Man In The High Castle  [Electronic]

Nightly Nightly  [electronic]

is this love or this fear? in lust it's never clear. am I cold, hot, warm, distant, or am am i just a bit weird? It's getting hard to hear, the bed springs squeak and squeal, there's a crow perched outside watching us fight and then us heal. It's cold outside, and it's warm in hear, that's all I know.


Puncture Me

the clock melts and the city sleeps, we're alone and unreal, one hand in each other's palm, we'll skate and glide and not fall. We came alive in each each other's gaze, the crowds part and reveal, just a voice and a single choice, it was always there, it was always here.

Happy Song

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Written and arranged by Olifant Collective
[copyright 2015]

Guest contribution from Emma Gillespie

Mixed and mastered by Redloz, Amsterdam
www.redloz.com

6. The Flame  [Fire and Ice EP]

5. Beneath The Ice  [Fire and Ice EP]

The fire burnt out quickly,
When Jimmy's boat fell into the sea.
A mother's tears, they dry quickly,
When there's four more to feed,
And no coal on the fire,
And fifty more years of ice in the valley.

Twenty years you grew,
Forty more you were due.
Did the fire keep you warm,
When the water rushed up, in the dead of the night,
And your tears froze too quickly to say goodbye?

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Written and performed by Olifant Collective
[copyright 2015]

Clare McBrien - Vocals / Piano
Sandy Duthie - Trumpet / Glockenspiel
Thomas Brumby - Guitar 
Shehab Ismail - Drums
Ben Tiller - Bass


Recorded by Colin Austin, Aberdeen
www.facebook.com/oldtannerystudio

Mixed and mastered by Redloz, Amsterdam
www.redloz.com

4. Sinking Ship  [Fire and Ice EP]

Sparkling, oh our fingers play,
Clicking, the flint it tickles, fray,
Crackling, creeping forward to say;
A million different embers will glow and light your way.

Gather round, hold your fingers to the flame,
Feel the warmth, feel the bones inside you wake,
It came from nothing, now you sit and watch and bathe,
A million different embers will glow and light your way.

Spinning, as the colours turn and fade,
We're following as the circle turns and frays,
We're locked into the jaunty rhythm of the flames,
We lock our eyes, slip off sly into the haze.

Oh let it burn, 
Oh let it churn,
Oh let us breathe, rasp, cry, sing me a lullaby,
We're drawn like dragonflies.

We're tumbling as the crowds f the circus bray,
We're stumbling, tragi-comic with a laugh through the pain,
Don't rub it in, I'll take a pin to your ballooned frame,
I'll stop the slide, eyes shut, eyes wide, puncture the skin.

Oh let it burn,
Oh let it churn,
Oh let us breathe, rasp, cry, sing me an alibi,
Or I'll be shot like the Alawites.

(x2)

[Outro]

And when the glow burns down,
To show the specks of the daylight hours,
Smudge puffed eyes,
And the heavy sighs,
We rise to trudge our way.

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Written and performed by Olifant Collective
[copyright 2015]

Sandy Duthie - Trumpet 
Thomas Brumby - Guitar / Vocals
Shehab Ismail - Drums
Ben Tiller - Bass
Clare McBrien - Clarinet 

Recorded by Colin Austin, Aberdeen
www.facebook.com/oldtannerystudio

Mixed and mastered by Redloz, Amsterdam
www.redloz.com

3. Dragonfly  [Fire and Ice EP]

We hid from the light,
Frozen deep down and crystallised.
We were held up in flight,
Gestures immortal, undefined.
Undercover we find, 
We can watch, we can analyse,
All the lovers that fight;
To their wicked eyes our touch,
Washes away... (x4)

We slept in the fold,
Under the withered barkes that yawn.
We were left out in the cold,
Under the carpet that smothers all, 
Of the landscape,
When the land breaks,
And the light fades,
To smother all.

In the calm of the night,
In the charm of the great black hole,
That smiles and winks to the ice,
Says, "I've seen you so many times,
"I don't believe in changes,
I've seen the endless flicker of the pages,
From the unborn, young, to the aged,
They smile and they blush and they've faded,
Faded away..." (x4)

We slept in the fold,
Under the withered barkes that yawn.
We were left out in the cold,
Under the carpet that smothers all, 
Of the landscape,
When the land breaks,
And the light fades,
To smother all.

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Written and performed by Olifant Collective
[copyright 2015]

Sandy Duthie - Trumpet / Glockenspiel
Thomas Brumby - Guitar / Vocals
Shehab Ismail - Drums
Ben Tiller - Bass
Clare McBrien - Clarinet / Vocals

Recorded by Colin Austin, Aberdeen
www.facebook.com/oldtannerystudio

Mixed and mastered by Redloz, Amsterdam
www.redloz.com

2. Under Ice  [Fire and Ice EP]

Above the battlegrounds,
Above the flights and the cranes.
Above the penthouse,
Above the wires and the rain.
Amongst the silent shrouds,
We look down and we say.

We are the satellites,
We are the flickering haze,
We hang above you,
We've got time to sit and wait.

Neanderthal,
Not so far away.
As your ice age rivers swell and blush,
Your tempers flare and they gather flames.

We are the sun in your eyes,
We are the gloom in your day,
We are the back to front eyes,
We are the shimmer on the bay,
We are the seed of your life,
And now we sit back and wait.

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Written and performed by Olifant Collective
[copyright 2015]

Sandy Duthie - Trumpet
Thomas Brumby - Guitar / Vocals
Shehab Ismail - Tabla Drum
Ben Tiller - Bass
Clare McBrien 

Recorded by Olifant Collective
Mixed and mastered by Redloz, Amsterdam
www.redloz.com

1. Satellite  [Fire and Ice EP]

'Who you looking at?
Oh, you're thinking that.
But don't you see the ash,
Burnt down from the night-time.'

"Are you quite relaxed?
I'm sat up in your lap,
Watching you like a cat,
Stalking over the landscape"

Clicking and burning,
Embers turning,
Slip off the page. 
(x4)

"Follow, follow, follow me,
Step forward into the flames,
So you can breathe.
Your hollow, hollow, hollow dreams,
Are the kindling for the fire we can trade and you can see"
(x2)

"Father keeps the axe,
Locked up out the back.
Ask your mother for a match,
Keep of smiling as their minds move"

Clicking and burning,
Embers turning,
Slip off the page. 
(x4)

Lyrics:

"Follow, follow, follow me,
Step forward into the flames,
So you can breathe.
Your hollow, hollow, hollow dreams,
Are the kindling for the fire we can trade and you can see"
(x2)

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Song written and performed by Olifant Collective:

Sandy Duthie (trumpet)
Clare McBrien (vocals)
Thomas Brumby (electric guitar, vocals)
Ben Tiller (bass guitar)
Shehab Ismail (drums / percussion)


Recorded edited at The Old Tannery Recording Studio, Aberdeen, by Colin Austin

https://www.facebook.com/OldTanneryStudio

Mixed and mastered by Redloz, Amsterdam

www.redloz.com

Artwork by Christina Goebel

Copyright 2016

03. Fire Queen  [Victoria EP]

Lyrics:

We scuttle with the tide,
Under the ocean's sigh.
Click-punch, not a little shy,
Now off with your claws.

Right at the bottom eulogised,
No love-loss, lobotomised,
Quick lunch for the ice cold eyes,
Now off with your claws.

He holds the trident,
The kiss of the death to the ocean's tyrant.
He holds the trident,
The kiss of the death to the ocean's tyrant.

We fumble without the light,
Under the covers fight,
Slick tongues, whisper beguile,
Now off with your clothes.

Exoskeleton, eight eyes,
Clown colouring, clicky-ticky by,
All the other fish hold off wise,
Rattle, make way.

He holds the trident,
The kiss of the death to the ocean's tyrant.
He holds the trident,
The kiss of the death to the ocean's tyrant.

We are the mantis shrimp, 
And I'll...punch off the claws of crab,
I am the mantis shrimp,
Punch off the claws of crab.

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Song written and performed by Olifant Collective:

Sandy Duthie (trumpet)
Clare McBrien (clarinet, vocals)
Thomas Brumby (electric guitar, vocals)
Ben Tiller (bass guitar)
Shehab Ismail (drums / percussion)

Additional writing and composition by Elske Thaden.

Recorded edited at The Old Tannery Recording Studio, Aberdeen, by Colin Austin

https://www.facebook.com/OldTanneryStudio

Mixed and mastered by Redloz, Amsterdam

www.redloz.com

Artwork by Christina Goebel

Copyright 2016

02. Mantis [Victoria EP]

Lyrics:

Candle light, has burnt down to,
Formalise, the lie of the land and who will lose.
Wrinkled eyes, stare down, interrogate you,
And you realise, it didn't matter what you chose to do.

And the dealers the breakers,
With their whirring calculators,
And the men who tip the bins to rummage through.

And the young and the famous,
With the glow in their faces,
And the folks who thumb the pages all through.

You will know me,
You will know me now.
You will know me,
You will know me now.

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Song written and performed by Olifant Collective:

Sandy Duthie (trumpet, vocals)
Clare McBrien (clarinet, vocals)
Thomas Brumby (electric guitar, vocals)
Ben Tiller (bass guitar)
Shehab Ismail (drums / percussion)

Additional writing and composition by Elske Thaden.

Recorded edited at The Old Tannery Recording Studio, Aberdeen, by Colin Austin

https://www.facebook.com/OldTanneryStudio

Mixed and mastered by Redloz, Amsterdam

www.redloz.com

Artwork by Christina Goebel

Copyright 2016

01. Victoria [Victoria EP]

Featuring:

Thomas Brumby (Vocals, Piano, Guitar)
Shehab Ismail (Drums)
Elske Thaden (Violin and backing vocals)
Ben Tiller (Bass Guitar)
Sandy Duthie (Trumpet)

Recorded and mixed by Thomas Brumby
Mastered by Phil Feenen (Elba Studios, Glasgow)

copyright 2016

olifantcollective@gmail.com
facebook.com/olifantcollective

Lyrics:

in the pile-up
in the fire’s lust
in the mistrust
in the flights and in the falls

we’re the aimless
we’re the quiet mush
we’re the worn out lust
nous sommes le catastrophe

oh we’re the faithless
we love everyone else
in our violence we’re at home
we’re the cageless
in the wanting hours
we’re bold then we blush

in the silence
in our scientific chance
in our makeshift little dance
i’m in your blues, i’m in your shoes, i’m in your clues

we’re the fine and the dandy
if you look at us only slightly
if you talk to us only lightly
il’n’ya pas de catastrophe

-

pull me out of the aircraft
let the wind touch my face
i’ll pull the chord
i’ll be weightless for a second

nous sommes les provocateurs
nous sommes les provocateurs
nous sommes les provocateurs
nous sommes les provocateurs

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