"Sudden Reach from the Inner World" from Luka Kuplowsky is out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. (World, ex-Canada) & Next Door Records (Canada). Stream/save/share here: mamabird.lnk.to/mb064

/// Credits:

Written by Luka Kuplowsky
Recorded at Aytche Studio
Engineered & Mixed by Christopher Shannon & Nathan Vanderwielen
Mastered by Heather Kirby (Dreamlands Mastering)
Artwork by Win-Keenan Kuplowsky

/// Players:

Luka Kuplowsky - Voice, Synth 
Jason Bhattachyara - Drums, Percussion
Thom Gill - Electric Guitar, Wurlitzer
Josh Cole - Bass
Felicity Williams - Voice

/// Lyrics:

Your love felt unattended 
And mine an excess of desire
Why fight what is instant?
Why accept despair?

And so I bend to the force
Weakened by a heavy storm
Vulnerable and fragile
As intended by the lord

Sudden reach from the inner world sudden reach

Soft buzz of a summer day 
Compassion of a silent kind
Birds meet and disperse
They astound me every time
Sudden reach from the inner world sudden reach

Sudden Reach from the Inner World

Luka Kuplowsky - Sudden Reach from the Inner World

"Invisible Man" is the second single from Anna Tivel's 'Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)', an acoustic companion record to her 2022 album 'Outsiders'. The full album will be released August 18th on Mama Bird Recording Co. Stream/save/share it here: mamabird.lnk.to/MB065

/// Credits:

Written by Anna Tivel
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Jon Neufeld at Treehouse Studio
Cover Art by Chris Frisina 
Design by Vincent Bancheri

/// Players:

Anna Tivel: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Jon Neufeld: Acoustic Guitar

/// Lyrics:

Invisible man, you’re an asphalt dancer
Cinematic, backward talking fool
Don’t reach for my hand with your madman laughter
I am scared to become like you

I awoke, in the early morning, in my own apartment, up above
Where you stood, in a bed of flowers, telling no one real to shut up
Get out, get out, I don’t want you in my brain
A seed, of doubt, it gets planted anyway

Invisible man, you’re a radiator
Burning up the pavement in the dark
Don’t reach for my hand, I am not your neighbor
I am scared to be like you are

I got up, made a cup of coffee, got my shoes and car keys and I left
To my job, down the elevator, out the door where you were yelling
Get out, get out, you’re not welcome in my brain
A seed, of doubt, well it haunts me like a plague

Invisible man, you’re a tightrope walker
An obscene applauder in the street
Don’t reach for my hand, I am not your brother
You are not a thing like me

Invisible man, your electric laughter
Running addled circles on the loose
And the truth is that I’m just another madman
And I see myself in you

Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)

Invisible Man

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Anna Tivel - Invisible Man (Acoustic)

"Long Distance Healing" is the first single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://MamaBird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace & Clark Williams  
Recorded at Montrose Studios, Moongate & The Peach Tree
Mixed by Jake Davis
Engineered by Adrian Olsen, Kai Welch & James Wallace
Produced by James Wallace (Skyway Man)
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Vocals, Keyboards, Synths & Piano: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Kelly McFarling & Rebecca Marcyes
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Trombones: Matt Jefferson
Trumpet: Kai Welch

/// Lyrics:

Willow, sing for me
With shaky fever, stranger than a
Long gone harmony
Pulled from the edges of old mankind

Tell me the story
About the morning I was born
Don’t leave anything out
That I could cling onto

Left under your weeping lace
My legs gave out underneath me
Right now, the effort it takes just to raise my head
Mother, it’s more than I have in a day

Willow, scream for me
Open your wings wider than the sun
I’ve forgotten to fear the fire I was forged from

Wildflower pillow
Come see how weak I’ve become
Bring warmth to the cold moving shiver across my spine

Oh on the way to your dream embrace
My eyes start to deceive me
I pray to the faces in your floating leaves:
Show me what future remains

Daylight is breaking
Hear the bells’ chaotic ring
There’s a gun on my hip
I must be dreaming, I smile

Are you right here with me?
Is that your whisper in my skull?
The farther it came calmed the horror of changes in time

Go, I’ve already seen my fate bent through the light of your branches
Until my body releases and I drift away, I’ll cling to your canopy still
Into your canopy still
I cling to your canopy

“Old weeping willow, got cut down years ago
I would show you the way there, but the path is overgrown
That old weeping willow got cut down years ago!
I don’t know, but that thing you found might guide us home.”

Flight of the Long Distance Healer

Long Distance Healing

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Skyway Man - Long Distance Healing

"Dumb Hope" is from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', which is out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace
Recorded at Montrose Studios & Moongate
Engineered by Adrian Olsen & James Wallace
Mixed by Jake Davis
Produced by James Wallace
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Vocals: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Molly Sarlé
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Keyboards & Synths: James Wallace
Piano: James Wallace
Additional Percussion: Miles Lassi

/// Lyrics:

If ya got dumb hope at the beginning of your journey
If that’s you holding burning pieces of a funeral shroud
If you know that there’s no future, just a story biding time till found
I wanna show ya something now

If big man say he’s got your number but won’t take you under
And he bringing heavy weather, harder than when ya started out
That day you awoke facing your own shell, were you floating or lying on the ground?

Take a drive with me at dawn to peek at the fault line
To ease the wear upon our bloodline
To look at things we haven’t lost or found
When you stared into the doom through your teary, blurred eyes
And let the edges turn to shoreline
For a moment everything was whitewash and sound
Miles below us now

We are the ever-driving, never-arriving crowd
Hurried to a lonely outpost station, chasing ancient sound
We alone can see the glory of the nightmare lying on the ground

Is that the answer to the game just as sure as the tree grows?
Or maybe what the hell do we know?
Some folks say anything to break the silence down
I hold onto the doom ’cause you’re the one I must follow
And even if my hands were hollow
I’d still carry you through the wild shit I’ve found
Inches above the ground

Dumb Hope

Skyway Man - Dumb Hope

"Winds" is the third single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB069

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace
Engineered by Adrian Olsen, Kai Welch & James Wallace
Recorded at Montrose Studios, Moongate & The Peach Tree

/// Players:

Spoken Word: Dr. James Oliver Cyr 
Vocals: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Kelly McFarling & Rebecca Marcyes
Drums & Percussion: Pinson Chanselle 
Bass: Cameron Ralston
Electric Guitar: Alan Parker
Keyboards & Synths: James Wallace
Piano: James Wallace
Trombones: Matt Jefferson
Trumpet: Kai Welch

/// Lyrics:

CYR: I parked my van
I just wanted to walk into the good quiet of nature
And enjoy the beauty, the serenity of the moment
About 50 yards off the road
I came upon this huge grandfather Elk that was just lying there

I was already dying
There was nothing to see
When the winds came up
When the winds came up

I did what I was told to do:
Stare forward and run
When the winds came up
When the winds came up

And the glory of the nightmare
Written inside of an aurora borealis
Unwound from the casing of love
That came from your eyes
Like a century flood
When the winds came up

Broadcasted my station
No message returned
When the winds let up
When the winds let up

If you want, I could hold to you
If you ain’t already passed on
When the winds let up
When the winds let up

And the glory of the nightmare
Written inside of the day I buried Alice
Into the colored jetstream glove
At the end of flight
Under engine song
Oh the boredom!
When the winds let up

CYR: I don’t know what you know about the dimensional shift, “The New Golden Age”
The antlers were a gift from the spirit of Elk
To give me strength and endurance
During the times that are coming on this planet

In truth, I am scared to do
That which might change my heart
If the winds let up
If the winds let up

Always already dying
Never nothing to see

Winds

Skyway Man - Winds

"The Holding On" is the second single from Skyway Man's new album 'Flight of the Long Distance Healer', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. Order/save/share all here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB069

Watch the accompanying short film: https://youtu.be/eMlnFgnw-Dw

/// Credits:

Written by James Wallace 
Recorded at Skyline Studios & Moongate
Mixed by Jake Davis
Engineered by Miles Lassi & James Wallace
Produced by James Wallace
Mastered by Eric Broyhill
Single Art Painting by Steve R. Dodd
Single Art Layout  by Eric Loeffler

/// Players:

Spoken Word: Dr. James Oliver Cyr
Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards & Synths: James Wallace
Backing Vocals: Rebecca Marcyes
Drums: Sam Doores
Bass: Danny Vitali
Percussion: Miles Lassi

/// Lyrics:

CYR: I’ve been living in the wilds for 20 years now
Hardly speaking to anyone

How far did you stumble leaning on a ghost?
Now your eyes fix on the ceiling
Here comes a long lost feeling

Did drifting on turn from courage
To a wilder form of pleading?
Does the holding on keep you from healing?

Don’t ask why the time goes still
Don’t try to close the void wide open, child
I know you probably will
Make it last until

The old moonlight strikes your counter 
Slides down your window sill
Grabs hold of the lines on your hand uncurled
With light from the craters of a different world

Where husks of days wasted
Lay where the tide receded
When holding on kept you from healing

I’m trying hard, my friend
You know I don’t like feeling this for you
Burn off your selfish ends
Take off that shell inside your shell
And start receiving
You are now grieving
You’re the sound of one heart beating

The Holding On

Skyway Man - The Holding On

"Without Touching" is the third single from Nick Delffs' new album 'Transitional Phase', out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. More streaming and buying options here: https://MamaBird.lnk.to/MB073

/// Credits & Players:

Written by Nick Delffs
Engineered by Ryan Oxford
Mixed by Z.H. House

Nick Delffs - Vocals, Guitar, Percussion (Wood Block), Synths, Harmonica
Joe Plummer - Drums
Perry Pfister - Bass
Luke Wyland - Keys
Ali Clarys - Backing Vocals


/// Lyrics:

Decipher the text
Is this living?
How ya gonna reply?
When you can barely
Feel
Without touching

You're gonna lose your mind
If you don't try
You better make your move
Before it's too late

And I
Just wanna feel you
Without
Even touching
Oh yeah
What a feeling
That you give me

Sitting at the top
Of a mountain
You got it right this time
And you've got your whole life
To try to make sense
Out of it

And you can always feel me
Without even touching
Oh yeah
What a feeling
That you give me

You were born a man
And you know that I will understand
You will always be inside of me
You were born a man
And you know that I will understand
You will always be inside of me
You will always be inside of me
You will always be inside of me

You have all the love
You have all my love
You have all the love
You have all my love

You have all the love
You have all my love
You have all the love
You have all my love

Transitional Phaseq

Without Touching

Nick Delffs - Without Touching

Haley Heynderickx's "Seed of a Seed" is the title track from her forthcoming album, due out November 1st, 2024 on Mama Bird Recording Co. Watch the music video + more streaming and pre-order options here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB066

/// Track Credits & Players:

Written by Haley Heynderickx
Engineered & Mixed by Karl Kling
Produced by Andrew Stonestreet
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering
Recorded at Cooper Mountain Sound & Karl Kling’s House
.
Haley Heynderickx: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
William Seiji Marsh: Tenor Guitar
Caleigh Drane: Cello + String Arrangement
Matthew Holmes: Double Bass

/// Lyrics:

If we don't know better
If we don't know better
Well, did my parents know better?
No, but they tried

Cause we all need
A sense of lore sometimes
Like I need
A silent mind
In a consumer flood

And if I'm lucky
Maybe a glass of wine
And if I'm lucky
Maybe a hand next to mine

No
If we don't know
Better, no, will we try?

If I get lucky
Maybe a simple life
If I get lucky
Maybe some free time

No
If we don't know better
If we don't know better

Well, did my parents' parents know better better?
No, but they tried

Seed of a Seed

Haley Heynderickx - Seed of a Seed

Haley Heynderickx's "Foxglove" is the second single from her forthcoming album 'Seed of a Seed', due out November 1st, 2024 on Mama Bird Recording Co. Watch the music video + more streaming and pre-order options here: https://mamabird.lnk.to/MB066

/// Track Credits & Players:

Written by Haley Heynderickx
Engineered & Mixed by Karl Kling
Produced by Andrew Stonestreet
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering
Recorded at Cooper Mountain Sound & Karl Kling’s House
.
Written by Haley Heynderickx
Haley Heynderickx: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Daniel Rossi: Drums, Auxiliary Percussion
Matthew Holmes: Double Bass
Caleigh Drane: Cello

/// Lyrics:

Tell me truly what is your dream?
Tell me truly, is it the city life?

When I take a foxglove
And I twirl it all around
And I feel next to you
On the fair ground

Oh daydream die slow
Oh daydream die slow

We grow tired over the days
We grow tired over and overthinking

When I take a foxglove
And I twirl it all around
And I feel next to you
On the bare ground

Oh daydream die slow
Oh daydream die slow
Oh daydream die slow
Die slow
Die slow
Die slow

Foxglove

Haley Heynderickx - Foxglove

Haley Heynderickx's new single "Gemini" from her forthcoming album 'Seed of a Seed', due out November 1st, 2024 on Mama Bird Recording Co. All streaming and pre-order options here: https://MamaBird.lnk.to/MB066

/// Track Credits & Players:

Written by Haley Heynderickx
Engineered & Mixed by Karl Kling
Produced by Andrew Stonestreet
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering
Recorded at Cooper Mountain Sound & Karl Kling’s House
.
Haley Heynderickx: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Daniel Rossi: Drums, Auxiliary Percussion
Matthew Holmes: Double Bass, Electric Bass
William Seiji Marsh: Electric Guitar

/// Lyrics:

There’s a woman in the corner claiming she is just the former one of me
And I am here just out of context
And this weight that I’ve been leaning and the persons I’m deceiving
And the food that I’ve been eating says I’m processed

And I can lack communication
I can lack coordination
Inside my awkward occupations like a fortress

And then she spits unto the ground
She says we’ll all just figure out
If she is me
If I am her
It’s just a process

And all the texts that I’ve avoided
All the persons I’ve annoyed
With all my flighty conversations
Out of contest

And the car keys I have locked inside
The dishes I have dropped beside
The useless things I’ve bought for someone’s profit

And there’s a woman in the corner
Claiming she is just the former one of me
And I am her just out of context

And then she kissed me on the mouth
She said we’ll all just figure out if she is me
If I am her
It’s just a process

And when I’ve gone too long without her
And I’m alone and I’m addicted to my phone
She cuts the cord she pulls the power

And makes me sit with my baggage
All the haggard things I didn’t want to feel
She peels me back like I’m her cabbage

And there’s a woman in the corner
Who makes me pull the fuck over
Just to stare at purple clover off the highway

And see the clover as a gift
A gift I almost missed
You know I finally begin to feel better

Time you know
Has its stones
You were a boulder then
You’re in my pocket now

Time you know
Has its stones
You were a ghost back then
I can see you now
I can honor you now

Gemini

Haley Heynderickx - Gemini

From the new album, Quite A Feelin', out now from Mama Bird Recording Co. (US/World) and Loose Music (Europe).

LYRICS:
I rolled down the window for some air
Stuck my elbow out the car
When I heard the music playin'
From a jukebox, honky-tonkin' bar
I went and shuffled through the tunes
For the one thing that I knew, that song of ours
When lovin' you was hard, my Indiana rose
So play it one more time, one more for the road
 
We used to sit out on the porch
With all that sweet corn shinin' in the breeze
Like the way you used to dance
With all them children wrapped around your knees
Though, now I find myself
Waitin' on somethin’ else to comfort me
The way it used to be, my Indiana rose
So play it one more time, one more for the road
 
Because that old song was all we left behind
Those regrets, I feel 'em all the time
The love we once had, it's hard to find
Now it's hard to know
 
Goin' through the motions ain't enough
If no one's playin' fair
When all you wanted was
Someone to come home with somethin' to share
Because everybody knows, with a promise
There's a reason to care
And I was never there, my Indiana rose
So play it one more time, one more for the road
 
Because that old song was all we left behind
Those regrets, I feel 'em all the time
The love we once had, it's hard to find
Now it's hard to know, my Indiana rose
My Indiana rose


CREDITS:
Written by Barna Howard, ASCAP.
Barna Howard, guitar & vocal; Lewi Longmire, electric guitar & bass; Tyler Maxwell Bussey, banjo; Ryan Spellman, drums.
Recorded, produced, engineered by Adam Selzer at Type Foundry Studio in Portland, OR.
Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk.

Quite a Feelin'

Barna Howard - Indiana Rose

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