Grief Lullaby feat. Matthew Thomason

RELEASED 27 NOVEMBER 2014

A.    I Miss You Tomorrow
AA.  Mrs Magpie

A song about missing someone you haven't met yet, and
a song about a magpie.

Featuring Paul Dolby aka Seiji on cello on track AA
Side stick sample and cabasa courtesy of Nick Duffy on track A
Other instruments performed by Minko 


Written and produced by Minko
Recorded in the sea garret in Cornwall
Mastering by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw Mastering

Cover Image by C-Side
Original photograph by Tom de Grunwald



I MISS YOU TOMORROW lyrics

I need to travel many days alone,
and find the child buried under the
rumblings of energies now undesired.
And I’m missing you today,
I’m missing you tomorrow,
And I’m missing all the morning breaks,
and all the days that follow,
All the days that follow, ahead of me.

I’m shedding my skin,
I want to shake the cobwebs I’m living in,
Find what really is mine,
Make a space so my heart can find you.

I need to travel many nights alone,
and move away from the thunder,
that’s cumbersome and dampening
my natural fire.
But I miss you for today,
I miss you tomorrow,
And I’m missing all the morning breaks,
and all the days that follow,
All the days that follow, ahead of me.

I’m shedding my skin,
I want to reach the bare bones
and start within,
Find the seed that got lost,
Under layers of loves mistaken.

Missing you tomorrow
And I’m missing all the morning breaks
and all the days that follow
All the days that follow, ahead of me.

Missing you tomorrow,
Missing you today,
All the days that follow,
Even yesterday,
I can feel my heart is paving the way,
the way, today.

Lyrics ©Minko2014

I Miss You Tomorrow | Mrs Magpie

Winner fo Song For Cornwall | Kan Rag Kernow 2020

Cornish Noir..

Kan An Tewyn By Minko

                       Sybil of Delphi II by Minko

The dogs sensed it coming, the rousing storm the humming,
The wind the wind a whistling, a foreign song

The soldiers heard it coming, the hooves, the ground, the rumbling,
And the wings of ravens drumming to the sybils sighs

And I feel it coming, the love now drips the sun in,
through hands that hold no blood in, those hands cant sow our land.

(This song was inspired by the story of the wild dogs in India deserting the streets before the tsunami hit. One lucky man noticed their absence and fled with his family. They all survived. It made me think about my own life and how humans know and sense what is going to happen. Here it was the dawning that the sad ending of a relationship was approaching..)

(The Delphic Sibyl was the Pythan priestess of Python. Her mother was the daughter of Poseidon. She received predictions from Gaia which she sang, and she is also known as the voice that brings the "ears of men tidings of the future wrapped in dark riddles.")

Minko - Songs 1-4 - Sybil of Delphi II

Minko - Songs 1-4 - I Dive Again

Cornish Music Past To Present
Minko, winner of Kan Rag Kernow 2020, talks to Cornish Music expert Matthi Ab Dewi about the origins of Cornish music. Mathhi then explores what drove Minko to start writing music in the Cornish language.

Cornish Music Past To Present

A track from my EP 'Songs 5-8 Creature' which will be released on 12 July 2013.                              
                                                                                                                                              
                             




My father's father's father's woes, Oh, 
Still alive but centuries old, Oh, 
Under the carpets and swallowed with whisky, 
Woven into book and theories, 
But never conquered on it goes, 
Passing the parcel, the next generation. 

My mother's mother's mother's dreams, Oh, 
Bubbling down into my genes, Oh, 
Buried in baking and boys entertaining, 
Fantasies sewn into the seams, 
But where did all this energy go, 
Ladies with passion, lost in asylums. 

Zola and Larkin and old Euripides, 
Calling us from their graves, 
High on a mountain it's easy to see, 
But down here we lose our way. 

If the child is father of the man, 
What would our ancestors say?, 
If Freud and the Buddha sat together on the merry-go-round, 
And put the brakes on today?

Minko - Songs 5-8 - Monsieur Zola's Amazing Carousel

Title track of my second EP 'Songs 5-8  Creature' which will be released on 12 July 2013.

Creature is a live recording with Minko on Wurlitzer and vocals,  
ex Pulp guitarist Steven Havenhand on Telecaster and Nick Duffy from The Lilac Time on bass.

Minko - Songs 5-8 - Creature

My old upright piano with squeaky pedal, flute, kalimba and a cymbal...

Minko - Songs 5-8 - The Owl Song

minko@minkomusic.com
www.minko.bandcamp.com
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Minko is a singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Cornwall. In her garret by the sea, surrounded by a plethora of acoustic instruments, she vanishes for periods of time and writes and records. Her haunting melodies and weaving bass lines wind themselves around peeling glockenspiels, ukuleles, flutes, and subtle rumba rhythms. All tied together with Minko's distinctive voice.  All with a low-fi recording sensibility that harks back to bands such as The Young Marble Giants. 

Before this she had a period of producing electronic tunes, including some remixes for Rephlex artist Global Goon. But she decided to leave behind the samplers and synthesisers, move to Cornwall, and immerse herself in an acoustic sound; rewinding to core childhood influences – French pop, post punk, 1960s psych folk.

Minko also still works periodically with Rephlex/Planet Mu artist Global Goon, recently providing vocals for his avant grade brain dance albums Quonk and Plastic Orchestra.

“This is a lovely jewel of an EP from beginning to end. Minko has clearly soaked up her surroundings, and knows how to pour them back into her music..
“For Folk’s Sake review of ‘Songs 1-4 Sybil of Delphi’.

“Minko is obsessed with “amalgamating sounds”, setting a clear, insouciant voice against cool, softly-layered backdrops of multiple instruments.. and her arrangements show a subtle experimental bent reminiscent of Julia Holter, Gainsbourg and Andrew Bird.”
For Folk’s Sake, New Bands Panel.

“With her captivating voice and obvious skill at combining instruments to compliment her desired theme, Minko has brought us a mesmerising record.”
Aurally Yours on ‘Songs 5-8 Creature’.

“‘Songs 1-4 Sybil of Delphi’ – a beautiful thing it is for Minko blends French chanteuse pop through a myriad of dream woven soft psych centred folk mirages, wistfully pastoral and lightly crushed with a becoming sensitivity that’s lilts with a distinctly alluring faraway framing which to these ears at least fixes like a spectral Serge meets Komeda cutie.”
Mark Barton, God is in the TV (former editor of the legendary ‘Losing Today’).

“Minko’s music draws its inspiration from a diversity of musical idioms but it is unique in the way it always finds the gaps between the genres, constantly steering off the grid.”  Nick Duffy (The The Lilac Time).


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