Faraway Skies

Acting School

Shouldn't Say Mine

"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

"The Bell (Acoustic)" is the first single from Anna Tivel's forthcoming 'Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)', which is due for release on August 18th, 2023 on Mama Bird Recording Co. 'Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)' is an acoustic companion record to Anna's critically acclaimed 2022 album 'Outsiders'. Stream/save/share it here: https://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:

You came in like a roll of thunder, trying to change the shape of love
Looking for somebody to believe in you for once
How’d the world get so confusing, how’d the ache inside your chest
Go from something beautiful to something dangerous

But now I guess the rain is coming, and it’ll rain like hell
But nothing ever changes til you ring the bell

Lit up like a firecracker, you’ve been burning out for years
Nothing left but ruined plastic shells and helpless tears
But once you were a brilliant flash, a crash of silver light
Don’t forget the way you felt, all hungry and alive

But now I guess the rain is coming, and it’ll rain like hell
But nothing ever changes til you ring the bell

I know you’re a crazy dreamer, I know that you still believe
Something good is just beyond the darkness of this dream
And time will tell a softer story, how you climbed above the wire
Held that hammer high above and made the damn thing chime

But now I guess the rain is coming, and it’ll rain like hell
But nothing ever changes til you ring the bell

Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)

The Bell

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Anna Tivel - The Bell (Acoustic)

"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

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

The new album from Izaak Opatz, out now on Mama Bird Recording Co.

/// Credits:

Produced by Malachi DeLorenzo, Dylan Rodrigue & Izaak Opatz
Engineered by Malachi DeLorenzo
Mixed by Malachi DeLorenzo 
Mastered by Kevin Ratterman
Photograph by Kendall Rock
Art by Vincent Bancheri

/// Players:

Izaak Opatz - Guitar, Vocals
Dylan Rodrigue - Electric Guitars, Keys, Bass, Backing Vocals, Percussion
Malachi DeLorenzo - Drums, Backing Vocals, Percussion

Peri DeLorenzo - Fiddle on “I Left Something Turned on at Home”, “Can’t Break It to My Heart”
Sierra Benhoff - Vocals on “Sundays”, “Lubbock for Love”
Jordan Bush - Pedal Steel on “I Left Something Turned on at Home”, “Can’t Break It to My Heart”, “Drunk on a Plane”, “Lubbock for Love”, “You Made a Country Singer out of Me”

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Drunk on a Plane

Izaak Opatz - Drunk on a Plane

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Izaak Opatz - Drunk on a Plane

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