I love every single piece that you've created <3

Goldmund - In a Notebook

A song celebrating the ordinary things of life... for... that's what life is made of...

That's What Life Is Made Of

'Supermoon' out Feb 17!
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S. Carey - Neverending Fountain (alt. Version)

Hyperballad is written by Björk
Arranged by Luke Howard and Ben Abraham
Mixed by Hadyn Buxton
Mastered by Mandy Parnell

I love this song.

'Hyperballad' came out as a single 20 years ago today (Feb 12, 1996).

To celebrate the fact, I approached some talented friends to help me work on a cover — composer Luke Howard and producer Tim Shiel.

The collaboration resulted in two beautiful versions that I am very proud to be a part of.

Luke's string arrangement makes the song feel like it could be a hundred years old; a testament to Björk's timeless songwriting. Tim's version, with electronic sparseness that pays homage to the original, reminds me that the song could have come out yesterday and it would still be fresh and arresting, and like nothing I've heard.

The lyrics have also become a personal narration for the stage of life I find myself in. I suppose that's what compelled me to want to record it. The exhaling that comes with singing the line "to be safe up here with you" is one of the song's many gifts.

Songs like this feel alive to me.

It's daunting to interpret such a canonised work and the original certainly didn't need to be added to or taken away from.

So with the utmost respect, here are the efforts of three friends who live on the other side of the world from this remarkable artist, celebrating her work with work of our own.

You can listen to Tim's version here: https://soundcloud.com/benabraham/hyperballad-with-tim-shiel

Hyperballad with Luke Howard

This composition is inspired by the amazing Album "Riceboy Sleeps".
With Riceboy Sleeps Jonsi&Alex have created true beauty.
All Sounds are recorded and produced by myself.



Riceboy Sleeps (a tribute to Jónsi Birgisson & Alex Somers)

Northern Horizons

The Things She Wanted To Say.

Soma Dreams. From the Rhian Sheehan album A Quiet Divide (loop/kobalt). Available here: hyperurl.co/AQuietDivide

See the Soma Dreams Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGNDVj9EVX4

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A Quiet Divide

Soma Dreams

Dave Noyes, Pat Corrigan, Todd Hutchison, Jason Ingalls, and Sarah Ramey

Portland, Maine

2004

Love - Seekonk

The Ride

Don't Feel Much Like Me

First song from the upcoming album "Ceremonies". Release date September 2013.

Bells Bleed & Bloom (Radio Edit)

Preorder my fourth album 'Break Me Open' now! 
https://s-carey.ffm.to/break-me-open
Out 4/22/22 via Jagjaguwar.

In October, I spent a few days out in Montana with a couple close friends working on a cabin. The last day we were there, we finished early and went to the trout stream two miles down the road for some fly fishing. It became one of those afternoons where everything fell into place. Autumn’s air was brisk but warm enough to take the gloves off. Between casts, we zoned out in the bluebird skies with drifting clouds overhead. It took some doing, but we eventually figured out what the trout were eating. Laughs and hi-fives were plentiful, but also the continuous drone of the current was contemplative. It had been over a year since my marriage fell apart, nine months since my dad passed; I was a different person in a way. I sat on the bank of the freestone river and was
overwhelmed with two words: gratitude and generosity. I ruminated on those words for a while, continuing to move forward, vowing to stay present and vulnerable. At dusk, the crescent moon peered out above the mountains, and the stars that night, I’ll never forget.

Change is good. Fucking hard, but good.

For many, to say the last two years have been difficult would be an understatement. Stress and uncertainty about life in general, family, friends, kids, even Mother Earth has grown exponentially. There is a heaviness to human consciousness right now, a darkness at the surface. As a songwriter, I get to channel these feelings into songs. In Break Me Open, I confronted darkness, I wrote about fear, I looked at love from different angles, I left it all out on the field. These past couple years have been the hardest of my life: full of grief, loss, and change. I feel like I had two choices. I could run from life, turn away, grow cold, resort to drugs, run and keep running. Or, I could give myself a deep look within. I could dig deep where the pain lives, where fear is festering, to try shed a new skin and come back a better person.

Everyone is so far from perfect.

This is not a “divorce” album. And while going through that has shook me to my core, leaving me at times, wondering who I am, and where to go, this record is bigger. It’s about love - past, present, and future. It’s about fatherhood - the overwhelming feeling of deep love for my kids and the melancholy of watching them grow up right before my eyes. It’s about accepting my faults and wrongdoings, exposing myself, and trying to know myself better than I did the day before. But above the darkness, it’s a message of hope, honesty, and growth. It’s a call to be vulnerable:

Break Me Open.

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