Right Angles

White ash was written after the death of my father.

During COVID, my Dad appeared to me in a dream and sang me a melody, and offered it to me before I woke up.

When I woke up, I remembered the melody and played it on the guitar and piano and tried to find a structure for the song. Originally, the initial words which came out to the song were “Mesopotamia” and “White Sheets”. 

At this time, I became trapped in the melody with these words singing over and over. My husband, i.e. MaGoo could see I was struggling to complete the song because it was challenged and almost too close to the melody.

Magoo then brainstormed a few words with a first lyric draft which then evolved into the new chorus, "Everytime, everytime, I hear him in a song". From that point, we formulated the song, structure, and final words before recording the track at home where the song eventually found its title, "White Ash".

White Ash is about the bits and pieces of memory we retain and describes the uniting power of music, and how it can help us stay connected to our lost loved ones.

White Ash also represents the bits that remain from a dying fire. This is an interesting metaphor to me because it also connects me to the memory of my father who also served as an emergency worker for over 40 years in the fire service.

As a result, I often tap into the imagery of fire, smoke, and water through most of my lyrical work because it also connects me the powerful memory and memories that I carry about him

White Ash

This instrumental track "Steal" originally started with a keyboard riff which I would play over and over on gota cola's old Mark 5 Rhodes.

Initially, the song was completely written with words, backing vocals, and multiple guitar layers, but but then it became too complicated so I decided to strip the track back to a modest instrumental guitar and band track.

Magoo mixed the track at home and helped it to become a more simplified version.

The song starts with a standard indie drum loop, then deep bass, and finishes with melodic, melancholic and ambient guitar sounds.

This track connects me back to my earlier days as a guitarist with gota cola, where I experimented heavily with digital delays pedals to find emotive, melancholy landscapes.

Steal

This is my latest song which I have recorded, performed and produced and I have also made a stop animation clip for the track during COVID lockdown.  

You can find that on YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUR_ITE6r0 

OR/. search TYLEA EMERGENCY!

Track has been mixed and mastered by Magoo.

Emergency

Film clip:
https://youtu.be/KByse0rQU8E

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Song, lyrics, music, vocals, all guitars, synths, programming by Tylea
Mix, Master, Magic by Magoo (MMMM Filter)
© by Tylea 2021
℗ by Tylea 2022

Lo-fi Video shot on iPhone by Tylea and Boda
Video concept, editing and images on iPhone by Tylea
© by Tylea 2022
℗ by Tylea 2022

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'Big Blue Veins'

I try to talk you
'Cause you're always in my thoughts
And there's nothing to excuse
Oh, oh

But you said
You'd be back one day to explain
Then you kept on pumping
Like hot blood in big blue veins
Yeah, eh

Wildfire, the higher you go
Wildfire, the higher you know

You wanna make it
You're so far away
You wanna make it
You're so far away
You wanna make it
You're so far away from me now

Said you would
See me safe and on course
Push me four steps outwards
Then eight degrees north
Oh, oh, oh

But tiny angles
Can sink a self-esteem
Still, you left care abandoned
Now I'm pulling at a dream
Oh, oh

Wildfire, the higher you go
Wildfire, the higher you know
Oh
Wildfire, the higher you found
Easy to turn me down
Oh

You wanna make it
You're so far away
You wanna make it
You're so far away
You wanna make it
You're so far away from me now
How?

I made an effort the other day
Would have waited again and again for the wind to change
I saw a question on a social today
Would have asked it a million times
Just to feel your name
But you never caved

Wildfire

Wildfire

Wildfire, the higher you found

(Wanna make it, so far away)
Easy to turn me down
(Wanna make it, so far away)
(Wanna make it, so far away from me now)
Oh
(Wanna make it, so far away)
The higher you found
(Wanna make it, so far away)
(Wanna make it, so far away from me now)
Easy to turn me down

‘In the spirit of reconciliation, Tylea acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. Tylea pays her respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.’

Big Blue Veins

Written by Tylea, Skritch, Alex Gillespie
Performed by Tylea, Skritch and Alex Gillespie
Produced and Recorded by Magoo
Copyright 1999
Brisbane, Australia
Licenced to Valve/Warner
Cover art Photography by Alex Gillespie

Guaranteed Rustless

I Know I by gota cola 1999

Written and all music played by Tylea
Recorded by Magoo
from "Colour Your Insecurities": Light Album
@ the Dead Cockroach, Brisbane
copyright 2005
Released through Reverie Records

I'm Sorry by Tylea 2005 from Colour Your Insecurities Light Album

Written by Tylea
Performed by Tylea, Magoo and Marcel Lip
Recorded and MIxed by Magoo
@the Dead Cockroach
Copyright 2005
From the double album, "Colour your Insecurities": Dark Album
Released through Reverie Records

Tunnel Day by Tylea 2005 from Colour Your Insecurities Dark Album

Track written by Tylea
Vocals, keys and guitar by Tylea, 
Drums by Skritch for gota cola 
Produced, Recorded mixed by Magoo
@ the Dirty Room, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane (Berwick St)
gota cola self-titled and self-funded EP
copyright 1998
Distributed through Valve/Shock
Cover Photography by Alex Gillespie
EP now deleted/out of stock

Sighing performed by gota cola 1998

happy new year 2021, here is a 
NEW TYLEA SONG
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'Graphite Touch' 
Produced, written, recorded, played by tylea
Mixed by Magoo
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NOW ON
tylea.bandcamp.com
Spotify and other digital Platforms from January 22, 2021

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