Lyrix Organix: Volume Two charity album. 50% of profits from this album donated to Medecins Sans Frontieres/MSF. With support from Defcon Records. Available from Bandcamp: http://lyrixorganix.bandcamp.com/album/lyrix-organix-volume-two

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10 October 2023 - single release: ‘Wherever I Lay My Home’
22 November 2023 - album release

A collaboration between the groundbreaking Museum of Homelessness and acclaimed poet Surfing Sofas, ‘Objects and Concepts’ is a vital concept album that tells the invisible stories of UK’s homeless community; produced by acclaimed musicians including Renell Shaw (Ivor Novello Award-winning bassist of chart-toppers Rudimental) and Camilo Tirado (Nithin Sawhney, James Holden), in partnership with Lyrix Organix (Glastonbury Festival).

In 2015 Museum of Homelessness launched a national collection and archive for homelessness. The collection includes many donated objects from people who are or have been homeless, collected with an oral testimony. It includes personal effects, ephemera, signs, art, and important possessions that reveal the hidden daily lives and untold stories of people affected by homelessness and those working for social change.

This album tells those stories of homelessness
A symbol of hope at a timely moment.

Help us tackle stigma and raise awareness about
the creativity, survival skills and resilience
of people in society on the sharp edge of inequality.

Through poetry, music and archive recordings, Surfing Sofas has woven a tapestry out of museum objects - nine tracks through the lens of nine objects - into a profound yet hopeful album that holds a mirror up to society on the housing crisis in the UK.

In an era of self-proclaimed ‘changemakers’ where everyone seems to have a story to tell of personal transformation, Surfing Sofas is a rare, authentic, unmistakable voice of power. This is a poet and community artist whose painful lived experience of homelessness has afforded him a very personal insight. His distinctive gravelly tones combine moving, occasionally humorous, poetry with a dynamic soundtrack that journeys through Hip Hop beats, piano melodies and Dub basslines. The album has echoes of George The Poet’s reportage style, Leonard Cohen’s unmistakable baritone/bass and Loyle Carner’s honest lyricism.

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10 Till The Day We Meet Again - Surfing Sofas

09 Wherever I Lay My Home - Surfing Sofas

08 Warm Tears Of Hope - Surfing Sofas

07 Little Amber Strings - Surfing Sofas

06 Flossing Teeth With Hair - Surfing Sofas

05 Not Today - Surfing Sofas

04 The Brigadiers Redemption - Surfing Sofas

03 The Hostile Paper - Surfing Sofas

02 The Waterproof Poncho - Surfing Sofas

01 Welcome Intro - Surfing Sofas

Written and performed by Sophia Thakur 

Composed and performed by London String Collective, Tim Doyle & Camilo Tirado 

Violin - Tanya Cracknell 
Viola - Abigail Dance 
Cello - Jay Jenkinson 
Electronics, tabla & percussion - Camilo Tirado 
Drums - Tim Doyle 

Mixed and mastered by Camilo Tirado 
Recorded at One Louder Studios, Hackney 

Artwork - Joanna Layla 

Creative Director - Dan Tsu

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