A song about our impressions of Detroit, and a bar called the Old Miami in particular that Ryan played a few times with a band he used to tour with. 

Detroit

Written and recorded by Ryan Alfred
Performed by Ryan Alfred and Katherine Byrnes
Saxophone performed and recorded by Matt Silberman / Narducci (narducciofficial.com)
Mastered by Dana Fehr

LYRICS: 

Fire on the mountain, fire on the streets
Black smoke chock the angry hearts tired of keeping beat
Tears that pour like summer storms cannot quell the flames
Those who tried to take a knee will try another way

When it burns, do you wonder why ?
Will you look beyond the rising smoke filling up the sky
If it burns when another dies
Will you weigh the broken glass against the broken lives ?

Only justice can protect us from the binary of war
Any other measure is just a guard placed at the door
Underneath their armor, the guards are only men
Tiny cogs in the crushing wheel that we have made for them
But anything that we can make, we can also mend
Even if it must be broken down and built again
So let us reimagine now, and let a plan be made
Voices that have gone unheard will try another way

When it burns, do you wonder why ?
Will you look beyond the rising smoke filling up the sky
If it burns when another dies
Will you weigh the broken glass against the broken lives ?

When It Burns

Never Have I Ever Loved

From the 7" Single / Digital EP "Wreckage", available on FRI Sep 4.

Wreckage

This a demo of a new song that's being considered for our next album. It is a meditation on the vast and unknowable, and on connecting with something larger than the self.

Demos

An Endless Blue (Demo)

From the forthcoming 7" + Digital EP, "Certain Truths", out Summer 2012. Recorded by Jim Waters @ Waterworks West in Tucson, AZ, & mixed by Ryan Alfred at Super Pro Studios in Tucson, AZ. 

Sweet Ghosts - Just Be Here With Me

Sweet Angeline

Not Quite December

Ryan and Katherine: Vocals
Angelo Versace: Piano
Mike Moynihan: Sax
Karima Walker: Keys

Can't we just turn it all off for a while
Those little screens
The endless parade that swallows the day
And follows us into our dreams
Has it been so long
Since we made love without hurry
Since we slept without worry
Since we slept all through the night

Can't we just turn it all off for a while
Let it all go unread
Who said what about who said what
About something that somebody said
Has it been so long since we just sat in the yard
And let it all blow by ?

What were we waiting for ?

Turn It All Off

The musical wanderings of Ryan Alfred and Katherine Byrnes.

Sweet Ghosts

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