight away. The anxiety tablets I’d taken with me to stop myself exploding with fear weren’t needed and we got on famously from the start. It was such a laugh recording with someone who once had been the target of my ‘dribbly poster snogs’ and now is just a really good mate who knows what works best for my songs."

Nobody's Hero

My hands are small
And your troubles so big, but I can still hold them all if you need
And my head is wild
But my heart is strong, I'll be here by your side when you bleed

You could say I'm a terrible liar but I'll show you somehow
This skin hides a lion within and I'm stronger, stronger now

Put your hands up against mine baby
I'll show you all the things that I'm made of
Of what I'm not afraid of

Take your sugar and spice 'cause that's crazy
No words to describe what it took to make me
Put your hands against mine, put your hands again mine

It's not trivial
If it's breaking you apart then to me it's a war I will fight
So don't build a wall
You can take my hand
You're still a man, I'll teach you how to fall until you fly

You could say I'm a terrible liar but I'll show you somehow
This skin hides a lion within and I'm stronger, stronger now

Put your hands up against mine baby
I'll show you all the things that I'm made of
Of what I'm not afraid of

Take your sugar and spice 'cause that's crazy
No words to describe what it took to make me
Put your hands against mine, put your hands again mine

All The Things I'm Made Of

UK singer-songwriter Léanie Kaleido has announced she will be releasing a new album, entitled 'How To Weigh A Whale Without A Scale', produced by RIDE frontman Mark Gardener at his OX4 Sound Studio near Oxford. 

No stranger to music, Kaleido grew up in a musical household. Her father Top Topham was the original lead guitarist in The Yardbirds and was signed to Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon record label as a solo artist.

On this long-play, Kaleido plays lyrically astute, laid-back pop, piano-based ballads with the odd quirky guitar ditty thrown in, showcasing Léanie’s eccentric look at life. This new release will thrill Léanie’s existing fans, giving them lashings of melancholia, but peppered with that ever-present tongue-in-cheek commentary that tells you she never has and never will take herself – or anyone else - seriously.

But this third album also cements her as a consistently accomplished songwriter, unbound by the notion of what is ‘cool’ as she sits back and enjoys the thrill of writing unabashedly from my heart and soul.

Léanie, who grew up ‘snogging my posters of Ride and wanting to be PJ Harvey, has, over time, settled into the acceptance that her songs just come out the way they do. "Not especially cool", she says, but lyrically she's proud of what comes out.

Kaleido's 50th year went off with a bang thanks to Gardener's open-armed invitation to record at his Oxford studio. After four or five sessions throughout the less locked-down parts of 2020, and ten songs later, an album was born.

"The songs on this album represent the highs and lows I’ve encountered over the past few years, how I’ve dealt with them and what I’ve learnt through the process. It’s a mixture of love, regret, philosophies, humour and hope. I’ve always been a late developer, and so this to me feels like a coming-of-age album," says Léanie Kaleido.

"Mark Gardener was determined to make my vocals and lyrics 'the stars of the show' and this has steered my sound to something more stripped back and atmospheric. Mark is a top bloke. He made me feel at ease straight away. The anxiety tablets I’d taken with me to stop myself exploding with fear weren’t needed and we got on famously from the start. It was such a laugh recording with someone who once had been the target of my ‘dribbly poster snogs’ and now is just a really good mate who knows what works best for my songs."

Someone's Daughter

Recorded, Mixed, Produced by Mark Gardener @ www.ox4sound.co.uk. Mastered by Tim Turan www.Turanaudio.co.uk    Jan / Feb 2020

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