From What I Can Tell

Shadow People Shuffle

When feasible, to carry a heavy burden is something to be proud of.

Be still, my lover rest your mind
I may find peace here in time
I will dream and dream
Until my dreams are thought
And those thoughts of mine
Cumbersome and hefty are their lives

Leave all your troubles behind
Leave them here with me, I’ll get by
Think of what i have
What i have is not
All is not what it seems
The sweetness that lies in my dreams

Cast out your sorrow and your strife
Lessons to be learned have their price
Every price is fixed
Fixed is all there is
All our lives are books
Books of love and ladies fair and fine

I’ll Get By

People, all around, surprise me
All of them surround me
And speak their mind

And all that i hear about you
Is false to my ear
From what i can tell

All of them seek to adivse me
Side with one or the other
Not unlike war

Have a look me now, my love
Am I not the person
That you saw last

Night after night, i have dreamt
Of flowers in the evening
Blooming in the spring

Time after time, again
All the flowers have died
Given the chance

So don’t you waste my time, again
If you’d treat me fairly,
I could smile all year

I hold you near
Deep within my heart
I am lonely i fear
I am lost
And all that i hear

Is the humming of the wind
Deep within my ear
Your voice is what i hear
I am coarse
And all that i believe

Is the subtlety of love
Deep within my veins
It’s Invisible to see
As am I
And all that i spy

Is the passing of time
Clear as the day
And the only card i pull
Is the fool
And all that’s left to do

Is to hold you near
Deep within my heart
I am lonely i fear
I am lost

Clear As The Day

Based on ‘Exploration’ by Bruno Coulais

M’Lady May

Twin Sister Tree

Round Midnight - Lyrics 

Round midnight when the engine’s on
Lose my head from the rolling throng
Get my house out of the fire
Get my car out of the wreckage pile
Straight out of lullaby land 
Straight out of Birdland
Like waking up in the morning without my head in my hands

And I’m getting on
Well it’s been pretty long
And I woke up around midnight to see Charlie Parker fly in a saxophone
Well there's gold on the road

Round midnight getting, I'm just getting on with you

Charles Mingus
That’s so like Philly Joe Jones
Miles she likes your Miles Davis shit
Miles Davis shit 
Miles Davis shit 

Gone midnight and I'm just moving on 
With a couple of fellas with sticks and songs
Got my head into a St. Louis fire
Haven’t seen daylight for a couple of nights
Straight out of lullaby land
Straight out of Thelonious land
Like waking up without feeling like my head’s been up my ass

And I’m getting on
Well it’s been pretty long
And if I’m not home before midnight I'll be playing here with this whiskey and these songs
From somewhere out of the earth

Round midnight getting, I'm just getting on with you

Second cousin of the Dizzy man
And the nephew of the devil
A girl sent to me by the devil

I'm getting it on and I can’t do me wrong
Got jazz inside my vein now and the blues even comes out of my asshole
It's the door to my soul

Round midnight getting, I'm just getting on with you

Strange Part of the Country

Round Midnight

Bandcamp

A Waterfall Is a Poem Pouring through a Rock - Lyrics

A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
A mild case of death in the park
Meant I was looking for someone

And the old guys keeping us straight with their stories
The death of a bricklayer in Dublin
And claims that there once were leprechauns 

And I was living with the night
Sleeping with the eyes
All night kept breathing

After two years of digging up my roots in back rooms
I found out there was only one truth 
That roots were meant to be buried

A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
The water will never fall back 
So I stopped looking for anyone

And I was living with the night
Sleeping with the eyes
All night kept breathing

A waterfall is a poem pouring through a rock
The water will never fall back 
So I stopped looking for anyone

A Waterfall Is a Poem Pouring through a Rock

Uncertain Times

Hobo Blues

To the beach

questions

Questions

Some things just make sense and we’re pleased present the first collaboration of 2 of our favourite artists : RED AXES & C.A.R. 
This release has been a long time coming. Tracks were first exchanged back in 2014 and it’s been an organic, intuitive process. Like-minded musically & likeminded lyrically - Red Axes & C.A.R. seem to work the same way. Recordings happen fast. One or two takes. It’s punk and it’s effortless. 
1960’s, psychedelic 2040 arrived on queue. A sweaty, London-summer evening, after spending the day writing alone out Hackney Marshes, Chloé demo’d the vox. - languid, nostalgic, at arm’s reach from the city - the track depicted the moment perfectly. A paper thin Victorian wall separating her from the chatting neighbours, she shut her eyes and got as close to the mic as possible. 
A few weeks Red Axes & C.A.R. were together in Tel Aviv. Ten times sweatier than London. To say the studio was dripping hot is an understatement. There was a party heaving in the square below, a van parked in the middle, broadcasting out on the radio waves. Dori was determined to use the intimate London vocals for 2040 and so they cracked on with Incognito, a club track that isn't one but works in its own way: rockabilly reverbs, an almost hip-house delivery, the strange alchemy of 808 fumes. Already inebriated from the city, Chloé had written her words off-cuff in the hotel room, just hours before.
Fastforward a year. Summer 2015. Niv had sent Space Cream a few months earlier - an electronic 4/4 ballad which already featured looped samples of some of the stuff they’d recorded in Israel. Heady and sticky, Chloé had to wait for longer days before she could get anything down.
Finally XMan, descends further down into psychedelia… Perfect for the London winter closing in. Heads filled with Cookie Mueller & memories of losing oneself in dark, basement parties - the words rolled off the tongue. 
Last autumn Red Axes invited C.A.R. down to London’s Pickle Factory to perform Incognito live. During soundcheck she penned some words for a new track they were debuting, which they also ended up doing. It’s an experience synonymous for this collaboration. What comes easy, makes sense.

02 - Xman - Red Axes / C.A.R.

‘2 Times Nothing – Uksumatu EP’ drops on Perron Zes Music, January 15.

From What I Can Tell

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