First track from Madeline's forthcoming album OCULUS DECK -- 
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Madeline Tasquin - vocals lyrics & song
Daniel Wright - bass guitar & drums
Mateo Lugo (@MateoLugo) - guitar 
Production: Daniel Wright & Madeline Tasquin 
Mixing: Jeremy Black at Coyote Hearing Studios in Oakland 

Artwork is from a piece of album artwork in progress by Tess Keller, manipulation/layout by Madeline Tasquin.

Recording in progress in Oakland & Berkeley, CA!!

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A Little Free Love

Piano, guitar, voice, composition & production: Madeline Tasquin -- Created in my garage in Albany CA in October 2015 -- released Oct 31 (Patreon exclusive) 
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LYRICS-->

Somewhere over my rainbows
there is a chest of gold I keep hidden from view.
Days pass; moments curated...
oh what will they rate them,
staring in the palm of their hands?

The Silence is Shouting and I cannot hear
with all of this chatter echoing in my ears
I turn it all off...

The Silence is singing and I cannot hear
with all of this chatter echoing in my ears
I turn it all off and it all becomes clear

And all of my friends miss me, and I miss you too...
here togetherfully alone in our separate rooms, watching the daily news.
How are you, truly, my old friend? I don't want to regret in the end...

(Waltz of the) Togetherfully Alone

Featured on Mouca Records "The Scott Summers' Late Summer Mixtape" here: bit.ly/moucamix
lyrics
Savin all your honey 
For a rainy day 
All your doggon money 
Don't you let it slip away 

Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo 

Life is kinda funny 
Sometimes I wanna run away 
Run into the river 
Let it carry me away 

Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo 

Don't Should Yourself so constantly 
Don't be afraid, follow your heart 
Some call it God, some call it intuition, 
That thing that speaks to you when you listen 
That still small voice behind the noise, whispering 
"Listen to your beating heart" 

Amaranth and honey 
Laying in the sun all day 
Life is kind of funny 
Don't you let it slip away 

Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo 
Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh
credits
from Future Telephone, released November 7, 2017 
Vocals, guitar, piano & lyrics: Madeline Tasquin Streicek 
Synths & production: Felix Petit 
Bass: Jérémi Roy 
Drums & percussion: William Côté 

Recorded & mixed by Jean-Bruno Pinord at Dondepiano & Planet Studios 
Mastered by Ryan Morey 

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Future Telephone

Don't Should Yourself

02 Agua Es Vida

The first single from Madeline Tasquin's new EP of the same name, "Future Telephone" is a lament to modern day (mis)communication and the loss of nuance to pixelation.

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Produced by Félix Petit 
Madeline Tasquin: songwriting, vocals, guitar, piano
Félix Petit: deep sax, deep synth, deep voice
Jérémi Roy: bass
William Côté: drums

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...but the message became muddled somewhere out passing by the moon,
and all their words
were lost in pixelation...

CREDITS •••
Produced by Félix Petit 
Songwriting, vocals, guitar, piano: Madeline Tasquin Streicek
Sax, synth, vocals: Félix Petit
Bass: Jérémi Roy
Drums & percussion: William Côté
Recorded & mixed by JB Pinord at Dondepiano & Planet Studios in Montreal
Mastered by Ryan Morey
Album artwork by Marlene Brando (Marie-Helene Coutu) & Madeline Tasquin

Fil Bleu (to be cont'd...)

La rivière t'appelle ... We are a mighty wave 
Suis-la tu verras ... We are a mighty wave

Inspired by the water protectors at Standing Rock and the world over.

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
― Lao Tzu

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credits
from Future Telephone, released November 7, 2017 
Vocals, guitar, piano, music & lyrics: Madeline Tasquin Streicek 
Synths & production: Felix Petit 
Bass: Jérémi Roy 
Drums & percussion: William Côté 

Recorded & mixed by Jean-Bruno Pinord at Dondepiano & Planet Studios 
Mastered by Ryan Morey 

Powered by the Dondepiano Collective, Montreal QC

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Agua es Vida

I wrote the verses & chorus in May 2018 after one morning, high on love-drugs after falling in weekend-love at a festival, I cracked an egg into the compost bin and proceeded to put the shells in the frying pan. Yes yes, I was in total La La love land. But as can be expected from a festival love affair, just a few weeks later the castles I'd built in my imagination started to crumble and turn into compost themselves. And from that compost grew the bittersweet bridge to complete the song's story. 

So here's a bittersweet love song dedicated to everyone out there who falls in love too easily or lets their imaginations get the better of them from time to time. 

The first release with my Sarabande sisters Shiloh Parkerson & Hannah Levy's gorgeous voices intermingling with mine - YAY! 
♡♡♡ Heartfelt thanks to my Patreon supporters for making it and others possible ♡♡♡ 

Factoid. I wrote the opening melody as part of my "Melody-a-Day Mission" for the month of May 2017. This one was inspired by "Dream" by Everly Brothers.
lyrics
I've been bumpin into things 
like they talk about in old love songs. 
Every since you tuned my heart strings as high as they can go, 
I have been 
dizzy.... 



Feel like I've been drinkin alcohol. 
And I know it makes no sense at all. 
What is this powerful chemical, coursing through my veins, 
makin me 
dizzy. 

I want you 
to hold me tight 
all through 
the end of time 
I know I've drunk 
a little too much of you 

I know I've fallen much too far too soon, again. 
I've built another castle on the Moon. 
And the arches are crumbling, and red flags line the halls. 
But I ignore that all, cuz 
oo this drug is strong. 
And when I am on it I can pretend nothing's wrong so 
until this spell is spent 
and our castle turns to ruins 
I'll be here 
dizzy 
on the Moon, 

dreamin up a whole damn life. 
I'm even dreamin I could be your wife. 
Dreamin is all I can do, without you... 
dreamin til I'm 
dizzy. 

I want you 
to hold me tight 
all through 
the end of time 
I know I've drunk 
a little too much of you
credits
released July 1, 2019 
• Back vox are my #sarabandeband sisters, HANNAH LEVY & SHILOH PARKERSON 
• Drums LIBBY CUFFIE 
• Everything else MADELINE TASQUIN 

Guitars recorded by Zach Giberson (Little Arcs Studios) 
Other things recorded from bedrooms in Oakland & Montreal 
Mixed by Alex Miller Audio 
Mastered by Ryan Morey Mastering 

Photograph in background on cover art: Véronique Bérubé 

THANKS 
to all my sweet creatures on Patreon for making this and other tracks possible

Dizzy

The FIRST musical contraption of my January 2013 "Song-or-Something A Day" challenge to myself. Stay tuned all month at www.manamaddy.com

About today's entry:
I've been playing a lot of gospel lately, hence the chord progression. For lyrics, I opened an old journal to a random page and got this entry from Oct 13 2011:
"Can't get no sleep honey,
Chewing on a piece of my own mind.
Can't get no peace,
can't find the rewind."

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson



Madeline Tasquin Song-a-Day Project 2013 (DAY 1: Too Much)

The 5th entry for my January 2013 "Song-or-Something A Day" challenge to myself. Stay tuned all month at www.manamaddy.com

About today's entry:
January 5, 2013. I saw The Soft White Sixties & Whiskerman play last night and was thoroughly inspired to write some kind of r&b/pop/doo-wop something-something to which someone someday could dance sexy to. I got home at 2am from Oakland and enjoyed a caffeine-dance-and-flirting fueled writing session in which these words and a whole bunch of others surfaced...
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I want to go blues dancing with you
Get low on the quick ones and sway on the slow ones
I can dance and baby by the way you hold your chest you can too
Oh I want to play chess in the morning with you
yes we'll sip our coffee on my front porch in the sun under the jasmine
I might even let you win a game or two
And then I'll make love to you
I've been loving for some time now, My hands now how to listen and tell you how I like it-and baby I will kiss ya just where you like me to
(Bridge)
I don't want to own you
Or patrol you or keep or control you
But I do want to be your contact in case of emergency
I want to have my solitude away from you
I want to wonder where you are
and hope that we are both somewhere doing
just what the Good Lord put us here to do
I want to watch Star Trek the next Generation with you
Cozy up when the rain comes Spend time with the vulcans
and laugh and Data's jokes as you touch me so damn good
I want to sing old country songs with you
You take the melody and I'll take the top
We'll feel our voices rise and drop in perfect harmony
(Bridge)
No I ain't no perfect ten I know
but baby I'm beautiful
Just give me a chance
to get over the nervousness I feel
whenever I'm around you
(Coda)
I'm loving you right now
For now if not forever
I want spend just enough time together
To hold onto the wonder
(Don't hold on too tight to)
the wonder

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

DAY 5: The Wonder

"Intensely musical and endlessly creative, Tasquin’s music is ebullient in both senses of the word: full of lighthearted energy and yet also boiling as if stewing its deeper meaning." -The Bay Bridged

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