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BELAN

by Catrina Davies

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1.
Homesick 02:54
I'm homesick for the great unfinished emptiness all those imaginary adventures that I can't forget and I love you, but I want to be free, too and I can't close my heart for love just yet // you said it was too dark to be a wanderer so I tried to squeeze my soul into your net and I hung on hard, because I want to be safe, with you but I can't close my mind for love just yet // so if morning ever comes perhaps I'll be a troubadour once more and I'll busk my way back to where the sun no longer sets and there among the frozen seas I'll be alone with all my tears because I can't close my eyes for love just yet
2.
well the moon is rising yellow over there and the sunlight is still catching in your hair and the stars are coming out in crowds and waves are breaking long and loud and I want to come and sit down beside you now yeah I want to come and sit down beside you now // your words are cutting pathways in my mind yeah you're leaving all the others far behind and our fire's burning strong and bright clearing spaces in my night and I want to lean my frame against you now yeah I want to lean my frame against you now // your body would make the perfect king-sized bed and your shoulder would make a pillow for my head and the stars are coming out in crowds making holes in all the clouds and I want to sleep out here with you tonight yeah I want to sleep out here with you tonight
3.
Lost 04:24
I'm scared of dying and I'm scared of living too and I heard love was never lost but I've lost so many of you and I'm scared of standing still and I'm scared of pushing on through and the frigate birds fly high and happy and I want to fly high and happy too // but I'm lost like a song I never learned to sing stranded like a bird with a broken wing // I'm scared of holding on and I'm scared of letting go and I don't want to know too much but I'm scared of things that I don't know and I'm scared of parties and I'm scared of being lonely and I'm hungry for adventures but I want to be safe as well as free // I'm lost like a song I never learned to sing stranded like a bird with a broken wing // I don't like attention but I don't want to be forgotten and I learned the art of living but I often wake up crying and my dreams are full of ghosts and I need to unbreak my heart but this record is scratched and skipping and I don't know where to start // I'm lost like a song I never learned to sing stranded like a bird with a broken wing // so I'm going to try and do some yoga only the summer's nearly over and my bones are cold and tired and I really need a lover I'll try and get one when I'm stronger I just want a little longer but my life is getting smaller every day // and I'm scared of dying and I'm scared of living too and I heard love was never lost but I've lost so many of you and I'm scared of standing still and I'm scared of pushing on through and the frigate birds fly high and happy and I want to fly high and happy too // but I'm lost like a song I never learned to sing stranded like a bird with a broken wing
4.
you ask me where I'm going you want to know where I've been you ask me how I got here well I've forgotten most of what I've seen // I could tell you of cabbages and kings love and the treasure love brings and I could tell you of utter loneliness and how that's when the blackbird sings // you want to hear all of my stories how can a life go this way? well I'll tell you, I lost my balance one ordinary day // but the trees they keep on growing and the stars don't know that they died and there's a hundred billion light years still flickering in my eyes // you ask me where I'm going you want to know where I've been you ask me how I got here well I've forgotten most of what I've seen // I could tell you of cabbages and kings love and the treasure love brings and I could tell you of utter loneliness and how that's when the blackbird sings
5.
Sparrows 03:03
we'll take the high road, the mountain road and it's a road that's going to break our hearts we'll cry for love and we'll cry for loss bear witness to the falling apart // we'll take the slow road, the ocean road and we'll be looking for a place to spend the night we'll leave our cars and we'll save our guitars and we'll sing for the dying of the light // then we'll walk through our land, and we'll cry with regret we'll walk through our land, and we'll cry to forget we'll wander aimlessly, and we'll sleep and when we wake, we'll weep // we'll cry for all the sparrows and we'll cry for the common crow we'll cry for the trees and the rivers, and we'll say hey, where did all the flowers go?
6.
I Remember 05:17
I remember the sound of the sea and the songs that I learned of being free and your laughter, and your tears and your dreams, and your fears // I remember the salt on your skin and the lines on your face when you were thin and your temper, and your smile and how I cried for you, like an abandoned child // and you're there like the swallows in springtime you're there like the rain in the trees you come flying in like the snowflakes in winter and you're climbing these mountains with me // I remember the colour of our nights and the glow from the festival lights and your smoked-out voice and your nail-bitten hands and the ragged pitch of your one-man band // I remember all your chances at love how you thought you could never be enough and your hunger, and your need to be first and your courage, and your thirst // and you're there like the swallows in springtime you're there like the rain in the trees you come flying in like the snowflakes in winter and you're climbing these mountains with me

about

These six songs are taken from BELAN, the 2nd split release from NoCorner x Stone King.

Full album available at
nocorner.bandcamp.com/album/-

Originally released on cassette in late 2019, this beautifully woozy, tape-saturated ambient / folk warmth from Catrina Davies & Andy Mac - together as Belan - was also pressed onto 100 records.

[cassette and vinyl are now sold out]

“Belan is a set of d.i.y-pin-drop-acoustic songs, field recording collages and endless loops for horizon-fixed eyes. The themes are loss, desire, freedom, redemption, and ecological obliteration. Temporal human stories that skit across the surface of the slowly shifting earth.

The material was recorded in winter, 2015 during a lengthy stint in Mid-Wales using a single(borrowed) Sennheiser MD 441 cardioid mic while field recordings (owls, crows, rain, streams, trees) played on hi-fi speakers in the background. No separation, overdubs or multi-tracking.

credits

released June 19, 2019

Songs written and performed by Catrina Davies.
Loops by Andy Mac.
Field Recordings by Andy Mac & Catrina Davies.
Produced and Mixed by Andy Mac.
Recorded in LLanidloes, Wales.

Painting by Humphrey Clark.
Layout by Studio Tape-Echo.

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I write books and songs. I play songs and records.

The Ribbons are for Fearlessness / Ribbons EP \ Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed / BELAN

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