Have you heard Sibylle Baier? I'm sure you'd like her. This piece is so beautiful, Russell and Catherine :)

spot on harmonising and fine combination of vocals.

That voice is just what you'd expect from an angel singing

This is really great, reminds me of pentangle. Lovely voice and beautiful guitar.

Mine

elkyn has released his debut album, ‘holy spirit social club’, which sees elkyn aka Joey Donnelly put his uncensored inner dialogue on paper, bravely airing the thoughts most wouldn’t dare expose. Whether that’s hurtful messages to one’s self, vague and elusive memories or lingering lessons from childhood, it’s all here on ‘holy spirit social club’, unfiltered and searingly honest. 

This sincerity is matched in the music. While the arrangements on ‘holy spirit social club’ are far more expansive than those heard on 2020 EP ‘beech’, tender finger picks and elkyn’s distinctive half-whisper still remain at its heart. Though the pain is palpable, its impact is meditative, enveloping the listener in a safe haven where you feel free to acknowledge the darker parts of yourself. 

Rainy regret-tinged evenings dominate ‘holy spirit social club’. ‘everything looks darker now’, reflects ruefully on how Donnelly shied away from an old friend who unexpectedly came to a rainy gig in Manchester. While ‘change’ finds him on the streets of Yorkshire, revisiting his family home and wondering whether he had fulfilled his father’s desire for him to ‘become a man’ - a sore point that resurfaces again and again on ‘holy spirit social club’. 

This unflinching honesty has seen elkyn become a streaming success in recent months, with the one-off singles that followed ‘beech’ making it on to a number of Spotify editorial playlists. After a lockdown spent demoing, he entered Nave Studios with producer Mark Gustafson, creating more complete songs than ever before. The process was so cathartic for Donnelly that he went on to name the album after the social club that once existed in the basement below the aforementioned studio. 

Whilst elkyn isn’t exactly kind to himself on ‘holy spirit social club’, it does see him lift a monumental weight from his shoulders. In elkyn’s words, it’s “an interim into writing nicer songs and being nicer to myself”. In creating ‘holy spirit social club’, he has faced demons that he’s shied away from for too long, finding a way back to himself that previously felt impossible. It’s only by sitting with your darkest moments that you can begin to glimpse the light - ‘holy spirit social club’ is proof of that and a whole lot more.

fell

This is a song I wrote for my dear Dad, Francis Lawrenson, who passed away on the 20th January. It is a deeply personal song and the most challenging and emotional piece of music I've ever written. He was a much loved dad, grandad, husband, little brother, friend and doctor, who will be sorely missed. The song is being released as a ‘pay what you want’ download. All the money raised will be donated to St Gemmas Hospice, who did such a fantastic job of caring for my Dad in his final months. 
Download & donate here ://josephlawrenson.bandcamp.com/track/largo

Largo

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With the constant barrage of noise from 'man made' things, fighting for our attention every waking second, many of us forget the soft call of natures voice.
'Jeanes' Debut EP 'Sleeping Leaves' tells stories of sleeping fields, breathing trees & drunken bees.

We are delighted that Folkstock Records are going to be releasing the tracks on this EP as singles over the next few weeks and the EP on 16th June.

iTunes order available here:
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/jeanes/id384485866

Bandcamp order available here (including limited edition cd):
https://folkstockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jeanes-sleeping-leaves-ep

If you have any questions or need the tracks for radio/review please email Helen Meissner at folkstock@hotmail.co.uk’

Valerian Hops has a hypnotic sleep inducing affect, and can induce calm, loosen inhibition & free the tongue, yet too much has disastrous consequences.
This song details a search for love through alcohol induced delirium, which often resulted in waking outside, in fields, by water, under the stars. Musically the song is influenced by Paul Giovanni's Wicker Man soundtrack, and has roots in English folk.

Barley, Hops & Yeast is the second track on the EP. It's been cleaned up and re mastered with strings.
Russ x

Release date:
16th June 2017
Written by Russell Jeanes
Guitar*: Scott Fraser
Vocal: Catherine Hershey

barley hops and yeast
fields are growing liquid sleep
barley johnnnn looking for love
drinks fields till he thinks nothing

mmmmmm repeat of intro

drinks fields of happiness
corn barley john
lonely slowly looks to finnd his love
though tender words succumb,
when barley drifts his strong
alcohol song

lost and all alone, he lays stoned
hops and barley fruit takes full hold
lost and all alone words lie dumb
when love she comes
lost in barleys song, fruit takes tongue,
come love please come

mmmmmm repeat of intro

barley hops and yeast,
seeded fields drift tongues to sleep
barley john looking for love
drinks fields till he thinks nothing

mmmmmm repeat of intro

Sleeping Leaves

Barley, Hops & Yeast

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JEANES - Barley, Hops & Yeast (alcohol song) - performed by Catherine Hershey

Collaboration with fellow Stanley Odd bandmate, Solareye, released 10th December 2021 on Southside Deluxe.  From forthcoming album 'Starter Pact'

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Man Walks Into A Bar

Forgive Yourself

Violet Hour

Thanks to BBC6 Music and Cerys Matthews for all her support with my song Simple Jayne. For anyone wanting to get hold of the track with strings included (as played by Cerys in June 2022), it is now included as part of the 'Sleeping Leaves' EP alongside the original on bandcamp here.
https://folkstockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jeanes-sleeping-leaves-ep
If you want to buy just 'Simple Jayne' and not the rest of the ep, then please purchase from all the usual outlets or from 'bandcamp' here.
https://russelljeanes.bandcamp.com/track/simple-jayne-with-wings-strings

Thank you

With the constant barrage of noise from 'man made' things, fighting for our attention every waking second, many of us forget the soft call of natures voice.
'Jeanes' songs tell stories of sleeping fields, breathing trees & drunken bees.

'Jeanes' single ‘Simple Jayne’ was originally recorded as a demo intended but never sent to John Peel. It was captured in a Parisian bedroom as the dawn chorus streamed inside from an open bedroom window. Originally released to critical acclaim in 2017, the new version is accompanied by a quartet of pastoral strings.

I once met a girl,
she chose slowly
…what she told me

we talked for a while,
…she said something
but then nothing,
..lips moved no words came

hides in her thoughts,
what she feels,
can’t be said,
they’re just her thoughts,
shes frightened others feel the same,
then she wont be unique again,
… just simple jayne.

with lapwing she plays
and humms slowly
….for him only …

whatever she plays
the bird smothers, with feathers
no words can away

hides in wood groves,
with eyes never painted,
fringe grown past nose.
afraid if others hear her words,
her deepest thoughts wont be just hers
shes hiding words

I once met a girl she chose slowly what she told me.

Simple Jayne (With Wings & Strings)

Release date:
22 June 2022

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Vice Vice Vice

Wild being
You have life and love
And everything is free
Wild being
You don't have to prove
That you're allowed to breathe
Shiny bits of metal
Singing 'let me eat'
Tiny little numbers
In their electronic pockets

Wild being
You are born from soil
And that's where you return
Wild being
You are made of earth
And now we watch it burn
Shiny bits of metal
Singing 'let me eat'
Tiny little numbers
In their electronic pockets

There are so many of us
There are so many of us
There are so many of us
So so so so so so so so so so so

Many of us

Wild Being

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BRAND NEW REMIX I DID FOR W&W...THEY ASKED ME TO DO IT FOR THEM AT ULTRA AND SINCE IM SUCH A NICE GUY AND A GOOD FRIEND I DID SOOOO HERE IT IS.... THE SECOND DROP IS MY FAVORITE PART :)

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22 more days till my album comes out!!!! WWWWWWEEEHAAWWWWWWWW if you pre ordered the album already (WHICH YOU SHOULD HAVE!!!) my new song with martin garrix would have auto downloaded to your itunes today! I was staying in amsterdam for a week so we hung out i had dinner with his parents and we made this song. love martin and i feel like him and i hit this song out of the park ENJOY!!

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My music taste hasn't evolved since 2012.

‘Delighted that my music has had so many plays on BBC Radio 6 Music, & across the BBC, also in America, Canada and Europe, special thanks to Tom Robinson, Cerys Matthews and BBC Introducing! Humbled and proud at the response my songs have been getting. Thank you everyone for your support’.

Songs about sleeping fields, breathing trees & drunken bees. Recorded by a collective of soundcloud artists. Written in Yorkshire woods . Recorded in fields, garden's & bedrooms across Europe & America.

Purchase from iTunes here
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/jeanes/id384485866

Listen on Spotify here:
https://play.spotify.com/album/7HEwJWNxSIYQUimxlxjCna?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

Purchase 'Sleeping Leaves EP' from Bandcamp here (including limited edition CD):
https://folkstockrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jeanes-sleeping-leaves-ep

Words and music: Russell Jeanes,
Voices: Catherine Hershey, Emily Zornado, Léa Decan, Dougie Harley.
Additional guitar: Scott Fraser
Strings: Tom Sidebottom

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kind words ...
"Nobody out there sounds quite like Russ Jeanes – The taste of honey is almost tangible. Pure pastoral nectar from the heart of Northern England – accept no substitute”
Tom Robinson - BBC 6 Music

“Absolutely Mesmerising, beautiful”
Robert Macfarlane (Author of The Lost Words)

"it's gorgeous - when you first hear Simple Jayne, it immediately goes into your top 100 songs that you take with you forever”
Cerys Matthews - BBC 6 Music

The delicate, pure folk from the mysterious Russell Jeanes is spellbinding,
bewitching, beguiling and breathtakingly beautiful”
The Devil has the Best Tuna

"Imagine walking through the woods, taking a trip back to the 1960s with Andy Warhol & Velvet Underground”
Jericho Keys - BBC Radio

"Innocence and beauty finds its voice”
Johnno Casson

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Thanks to FOTN, Tom Robinson, Cerys Matthews, BBC6 Music, WFMU, Jericho Keys, Alan Raw, BBC Wales, and a myriad of wonderful radio shows across the planet for making it possible for the songs to be heard.

JEANES - Barley, Hops & Yeast (alcohol song) - performed by Catherine Hershey

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