Recent review in Womancake by Celia Chavez said it best: 	

When you need a mansplaining antidote: Libby Lavella’s “Fire and Gasoline” 

This Aussie firebrand wrote “Fire and Gasoline” about her recent experience in academia as a re-entry mature age student. It’s a delicious dose of frustration-fueled determination. You can feel the mansplain(s) that must have been the catalyst for this song. Lavella’s voice pierces the sizzling bluesy-rock arrangement to make her thoughts loud and clear while powerfully and lyrically dispelling the myth of midlife invisibility. Encourage the gift recipient to play this in their car after work meetings or any other vexing events in your life.

Fire & Gasoline

Heavy - The Amber

Roy Orbison's Crying from my Live At Largo album. Tim Young is playing guitar. This is was an impromptu song that we decided to do a minute before the start of the show. It turned out alright. 

Crying - Live At Largo

Here's a song I wrote called I Live In Hope from Sometime In Morning. I'm quite proud of the vocal arrangement and the singers that sang it. This song features on backing vocals Joan Jones, Shelly O'Neill, Selwyn, Sharon and Ro Chambeaux. 

I Live In Hope

This song was written for the characters SOPHIE and JOSH, from Michael Scott's 'The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel' series on Random House.  In the series the two twins discover their auras and begin to have their powers unleashed, a distance starts to creep in between them. The feelings Josh has in the book when Sophie is awakened, paralleled with the feelings Sophie is having about being awakened, create a situation that can only occur in a relationship that is very close. As with love, one can also feel hate more easily in that same relationship. The two are completely intertwined.

© written by Antonio Gambale, Libby Lavella(Mixolibbyan Music (BMI/APRA-AMCOS), Antonio Gambale Music (APRA-AMCOS))

This Way Forever - Jumeaux

This song was written for Josh Newman from The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott. There’s an energy and a pace to Josh's awakening that is a reflection of JOSH’s energy as a character. It’s not just some kind of simple transformation where hey presto, you suddenly go from being an ordinary person to being some kind of superhero like in comic books, shows like Heroes or movies like X-Men. In the Flamel books, the description of exactly how this transformation happens is so much richer and so much more tantalizing. He writes, "The modern world has dulled us, deafened us, blinded us, so that we’re no longer able to see or feel the truth of what’s around us, nor tap in to the true power inside us all."  The repeated looping lyrics “I can’t stop thinking it, I can’t stop feeling it” – they were really inspired by this sensation, the rush of the awakening.

© written by Antonio Gambale, Libby Lavella(Mixolibbyan Music (BMI/APRA-AMCOS), Antonio Gambale Music (APRA-AMCOS))

Find The Words - Jumeaux

Theme song for Scatach from 'The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel'  It’s time. It broke our hearts when Aoife, (her sister) went flying into that leygate. Follow was written with Jess Woodward.  She is pretty much a warrior rock pop princess and it made sense to work with her on Scatach's theme song.

© written by Antonio Gambale, Libby Lavella & Jes Woodward(Mixolibbyan Music (BMI/APRA-AMCOS), Antonio Gambale Music (APRA-AMCOS), Jess Woodward (ASCAP))

Follow - Jumeaux

From the forthcoming RLLS EP 'Point Reyes'. Just Not Like Me dives into the idea that we all have a dark side that can be nudged out of hiding when the wrong person triggers us in just the right way. 

JNLM written by Libby Lavella (Mixolibbyan Music BMI) and Jes Woodward ©BMI/ASCAP 2020

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