Name: Baby Bird by Hunt Us in ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 289
Duration: 3 min 3 s
Description: Three teaspoons of sugar, four tablespoons of flour, one egg and a dash of nutmeg.

This reminds us a bit of Search Party from our Archives section, Throatpunch City right here on SC and Jefferson Airplane. Great mix, bravo. :)

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Better

Bitter sweet, it is an album about the profundity of life, birth and death. It is hopeful like the Beatles, powerful like Neil Young. Driven by the acoustic guitar. Indie folk at its best...

Middle Of Everywhere

Richard

Three teaspoons of sugar, four tablespoons of flour, one egg and a dash of nutmeg.

Baby Bird

Daz Rice's Debut album 'Precious Times' took 2 years to write, he then performed them live to see which songs worked best which then led to recording 10 of the best tracks - Daz being a Multi-Instrumentalist played, recorded, mixed and produced the whole album within a year, wanting to capture those precious moments in ones life and express them through his music.

Precious Times

Dark Room

Piano Miniature #1

MATT MEREPORT - Piano Miniature #1

11.11.2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI – the so-called "War to End All Wars". Twenty years later, with Germany and France still in ruins and fascist nationalism on the rise, it all began again...

This is a new folksong to commemorate ordinary working folk all over the world, who have to keep life going while their loved ones are sent out to fight and die in other people's wars.

The letters are shaking the hands of our wives
And we must obey them in fear of our lives
With all our bright buttons we march through the town
You'll see us again in the turn
The turn of the plough

The glint of the gold; the spikes in our drinks
Washing the decks with a world's time to think
Oh, cheer up lads we're all on the same side
We'll all roll home again in the turn
The turn of the tide

Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole! Fire in the whole world.

The hands of the women are shaking again
The letters are new but the meaning's the same
They'll be minting more buttons, but the old ones somehow
Are still turning up in the turn
The turn of the plough

Fire in the hole! Fire in the hole! Fire in the whole world.

Song: LUNATRAKTORS
Arrangement: LUNATRAKTORS
Body percussion & Vocals: Clair Le Couteur & Carli Jefferson
Recording: Arco Barco, Ramsgate
Engineer: Raphael Mann
Mastering: Ed Deegan

Turn Of The Plough

Black Raven is a new English mis-translation of a traditional Cossack folk song that is well known in Russia, reworked through the lens of English folk and blues. We found it while researching world music about corvids – crows, ravens, magpies – which are a kind of clan emblem for us. The tune feels soaring, magnetic, with extremely deep roots. Something in the melody transports us, seems to open up a landscape, a trans-temporal space of connection with something very big, and very old, and very dark.

Special thanks to Sophie J of Thetford Grammar School, who won our competition to design the Black Raven image.

This Is Broken Folk

Black Raven

Jim Jones is a traditional English / Australian ballad about a man who is transported to the notorious British 'Botany Bay' penal colony for the petty crime of poaching. We sing it in solidarity with all those around the world who face colonial abuse and miscarriages of justice.

Jim Jones

The Ancient Escape

Are you listening?

A brooding track with a rousing riff to shake your socks off. Inspired by the words of Goethe.

I Still Believe

A love song for Spartan Runners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycA7soC2jAo

This song was custom written for the wedding of Jeremy and Cheyenne Goncalves. ©November Sound 2019

featuring - Thomas Linevitch on guitar

November Sound is: Melissa - vocals, Bill - keys, Will - drums & percussion 
All three on background vocals.
All songwriting and production by Bill

Lyrics:
If you walk I’ll run.
If you push I’ll shove.
If you stop I’ll go on.
If you like I’ll love.

We race into each other’s arms.
It’s a beautiful night. Why walk if we can run?
We race into each other’s arms.
It’s a beautiful day beneath the Spartan sun.

If you float I’ll dive.
If you jump I’ll fall.
If you coast I’ll drive.
You give some. I give all. 

We race into each other’s arms.
It’s a beautiful night. Why walk if we can run?
We race into each other’s arms.
It’s a beautiful day beneath the Spartan sun.

We race into each other’s arms.
It’s a beautiful day beneath the Spartan sun.


Bill's note:
This song has been a long time producing. The version that we performed at the wedding was very simplified in a piano and voice setting ... this however .... man, it took a long time! 
This song wasn't easy at first. People give me some words and concepts to use about their love, their interests, their relationship, how they met, etc. and I get to make a song out of it. 
The Spartan Sun now has a life of its own in my opinion. Melissa nailed the vocals and breathed true life into this track! I am so thankful as well for my former student and now friend, Tom, and his amazingly tasteful lead work. 
Jeff ( Tainted Icarus ) is always so helpful with his production advice. Sometimes I just can't hear the song anymore after working on it so much and don't think I could finish some of these tracks without him!

Anyway, I hope you like it. If you actually read this far then God bless you! You are some of the most important people in the world to us. It is amazing to think that a small family living in the woods in a small state in New England can make music ... and then make friends all over the world with it ... how cool is that?
- Bill from NS

Spartan Sun

This is the song written in response to thieves who stole £8,000 worth of music gear from our practise room. We responded in the only way we could. Spread the word to make sure they hear it!

Where The Fuck Is My Guitar

An epic journey through the power of universal energy.
"Where there is energy for dust, there is energy for life."

Raw Fire

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(Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music, on debut single from "The Ancient Escape")

"They have sent us nothing but gold in the songs that they have submitted. Quality, absolute quality. I really tip these guys to be big".
(New Music Saturday)
 
Innovative folk-rock band Hunt Us is affectionate pickled-egg chef Gemma Kirk (keytar/vocals), architectural hero and space DJ Nicky Kirk (guitar), 70s scientist and tarantula expert Richard Nicholls (bass) and official carpenter to the Royal Family, Tim Greany (drums), the kindest man alive.  

The band released debut single "Baby Bird" to rave reviews in June 2018, and have released a new single every 3 months since.

They will keep this up until one of them falls over.

Baby Bird

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