Another gem! Wonderful songwriting, great strings. Peace to you Marina! (also my sister's name :)  )

37 seconds in and my money is on a gem and I know it will be, shades of Jesse Sykes. Gorgeous!

Piano solo, free improvisation.

Listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7zR2VQLs5XkOqo0SFzUcN6?si=4eaad4b215274acc

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Proximity

WAVES is the result of the "emotional rollercoaster" that was 2021, born from watching someone very close to me suffer Postnatal Depression. A time so full of joy for the new life, so full of pain for a life changed beyond recognition.

Tom Robinson selected 'WAVES' for his mixtape, 31st Jan 2022, which went out on BBC 6music. BBC Radio Norfolk selected it as their BBC Introducing 'Record of the Week' that same week.

Credits:
Written: Marina Florance
Vocals/Guitar: Marina Florance
Produced/Guitar: Ben Walker
Strings: Anna Jenkins, Basia Bartz and Jo Silverston
Cover: Marina Florance, Cardiff Bay one misty November morning

Reviews:
"This is a new sound I'm calling Earthy Folk & it's heart aching beautiful, I absolutely love it" Johnno Casson @snippetcuts

"She's got one of those voices like I guess all great folk singers do that just evoke so much feeling..." "...just stunning" Kitty Perrin BBC Introducing Norfolk

"Marina knows her voice so well & writes to suit it – a low register but not quite husky & a deliberate not-quite crack in the last verse as she gets to the end. Superb." Folking.com
lyrics
I sailed on a sea of green
I sailed on a sea of blue
swam in the sea of hopeless
was lost in the ocean of you

I sailed on a sea of sacrifice
where fear of failure abounds
drifted on the sea of broken dreams
as the tides of change howled

short instrumental

I sailed on the sea of lonely
I sailed on the sea of drowned
swam an ocean of fallen tears
when a wall of waves tore me down

I sailed on the sea of loss
where no hope would be found
held fast in an ocean of your love
on fair winds to firmer ground

instrumental

we sail on the sea of green
we sail on the sea of blue
eased in to the sea of hopeful
was saved by the ocean of you
was saved by the ocean of you

WAVES

Written for IOC Songwriter Sessions 4th May 2022

# Lyrics

It’s not like I know
How to be whole
Its more a feeling in my heart that comes but goes

Its not like I see
Things slip from me
Just let my eyes fall to dark spaces in between

A sudden sense of urgency 
Reaching for the neck
With all the will you have to steal
Just try to believe it

Its not like the world
Will let me take a breath
A thousand foolish fates await the ones that’s left

It’s not going to change
It’s not going to wait
It’s challenging everything you can before too late

A sudden sense of urgency 
Reaching for the neck
With all the will you have to steal
Just try to believe

A sudden sense of urgency 
Reaching for the neck
With all the will you have to steal
Just try to believe it

A sudden sense of urgency 
Reaching for the neck
With all the will you have to steal
Just try to believe it

Try to Believe

Let Go

Words and Music Antipodeans 2022. Recorded and Engineered at Grovehill Studio, and mastered by Dr Hackey at the Hackey Sack. Blue Auckland photo by Patrick Pellegrini on Unsplash

Last Bus

Wings for the future.WAV

Not really alt rock but the guitar solo at the end is fairly anarchic. 

To Fly or not to Fly 

To fly or not to fly YES!
To fly or not to fly NO! 

To fly or not to fly that is the question.    
It’s a no brainer ‘cept for the greedy and absurd.   
There’s kilos of carbon coming from engines. 
While the earth below - floods and burns

M’lady says she’s gotta fly yeah it’s in the blood            
She’s gotta have exotica - it’s there for the taking
Even though people of the world - are under the pump
And down there in the wheat fields – the crops are baking

To fly or not to fly YES!
To fly or not to fly NO! 

Hate being a gloomy carrier pigeon
But the writings there on the internet
The forecast for earth - it’s grim and turgid
Makes it dumb to fly airliner jets

M’lady says the scientists - will find a solution
There’s no need to live  - like a peasant farmer
She don’t need to feel shame - about her vapor trail
Hey she’s never been - to West Estonia

TO FLY OR NOT TO FLY

The Little Ghost Song

A Tatooed Drummer

Out of the Box January 2023
[tip-toe alert at 3:15]

Mostly Ghostly Dub

Rob Brooks suggested adding a further part for strings. Here it be, with my thanks to Rob for his kind recommendation.

Piano/String Part 2

Singer/songwriter originally from NW London, Marina’s music crosses genres & has been described as Americana, Folk & Country, while she doubtless draws inspiration from many sources, her voice & style are uniquely her own.
Visit her website for lots more info
Marina came to performing late in life although very soon after making the decision to "come out of the kitchen" she was awarded Arts Council funding, via the Escalator Project, to record a debut album, Somewhere Down The Line. Using this as a platform she has since reached audiences not previously thought possible.
Now with four albums completed she's been played on BBC6Music, BBC introducing Norfolk and Suffolk, had four tracks make the Tom Robinson's BBC6 Mixtape. Her song Cry was performed by the actor Anthony Head on ITV's This Morning.
Jan 2019, Marina, & co-writer Jules Fox Allen, won the FATEA Innovation Award alongside The Warm & Toasty Club founder, Johnno Casson, for the lottery & Arts Council funded, Memory Afternoons Project. The songs written can be heard here on SoundCloud.
Marina has played many festivals including Cambridge Folk Festival, Strawberry Fair, Norwich and Norfolk Festival.
She has been a Moderator for Fresh On The Net.

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