Wilderness 
by Rose Carrousel

This track will be available on Rose Carrousel's debut EP to be released in 2017. 

Credits: 
Written, recorded and mixed by Heidi Edmonds (nee Millington)
Lyrics: Heidi Edmonds
Composition: Heidi Edmonds
Arrangement: Heidi Edmonds
Production: Heidi Edmonds
Engineering: Heidi Edmonds
Except Monkey Orchestra: produced and engineered by Scott Horscroft 
Mixing: Heidi Edmonds and John Teh
Mastering: Heidi Edmonds, John Teh and finalised by Dave Neil 

Vocals: Heidi Edmonds
Backing Vocals: Heidi Edmonds and Joe Guerzo 
Monkey Orchestra: Scott Horscroft and Heidi Edmonds
Guitar and E-Bow: Ian Tully
Sewing Machine: Jess Rankine
Percussion: Heidi Edmonds and Matt O'Neill

Thanks to everyone who played, sang or produced for this track. Thanks to my friends and family for their support and inspiration. With special thanks to Carly, Donna and Michelle from the Lady Electronica collective for mentoring, friendship and support. Thanks also to my new friends at the Edge's Producers Club for their ideas, suggestions, and inspiration. Thanks also to Naomi, Sharmila, Doug, Amorina and Matt Darke for production suggestions. This track is dedicated with love to Winston and Lillian Muscio and Julie Lovell for their love and support to finish production of this track.

Along with "Feathers" and "Pinot Noir", this is the third and final track I produced as part of a skills and development grant for music production for the Lady Electronica collective, supported by the Australia Council and Queensland University of Technology.

This project has received financial assistance and support from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland University of Technology.

Lyrics: 
Verse: 
Bright eyes, I get a little hopeful 
that when I wake up you'll be there
sunlight in your hair

There's a wilderness in you 
I adventure to
I hold my breath
this calmness as I hold you
You're so exciting 
A wild thing 
between these sheets

Chorus: 
I wake up make you breakfast 
I wonder, could you love me 
More than just in my dreams 
I'm high on you 
This bright light in your words 
You speak the truth or do you?

Verse: 
There's this beast in you 
Wants to consume me 
And leave me tomorrow 
And I'm beautiful still

The owls in the forest say 
"He'll break your heart" 
But I go willingly 
Cos that's the only game you know

Chorus.

Verse: 
Maybe I'll find 
Some new lover tomorrow 

But I'll still remember you
And how I tried so hard 
Not to need you tonight 
And how tomorrow 
By the ocean 
With the birds in my hair 
I'm still yours 
My love on this one night stand 
My love, my night time dare

Chorus.

Wilderness

This is the first of my electro tracks. I hope you enjoy it. I'd love to hear what you think. My next tracks will be more folktronica but this one wanted to be electro.

Massive thanks to Lady Electronica and Quan Yeomans for helping this track see the light of day, and especially John Teh and Carly Dickenson for their excellent production assistance.

Enjoy xxx

Lyrics by Heidi Edmonds (nee Millington) 
Composed by Heidi Edmonds
Produced by Heidi Edmonds 
Engineered by Heidi Edmonds
Mixed by  Heidi Edmonds and John Teh
Mastered by Dave Neil 

Credits: 
Heidi Edmonds: vocals, synths, guitar, programming
Quan Yeomans: kick drum sound

caught up in the headlights 
having a little wine 
i'm in a little taxi 
following you to your house 

i hope in 20 years time 
you'll see this in a good light 
you won't just think i'm crazy 
you won't just think i'm out of control oh 

ch: 
i love you but you know 
its time to let it all go 
i' m banging on your window 
oh 

am i out of control 
am i losing it all? 

i see you in your perfection 
it drives me kind of crazy 
I see you you're perfection 
i know you think i'm hazy 

..Oh am I out of control? 
darling ? oh.. 

i saw you at my party 
i was having a little wine 
you tell me not to play games 
but why are you even here baby? 

ch: 
i love you but you know 
its time to let it all go 
im banging on your window 
oh 

am i out of control 
am i losing it all? 

ch: 
i love you but you know 
its time to let it all go 
im banging on your window 
oh

Pinot Noir

This is a remix of my Rose Carrousel track "Wilderness" by Eigen Lights (Ian Tully). Thanks Ian!

Features: 
Ian Tully (Eigen Lights): composition and production 
Heidi Edmonds (nee Millington) (Rose Carrousel): vocals, composition and production 
Joe Guerzo: vocals
The Monkey Orchestra in this track was produced and engineered by Scott Horscroft 

With thanks from both Ian and myself to The Edge Producer's Club!

Wilderness (Eigen Lights Remix)

Living in the Long Future 

The lyrics in this track were developed in collaboration with Guy Lane from the Long Future Foundation http://www.longfuture.org/. Please check out the excellent work the foundation is doing to educate business leaders as well as the public about climate change mitigation. The music in this track is based on compositions I have written and produced with Anthony Smith over the years. 

We live in a time where we all need to become engaged, educated and informed about what we can do to help save our planet for our children and future generations. Not to mention the critters, because we don’t want to live on a lonely planet!! 

We need to make changes in our own lives but we need to do it collectively to make a difference. As well as making smart and informed choices in our own lives, we need to join the important movements that are working to save our planet! We can do this! We want our children to live in a Long Future. 

Solar panels on one house and one electric car in your garage might not make enough of a difference but if everyone who can buys them and bring the costs down by supporting the suppliers then we can help new technology thrive. If we all switch to green power options then the power companies can’t keep selling us coal based power. Petition your governments. Get involved. Get educated. This is as important as learning how to cook, how to budget. We all need to learn how to save our planet. 

Here is my first effort at a song about this important issue. I hope you find it inspiring as much as you may find the start sad. 

Image by Richard Nolan (unsplash.com/richienolan)

Big Love xx Heidi 

Living in the Long Future
Lyrics by Guy Lane and Heidi Edmonds
Music by Heidi Edmonds and Anthony Smith 

Verse 1 (sad stuff): 
40% of the plankton are gone
We face ecological collapse
Could be the sixth extinction 
Ocean acidification 
It’s a global environmental emergency 
Abrupt climate change 
We’re living in the Anthropocene
 Breaking through planetary boundaries 
Four of nine already broken
On our way to breaking more 

Chorus 1: 
Got to stop doing this. Heading for a short future 
Got to get into this 
Transition. Transition to the long future 
The birthright of humanity 

Verse 2 (good stuff): 
Got to get in sync with nature 
Wide spread uptake of renewable energy 
Solar panels. Solar panels glinting in the sun 
Working within planetary boundaries 
Stabilise atmospheric CO2 
Sustainable business nurtures:  
Social and environmental capital 
There are so many ways to make clean energy 
Regrowing natural capital 

Chorus: 
Gotto stop doing this heading for a short future 
Got to get into this. Transition. Transition to the long future 
The birthright of humanity 

Outro: 
Safe within the habitable zone
Rigorous energy efficiency 
Stabilising atmospheric CO2
Solar panels glinting in the sun 
The widespread uptake of renewable energy
Get back in sync with nature 
Heading for a long future 
We can keep doing this forever living in the long future. 
It’s the birthright of the human family 
Living in the long future

Living in the Long Future

Here it is! The mastered version. Thanks to every one for their feedback and suggestions. Hope you like it. If you'd like a copy you can buy one at bandcamp: https://rosecarrousel.bandcamp.com/track/love-for-our-future

You can watch the video here: https://youtu.be/o4zoxz3vBO8

This song is one that I hope will help us feel connected and uplifted as we all work together to keep our planet and it's climate safe for our little ones, and our young people. 

Love for our Future
Heidi Edmonds

Verse:
This is the sound of my heart beating
And a little heart beating, beating next to mine
And there’s a little billion heart beats beating, keeping time
When I hold my little loves in my arms I wonder how can I best show love for our future
Show love for our future

Clean air, green trees, little birds tweeting
It’s amazing this place we live
I want these wonderful things
in my girls' futures

Chorus:
Buy less
Love More
Speak up
For the future of those that we adore

Its time for us
to be superheroes
and save
the world

repeat chorus

break
don’t need these big shiny things
just time for conversations and love
don’t need these big shiny things
just a healthy planet and food to eat

Verse 2:

This is my heart beating
These are my feet stomping
Won’t you come and join the dance to do all we can
to show love to the future, show love for our future

Tend your garden
Buy an education
For a little girl on the other side of the world
Put solar panels on your roof darling

we can keep our plant safe for the ones we love
for our little ones

Second Chorus:
Buy less
Love More
Speak up
For the future of those that we adore

Its time for us
to be superheroes
and save
the world

Outro:
we’re going to weather this together
we’re going to weather this together
keep the coal on the ground and the solar panels high on the roof
we’re going to weather this together
we’re going to weather this together
see the birds in the sky and these green trees and the waves crashing to the shore

Buy less
Love More
Speak up
For the future of those that we adore

for the future of those that we adore

****

Artwork by Stella and Lucinda Edmonds
Vocals, lyrics, music and production: Heidi Edmonds 
Mastered by Mastered by Shuhandz at Sapphire Studios (shuhandz.com) 

****

Want to read more:
this song is inspired by:
www.drawdown.org/
www.longfuture.org/
climatesafety.net/climateemergencypetition/
www.deartomorrow.org/en/home/

dearest darling everyone,
yes climate change is real
but its actually so urgent and so dangerous, that unless we get our emissions under control, climate change will drastically impact the lives of the children of the world being born now, if not those of us already adults. its affecting people and creatures in many places across the world right now. lets all get our super hero capes on and do all we can!!

i wanted this song to be a happy uplifting song to get me and my friends into a good headspace for what we need to do to save the planet! i hope you might enjoy listening to it to feel supported in the big and small things you are doing to look after our planet and the future of the folks on it

get aware, get educated, get inspired, get connected, stay positive, nourish the world and yourselves with a less is more attitude. we all have to be advocates and brave self-educators to get our planet back in balance. we can do it!!

read more at my cc blog: www.climatekiss.com

lots of love 
Heidi (Rose Carrousel)
www.rosecarrousel.com

Thanks to:
Thanks to Julie Lovell, Knox Lovell, James Edmonds, Gemma Tidemann, Kate Walton, Alexandra McCallum, Fflur Collier, Elissa Jenkins, Guy Lane, David Hood, Jess Rankine, Katherine David, Mark Cocquio, Richie Coster and Damien Murtagh-Galea for your feedback, ideas,inspiration, listening and support. xx

Dedicated to my daughters, Lucinda and Stella, my step-kids Mars and Nellie, and my nieces, Savannah, Holly and Annabelle.

Love for Our Future

Living in the Long Future (mastered version) 

The lyrics in this track were developed in collaboration with Guy Lane from the Long Future Foundation www.longfuture.org/. Please check out the excellent work the foundation is doing to educate business leaders as well as the public about climate change mitigation. The music in this track is based on compositions I have written and produced with Anthony Smith over the years.

We live in a time where we all need to become engaged, educated and informed about what we can do to help save our planet for our children and future generations. Not to mention the critters, because we don’t want to live on a lonely planet!!

We need to make changes in our own lives but we need to do it collectively to make a difference. As well as making smart and informed choices in our own lives, we need to join the important movements that are working to save our planet! We can do this! We want our children to live in a Long Future.

Solar panels on one house and one electric car in your garage might not make enough of a difference but if everyone who can buys them and bring the costs down by supporting the suppliers then we can help new technology thrive. If we all switch to green power options then the power companies can’t keep selling us coal based power. Petition your governments. Get involved. Get educated. This is as important as learning how to cook, how to budget. We all need to learn how to save our planet.

Here is my first effort at a song about this important issue. I hope you find it inspiring as much as you may find the start sad.

Credits: 
Lyrics: Heidi Edmonds and Guy Lane
Vocals: Heidi Edmonds 
Music: Heidi Edmonds and Anthony Smith 
Production: Heidi Edmonds and Anthony Smith 
Mastered by: Mastered by Shuhandz at Sapphire Studios (shuhandz.com) 
Image by Richard Nolan (unsplash.com/richienolan)

Big Love xx Heidi

Living in the Long Future
Lyrics by Guy Lane and Heidi Edmonds
Music by Heidi Edmonds and Anthony Smith

Verse 1 (sad stuff):
40% of the plankton are gone
We face ecological collapse
Could be the sixth extinction
Ocean acidification
It’s a global environmental emergency
Abrupt climate change
We’re living in the Anthropocene
Breaking through planetary boundaries
Four of nine already broken
On our way to breaking more

Chorus 1:
Got to stop doing this. Heading for a short future
Got to get into this
Transition. Transition to the long future
The birthright of humanity

Verse 2 (good stuff):
Got to get in sync with nature
Wide spread uptake of renewable energy
Solar panels. Solar panels glinting in the sun
Working within planetary boundaries
Stabilise atmospheric CO2
Sustainable business nurtures:
Social and environmental capital
There are so many ways to make clean energy
Regrowing natural capital

Chorus:
Gotto stop doing this heading for a short future
Got to get into this. Transition. Transition to the long future
The birthright of humanity

Outro:
Safe within the habitable zone
Rigorous energy efficiency
Stabilising atmospheric CO2
Solar panels glinting in the sun
The widespread uptake of renewable energy
Get back in sync with nature
Heading for a long future
We can keep doing this forever living in the long future.
It’s the birthright of the human family
Living in the long future

My music: www.rosecarrousel.com / https://www.facebook.com/rose.carrousel/

My blog: www.climatekiss.com / https://www.facebook.com/climatekiss/

Living in the Long Future - Remastered

Recorded as part of the Queensland University of Technology Independent Music Project's 100 Songs Project 2011
Released on Twelve : The Best Of IMP's 100 Songs Project 2011
  
Composed by: Heidi Edmonds (nee Millington), Anthony Smith and Fflur Collier 
Lyrics by: Heidi Edmonds 
Performed by: My Cerulean Heart featuring Heidi from Rose Carrousel 
Vocals: Heidi Edmonds, Backing vocals: Fflur Collier and Heidi Edmonds 
Produced by Julian Knowles and Donna Hewitt @ Gasworks Studios with pre-production by Heidi Millington and Anthony Smith
Mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound, New York  
http://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/my-cerulean-heart/id457742761

Street Lights - My Cerulean Heart (100 Songs mix)

Rose Carrousel 
Feathers 
 
Lyrics by Heidi Millington and Phil Graham
Composed by Heidi Millington 
Produced by Phil Graham, Heidi Millington and Carly Dickenson
Engineered by Phil Graham, Yanto Browning and Heidi Millington 
Mixed by Phil Graham 
Mastered by Dave Neil 
Artwork by Alyssa Bates 

www.facebook.com/rose.carrousel

Credits: 
Heidi Millington: vocals, synths, guitar, programming
Carly Dickenson: backing vocals 
Wally De Backer: guitar drone 
Peter Willersdorf: bass 
Naomi Sunderland: drums and percussion
Phil Graham: Programming 
Recorded at Phil’s house, Heidi’s house, Gasworks Studio and Silver and Scout. 
Thanks to Jess Rankine for her live sewing. With thanks to Lady Electronica and Wally De Backer for mentoring to produce this track. Thanks to Liam Griffin for arrangement ideas. Thanks to Gordon White for lyric ideas. Thanks as always to my friends and family. 
This project has received financial assistance and support from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Queensland University of Technology.

Lyrics:  
(Millington and Graham 2012) 
Don't worry so much, keep my head up 
I have never managed to stay 
Friends with anyone before 
But I've never felt this way before 

You matter so much, darling 
When I see you I catch my breath 
I've got to swallow my pride 
Got to keep my heart safe  

Chorus:
You were all I ever wanted 
You were all I ever needed 
How'd our words become disaster? 
I'll try to speak without the words
Exploding 
 
Verse: 
You matter so much,  darling 
You were everything I wanted
You were all I ever needed 
We could stitch it  up, darling

I guess I said something wrong 
and it lead to this disaster? 
I still feel like I belong to you 

Chorus: 
You were all I ever wanted 
You were all I ever needed 
How'd our words become disaster? 
I'll try to speak without the words
Exploding 

Break: 
You... matter so much darling 
You were  all I ever wanted
I swear, Angel

You…you were all I ever wanted 
You were all I ever needed 
I'll try to speak without the words

Chorus:  
You were all I ever wanted 
You were All I ever needed 
How'd our words become disaster? 
I'll try to speak without the words
Exploding

You were all I ever wanted 
You were All I ever needed 
How'd our words become disaster? 
I'll try to speak without the words
Exploding

Feathers

Rose Carrousel is : a singer-songwriter who crafts whimsical, shimmery folktronica and is delving into climate-science-dance-pop ?
http://soundcloud.com/rosecarrousel
http://www.triplejunearthed.com/rosecarrousel
http://www.facebook.com/rose.carrousel

Plus here’s some of my old stuff:
Dizzygotheca (https://myspace.com/dizzygotheca/music/songs) 
My Cerulean Heart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5X8aggZ5SQ)

Rose Carrousel is: a singer-songwriter-producer who crafts whimsical, shimmery folktronica. Unguarded, intimate, optimistic story telling blends with shimmery, glitchy electronica,vintage beats, acoustic instruments and subtle harmonies to make my folktronica and lo-fi electro. I write, record and produce my heart-on-sleeve, melody laced creations. I am joined on stage by Jess Rankine who sews new beautiful things live, yes with a sewing machine. Mechatronic sound controllers which I design, code and builds myself filter vocals and the sounds of sewing machines and other household domestic items to infuse the sound palate with familiar yet unexpected organic textures.

If you’d like to buy some of my solo music, mysolo debut EP “Little Stars”, a collection of love songs, is available on bandcamp (https://rosecarrousel.bandcamp.com/album/little-stars). 

If you would like to listen to my climate change inspired track “Living in the Long Future” for inspiration to make change in the world, please visit my soundcloud. I’ve got a new track up now too called “Love for our future” which is more of a science-dance-pop song. I hope its uplifting and inspiring as we all want a safe climate for our kids’ futures.

The name Rose Carrousel is inspired by the ideas of looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses…the way a carousel turns and spins and offers constantly new perspectives. And Rose Carrousel references the French spelling to connect with my affection for the joy of French culture and the original carousel in Montmartre that inspired the name.

In Rose Carrousel I develop further earlier experimental electronic music that I made with My Cerulean Heart and Dizzygotheca. After exploring sentimental songs, and maybe because I finally finished my environmental science PhD, not to mention falling ever in love with my little girls, I’m exploring ideas about educating and inspiring people to protect our safe climate to keep our environment and, most importantly, our children, safe and healthy in the future.

I have performed or released in France, England, the USA, Slovakia, and Australia. I have been Highly Commended in the Queensland Song of the Year (2012, 2013). My track “Street Lights” was selected for inclusion on “Twelve: The Best of IMP’s 100 Songs Project 2011” (part of QUT’s Independent Music Project (IMP)) and my track “Little Beat” was nominated for a QSong Award (2008). Through the Lady Electronic collective I am a successful Australia Council and Arts Queensland grant recipient. I have been mentored by and collaborated with Wally De Backer, Quan Yeomans, Scott Horscroft, Lawrence English, Julian Knowles, Donna Hewitt, Phil Graham, Mike Howlett and others. I use Ableton Live software. My vocal and production styles have been compared with New Buffalo, The Postal Service, Stars and Beach House.

Contact: rosecarrouselmusic@gmail.com

Rose Carrousel

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