The Bethlehem Tapes
by Clara Engel
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Digital Album
Full album download yields SEVEN TRACKS in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
FULL TRACKLISTING:
1. Accompanied By Dreams 4:57
2. Trembling Dust 3:27
3. I Only Bet on the Rain 7:24
4. Hole in the Sun 4:39
5. Heaven of Leaves 3:49
6. Light Years 6:09
7. Skywalk to Crescent Town 3:39Buy Now $5 USD or more
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Accompanied By Dreams
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I Only Bet on the Rain
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Heaven of Leaves
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Light Years
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about
I was traveling without a guitar. I was in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I got to play a beautiful old guitar that Sarah Shown let me use. I only like old acoustic guitars, the warm gold weathered sound.
These 7 songs were not meant to make an album. Some I'd been carrying with me for a few years. Some of them weren't finished. They all came together in one afternoon of just playing, no pre-meditations. All I had for Heaven of Leaves was a poem, no music. It was born spontaneously as I played around on a very out of tune banjitar.
So this is me singing and playing, accompanied by Taylor Galassi, one afternoon in late September 2009.
-Clara
www.myspace.com/claraengel
These 7 songs were not meant to make an album. Some I'd been carrying with me for a few years. Some of them weren't finished. They all came together in one afternoon of just playing, no pre-meditations. All I had for Heaven of Leaves was a poem, no music. It was born spontaneously as I played around on a very out of tune banjitar.
So this is me singing and playing, accompanied by Taylor Galassi, one afternoon in late September 2009.
-Clara
www.myspace.com/claraengel
credits
released 24 April 2010
All songs written by Clara Engel
Clara Engel: Voice, Guitar, Banjitar, Percussion
Taylor Galassi: Cello, Accordion.
Engineered and mixed by Taylor Galassi.
Cover Image by: Tochter von Peter
All songs written by Clara Engel
Clara Engel: Voice, Guitar, Banjitar, Percussion
Taylor Galassi: Cello, Accordion.
Engineered and mixed by Taylor Galassi.
Cover Image by: Tochter von Peter
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“Clara Engel’s voice comes to me from that deepest of all places, imaginative space, from which she visually retrieves an ... more inner landscape converted by breath into the rock equivalent of poetry. Rarely has a voice sounded so authoritative, so unapologetic in its disclosures, so sure of its direction in going home into song,” - British poet Jeremy Reed less
shows
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Mar 10New York, NY
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Mar 11New Haven, CT
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Mar 31Toronto, ON
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May 17Toronto, ON
discography
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Nov 2010 -
Apr 2010 -
Dec 2009 -
Mar 2008 -
Sep 2006 -
Apr 2006 -
Feb 2004
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- Track Name: Accompanied By Dreams
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you said that I would be
accompanied by dreams
that would make this place
less sinister to me
but you lied
i'm terrified
you said that we would reap
a brilliant harvest from this grief
you said that life
is just one long
unburdening
but it never rained
it's autumn in our veins
you said that you would leave
a small, bloodied offering
that would make this night less ravenous for me
but if i breathe
the night will swallow me
you said that you would bend the bars
and let me rest a while in your arms
when the next war comes
and they bomb the last eden of stars
if i lie
would you let me inside
or should i wait
for another lifetime
if i lie
would you let me inside
or should i wait
for another lifetime - Track Name: I Only Bet on the Rain
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I only bet on the rain
who wins?
I win again!
I spit a joyful curse
into the sky
we can't all be winners,
and mother, I try
Digging through these wastes of flesh
I found a rose
Born of sweat and fever's afterglow
Plant me like a seed within a stone
I'll wait another liftetime
To be born
I only bet on the rain...
Digging through the mud
I found a bell
It summoned all the butterflies
In hell
Blackened wings indifferent to all pain
Begging
Singe me
Burn me
Engulf me again
I only bet on the rain...
Play my songs on spoons and rusty cans
On a deserted beach
Come hold my hand
Lose my soul, my spleen for you
On the burning sand
Mold me, mark me, bruise me
I'm clay in your hands - Track Name: Heaven of Leaves
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comb the night
with an eye
you stole from me
scrape the light
from a river bed
that bleeds
starlight claws
a caress down a wounded tree
dressed in a flesh
so soft and shivering
i stand inside your world
and learn to see
it's a golden night
that has forsaken
me - Track Name: Light Years
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Light's tooth edge cuts a ribbon of red in the flesh of the dawn. Cold earth cracks, ditches make beds. There was a war. Which side was I on?
In a few light years we'll come home.
Digging through mortar and dust of bricks, we found our mother buried in coal. We found our father buried in snow. They kissed our eyes, gave back our names, and told what was left to keep warm.
And in a few light years we'll come home.
You're the cold wind rushing through the holes in my eyes. You're the rifle and the rose in my bones. Limbs fly like flowers in a storm. In a few light years we'll turn the coals. In a few light years we'll come home.
