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Featuring Ed Harcourt, the muse of this track is World War II Soviet sniper Roza Shanina. It's taken from Rae & Christian's forthcoming album 'Mercury Rising', released on Late Night Tales' new sub label "Night Time Stories" on 20th October 2013.

"While writing abstractly about love and loss and going to a club of an evening are all passable things to write songs about, sometimes you just want a folk-tinged ode to a Russian female sniper. Thankfully production duo Rae & Christian have delivered just that with their new single, The Ballad of Roza Shanina. Taken from their forthcoming third album, Mercury Rising – their first since 2001's Sleepwalking – it features the soft, crumpled croon of Ed Harcourt and is based on the life of Soviet sniper, Roza Shanina, who fought and died during World War II. Having put herself forward to serve her country following the death of three of her brothers in battle, she went on to become the first Soviet female sniper to be awarded the Order of Glory and died trying to shield a wounded soldier in 1945. It's this context that fuels the lilting strum of The Ballad, with Harcourt singing from the perspective of Shanina and a loved one, the chorus of "Over and over, I'll wait for you, my Roza, my Roza", mocked by the line that precedes it: "one day all the shooting stops...One day came too late for you and me".

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/30/rae-and-christian-the-ballad-of-roza-shanina

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Rae & Christian - The Ballad of Roza Shanina ft. Ed Harcourt

Happy Holidays... See You in 2014.... Peace, Love and Respect...FP...

Fred P.    Dawn

Words by Skip.  Music written by Darian Cunning.  Originally an RKDS song.  RKDS was for "Ryan Kevin Darian Skip."  This is the "Soulnatural" recording--Ryan on guitar, Kevin on drums, Skip on vocals.  A beautiful take.  This song was very personal to him.

Home (Soulnatural version)

This was the first song we ever wrote together.  The music was me, the lyrics all Skip.  He didn't write lyrics that often, but when he did--they were always personal to him.  After we wrote this song, we knew.  This is the "Soulnatural" recording, Skip on vox, Kevin on drums, me on guitar.  A simple 1-take recording we did one afternoon in my living room with an ADAT and a few mics.  Mixed by Will Sandalls.

Can U Try (Soulnatural version)

Skip singing, me on acoustic guitar.  This was how we worked.  I brought him a tune and he gave it wings.  This was the first demo we recorded of this song.   Early 2006.

Got No Reason (Acoustic Duo Demo)

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TRACKLIST
Actress – “Don’t”
Raury – “God’s Whisper”
Future Islands – “Seasons (Waiting on You) [BADBADNOTGOOD Reinterpretation]
Mac Demarco – “Chamber of Reflection”
Dean Blunt – “Molly & Aquafina”
Shuggie Otis – “Things We Like To Do”
Invisible Man’s Band – “Circles”
D’Angelo & The Vanguard – “Till It’s Done (Tutu)”
Flying Lotus – “Coronus, The Terminator”
Miguel – “hollywooddreams”
We Are Shining – “Hot Love (Instrumental)”
Cake – “Arco Arena”
Harold Budd – “Let Us Go Into The House of the Lord/Butterfly Sunday”
Larry Saunders – “Where Did Peace Go”

We Are Shining – Unholy Soul Xmas Mix

Ever Since

SETLIST:

01) Go Back To The Thing / Let Me Have It All (Sly & The Family Stone)
02) Cosmic Slop (Funkadelic)
03) Woman’s Gotta Have It (Bobby Womack)
04) The Line
05) You Caught Me Smilin’ / Africa Talks To You “The Asphalt Jungle” (Sly & The Family Stone)
06) Tell Me If You Still Care (The S.O.S. Band)
07) Our Love Has Died (Ohio Players)
08) The Root
09) Really Love
10) Alright
11) Mother’s Son (Curtis Mayfield)
12) New Position (Prince)
13) Africa
14) encore break
15) Lady


• Recorded from the crowd, 30' back right centerish.
• Fades, EQ, and levels adjusted in Logic.
• Audio at end of "Africa" spliced with Okayplayer.tv youtube audio (mic unplugged)
• Occasional commentary (and one of the finest swoons ever recorded) provided by my man Marty Bouchard of Higher Hands.
• photo credit: Okayplayer

Ever Since

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