@user-138663860: thank you so much dear Sandy! :)

yes another comment to celebrate your beautiful voice and inspiration...

nice work.I like the vocals and the atmosphere!

love your voice and them drums,magic steph

@user-942389983: thank you for listening and saying :)

Rising singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion announces the release of her cathartic second album ‘You and Me, We are the Same’. The ten songs were written by Roxanne, then recorded and produced with Bernard Butler, during the two year period Roxanne was losing her father. However, ‘You and Me, We are the Same’ is not a sad album. It has moments of euphoria, of fun, of falling in love, as well as falling apart, because as Roxanne explains “all those things still happen, even in our darkest chapters.”

New single ‘Molecules’ is a slice of hypnotic, invigorating and intelligent dark-pop fusing elements of psych, folk, and a love of late 60s production, with Roxanne’s sound taking inspiration from artists like
The Beatles through to Regina Spektor. Roxanne’s pure vocal is both contrasted and complemented by the screaming violins and vigorous guitar riffs, the latter, alongside the video’s stylised black and
red silhouetted imagery, a nod to The White Stripes’ influence. The track’s drum sound is actually clapping and Roxanne hitting things like tambourines and floor toms in Bernard’s living room.

Lyrically, ‘Molecules’ raises some divine questions in its refrain “You can shout at molecules and see them react…that might be God, they might have mislabelled that.” As Roxanne explains “What if we got it wrong? If there is such a thing as divinity, maybe it’s more on a modular level.”

Roxanne currently resides in London but was brought up between Berlin and the West Midlands by her musician father. She has previously self-released one album ‘Heirlooms &amp; Hearsay’ (2017) and
played a staggering 600+ gigs to date, including festivals performances at Glastonbury and Cambridge Folk Festival, Lambchop and the Wainwright Sisters support slots, a packed-out album
launch show at Sackler Space, Roundhouse, London supporting the PRSF Women Make Music fund, a sold-out gig at The Lexington, London to launch her tour diary book ‘Tales from the Rails’, plus
several Europe and UK-wide tours, and in 2017-2018 two extensive USA tours. Roxanne’s incredible achievements as a pioneering independent artist have been recognised by FAC(Featured Artists Coalition) who invited her to join the Board Of Directors, advising and representing
artists alongside Imogen Heap, Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien and Blur’s Dave Rowntree. Roxanne also heads FM2U, a music conference specifically from and for musicians, which aims to empower &amp;
educate as well as create a strong community of artist.
More recently, 2020 saw Roxanne play one of the UK’s first virtual tours during the very early stages of lockdown, in support of #saveourvenues campaign, garnering coverage on Metro, Huffington Post and BBC News. This was followed by a special one-off live stream at London’s Moth Club broadcast to fans around the world and recorded for her 10” vinyl ‘Live at Moth Club’ EP. The same year Roxanne released the singles ‘Erase’ and ‘Heavy Lifting’ from the forthcoming ‘You and Me, We are the Same’ album, which collectively received huge radio support including plays on
BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing, Wales and BBC Radio London and Absolute Radio, with press coverage from the likes of Clash ‘Track of the Day’ and Independent’s Now Hear This playlist.

TRACKLIST:
Molecules
I Remember Everything
Delete Forget Repeat
Erase
Heavy Lifting
Ordinary Love
Smoke
I Know You
London, I Miss You
The Weight

Molecules (Radio Edit)

“Sweet Bitterness” was written while I was in my winter funk. I characterize that with a lack of motivation, longing for happier times, and just an overall feeling of wanting to escape to a different place. With this song, the desire to look at life like when you were a child is the most prominent source of inspiration. It’s the feeling of getting excited over the smallest things as a kid, and not experiencing that same amount of joy in current moments. I wanted to capture that feeling of insecurity in the lyrics, and the innocence of the old memories in the music. The hitting line in the song is “I wanna feel alive”, which encompasses the entire meaning of the song. I co-produced this song with Michael Jack, and worked with some other amazing musicians to create this song, and I’m glad it could come alive the way it did, and make me feel alive while watching it develop!

Single

Sweet Bitterness

Bog Witch

So Strange

Crimson (Claustraphobia Remix)

LOST

A lost Child

The Woody House

Only You

Time Travel

Breaking The Line is the closing track from Line of Flight's 'More Than Human' EP'.
This song extents their "80's electro-pop for the 21st Century" (Tom Robinson, BBC6Music) sound to include drums and piano, to a haunting yet powerful and plaintive effect. 
The song focuses on the tensions between individual and global paranoia, loss, and destruction; asking, hoping in the chorus that it's not all not too late.
The EP will be available on vinyl in October 2023, with 6 remixes of their tracks on the B-side. Released via Fairsound-Press On Vinyl.
"Tell me what I need to know, I need you more than ever. I'm here, don't say it's too late. Please let it be now or never"
The sophomore release by Lines of Flight 'More Than Human' is an E.P. of change. Standing in contrast to 'Signs of Life's reflective emotions, triggered by lockdown, 'More Than Human' begins the process of looking forward. They confront what is lying ahead. Lines of Flight explore what humans do to each other and why they do it; what we they do to other animals we share the world with; and what humans do to the planet. 

They saw loneliness, self-sabotage, isolation, paranoia and fear. They saw the natural world remaining here long after we are gone. They saw the pandemic fade away and things returning to 'normal'. They saw that things won't ever be the same but that so much hasn't changed. We are creatures of habit, we are creatures of comfort, we don't change unless we have to, or until it is too late.

More Than Human

Breaking The Line

video link: https://youtu.be/73GqwNM0-3I

our new song from Steph Sweet's new album "Edie"

written and performed by Steph Sweet and Marco Abbà. 
recorded and mixed by Silvano Audisio and Steph Sweet. @silvano-audisio @steph-sweet 

Steph: vocals, lyrics, trumpet
Marco: acoustic guitar and mellotron
Silvano: analog modular synth(noises & crunches)

Tokyo Rain

Cherry blossom in her hair
Just like the way that you remember her
Black eyelashes like feathers
The way that you remember her
 
In the Tokyo rain
In the Tokyo rain
 
She’s a wreckage on the street in the shadow of your life
Just like the way that you remember her
She’s the ghost you can’t forget
She’s that half-forgotten smile
Just like the way that you remember her
 
In the Tokyo rain
In the Tokyo rain
 
She’s holding onto you, like she’s frightened of the night
Just like the way that you remember her
She’s the ghost you can’t forget
She’s that half-forgotten smile
Just like the way that you remember her
 
In the Tokyo rain
In the Tokyo rain
 
Tokyo Rain ©SmokyMoonRecords 2023

Tokyo Rain - Steph Sweet and drunkeninstrumentcorporation

Sadly, I've been away from writing music for nearly a year now, but happily published three novels with Amazon in the last six months. If you would like to wander down that particular rabbit-hole, (and read some books about sex and death) here is the link to my author's website http://stevieoconnor99.wixsite.com/writer

Wolf’s Eye
Sometimes it feels like I spend my whole life,
Like a lamb walking amongst the wolves.
But wolves have feelings that get hurt too.
I’ll swap you my wool for a wolf’s eye, a wolf’s eye, a wolf’s eye-view.
I know sometimes horrors get to you.
Gets in the bones of you.
It gets to me too.
In the bones of you.
In the bones of you.

Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen and we were all new and shiny.
Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen and it was all new and shiny.

Sometimes it feels like I’ve spent my whole life,
Like a lamb walking amongst the wolves.
But wolves have feelings that get hurt too.
I’ll swap you my wool for a wolf’s eye-view.
I know sometimes horrors get to you.
It gets to me too.
I’m always looking out for you.
In the bones of you.
In the bones of you.

Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen and we were all new and shiny.
Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen and it was all new and shiny.

Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen.
Come-on darling, come and dance with me.
Like when we were seventeen.

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Steph Sweet ©2016 All Rights Reserved

The Hag and The Whore

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Edie Review " Thankfully Steph is still ploughing her particular esoteric furrow and has just released her new single Edie which is as good as anything she's released to date. It sounds like a darkly psychedelic theme from a long forgotten  left field spaghetti western and it's absorbing and utterly enchanting. If the Velvet Underground had been commissioned to do the title track for the Good, The Bad and the Ugly, this is how it would sound." The Devil Has The Best Tuna 13th May 2022

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Gigradar "British singer-songwriter Steph Sweet freely admits she’s a “refined taste” but it’s difficult to not be intrigued by her feisty, often contentious approach to pyschy acoustic indie-rock meets punk brand of music."

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"Steph Sweet has brought an interesting and new sound to this area.
With powerful vocals, and swirlly and crunchy guitar riffs that wouldn’t sound out of place in a late 90’s britpop, yet grounded somewhere more in the early 80’s. “All The Things” is dark, broody, a little strange, but also interestingly an ear worm that will grab you and not let go." 

" If the Bronte sisters formed a freak folk band then it'd probably sound something like this." 
Paul Kerr - The Devil Has The Best Tuna

" Placed somewhere between Devandra Banhart and Joanna Newsome, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist  -  vocals, guitars, drums, keyboards  -   combines a talent for bewitching songwriting, with a dreamy, lo-fi alt-gaze delivery."
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