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Duende Collections Still listening all these years later,

and the lyrics are still as poignant as they drip onto my minds eye
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Ciro Berenguer A beautiful conceptual album. A good balance between traditional and experimental and really well recorded. Francesca's voice is haunting :) Favorite track: Sylph & Salamander.
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1.
Waterfall 05:19
The river waters were born To fall from a great height Arc white lightening storm To a mist of a thousand lights Force and flow carve the stone To deep and a dark pool Under there's a cavern Where the thunder and the throbbing Spin the water to a silent silver spool Where we lay Our bodies soft as the earth Our nerves the alive roots Channelling the stream of love The cascading dream above Tenderly emerging leafing shoots We arise to the open Up where the rocks stand tall To the roaring power of surrender Of our waterfall Sheng shui We climb up the current Follow the curving course By a guiding hand The contour of the land Seeking the source When the heavens they open Alighting little spheres upon our skin Cloud to rain to aquifer Spring to ocean The water of life within Sheng shui
2.
Checkout 04:36
On that track Off the rail Is this the place to be? From the rack Closing sale Seems like hell to me "Welcome to our paradi$e A competitive price for the piece" "You better shift behind the trespasser sign Before you get a little bit illegitimate" "Your hologram Ma'am! Get your barcode a-ready For scanning you through the screen" "Its for your protection Vaccinate in case infection Chlorinate your feet" "Animal vegetable mineral For your convenience we'll prepack it Ready to eat "Stabalised, fortified" "Its the freshest you'll get in polythene Disclaimer print: Don't get plastic stuck in your teeth" "Bon Appetit" Will we find all is light? "We guarantee no wrinkles With just one little sprinkle of Detox Botoxin Beat the Clock" "Unique Formula" "From our labatory rat race Of polyester pacing fluorescent faces "Hurry here before we're out of stock" "'Cause you'll be chemical cool A poised pandemic in our gene pool X factor contracted" "Pop Idol Textvote a fanatical faketan revival" "You'll be on the TV Racy as retolin, ADD An ad pollutant for our new perfume: Summer in the City" "You can sign your name right here By the best before date" Will we find all is light? When my end comes My knees buckle on the street Paint my cheeks and Cover my bones up in concrete 'Cause later I'll be an archeological find From the disposal period That wasted time By elevator, escalator When you get to the final stop And they say to you "where did you go?" Well I missed my connection On high speed confection Distracted by travelling in style I was dazzled by the act Where I was at, to be exact, I don't know Looking at mannequins The world their living in Staring out through glass At the world that I am living in Looking at mannequins Staring at the ceiling Looking at the glass That I am appearing in Will we find? All is light
3.
He dwells in the forest with the sleeping owl The infants of his oak crack on the ground The distant cry of a horn turns to a nearing howl Approaching are the huntsmen and their hounds The fox I feel him falter, wild-eyed and panting fast Together we'll be surefooted let us be calm And turn our gaze to the grandfather trees that open out their boughs To the outlaws, to the travelers seeking alms Vivienne! You were sly as he was wild Broceliande bore this child My path it strays in the maze to the line of men holding their guns I fight my flighting urge to turn and run And offer them my heart 'though their foe is more my friend We greet each other in a foreign tongue Cloak him in the scent of heather and the stirring leaves Soothe his shaking body still as stone Shroud his beating heart in the lichen and the moss 'Till fur and the forest become one Vivienne! You were sly as he was wild Broceliande bore this child And Merlin you were near as the shots ran out so clear As I held a glowing acorn in my hand Like a bullet how it shone, like the eyes of your feathered one That left a tawny token where I did stand Vivienne! You were sly as he was wild Broceliande bore this child Restez toujour un âme sauvage Ne les laissez pas vous apprivoiser
4.
Swan 05:51
I told her the ship on the ocean I told her what man could do I told her how he stole her rudder And overboarded her crew I told her the ship he was Vela The star that she sailed he blew I told her how he slept on the waves that she webbed By the tender pull of her moon the swan he sang on my naked neck I told her the ship he did sieze her For carrying him at her prow For casting adrift rope and anchor And stowing his freight in her bow I told her the ship he forgave her For leaving her net on his shore He's traveling her silver waters And capsizing in her soul the swan he sang on my naked neck
5.
Uli Alto 08:12
With the wild light of love in my eyes And a taste for daring him to know I had to abandoned my car in a ditch and with a blanket, a bottle and a banjo I climbed up the tyre-tearing tracks My thirst like the sweat on my brow Grinning haplessly in solitude and scenery Untill the sun fell down Guided by love with no direction When night crept in my heart began to drop By daylight I couldn't see the men for trees but When darkness came their camps were lighting up Many wrong turns make a right And Dylan, you were jumping with the fire light Your shadow hopping in and out of the night To the music swinging 'round Uli Alto An early rise for firewood felling Yawning mist around the coffee cups Chainsawing, car stereo yelling At dusk we loaded up I threw a log right over the truck Nearly knocked a handsome spaniard right out He said "She's dangerous the blond one" Well I'm stronger than I thought And with you I'm so glad To find and lose you Now I understand That I will travel lone and far To follow and befriend The reasoning of my heart Halloween: Audré you rigged the trapeze On the roof of your old caravan We clambered on the logs to see Your costume glaring brighter than sun Spots, polka dots and frilly knickers Lipstick striping further than your grin Poof in a cloud, a cheap choke of hairspray In a clowning cough you begin To glide like a child, queen of the playground Tumbling ties in terrifying knots 'Till you got tangled Boris had to save you From strangling death as part of the act Later we were dancing under disco balls That creaked as the generator powered them on With laughter crackling out on Uli Alto Fig leaves falling I'm in a paradise Naked as the day I was born Sitting in my soft guitar case To stop the thistles prickling my bum I sang of love unrequited To the yawning sun as he began to sink Accompanied by the clinkling of the cowbells Till that righteous wretched shepherd brought them in I know the way by dark now To Anna, you were playing by the fireside the light of stars were dancing in your eyes The moon was swinging 'round Uli Alto
6.
Fools Gold 04:59
I've been living out of my skin lately Boned dry, paper thin I feel tough as rope on an old tree Stretched by a once loved swing I passed through these parched lands a pilgrim Wagoning through wilderness for wealth By the mud-cracking whip of a cruel sun I bargained my spirit for its pelt I've come to this ragged creek a week long Searching with my sifting pan Urging for more than the silver minnows To be glinting in the silting sand Oh this quest is fickle, I'm wading through the water For a nugget not a nickle, someone to wade in too But the joke is old 'cause this fools gold don't sparkle like it oughta Tell me that love is true My thoughts hit the ground like dust on a dim day Like they're settling their debts with the floor Well it may be clouds of madness or it may be clouds of sadness Why they kick up with the boot heels in the brawls 'Cause many things are made of tin now My trivet and my billy can But its rarity that maketh a finer mineral And taketh a pioneering man Oh I've chased and gambled with my goldrush rambles I've worked my weight in sweat I tell you this There's many a road to travel and trail to unravel But there's no such thing as get rich quick Oh this quest is fickle, I'm wading through the water For a nugget not a nickle, someone to wade in too But the joke is old 'cause this fools gold don't sparkle like it oughta Tell me that love is true 'Cause I feel tough as rope on an old tree Stretched by a once loved swing Just throw me a ride that is easy 'Cause I'm done with that goldrush thing
7.
The first time you blew across my neck Your shudders flew through me And from a flickering light A bright fire grew in me I shiver a dance with your breath However cooling your breeze You aliven the blaze, within me No ember lies asleep With every flutter of air, Zephyr, You raise a flare radiant and wild And I go climbing like a child Will I die back down? I am burning by you I'm rising, a crackling heat Is roaring in your sigh, so sweet sparks bluster glowing a gust turning us spiralling soaring into a gale-force Could you howl in a tempest to blow me out, To quell the tongues of my hungry heart? Because I am searing ascending desire And its you who ignited this pyre from a spark I am burning by you Wind and Fire A Salamander and a Sylph
8.
"Crown me in your leaves Wreath your body around The forehead of my grief So the wind moves your fingers of bay Across my brow To soothsay our sorrow I'll play A lyre from your bough And you will sing sweet to me Of quivers their arrows The lead to gold alchemy Of the shivering darts From the flickering bow of Eros One serpent slain cocky I came To love in child-soft play In toys of war he was medalling And I the warrior was game And oh for the mocking of him The greater fool was I The greater snake was him that day When Daphne I did spy.... A creature firm as wood Her eyes as soft as a fawn If wildness is her sport Her life hood is my porn When I watch her sprint I want to suck the soles of her feet I want to feast my senses on The nymph she is my meat I can match your stride You won't make it I want you're hide You can fake it I am the god of the Sun I speak the oracle And you can be my hight priestess Girl you can be my miracle" And she flees through the forest Un-teasing from the briars who bare her buttocks To spur him on He follows fast and curious Grasping furiously For a beauty so free it can never be won She feels his breath upon her neck He can almost taste her hair She cries to her father a river "Is there something in me left to spare?" "He rooted me in the ground In bark my wandering limbs are bound My sinew the lignin The rising sap my blood My thirst is a searching Lips writhing through the mud And oh I feel fragile For my lungs they pant from every branch I shake in my trunk so still For my heartwood knows How we shrink and we grow from Eros Apollo he kneels before me As I in new skin am born He reaches up to cut a piece From my now rigid form For those who rest on my laurels With such tragic irony That I should mark the champions The Caesars and their chiefs For the chase...." Love is not a prize
9.
Gift 05:09
I give you my heart I give you my soul I give you it in part I give you it whole I give you my thought I give you my word I give you my truth I give you my sword My gift to you today Is tearing myself away To love and to dare To love and adore To love and to bare To love and be sure To love and give much more I give it to you clearly I give it to you pure I give it to you unrefined I give it to you raw I give it to you with a crooked eye I give it to you with a stare I give it to you when I try to find you And you're not there My gift to you today Is tearing myself away To love and to dare To love and adore To love and to bare To love and be sure To love and give much more

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"'the music of what happens'..... Uninterrupted, perpetual, music that takes in water, wind and kitchen things, the unstructured symphony of a day, or a night, in the world.
Francesca Baines' sensitive, versatile delivery, combines with ingenious instrumentation - banjo, dulcimer, lampshade, sifting pan, matches and teacups, 'prepared piano' (Cage's invention), 'whispering forests' and harbour sounds - to give us back the world in heightened resolution.
There is the drama of her light voice wrestling with raw material, her lyrical scenarios, her wandering mysterious rhythms, sometimes abrupt and unexpected, with their "exotic" folk components - faint ghosts of gamelan and ravanhata.
The voice is remarkable for its emotional force and expressive range, from dark growl to boisterous. A thinking, innovative chanteuse, she has something of Joni Mitchell, something of Bjork. The Baines sound is a spirited and spiritual intervention in the world-music it celebrates."

Derek Mahon

"An exciting mix of modal harmonies, complex rhythms and earthy world music instrumentation, Vela is a treasure chest of myths, stories and observations that are dense in material, leavened with humour, and reward close attention."
Nicki Ffrench Davis, Irish Examiner

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released October 21, 2012

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