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LYRICS:

I am
I am here
More than I’ve ever been
Today I look for existence

The growing fire going away
And you’ll need to give permission to lose
But in a way I wonder
Please don’t let me be with you
Close is near
While we wait

Am I
Am I here
Or one of your lingering tears
Today I feel my existence

The growing mindful sailing away
And you’ll need to give acceptance to love
Am I
Am I here

The growing fire going away
And you’ll need to give permission to lose
But in a way I wonder
Please don’t let me be with you
Close is near
While we wait

The growing fire going away
And you’ll need to give permission to lose
But in a way I wonder
Please don’t let me be with you
Close is near
While we wait

I do. 

I do.

I do.

Nicotine Bunker

Permission to Lose

Dust It Off (C-Berg Remix)

Ólöf Arnalds - Crazy Car (The SoundCloud Sessions)

Strangers

Vocals: Mimi Gilbert.
Backup vocals: Tim Ferson.
Instruments, production, etc: Tim Ferson.
Mixing: Nat Love
Mastering: Greg Calbi

Artwork by Freda Chiu:
facebook.com/fredachiuart/

Mayae

Mayae [ft. Mimi Gilbert]

Swim and Sleep (Like a Shark)

Unknown Mortal Orchestra- "Swim & Sleep (Like a Shark)" (Official Audio)

Crystal Castles - AFFECTION
from the album (III)
http://www.crystalcastles.com

(III)

Affection

Taken from the Album Salt catch Michael Baker on tour
March 19th The Brunswick Brighton
http://bit.ly/39wJpfG
March 29th The Duke Whitstable
free admission
March 30th The Finsbury London 
http://bit.ly/3awkRUf
April 5th The Loft (Above The Kings) Portsmouth

BIOGRAPHY, by NME’s Andrew Trendell
“I lived in my van for two and a half years to pay for the making of my first record,” casually laughs singer-songwriter Michael Baker. “I moved into the van after a typical period of heartache. I had nowhere to go, but it was pretty good actually!” 

From this, you can gather a lot about the Anglo-French troubadour. Mainly, he takes nothing for granted and lives for his music.  

Spending his childhood near Brighton (where he went to the same school as Rag N’ Bone Man), Michael got his first guitar aged eight after seeing Oasis live and needing to learn ‘Wonderwall’. In his teens, the songs soon started to flow. It wasn’t long before the purity of his voice, the direct rawness of his writing and the sheer scope of his sound found him regular gigs and a devoted fanbase – one that only grew bigger and more in love with the release of his magnificent debut album Dust & Bone. 

A soaring collection of heart-wrenching indie-folk and cinematic sounds, Dust & Bone was recorded with Massive Attack collaborator Dan Brown, and was a staggering first showcase of Baker’s ambition and soulful style. “I’m really proud of the songwriting on that record,” he admits. “I was in such a bad place in my life when I made it, but it got such a great response from the people who heard it.”

Early sessions for Salt started when Baker hit the studio with Dan Brown and Oliver Baldwin, who had recently finished making Aldous Harding’s acclaimed album Party with PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish. While promising Michael says ‘’It felt like I needed more time to experiment than we had scheduled in.” So Baker headed back to record and produce the album with long-time friend Ed Martin. 

After discovering that his childhood home would be empty for a few weeks while his parents were in the process of moving away. He went in and stripped everything away, begged and borrowed all the equipment he needed, crammed the band in, drank a lot of wine, got a little stoned and naturally just flowed through the album – playing all day and all night. The recordings were so impressive, that Baldwin agreed to mix the record at Real World Studios and gave the songs a whole new dimension (as well as inviting Jack White’s pedal steel player Maggie Björklund to play on the album too). 
“I absolutely love artists like Cat Stevens and Bon Iver,” says Baker. Salt is a record that maps Baker’s journey through darkness and vulnerability to something a lot more hopeful. 
Among the key tracks that show Baker’s road to recovery, ‘Baby Books’ was inspired by being in close proximity to someone taking their own life – and totally changing the way he saw the world. Single ‘They Look Just Like They Know’ also deals with how “the mind can be a deadly place” and “feeling trapped in the prison of your own vision”. He’s looking for the sunrise on the horizon, too. Baker’s personal favourite ‘Claire’ celebrates the “the beauty of space in a relationship” and the escapist ecstasy of ‘One Good Damn’ has won over scores of new fans with its feel-good magnetism. 

Salt is a towering accomplishment that will win hearts with its adept handling of love, loss and hope, and there’s more to come. For now though, you’re about to get to know the real Michael Baker. “I feel like I have too much of a personal relationship with anyone who says they like my music,” concludes Baker. “I’ve been getting letters and messages from people saying that my songs have got them through a very hard time, and I don’t know how to reply to them other than as if I’d known them my whole life. That’s the way that I would do it. I hope that my music gives them as much as it’s given me.”

Baby Books

Brent Arnold: cello, producer
Adam Haggar: engineer
Recorded at La Cour Dieu and Audiofriction HQ

Empty Castles (Brent Arnold No Widows refracted)

From the album 'Golden Repair' on Mai68 Records

Golden Repair

Nowhere Near An Ocean

Birds; or, Stories from Charlie B’s Travels From Grønland to the Sun, and Back Again

Smoke

First collaborative single from Flo Perlin and Pilgrims' Dream. Written and recorded in Flo’s living room, 'Life Lives Inside' shares the story of a human and a bird, and their evolving connection out at sea. It is a metaphor for being adrift in the unknown, reflecting these uncertain times.

Life Lives Inside

Lyrics below.
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Wake up is a plead to a lover for reciprocated love. The most is meant as putting one's heart on the line and showing vulnerability. The song's story is told using fragile vocals, longing strings, and repetitive keys that invites the listener into an intimate place of quiet reflection.  

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Lyrics
Out in the garden
Picking up stones
Been searching the whole night, the whole night
For your window
 
Wake up, wake up, wake up love
Wake up, wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up, wake up love
Wake up, wake up, wake up
 
Been on the frontline 
I knock on your door 
Been here the whole time, the whole time
Ready for war 
 
I can't do this alone  
 
Wake up, wake up, wake up love
I can't do this alone
Wake up, wake up, wake up
I can't do this alone
Wake up, wake up, wake up love
I can't do this alone
Wake up, wake up, wake up    
 
My hearts in the right place but i'm losing my mind 
I pick up the pieces that you couldn't find    
 
I can't do this alone
I can't do this alone 
I can't do this alone 
I can't 
I can't do this alone 
 
Wake up, wake up, wake up love
I can't do this alone
Wake up, wake up, wake up
I can't do this alone
Wake up, wake up, wake up love
I can't do this alone
I've been here the whole time

Ólöf Arnalds - Crazy Car (The SoundCloud Sessions)

One Little Independent Records

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