Love Lets Go
by Trio Arjento
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Digital Album
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releases 01 May 2012 -
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X's & O's
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Love Lets Go
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I Forget Myself
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Night and Day
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Fireflies
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Sileni
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Because the Night
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Sink Into Me
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Every Song I've Written
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about
We went in to Grant Avenue in December 2010 intending to record a couple of high-quality demos to shop our songs around to labels.
We came out two days later with the bed tracks for almost this entire album. The only bed tracks from later sessions are Sink Into Me and I Forget Myself.
Just as importantly, we emerged with a distinct sense that we could do this all ourselves. We didn't need a contract with a label to make music. We just needed patience and moxy, of which we have plenty.
Life happened. We met a wonderful bassist. Orange McFarland added some great parts and some great energy.
We took a break while Marcy had a baby, and met wonderful little Liam. While Marcy was nesting, Jennifer and Tom did the artwork and design, and started tidying up the loose ends of the project.
We decided that--on not just a musical, but also a philosophical and spiritual level--Tom and Jennifer needed to sing more, so went back to add layers of vocal harmony. I can't imagine these songs without the sound of all three voices now that I hear them together.
And we learned the hard way that mixing 9 songs in two days is not a recipe for success. So we slowed down, ignored our (arbitrary and self-imposed) deadlines, and committed ourselves to enjoying the process instead of rushing towards the product. Autumn turned to winter, which turned again to spring. But that's what the seasons do. Nothing to get worried about.
And now here it is! Slow down and enjoy it!
We came out two days later with the bed tracks for almost this entire album. The only bed tracks from later sessions are Sink Into Me and I Forget Myself.
Just as importantly, we emerged with a distinct sense that we could do this all ourselves. We didn't need a contract with a label to make music. We just needed patience and moxy, of which we have plenty.
Life happened. We met a wonderful bassist. Orange McFarland added some great parts and some great energy.
We took a break while Marcy had a baby, and met wonderful little Liam. While Marcy was nesting, Jennifer and Tom did the artwork and design, and started tidying up the loose ends of the project.
We decided that--on not just a musical, but also a philosophical and spiritual level--Tom and Jennifer needed to sing more, so went back to add layers of vocal harmony. I can't imagine these songs without the sound of all three voices now that I hear them together.
And we learned the hard way that mixing 9 songs in two days is not a recipe for success. So we slowed down, ignored our (arbitrary and self-imposed) deadlines, and committed ourselves to enjoying the process instead of rushing towards the product. Autumn turned to winter, which turned again to spring. But that's what the seasons do. Nothing to get worried about.
And now here it is! Slow down and enjoy it!
credits
releases 01 May 2012
Vocals: Marcy Hull
Piano and vocals: Jennifer Lockman
Guitars and vocals: Tom Shea
Additional bass: Orange MacFarland
Additional drums: Jeff Griffiths
Recorded at Grant Avenue Studios by Amy King
Vocals: Marcy Hull
Piano and vocals: Jennifer Lockman
Guitars and vocals: Tom Shea
Additional bass: Orange MacFarland
Additional drums: Jeff Griffiths
Recorded at Grant Avenue Studios by Amy King
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Trio Arjento is smooth, sophisticated & surprising, blending the singer-songwriter tradition with jazz & pop influences. ... more Intimate original songs hum with love & longing, passion & joy. Listen & feel loved. Marcy Hull's warm, wise, and supple voice is supported and surrounded by Jennifer Lockman's piano and Tom Shea's acoustic and electric guitars. less
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- Track Name: X's & O's
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Everything broken gets better in time
It just takes half of an X
To form a straight line
pointing outta here—
So let’s make an exit, dear!
The holes in our plan let the sunshine pour in
It just takes half of an O
To make U, to make C,
O U C it then?
Let’s get together, friend.
Xs and Os
Everything grows
If you leave it alone.
All that you’ve lost is a weight off your back;
It just takes half of a zero
To turn in your tracks
And begin again.
Lets start over as friends.
Everything broken gets better in time.
It just takes half of An X
To form a straight line
Pointing out of here. - Track Name: Love Lets Go
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love lets go
there is a door, and there’s a window.
there is a yes for every no.
with our heart-shaped eyes
and our hook-shaped hands
it’s hard not to catch hold
of beautiful things.
but love lets go.
these skies like skies;
this skin, like skin.
take a deep breath
and begin again.
say the world is just the world
and i will think it so.
love lets go.
there's a door,
and there’s a window.
so many ways out;
so many ways back home.
love lets go. - Track Name: I Forget Myself
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I Forget Myself
This stupid world
Begins again
Every stupid morning;
Birds sing with the joy
Of sorrow forgotten.
The sun shines like yesterday
Was just a dream of rain…
…and I forget myself
When I remember you;
I forget my dreams,
And they all come true;
I forget my melancholy
And happiness comes calling
Like the stranger I’ve been looking for
Since I met you.
So good morning to the morning,
And good night to the night.
Hello to all the beauty
That’s been hiding in plain sight.
One last kiss on the soft lips of sorrow;
Then happiness can follow me
Like the stranger I’ve been acting like
Since I met you. - Track Name: Fireflies
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fireflies
this brief life
electricity and silence
a slow-pulsing magic
we fireflies.
soft yellow moon
trails our shadows behind us
ghosts pursuing ghosts
we fireflies.
building our futile bridges
brick by brick
into an endless sea
brick by brick
we raise together
a monument to unrequited dreams.
marking the miles of darkness
lived through point
by blind faithful point,
point by point
we traverse together
this illuminated life.
lit by our sorrows, we shine.
this brief life
uncertainty and courage
a future as glorious starlight:
we fireflies.
lit by our sorrows, we shine. - Track Name: Sileni
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Sileni and the Smile
Sileni is sitting and looking out the window of the room
Where she’s been living; she’s been feeling all alone
One eye wanders to the clock
The other watches shadows emerging from, remerging with
The dark.
Sileni paints a smile on, makes it wide enough to swallow fear
Wide enough (almost) to swallow all the origins of fear.
She opens the door.
Outside it is cold, cold enough to make her shiver.
From a distance this could easily be mistaken
for laughter.
Sileni and the smile pass
From pool of light to pool of light;
There is freedom in all motion...
Even when it’s flight.
There is safety in numbers--Sileni is one.
But her smile is her second, it harbours a secret
Hints at a power much older than reason.
The eyes are a window but the smile is a mirror,
A magnet, a measuring stick
And a mantra.
Sileni is sitting and looking out the window of the room
Where she’s been living; she’s been feeling all alone
One eye wanders to the clock
The other watches shadows emerging from, remerging with
The dark. - Track Name: Sink Into Me
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sink into me
sink into me tonight;
you are warm and cling to me tightly
as if i was safety in a stormy sea.
i glide over you,
but you sink into me.
sink into me tonight;
it is cold, and your breath shines
like diamonds on a ring—
each word a fading promise
you make to someone else;
still, you sink into me.
i cannot remember my arms
with you in their embrace.
i do not know what i have lost
but i miss it just the same.
i would forgive you for anything,
if only you were to blame.
sink into me tonight;
we are parts of a puzzle
that may never be complete.
we are scraps of a larger picture
we cannot hope to see.
still, you sink into me. - Track Name: Every Song I've Written
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Every Song I've Written
every word I type
turns out to be the wrong one
every knot I tie
comes undone
every song I've written
is a hand waving for help
every door i open
leads in; not out.
I only write in code
when I don't know what I believe
I keep talking
so you won't leave
every poem about you
is really about me
every wish I've ever made
is an apology
every song i've written
is just a house of light and noise
all my acts of kindness
have been decoys.
I keep talking
so you won't leave
