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"Waves, endlessly crashing, rolling and breaking. The bittersweet spray of the past and present, splashing and stinging, as beads of shame, joy, confusion and bewilderment trickle down your cerebral cortex."

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All music and lyrics by Strange Souvenirs.

Performed by Strange Souvenirs (vocals, backing vocals, bass guitar), Tim Hook (electric guitar) and Gidon Carmel (drums & percussion).

Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Cameron James Laing 
at The Famous Gold Watch Studios Berlin, 2021.

Lyrics: Matthias Juhnke
Cover Art: Matthias Juhnke

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BEACHES

Beaches, parties and sun
Drinking, fucking and fun
Anything I missed on my list? 
I can’t think of one

Got a sunburn to prove I was here
Off your rocker for seven days near 
Trip advisor says no more than four
‘Cause you might disappear 

Swallowed by the sea
Swallowed by the sea 
Mojitos, mimosas, long island ice tea 
Falling in k-holes you just couldn’t see 
Wearing shades indoors
You’re kidding me?  

And now the tide comes rolling in 
Washing away everything 
‘Till nothing’s left but the songs we sing  

So teach me some new chords to strum 
Two thousand twenty one 
I need a new tune to hum 
‘Cause the old one has left me so numb  

I can’t feel a thing 
I can’t push this swing 
I’m out of step and closing down , down, down, down
I wanna pack my things and leave this town
And leave this town
And leave this town
And leave this town 
And leave this town

Lyrics: Matthias Juhnke

Beaches

"Coma Cluster"... a sneaky little beast. Starts off kinda groovy and laid-back, like a cool late night breeze. And then it pulls a complete 180 on you – twisting into a tornado and hurling a pickup truck into your face. Yeah.

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Credits:
Strange Souvenirs are Thomas Juhnke & Matthias Juhnke
All music written by Strange Souvenirs
Lyrics by Matthias Juhnke

Recorded, produced and mixed by Cameron James Laing @ The Famous Gold Watch Studio Berlin.
Cover Foto: by Matthias Juhnke

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Performed by:

Strange Souvenirs
– bass guitar, electric guitar, synthesizers, samples

Cameron James Laing
– lead vocal, bass guitar, electric guitar, organ, additional lavish audio mayhem

Gidon Carmel
– drums

Heidi Heidelberg
– backing vocals & human choir

Felix Bruckner
– upright bass

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Lyrics:
I won't listen to what they say
I wanna fuck things up my own way
I won't imitate what they do
I can't wait 'till it breaks us in two

Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at all the flies.
Look at them go.

Coma Cluster (feat. Cameron James Laing)

Credits:
Strange Souvenirs are Thomas Juhnke & Matthias Juhnke
All music written by Thomas Juhnke & Matthias Juhnke
Lyrics: Matthias Juhnke

Recorded, produced and mixed by Cameron James Laing @ The Famous Gold Watch Studio Berlin.
Cover Art: Matthias Juhnke

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Performed by:

Thomas Juhnke
– bass guitar, electric guitar, synthesizers, backing vocals

Matthias Juhnke
– lead vocal, additional synthesizers

Cameron James Laing
– accordion, string arrangement, additional sound design

Gidon Carmel
– drums, percussion

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Lyrics:
I know there's something you're hiding
I know there's something you
Keep from sight, keep from view
Take into the dark with you.

A secret temple of shame
A collection of bruises and stains.

A little black book
Of lives that you took
Faces, places and names.

Now it's all undone.
Now it's all undone.
Now it's all undone.
Now it's all undone.

Slight Mod

Once upon a time we danced a polonaise with The Cure, Talking Heads and LCD Soundsystem amidst a global outbreak of digital delusion. We've got proof!

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FACTS XXI

I've got proof
I've got proof
I've got proof
But it's not true

Oooh Oooh - There's nothing they won't do
Oooh Oooh - There's nothing they won't do
To keep the truth from getting to you

I've got proof
I've got proof
I've got proof
But it's not true

Ooh Ooh - There's nothing they won't do
Ooh Ooh - There's nothing they won't do
To keep the truth from getting to you

Not true true, no clue clue
Not true true, no clue clue
Not true true, no clue clue

They tried to keep it classified
Hey child they try to keep you pacified
They tried to keep it classified
Hey child they try to keep you pacified

Ooh Ooh - There's nothing they won't do
Ooh Ooh - There's nothing they won't do
To keep the truth from getting to you

To keep the truth from you
To keep the truth from you
To keep the truth from you
To keep the truth from you
To keep the truth from you

Lyrics: Thomas Juhnke

Facts XXI

http://www.witchnmonk.com meets https://www.listentosteve.com

First broadcast on Resonance FM, 22nd May 2020
https://www.resonancefm.com

WITCH 'N' MONK:
“Electrifying” (The Quietus)
“Exquisite” (BBC Radio 3)
“Ingenious” (The Guardian)
“Emotionally raw” (All About Jazz)
"They could hardly be more of the moment" (The Wire magazine)
"Witch ‘n’ Monk never feels retro in its outlook or musicality. Gloriously different, wonderfully listenable and offering something more each time." (Something Else!)

Witch 'n' Monk - eponymous album released May 2020 on Tdazik:
"Blending Latin American flutes, electronics, complex vocal lines with a touch of Frank Zappa lyricism and a radical punk aesthetic, the duo of Heidi Heidelberg and Mauricio Velasierra crafts a dramatically bizarre vocal music from another dimension! Intertwining dark/light, feminine/masculine, composed/improvised and punk/romantic, dreamlike improvisations are sampled, manipulated and reinvented through the lens of contemporary music and pop. You have never heard anything quite like Witch 'n' Monk!"

Improvised autobiography recorded, produced and mixed by Steve Urquhart, 2019-2020.

Witch 'n' Monk - An Improvised Autobiography

A twisted lullaby – marching into the void to an unrelenting beat, distraught vocals and waves of serpentine guitars.

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THE CLEANER

Drowning for days in dark dreams
You won't surface to scream

Down on your luck and it seems
Nothing glitters and nothing gleams

Nothing, nothing, nothing
Nothing, nothing, nothing
Nothing, nothing, nothing

Put your fingers in the wound
You don't want it to close too soon
You don't want it to close too soon

Put your fingers in the wound
You don't want it to close too soon
You don't want it to close too soon

Lyrics: Matthias Juhnke

The Cleaner

"All Is Fine" is the third single from Johanna Samuels' forthcoming album 'Excelsior!', out May 14th on Mama Bird Recording Co. (US/World) & Basin Rock (UK/EU). Pre-order/save/stream/share: https://smarturl.it/js-excelsior​

/// CREDITS:

Written by Johanna Samuels
Produced and Mixed by Sam Griffin Owens
Recorded at Flying Cloud Studios in West Shokan, NY
Mastered by Heba Kadry

/// PLAYERS:

Written by Johanna Samuels 
Rhodes, Piano and Vocals by Johanna Samuels
Guitar by Harrison Whitford 
Bass by Garret Lang
Drums and Percussion by Sean Mullins
Harmonies by A.O. Gerber 

/// LYRICS:

A silver moon in the bedroom
A dresser drawer, the envelope
A truth held in a tomb
A message that would just be met across the avenue
With seven or eleven beers
If it found its way to you

My heart it is wide open and I'm looking at my shoes
Just praying that we never have to be in the same room
Would you sing the song you wrote for me?
What would you ever do?
Just find another pretty girl to harmonize with you

All is fine
Sometimes I even keep what's mine so
Take your time, I'm already gone

They say she dodged a bullet, but it put her in the ground
Now she can feel everything and live in every sound
In the night he's wide awake, he feels her all around
It hurts to hear her laughing, she's at peace with what she's found

All is fine
Sometimes I even keep what's mine so
Take your time, I'm already gone

Excelsior!

All Is Fine

Pre-order

Johanna Samuels - All Is Fine

THE WAY I FELL IN

I can't climb out the way I fell in
I look around don't know where to begin
Prison of doubt, original sin
The more you think the more the room starts to spin

Whispers in the silence
Traces in the dust
Can't see through the fog
But in time you will I trust

Echoes of the violence
Loyalty in rust
Can't see through the fog
But you must

It's gonna take some time
To get these feelings back in line
To salvage the pearls from the swine
And turn this dirty water into wine

It's gonna take a bit
To drag yourself out of the shit
Why don't all my old clothes fit?
What happened to me on this trip?

Strange muffled sounds
Restless legs shuffling
Sorrows you drown
And the phone just won't ring

Lyrics: Matthias Juhnke

The Way I Fell In

Q: What happens when you take a huge guitar-driven indie pop song, chop the tempo in half and replace 99% of the guitars with hazy mellotrons, fractured electronics, pianos and brass?

A: PIXELS  

PIXELS takes the listener on a brooding sonic journey. The song builds around the idea that we’re all pixels in an ever-changing cosmic mosaic, waiting to randomly attract or repel the other particles on our path – as we spiral and drift through an equally beautiful and brutal universe.

PIXELS was co-written with producer Cameron James Laing and is a bittersweet sonic sibling of the band’s  previous release “The Way I Fell In.”

Pixels

Strange Souvenirs. Two analog hombres scouring the digital wasteland in search of the dopamine motherlode.

Slight Mod

Strange Souvenirs

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