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Field Recordings

by Yellow Hammer

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Nerve Salad Wonderful songwriting in an intimate setting. Really pleasant folk/indie. Really, these are some good songs. While beautiful by themselves, hearing these with a full band would be astounding. Really good stuff from Norway.
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1.
Mola Mola 02:56
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Sunfish, Moonfish Ancient satellite dish Grinding Millstone, toppling wheel Sunfish, Moonfish Basking at the surface A silver discus, throwing shapes Mola, Mola Watch out for the killer Whales, sealions and sharks There's nothing new under the sun And the old are hunted for fun You're not the only one There's nothing new under the sun Mola, Mola
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Creation Burns 03:03
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Creation burns, burns and scorches Pursues me with flaming torches Like a posse, bold and righteous Bent upon my destruction I'm a woken rainbow serpent Tickling frogs until they laugh And in their laughter they cough up water And water flows forth life itself I made a world from severed limbs The very ground was muscle and skin The clouds were brains, the sky a skull But still the people were somewhat dull Both incomplete and unfinished Like fucked up golems but not quite men So I cut mouths onto their faces And I cut assholes way down there Indigestion made me vomit Vomit up both sun and moon Projectile vomiting stars upon high The world is sick and so am I
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Nairobi 03:15
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The songs they sing in Beijing Don't mean anything in Nairobi In Nairobi The words they say in Mandalay Don't sound the same anyway in Nairobi In Nairobi Climbing rhyming ladders to the moon I moonwalk every rung Dropping either a hammer or a feather With every note that's sung You can't trust footprints in the dust Made in comet debris The ravings of lunatics or seas of tranquility Portal Peaks, Champagne Castles, Mountains of the Moon Chilalo, Kilimanjaro, and Mt.Cameroon Filfo, Kosso Amba, Weshema and Hey Kidis Yared and Mawenzi, Kibo and Woti
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Yellowhammer 02:51
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Each day you bring me little dead birds Mice or voles without heads Now all of my cupboard doors are covered in bloodstains And all of my floors they are smeared red I know it's a sign of your love for me And by now you should know I love you But for the love of god please I don't want anymore Entrails under my shoes One morning you bought me a yellowhammer And I became one of god's nails It was as yet unharmed, but screeching and screaming So I took the tiger by the tail I took her outside, kept guard beside her And stunned she sat there beside me Until the yellowhammer came to her senses And headed for the nearest tree I think I must have offended you in some way When I did what I did You disappeared for 2 night and 2 days And returned home to me with 4 kids Now it's raining cats, it's raining kittens It's raining in my head It's raining, it's pouring, it's bucketing down With all creatures great, small and dead
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Grasshoppers 01:30
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Mountainside 03:16
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Coming down the mountainside, it is getting dark The tiny, distant houselights look like fire or sparks Like warning beacons that are only lit in times of great danger Like each little home is burning, and the gathering strangers The dark rain clouds are in fact the smoke From a fire that consumes everything whether fixed or broke Down I go through cooled lava flows, down to meet my doom Picking a twilight shining path, along the way of tombs Tombs of creatures whose funeral pyres, smoke, up and curl Encircle the natural yet still refrain from calling it a world My world is changing, and I am changing too When the world comes for me, I will be born anew
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Portuguese Man O' War 02:46
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We are a Portuguese man o war More twists and turns than a rifle bore Whoever heard of a Siphonophore We are a Portuguese man o war Before the age of discovery Winds, tides and currents set us free Bluebottles floating, bladder and sails Vasco de Gama's tentacle trails Faraway Lisbon, upon dry land Colonial forts, castles of sand Schooner and barque, brigantine, sloop A galleon becalmed in primordial soup Polyps of pain, stoning the peach Weeds of the sea, storming the beach Blooming, mushrooming, corps of marines Algorithims of a shipwrecked dream
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Fly Agaric Fly 02:07
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Fly Agaric Fly Agaric Fly Trip the switch, disconnect the supply Fly Agaric Fly Agaric Fly Trip the switch, disconnect the supply Off the rails, back on track Transport inbetween the cracks Where sleepers scream Spores and fruiting bodies It's a steal, it's a steal
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Copper Beeches 02:26
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Copper Beeches in November Red handed wrongdoings remember Nothing of the rites of Spring Copper Beeches in Midwinter Giants crack apart and splinter Beneath tiny flakes of snow And so I sing Of branch and limb Copper Beeches in April Stick to what they know, a kestrel Hovering over the field Old wounds are healed
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Mad Dogs 02:43
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Englishmen, mad dogs and me Go out in the midday sun, madmen are we Englishmen, mad dogs and me Go out in the midday sun, madmen are we Englishmen, mad dogs and me Shopkeepers and swarms of bees Englishmen, mad dogs and me Follow the channel out to sea Englishmen in foreign lands Brought to our knees, walking on hands English dogs, madmen are we Writing ourselves out of history Englishmen, mad dogs and me Out in the midday sun are we Englishmen, mad dogs and me Out in the midday sun are we Union Jack, Union Jill Union rolling down the hill Englishmen, mad dogs and me Out in the midday sun are we Englishmen, mad dogs and me Follow the channel out to sea
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Monkey Jar 01:50
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I searched near, and I searched far Until I found a monkey jar Now I thank my lucky stars That I own a monkey jar I give praise to Sun god Ra For sending me this monkey jar Direct from his private spa Of precious, divine monkey jars Ma, ma, ma monkey Monkey jar I don't care who you are The best thing is a monkey jar You can keep your fancy cars I'd rather have a monkey jar Oligarchs and Russian Tsars They all love their monkey jars Space monkeys in Quasars Spaceships full of monkey jars Ma, ma, ma monkey Monkey Jar
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Why Knot 03:00
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Would you choose an alpine butterfly Or are you a Versatackle kind of guy Are you a tom's fool, or a mathew walker Alexander polynomical or a constrictor What of the wall and crown, what of the reef What of the water, what of the grief Would you whipping or manrope befriend Would you swap a pruzik for a zeppelin bend Would you tie a tautline or a bowline on a ship Would you make a stopper, would you make a slip Why o why o, why o why o Why are there so many knots Bights and bitter ends for holes and pots Why o why o, why o why o Why are there so many knots Why do you ask me Why not

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Recorded into a phone, in a home, on top of a hill, in Ålgård

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released January 1, 2019

All songs by Matt

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