Beautiful development of a delicate melody

NSM Presents: Nic Evennett ~ Spiritual Folk 

Words and Music © Nic Evennett & Peter Haring, 2022 

Feat. Jules Bangs - Bass
          Matt Steady - Violin 

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
Released by No Sheet Music
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477


* Huge love and thank you to the following folk: 
Peter, for letting me use some of your beautiful words. It's an honour to have them lighting up this album. Jules, for all your time and forever fabulous basswork. Matt, for the gloriousness of your solo in GIB. Adam, for all your hard work and patience. And the team at NSM, who saw something (gawd knows what...) in what I do. Thank you, all of you. You are love, love, loved.

For more of Matt, you can find him here: https://mattsteady.com/
Adam Ellis does marvellous things here: https://www.deadlinestudios.co.uk/
Jules Bangs is brilliant and hasn't got a page. It's about time he did really. Oi, Jules, get a page...

No Sheet Music

NSM Presents: Nic Evennett

Words and Music © Nic Evennett, 2022 

Are We There Yet?  (For Syd)

I looked high, I looked low,
Black cat in a mean coal cellar.
All the things that I don't know...
You can be my storyteller.
Are we there yet? It's been so long.
Are we there yet? We're looking for a lifeline.
Did you see that shooting star?
All the blinks and all the missed its.
Surely it's our avatar,
You and I, the soaring misfits.
Are we there yet? It's been so long.
Are we there yet? We're looking for a lifetime.
In amongst the landscape blue
Under these cornflower skies, love,
You have me and I have you,
Tomorrows in your eyes.
And all the joys we crystallise.
Let's have a long and happy life. 

~~~
Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Are We There Yet?

Words and Music © Nic Evennett, 2022 

Feat. Matt Steady - Violin solo
          Jules Bangs - Bass

Glorious in Between:

Somewhere else, somewhere good,
Empty space where our bodies stood.
Neither can nor never could...
Glorious in between.
In the mist, we are unfound.
Memories are not weather-bound.
Lay with me in this sound...
Glorious in between.

~~~

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

For more of Matt's beautiful work, visit: https://mattsteady.com/

Glorious In Between

Words © Peter Haring, 2022 
Music ©  Nic Evennett, 2022

The sun bleeds in the ocean,
Poppies shroud their love,
While black against the blood-red
Soars the shadow of the dove.
The shadow of the dove, my dear,
The echo of the light.
And silent in its rising,
Sings me through the night. 

~~~

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Shadow Of The Dove

Words and Music © Nic Evennett, 2022 
Feat. Jules Bangs on Bass
As heard on "The Ultimatum: Marry or Move on", Netflix.

All That We Are: 

All the words are void for fractured eyes.
You don't have to die to find out why you're living.
Readjust your line -
Fortune's autograph looping through the winter.
Here you go again, thinking that it matters.
Here you go again...
All that we are.
All we could be.
All that we are.
Many fell today for nothingness.
Many rose to find the sky a little wider.
I sent it just in time;
Looking upward now, you hear every vesper. 

~~~

Feat. Jules Bangs - Bass
  
Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

All That We Are

Music © Nic Evennett, 2022
Words © Peter Haring, 2022 

Horizon:

Are we the horizon?
Or will our shadows burn,
As we draw near
And set the sun?
~~~

Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Horizon

Westward – Words & Music © Nic Evennett 2022

Wind blowing, wind blowing, wind blowing, wild!

Purple sky, gold geese cry,
You and I, all bound together
In a moment true, clouds unglue
We drip through, falling and stretching like
Unruly trees, escapees,
Violent ease, tumbling and laughing
With the rain and glare in our hair
We're no where and listing westward.

Power down in this town
We are bound to fall down the middle
If we don't speak out, turnabout,
Have no doubt that I'll be coming with you.

Finger tips, parted lips,
Losing grip on all our tomorrows.
And the storm keeps blowing.
Where you going?
Should be following right behind...

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Mixed by Adam Ellis

Released: 25.01.23
NSM477 
Available for use at: https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/albums/nsm477

Westward

I come to the temple of dawn,
And everywhere is running water
Trickling down the walls,
In the courtyards are
Pools full of silence,
Reflecting sunlight on stone.

The silent eyes of monk cells stare down,
Seeking patiently across the centuries,
Emptiness of mind.
Born to a humble path,
Holding a simple staff,
Walking mindful through dawn

How long will it be,
'til I see the golden light?
How long 'til the long night is over?
So many stars,
We're so small against the sky.
I long to return to Beloved.

The path leads me to an ancient room,
Where darkness bleeds from the mountain's womb,
And there are flowers strewn upon
A crude stone alter.
Hewn of the living rock,
The room of an ancient god
Beneath the mountain of dawn.

I'm struck by a foreign god,
That uses my skull as a lightning rod.
I never should have trod
The sentient pathway.
One frail mortal,
Drawn through the portal
Into the emptiness of dawn.

How long will it be
'til I see the golden light?
How long 'til the long night is over?
So many stars,
We're so small against the sky.
I'm on my return to Beloved.

Temple of Dawn

I'm very pleased that Debra Buesking's piece "I Wish" has been released. It's a very personal piece from Debra, and I'm honored that she let me arrange it.

Reflective

I Wish (Orchestral Version)

I Wish (Ft. Debra Buesking)

stay here with me7.1.25

Fabric blue

"Urban Guerilla" Live Radio Session 2015.


https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7VENqXn7EZs&feature=shared

https://open.spotify.com/album/7zgLXHp5YbKTi8v4Zj7DLS?si=k8Y8eKkRRQGUQIffAJHkQg

https://music.apple.com/us/song/italy-a-betrayed-land/1832045080

Italy, a Betrayed Land.mp3

Cast of characters:

Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four string bass, Collings mandolin, Rogue banjo, Roland electric piano, and composition

K2 and the Three [and the Four]-- @k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken — drums and percussion

Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar

TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen– Tom Anderson custom T model electric guitar, Taylor T5z acoustic guitar, production, mix, and mastering

This song began with Josh coming up with it on his electric piano and fretless bass, to which he added some banjo, then mandolin. Once he had a solid basis for the song, he shared it with the rest of Eclectic Collective for them to add their parts. 

  Ken was first up, adding his drums in an such a creative way that matched Josh's bassline perfectly. It was originally recorded to a looper disco beat, but that was blown out of the water by Ken's creative drumming. Tez jumped in next, adding his thrilling guitar to the second half of the song. Not to be outdone, Stephen batted clean up, adding his textural and melodic guitar to the first half. He also added some subtle, but brilliant acoustic guitar to the first half, too. 

  This is a great example of Eclectic Collective coming up with an original band sound out of one of Josh's seeds. We're always pushing boundaries and trying to find fun and exciting ways to build a song. Lots of teamwork in here, too, of course. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed making it.


The Plot Thickens -(Eclectic Collective)

Wave Song (2025) Remastered

Peaceful Lights

Oddrun: vocal and vocal composition https://soundcloud.com/oddrun-eikli
Torbjørn: vocal, instrumental and vocal composition
Mastering: Njål Frode Lie
Poem: William Blake
"Ah! Sun-flower" is a poem by William Blake, published in his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. The poem explores themes of longing, weariness, and the human desire for something beyond earthly existence, using the sunflower as a symbol.

Thank you from my heart Oddrun, it`s always good working with you and to see how things finds its natural way

Poem: William Blake

Ah! sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done;

Where the youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves and aspire;
Where my sunflower wishes to go

Ah! Sun-Flower. Oddrun Eikli. Torbjørn Vagle

Independent singer-songwriter from Kent, UK. 
Little video introduction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKMPLBJBK6M

'No Sheet Music' Artist. https://www.nosheetmusic.tv/artists/nic-evennett

"Evennett’s voice is a delicate mystery, warm and lustrous, yet fragile and crystalline – a bewitching blend of Kate Bush and Linda Perhacs, surrounded by dolorous, reverb-drenched piano and woven into broken-hearted balladry." Andee Connors, Pandora 

"Moving, delicate and introspective. As always, Nic Evennett's voice washes over the listener creating an incubated space I didn't want to leave."
Rapt.

Interview: 
https://cocamidemea.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/indieterria-meets-nic-evennett/

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Part of duo Cellar Door. We're over here:
https://soundcloud.com/cdoor

Are We There Yet?

Nic Evennett

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