"I don't know how I'm even here" and this song on the whole resonated with my bones

Jester

This is a 4-song original music lineup recorded at an open mic that is going on here so I can show a friend. Recorded by the open mic manager Am'Blin. Thanks Am'Blin!

The open mic recording

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Sweet Like Rosa

Give & Take

Johnny’s on the Water was learned from the singing of Appalachian folk singer Jean Ritchie (1922 - 2015). It twists the archetypal story of a woman left behind by a sailor, the singer rejecting grief and finding empowerment: ‘if he can live without me, I can live without him’. This line became the heart of our arrangement. 

We created this arrangement in residence at Snape Maltings in 2022. In slowing down the tempo, destabilising the rhythm, and replacing Ritchie’s sparse dulcimer accompaniment with an ensemble of modular synths, guitars and affected strings, we explore the way that the open sea warps our understanding of time and distance. The trumpet solo was played by Lissie Daly, a tireless campaigner for women in brass.

Musicians:
Lauren Spiceley - fiddle and vocals 
Joseph Woods - guitar and vocals
Martha Wiltshire - cello and vocals
Denis Wouters - electronics and vocals
Lissie Daly - trumpet
Tom O’Connor - fretless bass
Florence Brady - vocals 

Trad. arr. by Lauren Spiceley, Martha Wiltshire, Joe Woods, Denis Wouters, Lissie Daly, Tom O’Connor and Hannah Jacobs
Recorded at Pony Studios by Upcycled Sounds
Mixed by Denis Wouters
Mastered by Felix Davis
Artwork by Floortje Kattemölle, photographed by Martijn Petrus

Johnny's On The Water

Not Much Of A Man - March 8th

https://yodashe.ffm.to/easter

EASTER credits:

Written & Produced by Yodashe at Goldsmiths Music Studios, London
Mixed by Mathew Keightley at Hackney Road Studios, London
Mastered by Cicely Balston at AIR Studios, London

Photography by Abi Sinclair
Edit & Artwork by Paris Goutsos
Supported by Help Musicians

EASTER lyrics:

So hard to get up in the morning
Where did we go wrong?
Careful not to show how we're falling
Always in control
Tryna get the best out of all this
All these years of loss
Tryna be my best while I'm falling down
Always by your side

The sun is fading away from my heart
You're always playing 
Can't make up your mind
The sun is fading away from my heart
You're always changing 
Can't make up your mind

So hard to get up in the morning, babe
With nowhere to go
Never quite enough when you hold me, babe
Where did we go wrong?
So hard to get up in the morning, babe
Always in control
Tryna be my best while I'm falling, babe
Always by your side

The sun is fading away from my heart 
You're always playing 
Can't make up your mind
The sun is fading away from my heart
You're always changing
Can't make your mind

(a merry-go-round)

So hard to get
Hard to get

So hard to get
Hard to get

The sun is fading away from my heart 
You're always playing 
Can't make up your mind
The sun is fading away from my heart
You're always changing
Can't make your mind

EASTER

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Henry Threadgill
© 2018 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2019 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded August 2019 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington at Decibelle Recording, San Francisco, CA

Henry Threadgill - Sixfivetwo

A young man wishes to escape
Some place else it doesn’t matter where
In his heart he is already there

In his house he’s only a guest
His family is formed by strangers
He cordially said goodbye and left

(I) Can always find
A new way to move around
A new way to fall
To restart it all somehow

I can figure out
How to adapt to any town
Make them adapt to me
It seems I’m winning every round

It never stops he seems to learn it all
He made a mess? He doesn’t wanna know
Certain things are better untold

There’s nothing else there’s no choice at all
His eyes are paths they could as well be molds
They shape the ground and all that surrounds

Can always find
A new way to move around
A new way to fall
To restart it all somehow

I can figure out
How to adapt to any town
Make them adapt to me
It seems I’m winning every round

@NelsonDevereaux on Horns
@MaxDevereaux on Backing Vocals and Percussion
@JulioBaca on Electric Guitar

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