Backing composed by me, bass and nylon and Fender guitars by Eliot Vlatko.

Written in late March on a Wednesday, recorded on Thursday, vocal on Friday and a month laboring over string arrangements and mixing. When I was working on the strings, Geographe Bay helped me to focus. In my teens, in Busselton on holidays and discovering contemporary music. Sunsets at the beachside eating fish and chips. Thank you Rob Ellis for the empathetic bass track, and he'll let me know soon if I included the one he liked.

Sunlight (Geographe Bay)

Before You Run (Previously titled Learn to...)
words and music Rob ellis c2001
I feel so guilty too 
but what else can we do except learn to agree to agree 
get a government with decree to fight for and against the rising sea
Sir Thomas Crapper you built a crapper but this technology was far too advanced for a people who couldn’t take responsibility 
for what went into and came out of their own bodies…. 
learn to walk….
Men of industry you took the entirety of your souls and mine and spent the earth to pay for the disharmony and now no one will ever agree
that there’s a choice for consumer junkies like me to go cold turkey to be reborn and nurture pure seeds 
(we just can’t conceive) call it infertility? 
Learn to walk before you run!
Oh men of god you built a clock to regulate your hours of spirituality
 But a time piece can’t measure the peace you don’t feel at the end of the day learn to crawl from the primordial slime never forget the time when you knew much more than you could ever learn there’s an ape shadowing me but there’s something else I can’t really see
A logic that rapes and plunders all that breathes and more you can’t really explain to me learn to agree because you know it’s not intellectualisation that planted the seed

Before You Run.Remix(Circa2005)

Song from Shakespeare's The Tempest sung by Ariel. Atmospheric and ethereal, suggesting deep sea sounds.

Ariel Full Fathom Five

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Wish I Knew

West River Drive

Restless Heart

Lemon duck and duck à l’orange
Duck from the flotsam and the flying frying pan
Duck from the doctor, the quack’s on his way
Gastroenteritis 

How was your festive season? Any fowl deeds? Well, Orinj wasn't quite ready for the table, and his (or her) revenge was to make sure the pâté was too ready. Thank you to ol' Perth pals Bryan Paul and Russell Bell for vocally supporting Orinj.

Pamela's Pet

What should never be discussed; peligion and rolitics. Bad, bad PR... stop it. Don't be a follower.

I was a follower, and you lead me astray
You promised me the future and stole my yesterday.
Don’t be wholly, a follower.

I was a follower, and you made me your prey
You pledged to me speak the truth, and still I’m my mystery.
Don’t be blindly, a follower.

Follower

Autumn Longing

For our ever-smiling Aunty Phyl, giving her an opportunity to lift her spirits when she's not lifting her spirits ;-)

That Seems To Be Her Way

Another song from the 80s. When someone who has left this world and visits you in a dream, it always feels significant and important even if you can’t say exactly why.  Additional keyboards, processing and inspiration by Wayne Johnson.

Autumn Longing

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