• Sirens
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    First sign, first light
    Watching you dress
    Your fingers glance over
    Places I could long rest

    Your voice calls to me
    From a depth through the ages
    Never known passion like that which we shed
    Never craved so much as when we move so little

    I am near my love for you

    Blue Black your hair
    As the seas
    My grip with your back turned
    On what's OK to long for

    In every room the whisper
    Blew out the candle
    Addict for your pearl
    Junkie for your breast

  • In the Village
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    I don't want to lose the picture
    Of her wholesome face
    Turned in that place to reveal
    An eagle tattoo

    The wings spread right across her back
    Every colour dot
    Saying anything you thought I am
    Am I or I am not

    The eagle flew up off her shoulder blades
    And gave me this insight
    It's less about the subject
    And all about the light

    Just want to be where you feel alive

    In The Village
    Every image

    I don't want to lose the picture
    Every colour dot
    Saying anything you thought I am
    Am I or I am not

  • Lost for Language
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  • No Flag
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    Only love
    Only the holder the flag fits into,
    and wind. No flag.

    From the poem, No Flag, by Rumi

  • Seven on the Seventh
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    Seven on the Seventh
    Grey getting brighter
    Leave a glass of water
    Beside the bed
    Heart back on fourth
    Head out to 22
    Nothing you can do but keep returning

    Baby had a difficult birth
    Changed the world forever
    For all around them
    Lucky stars seen lately
    Over the next way

  • Somehwere Under There
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    Somewhere under there
    An ant is crawling
    A drop is falling across a breakfast crumb
    I stack the dishes
    Scene of a small hurricane
    Gone now it's quiet
    But truthfully I miss it

    Cos you only see so much (through these eyes)
    Only hear so much (with these ears)
    So it comes
    The surprise

    The weeks new flowers
    Stuffed in a jar
    Now opening to sunlight
    Like hurried tied laces

    Juice is separating
    In her morning glass
    Didn't get to drink it
    Forms intricate patterns

    Little Pink shoe
    In the middle of the floor
    Under the Dymo
    Of left-behind water bottle

    Somewhere under there

  • KWYO
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  • Diamonds
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    Been hit so hard
    We're turning into diamonds

  • Sketches
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  • Acknowledgements
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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

Sirens
Philippa Nihill – vocals
Elyjah McLeod – vocals 1 Matthew Foran – vocals 5
Clementine Isaacson – violin
Kate Dedic – cello
Casey Kostiuk – drums
Carl Dedic – guitar 5
Rowan Smith – keyboards, guitar, programming, vox 2

Recorded Forest Road Hobart,
Lost Road Melbourne
Additional sessions Red Planet Hobart, Hothouse Melbourne,
Sound Lounge Melbourne
Forest Road computers support Adrian Keil

Engineered Carl Dedic Tony Sayer
Rowan Smith
Additional sessions engineered Craig Harneth
Sam Hopgood

Mixed Carl Dedic Lost Road

Mastered Joseph Carra
Crystal Mastering Melbourne

Produced Rowan Smith

Website Ty Bukewitsch Envelope Group and Green Team

Photography Nick Osborne
Imaging Malcolm Proctor
Production logistics Fiona McConaghy

Thank you Philippa, Elyjah, Matthew, Clementine, Kate, Casey, Carl
Thank you Carl, Tony, Adrian, Sam, Lizzie, Craig, Stewart
Thank you Heather, Alex, Byron and Isabelle
Thank you Andy Rantzen and all at The Australia Council
Thank you Maurice Argiro for your signature slide sound 2
Thank you Isabelle and Byron for the seaweed
Thank you Peter Adams
Thank you Shirley Smith, my mother
Thank you Troy, Ty and Nick
Thank you Fiona McConaghy and everyone at Green Team
Thank you Carl and Kate
Thank you Julian Poulson
Thank you Heather, Byron and Isabelle for this time

All compositions and lyrics RS except 4
Lyrics 4 from the poem No Flag, by Rumi
From The Essential Rumi, translations by Coleman Barks with John Moyne

All rights reserved

Although human subtlety makes a variety of inventions by different means to the same end, it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Leonardo Da Vinci.

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