Never The Same Way Twice is a collection of previously unreleased archive recordings by The Memory Band, compiled to coincide with twenty years since the release of their first self-titled album. It features alternative takes, mixes and arrangements of their own contemporary brand of folk music chosen from across two decades of musical navigations.  
https://thememoryband.bandcamp.com/album/never-the-same-way-twice


The album begins with the earliest mix of Calling On from their very first EP, sung by producer Stephen Cracknell, Polly Paulusma and Adem Ilhan from post rock band Fridge. Long-time associate Nancy Wallace's voice features on three tracks on the album: a cover of Arthur Russell’s This is How We Walk On The Moon, the very first studio take of the traditional ballad I Wish I Wish from Apron Strings and The Memory Band’s version of what became their theme song, Time And Space. Hannah Caughlin leads the ensemble through a haunting cover version of Come Wander With Me (which first appeared as the theme for the final episode of The Twilight Zone), while fellow traveller Liam Bailey sings on Children Of The Crows, a corvid-inspired mix of Children Of The Stones from the album A Fair Field.  Jess Roberts delivers a soulful interpretation of the Talk Talk song I Don’t Believe In You with added recorders, while Olivia Chaney sings an ancient drinking song from the Weyhill Fair as the introduction to So Fleet Runs The Hart. Additional vocals on the album are provided by Simon Lord, Helene Bradley, Sam Genders, Findlay Brown and Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, with spoken word contributions from John Andrews and Lisa Knapp.  The instrumentalists on the album include Jennymay Logan, Rob Spriggs, Tom Page, Fred Thomas, Liza Bec, Olie Brice, Alex Bonney, Jonny Bridgwood, Dee Byrne, Paul McGee, Rhys Morgan, Howard Cottle, Al Doyle, Quinta, Jeremy Radway, Lucy Railton, Sarah Scutt, Serafina Steer and Jon Thorne. 

Never The Same Way Twice is woven together in the trademark episodic Memory Band style with traditional tunes, original compositions and cover versions interspersed with spoken word, field recordings and sound effects in a collage of recordings drawn from different spaces and places, sounds continuously shaped and re-shaped by the ever-fluid ensemble of collaborators who have lent their own distinctive voices to the project over the years. The Memory Band was formed by Cracknell after a series of solo releases on The Leaf Label led to invitations in 2002 to play live at a festival supporting Coil and to produce a new live soundtrack to The Wicker Man film at the ICA. The music developed for those shows led to the recording of the band’s first vinyl 7 inch in 2003, followed by the debut album a year later, both self-released on the Hungry Hill label. These received positive reviews in the music press, who identified The Memory Band as pioneers of what was dubbed a ‘folk renaissance’. Aided by some early plays on independent radio, invitations to perform soon followed, with the band cementing their reputation at the burgeoning independent gig and festival scene that was developing across the country in the early 2000s. From the outset, spontaneity and spirit were prioritised over consistency and precision, and The Memory Band embraced a willingness to take on any opportunity that was presented to it. 

The response to that first album and those early shows led to six studio albums, a whole host of side projects, bespoke events and a magical two decades of musical adventures. The Balearic Folk Orchestra, The Accidental album There Were Wolves and a long association performing music for The Wicker Man as well as a number of other film and archive related projects are among the many branches of The Memory Band tree.

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Long Way Down - Cowritten with Caide Jackson (May 10)

抱きしめたい dakishimetai

STAG

In my mind I am King
Of my Father’s lands again
I've got everything
Worth coveting
& these hooves are hands again

RABBIT

In my hand, you are Song
You are Love, you are Freedom
One for whom to long
Someone sweet & strong
Someone—something to believe in

TOGETHER

This is Infinite Spring
No one is listening
Who might confound our ripening

RABBIT

With the spoiling of Eden

STAG

I am cold for my warmth

RABBIT

I am bold for my shyness

TOGETHER

I am pining for
Those ghosts of yore

STAG

Who’d consign me to silence

TOGETHER

’Cause who am I to sing
While he lies decomposing
Who’d juxtapose your blossoming

RABBIT

With the wilting of violets?

STAG

Hold me down
Tie me to my chair

RABBIT

Close my mouth
Let me move no air

STAG

Hold me down

RABBIT

Don’t let me

TOGETHER

Walk to her

RABBIT

Close my mouth

STAG

Don’t let me

TOGETHER

Talk to her
Hold me down, ’cause
She once was mine
All mine

Hold me down, keep me in my place
Anyway, I don’t want to see her ugly face
Close my mouth, let me speak no words
Anyway, I have nothing nice to say to her
Hold me down, ’cause here comes the
Girl I don’t love anymore
Well, no big deal, I don’t care anymore

& so if she says “hi”
Don’t let me cry
& if she just walks on by
Don’t let me follow

RABBIT

This is Infinite Spring
It’s got infinite resources
It’s got everything
From hares that sing
To Fairy girls on horses

STAG

False prophets of the new
You’ll repent your dissembling
When they’re counting coup
On all of you

TOGETHER

& you’re just lying there trembling
In all your cloy & clang
Your soulless Sturm und Drang
Ten thousand sundry songs you sang

RABBIT

Not a one worth remembering.

Infinite Spring

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The latest single from French & American duo, Freedom Fry. Coming 9/4/2024.

Freedom Fry - Sorry Situation Number Four

Buy your own.
Buy your own home
or rent to kill.

Buy to let.
Buy to just let be
or rent to kill.

Safe as houses - windows closed.
Put the bins out - no one knows you
rent to kill.

Behind closed doors.
In-between the floorboards.
Rent to kill.

Render the walls.
Silence all the calls.
Rent to kill.

Single rooms paid in advance.
All up front - you took your chance
and rented to kill

Rent boys, rent girls.
It doesn’t really make a difference.
What will it take
to prick your conscience?

Rent to Kill.

RENT TO KILL -furnished

Rent To Kill - Furnished

TARJEELING　「箱舟は見つかったかい？」
Producer, Songwriter:聡文三
Trackmaker, Player, Singer:TARJEELING

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Lyrics(in English):

Forever and ever, you can't stop searching
To the end, to the end, you can't stop searching
In the piles of rubble you created
Through the lives you yourself have killed

Forever and ever, you can't stop believing
To the end, to the end, you can't stop deceiving
The demagogues of your own making
The God's will that you have distorted

Have you found the ARK?

Forever and ever, you can't stop having fun
To the end, to the end, you can't stop hiding something
having fun in the play you own act
You hide something inside you that you killed...

Have you found the ARK?


イスラエルのパレスチナへの蛮行に抗議します。
#CEASEFIRENOW

箱舟は見つかったかい？

箱舟は見つかったかい？/TARJEELING

I’ve seen those sad-eyed teams of pad-eye haulers down the tracks
Slow and patient, know their station, toilers on their backs
With their donkey carts, their donkey carts attached

Lord protect us, ressurect us, lead us through the door
From temptation to damnation, feed us more & more
And gallop us, oh gallop us to war

Give us chariots
If we must haul something

Let His bride pull on my bridle, whipping her behest
Dressed in the finest silk & diamonds dripping down her breast
& lay my fears, oh lay my fears to rest

Give us chariots
If we must haul something

Once upon a marijuana-softened Saturday
I dreamt I was bearing a gentle fairy off to Mandalay
She cried: “Carry me, oh carry me away!”

Give us chariots
If we must haul something.

Horse Chorus

TARJEELING　2025年第1弾リリースは、「平日昼間の世界」のリリックヴィデオ。
この世に数多ある、「キーがＣメジャーの3拍子の名曲」の系譜に連なる、
フォーク／カントリーテイストの楽曲です。
誰もが前向きを装う時代に、敢えて本物の「後ろ向きの精神」をどうぞ。

平日昼間の世界

同じ場所に雷二度落ちない　20250814
(Lightning never strikes the same place twice)
(Di tempat yang sama, petir tidak menyambar dua kali)

同じ場所に雷二度落ちない
そう思えたらいいのだけれど
エアバッグに押しつぶされたら痛い
そんな目にもうあって欲しくはない

Hey　左見て右見てGO
ついでに上も見てOK
飛行機も落ちて来ないね
Hey　助手席の少年は
今は遠く離れているけど
いつも心配しているよ

近所の温泉へ
払いものは郵貯で
お買い物はコープへ
まだまだあちこち行きたいわ

同じ場所に雷二度落ちない
統計学ではそうらしいけど
コンクリート相手に勝ち目はない
それでもまだよかった方だから

Hey　がちがちのフル装備で
四つ葉印は前後に
周りに気を使わそうぜ
Hey　助手席の少年を
街まで連れて行った
あの頃とは違うけど

駅もバス停も遠いし不便だ
電動自転車は論外
エアコン贅沢ならタクシーいわんや
選択肢は２つに1つ

同じ場所に雷二度落ちない (Lightning never strikes the same place twice)

8track tascam music
all songs download free!

同じ場所に雷二度落ちない (Lightning never strikes the same place twice)

Toru Yamaoka

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