My name will be lion
Letting down my mane, learning how to be quiet
My name will be silence
Learning how to pray, how to walk away

Don't just stand there looking at me
Don't just stand there leaning on me
Don't just stand there telling me who you want to be
Don't just stand there telling me we're gonna have to see

My name will be lion
Letting down my mane, learning how to be quiet
My name will be silence
Learning how to pray, how to walk away

Don't just sit there staring at me
Don't just sit there waiting for me
Don't just sit there asking me for another dream
Don't just sit there telling me that you wanna leave

My name will be lion
Letting down my mane, learning how to be quiet
My name will be silence
Learning how to pray, how to walk away

Lion

Masters

Weathersby

"We Don't Want Your Tiny Hands, Anywhere Near Our Underpants"

This is the chant that Fiona Apple created for the "Women’s March" in Washington, DC January 21st, 2017. She recorded it on a phone. 
m-Dub (Michael Whalen)produced the track and the mix. 

https://www.womensmarch.com

"Tiny Hands" Women's March Chant (featuring Fiona Apple)

YES I PRODUCED IT (AND RECORDED IT, AND MIXED IT, AND MASTERED IT)

<3 THIS IS MY FIRST SELF RELEASE ON MY NEW ARTIST LABEL, QUACKHOUSE RECORDS <3

ART BY SYDNEY JONES

I Can Do It Myself

Free Download

"This Is How I Love"
artwork: Pink Naturebits by Anastasia Tumanova
www.anastasiatumanova.com

Vox, Keys: Kaila Baće
Drums: Matt Schory
Bass, Organ: Luke Baće
Synth: Rob Shelton

Recorded at Tiny Telephone Oakland by Rob Shelton
Mixed and Mastered by Bijan Sharifi

Lyrics:
Dark nights big dreams
Hoping for a thing I cannot see
Hoping to believe what cannot be
Hoping I was wrong

Won’t ‘pologize
I will speak my mind
Won’t run and hide
Won’t say that I’m fine
But here’s the truth, I’m glad it’s finally time

Ooo Ooo

And here we are everything has stopped
And here we march forward then apart
Can you hear that- the beating of our hearts

It’s coming now
Okay to be afraid
It’s moving now
Okay to feel betrayed
I’ll show you how to get out of the way

Cuz this is how I love

I’ve worn a mask
Time to take it off
I’ve worn my guilt
Now it’s time to talk
Here is a path which way will you walk

Move over now
Get out of the way
Be gone, move out
Time to make some space
It may be dark but you can see my face

And this is how I love

This Is How I Love

tiffanytopol.com/personal song

I was a rebel, I was young
Every choice I made, I made to feel something like love
There was a dark and hollow time
When miracles would only come in empty highs

And in the space between Atlantic and Omaha
I came to and found that I loved you more than all of it

We’ve made circles ‘round the sun 
fast as fire out the barrel of a gun
And we’ve had minutes filled with sand
But I never seem to hear the ticking hand

When the world cracks at its crust 
I look up and pray for holy hands to steady us
But when I pull my eyes down from the sky
my miracle is right beside me 
 
And in the space between meeting and leaving this form
Every day’s the day that I love you more than before

I Love You More (feat. Tim Tierney)

A classic, played by the Tennessee Mountain Fox Chasers. 

Cesar Moreno, Mandolin
Max Rainwater, Fiddle
Yates Webb, Guitar

Northern White Clouds

Produced by Mike Sempert
Written and Arranged by Mike Sempert © 2013 (War of Vines/ BMI)


Robert Cheek Recorded drums for this album at The Hangar Studios in Sacramento.
Mike Sempert and Blake Henderson Recorded everything else at various locations in Oakland, mostly their homes and at a wood shed with a Steinway Grand in it.
Jay and Ian Pellicci Recorded the Grand Piano for "Drones" years ago at New, Improved Studios.

Mixed by Robert Cheek and Mike Sempert at the Hangar.
Additional mixing by Mike Sempert and Blake Henderson in Oakland.  


Performed by:

Mike Sempert- Voice,  Piano, Organ, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, Synths, Electric Guitar,  
Acoustic Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar, Electric Bass (4, 10), Percussion (track 8, 12)

Colin Fahrner- Drums 

Jill Heinke- Electric Bass 

Sonya Cotton- Singing 

Kacey Johansing and Emily Ritz - Singing (5, 8)

Anton Patzner- Violins 

Andy Strain- Trombones 

Daniel Blake- Tenor Saxophone 

Nick Aives- Electric Bass (5, 8)

Ezra Lipp- Brushes and Percussion (9, 12)

Andrew Maguire- Vibraphone 

Special thanks to Blake Henderson, all the players and the tremendous community of music-makers in Oakland, my family and Liz.



Survival

This is me playing Tony Trischka's arrangement of Big Sciota on my Deering Deluxe banjo.

Big Sciota

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