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I love both tracks, Ruth and Damien ‘s voices harmonise so beautifully.
Favorite track: Burst Through The Borders (Radio Edit).
Burst Through The Borders
Deep in the earth and surrounding all the stars
Penetrating everything, near and far
Conceived in the mist, vibrating in the word
Thoughts taking forms that created these worlds
Love is going to grow through the soil from the earth
Scattering her seeds in this endless re-birth
Filling up the spaces in every single cell
Flowing in the water through the mountains and the fells
Love is going to flow from the shore to the sea
Sweep across the continents and every country
Burst through the borders and open up the gates
Redefine all lands as United States of Grace
Love is going to flow from the sea to the shore
Everywhere abundant, no being needing more
Touching every heart, finding every soul
Clearing all resistance and filling every hole
Oh my skin's shed, (I) stand here naked
Sometimes it might feel too much,
But do we let our fears dictate this?
And seek a pain-free road
Into the season-less world, but it's no place to fill our cup
Let it be filled up, I am in the heart, I can choose to have hope
Love is going to pour from the courts and the jails
Seeping from the walls in the barracks and the cells
Touching every patient in every hospital
Filling up the boardrooms and offices as well
Love will be shared in the city and the banks
Chanted at the football by the scousers and the mancs
Traded in the market and shouted in the pubs
Waiting at the bus stop and dancing in the clubs
Love will be taught in the classrooms of the schools
Stepping from the shadows and shaking up the rules
Studied in the lab, sweated in the gym
Sweep across the playing fields, carried in the wind
Love is going to flow from the shore to the sea
Sweep across the continents and every country
Burst through the borders and open up the gates
Redefine all lands as United States of Grace
Oh my skin's shed, standing naked
Grace is going to help us to love beyond our limitations
We're strong as ancient oaks
Caressed and kissed by the sun, (but) then it takes our roots and
Shakes them, oh I am shaken, will I awaken, may I be awakened
Love will come, you can muffle the drum
You can loosen the strings, but the earth will sing
Let it go, we can let love flow
We can be in the heart, we can choose to have hope
Let it go, We can let love flow
We can be in the heart, we can choose to have hope
Damien Mahoney 2017
Solid Supposed
When you were less than three feet tall,
Did you struggle with the big and small?
In your cot when you tried to sleep,
Were you confused by the shallow and the deep?
And the spaces open wide
Suddenly become so tight
And the sound was the loop of the night
But a hundred times amplified.
Well we age yet we lose this feeling
I wonder what it could mean?
Was your soul yet to conform
To the shape unto which it was born?
The expanding, the contracting
The vibrations, the collapsing.
But already we cling to the solid supposed.
The fear we bring of what is outside and in.
The fear we bring of what is outside and in.
Well we age yet we lose this feeling
I wonder what it could mean?
Was your soul yet to conform
To the shape unto which it was born?
The expanding, the contracting
The vibrations, the collapsing.
The title track of this latest Caulbearers offering is a departure from the dark, psychedelic funk of previous releases. There is more space, more of a sense of peace and perhaps more hope in the lyrics.
Damien Mahoney’s words & music take the listener on an epic odyssey through the micro & macrocosm of human experience, as much influenced by modern, urban existence as by the timeless texts of authors such as Idries Shah, Kahlil Gibran and Neil Douglas-Klotz.
The simplicity of the chords, almost constantly revolving throughout, offer freedom for the movement and explorations of the piano, strings and voices. The slower, meditative tempo allows for the often incessant meter of the words which are like a drum beat in themselves.
The track features Howard Jacobs on drums (808 State, Beth Gibbons, Homelife, Toolshed), Anton Hunter on guitar (Beats and Pieces Big Band, Article XI), with Ruth Blake joining Damien Mahoney on vocals. Cellos by Stefan Skrimshire, and bass by Nicholas Malin. The piano parts were added by the acclaimed composer and polyrhythmic pioneer, Edward Chilvers. Additional acoustic guitar by Andrew Mucha.
Initially written in 2017, the song’s lyrics celebrate the sacred in the everyday and the supposedly mundane whilst simultaneously dreaming of a beautiful revolution occurring in the markets, pubs, boardrooms, hospitals and schools of our towns and cities.
“As a species, we have so many difficult challenges to find solutions for, that it can feel overwhelming to know where and how to start.
I wanted to write something that had a total faith in the possibility of change, in the ability to transcend the complexities of our modern lives with simplicity. The song imagines this energy of love flooding through the world and transforming the institutions and purposes of our societies and our lives. By its nature, it dismantles the barriers that cause hardship for so many and the borders that separate us from each other.
Out of states of difficulty and uncertainty sometimes come the more positive songs! The words can be the healing themselves, a reminder of a way out or through; that all is not lost, that transformation and renewal are possible.” Damien Mahoney
'Burst Through The Borders' is complemented by a radio edit version and the B-Side, 'Solid Supposed' (feat. Ruth Blake).
Originally recorded live in Platt Fields Chapel in Manchester, Solid Supposed was released on Caulbearers’ ‘More Lie Deep’ EP back in 2011. But this version is given a total revamp with brand new lead vocals by Ruth Blake. Her haunting, multi-layered delivery has echoes of Apparat’s soundtrack for the series, ‘Dark’, and perfectly resonates with the dream-like, other worldly theme of the lyrics. Bathed in distortion and delay, Blake’s voice soars then whispers its way through the slow, Lynchian lullaby, accompanied by Caulbearers’ signature horns, strings and live breakbeats.
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released April 29, 2021
Words and Music by Damien Mahoney
Mastered by Jim Spencer at Eve Mastering in Gtr Manchester
Video by Stirzocular & Damien Mahoney
Artwork by James Roper
(See individual tracks for full production credits)
Keeley Forsyth, on The Leaf Label, writes spectral, pulsing songs that swaddle her mournful alto in mist-like synths. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 2, 2019
