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Carsten Pieper
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Carsten Pieper As I stumbled over Laura Veirs' great Year of Meteors via the Neko Case connection it only felt appropriate to get this (one-off?) album by this "supergroup" on this Bandcamp Friday, too. Alternative folk, great songwriting (of course!), great voices (of course!!) that work fine together and great arrangements/production (also no surprise, as, for example, Tucker Martine was involved, too) Favorite track: Greens of June.
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Vitor Machado Fantastic album by this supergroup. Varied but consistent, enjoyable listen from beginning to end. Favorite track: Greens of June.
phil williams
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phil williams Damned hard to pick one favourite track from such a great album... Today I'm going to choose "I want to be here", seems even more relevant in pandemic times and I need the uplift
Thanks so much Neko, KD & Laura
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1.
I’m not the freckled maid I’m not the fair-haired girl I’m not a pail of milk for you to spoil Why are the wholesome things The ones we make obscene? Latin words across my heart Symbols of infinity Elements so pure Atomic number I am the spark Of this machine Purring like the city bus Why are the wholesome things The ones we make obscene? Well if your mercy’s lost I have enough for us Latin words across my heart Symbols of infinity Elements so pure Atomic number
2.
I watch as they dance with you I watch as they sing to you I watch as they pour Honey in your ear Like moths with their tattered wings Swing back into your flame again But dear There’s nothing for you here But I know It’s all honey and smoke They don’t really love you Like I do Unaware Of just how beautiful you are From within Uncontainable Exquisite to the detail It hypnotizes people Robs them of their social graces Swarming to your glow Fanning with phrases But I know It’s all honey and smoke They don’t really love you Like I do I watch as they sing to you I watch as they dance with you I watch as they pour Honey in your ear
3.
You wrote 'The Kiss' it is beautiful I can listen again and again You never really got a break From the car wrecks and the pain You loved the sons of the pioneers And the Hollywood cowboy stars You were just trying To put a hand to where we are Living in a 55 cadillac Five people sleep in shifts Robbing liquor stores and going back With the cash and rolling in it You loved the sons of the pioneers And the Hollywood cowboy stars You were just trying To put a hand to where we are You never talked about your past About the drugs and walking the streets They found you with a needle in your arm Beloved books strewn 'round at your feet You loved the sons of the pioneers And the Hollywood cowboy stars You were just trying To put a hand to where we are
4.
Blue Fires 02:57
Why does the heart of the flame burn blue? Why do January cherries bloom? Why do blue fires burn in me Yet not in you? How can the prairie flocks keep their courses true And navigate the stars as they do? How do blue fires burn in me Yet not in you? You tell me you’re here Your words are like fumes They just disappear Now all of the heat’s Rushing out of the room The hottest part of the flame burns blue January cherries bloom Blue fires burn in me Yet not in you
5.
Delirium 02:46
I kissed you in the morning But only in my mind’s eye The sunlight rolls along your sleeping dunes The smell upon your skin is fireworks Delirium, delirium Kaleidoscoping in Could you love me too? In my delirium The lions of the lamps coming filing in Pacing through the still around the bed Halos of their royal breathing Break like waves across the ceiling In your dreams do you know I’m the only thing between you And this heartbreak feeling? Delirium, delirium Kaleidoscoping in Could you love me too? In my delirium Is it still the morning? We left no trail of time You’re camouflaged so fate can’t Take you from my Delirium, delirium Kaleidoscoping in Could you love me too? In my delirium
6.
Just in a moment Everything’s changed My dark disposition Has been rearranged Oh what was I thinking Out there on the ledge Your steady eyes pull me Straight back from the edge And all the greens of june Come blowing through the door They make me wanna live Like I never did before From the oriental rug You meet my gaze And all my desperation Retreats into the haze The lilacs in the vase Still got their life Quiet witnesses Perfume the light And all the greens of june Come blowing through the door They make me wanna live Like I never did before Just in a moment Everything’s changed My dark disposition Has been rearranged
7.
Flies in amber sand in soap Air trapped in the glass Tongue tied I cut and run Fleeing ever faster Behind the armory I will never let you see Behind the armory Still I want you to love me Sleeping giant joan of arc Fold me in your grace From the garbage to the stars Make new constellations Behind the armory Still I want you to love me Through the vines and the street Slants the light and the heat As narrow as the archer’s window grows But it’s a rare stone In a century’s thrown to me Through the vines from the street Slants the light and the heat As narrow as the archer’s window grows Behind the armory I will never let you see Behind the armory Still I want you to love me
8.
In December I was lost in Darkness that I couldn’t shake I called you in California And you answered right away You were working at the table That your father made You were gonna teach guitar To half the kids across LA Oh you’re the best kept secret in Silverlake I talked about my misery You called it pain of pain How we let it pile on Until we go insane Oh you’re the best kept secret in Silverlake Oh you can sing and you can really play You’re the real thing, your heart’s in the right place When we hung up I was lifted Turned my head up to the rain Shortest day of winter But the light found me again Oh you’re the best kept secret in Silverlake Oh you can sing and you can really play You’re the real thing, your heart’s in the right place Oh you’re the best kept secret in Silverlake
9.
I’m out in the cold I see in your window The music’s on I’m watching you sway Just yesterday In February’s dark We watched the stars Explode until day came How can you stand right there And be a thousand miles away? A thousand miles away I saw a light in your eyes It was the animal kind All fierce and bright Now every color fades I’m out in the snow In your golden glow I feel no heat From my feet up to my face How can you stand right there And be a thousand miles away? A thousand miles away
10.
Supermoon 03:47
Supermoon Where all the diamond deals are made We never used to live this long We’re pioneers my dear press on, move along And if my smile seems painted on once in a while I can count on you to notice and to take me out Would you like to start a river And ride it like a painted carousel Our life savings aren’t enough We’ll have to lobby hard and make it up Make it up Supermoon We never used to live this long We’re pioneers my dear Pioneers we’re pressing on, move along And if my smile Seems straight as the Tropic of Cancer it’s because Nature isn’t magic it’s just a mystery to us Would you like to start a river… Tell me if you feel it and we’ll mine it to reveal it From the dams up to the turbines We’re running much too hard to meter Would you like to start a river…
11.
I just want I wanna be here with you Not bracing for what comes next I’ve got some new words I can see sideways If there’s a limit It hasn’t found me yet My friend is an artist Doesn’t fit in Lost a front tooth Can’t keep a job But the things you make Are so beautiful They bring me joy Don’t you ever stop The hungry fools Who rule the world can’t catch us Surely they can’t ruin everything I just want I wanna be here with you… The hungry fools Who rule the world can’t catch us Surely they can’t ruin everything I just want I wanna be here with you…
12.
Down 03:02
Driving down I-5 I don’t ever want to die Cuz I’d no more get to see All this beauty passing by me Laundry on the line Truckers passing on the right Every color on the wind You know you’re living if you’ve sinned Down I-5, down I-5 My shoulder’s burning in the window I should roll it up I know I pass the signs that promise hell But they don’t know me at all Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night Born to endless night But for now all is well I see the horses on the hill I smell the cut grass on the air I feel the wind hot in my hair Down I-5, down I-5 Some are born to sweet delight Some are born to endless night Cruel hoax and lightning strikes I’ve tasted both they are the same Into each other turn again Driving down I-5 I don’t ever want to die Cuz I’d no more get to see All this beauty passing by me
13.
I can meet you in the ring Where the sweat and punches fly I can meet you in the ring Where one of us is bound to cry Why do we fight?... How can a love this pure and true Have me falling through the ropes? How can this love make me so cruel To lose your faith to lose your hope? Why do we fight?... Let’s face up to the fact That face down on the mat Won’t solve this or anybody else’s fight It’s not hard to figure out There’s no victory in doubt Why do we fight?...
14.
We took a trip my Georgia and me Up through the wild strawberries Up past the river running loud We pitched a tent above the clouds Georgia Georgia can you hear me calling in the grave Alone in fields all frozen Tiger eyes you stop and gaze At the stars going blue my Georgia I still love you… Great bear dog bull flying fish Scorpion peacock make your wish Pleiades sisters seven on high Singing in the heaven’s silver light Ah-ha-ha you showed me the stars Ah-ha-ha wherever you are Georgia Georgia can you hear me calling in the grave Alone in fields all frozen Tiger eyes you stop and gaze At the stars going blue my Georgia I still love you… Ah-ha-ha you showed me the stars Ah-ha-ha wherever you are

credits

released June 17, 2016

Produced by Tucker Martine with case/lang/veirs
Engineered by Tucker Martine and Michael Finn at
Flora Recording & Playback, Portland, OR
Mixed by Tucker Martine / Studio assistant: Justin Chase
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering
Rob Burger: keyboards, piano and claviola
Neko Case: vocals
Glenn Kotche: drums and percussion
k.d. lang: vocals, acoustic guitar on “Why Do We Fight”
Sebastian Steinberg: electric bass, upright bass and autoharp
Laura Veirs: vocals, guitars
Tim Young: lead and rhythm guitar
Ralph Carney: horns on “Best Kept Secret”
Michael Finn: additional keyboards on “Atomic Number,” additional guitar
on “Blue Fires” and “Why Do We Fight”
Jon Hyde: pedal steel on “Why Do We Fight”
Tucker Martine: percussion, drums on “Why Do We Fight”
Anna Fritz (cello), Kyleen King (viola) and Patti King (violin): strings on “Song for Judee,”
“Blue Fires,” “Delirium,” and “Best Kept Secret”
Stephen Barber: string arrangements on “Supermoon,” “Atomic Number,” and “Greens of June;”
performed by Tosca String Quartet: Leigh Mahoney, Tracy Seeger, Ames Asbell and Sara Nelson

cover artwork: Elliott Green / graphic design: Sheila Sachs / photography: Jason Quigley
case/lang/veirs would like to thank everyone involved in the making of this record. caselangveirs.com

Artist Management:
Case: Rachel Flotard at Red Light Management
lang: Martin Kirkup and Steve Jensen at Direct Management
Veirs: Chad Crouch at Raven Marching Band
Producer management: Paul Dalen at Reverse Thread
Booking: Fred Bohlander at Paradigm Agency
Legal: Seth Lichtenstein at Hertz Lichtenstein & Young
Business Management: Terry Doty at Fulton Management

k.d. lang appears courtesy of Nonesuch Records
Laura Veirs appears courtesy of Raven Marching Band
All songs © 2016, Laura Veirs (Freak Off the Leash Music, BMI, adm. BMG),
k.d. lang (Bromelain Perfection, ASCAP, adm. Warner/Chappell Music),
and/or Neko Case (Nedotykomka, ASCAP)
“Atomic Number,” “Behind the Armory,” “Delirium,” and
“I Want to Be Here” by L. Veirs, k.d. lang and N. Case
“Blue Fires,” “Why Do We Fight,” “Honey and Smoke” and
“Georgia Stars” by L. Veirs and k.d. lang
“Down I-5” and “Supermoon” by L. Veirs and N. Case
“Greens of June,” “Song for Judee,” “1,000 Miles Away,”
and “Best Kept Secret” by L. Veirs

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