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Black & amber

by tjeckleberg

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Mini Moke 05:29
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St Christopher I was dreaming of the falling water four times taller than Niagara and clouds of blackbirds black and amber and falling from my hands a treasure I know not so much I know not so much I know not so much I know not so much but I know this I had St Christopher beside me but I couldn’t hold on The lonely stars above to guide me bit I couldn’t hold I couldn’t hold on I was dreaming of a burning fire a dragon tail of sleepless nights a shaking off of clothes in fright and shaking heads so sure of wrong and right they cannot set their worlds aside I know not so much I know not so much I know not so much I know not so much but I know this I had St Christopher beside me but I couldn’t hold on The lonely stars above to guide me I couldn’t hold I grabbed my coat I grabbed my hat I couldn’t hold on I couldn’t hold on I couldn’t hold on I had St John on a pale horse beside me I couldn’t hold I was calling for the cavalry I couldn’t hold on I was speaking in tongues, fainting and falling I couldn’t hold on I couldn’t hold on Till I met you etc
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Delay & tremolo I watched you falling from the wall I let the magpies steal your bread And when you said those stupid things I wouldn’t promise to forget When you asked me questions patiently even still I didn’t bend Can we be, can we still be friends? So you shouted some mean things at me So loud even the neighbours could quote you And when the black boots kicked down our door I was the one who sold you I always thought one way or another you wouldn’t take it personally can we be can we still be friends can we be, can we still be friends? And the storm comes and the rain falls and we try our very best to keep our heads above it all as it overflows I pulled you back on the stairs to reach underneath your dress in the the dark your breathe was lemonade we were holy hushed and breathless even when I drove away you said you didn’t want the night to end So can we be, possibly can we still be friends? And the storm comes and the rain falls and we do our very best to keep our heads above it all and we do our very best to keep our heads delay & tremolo
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Following three adrenalin-fuelled years in Berlin, the Australian singer-songwriter’s 7th album finds him in the calm of Kyoto, Japan, delivering his most focused album to date. Black & Amber marries the rush of new adventures with the loneliness and loss of leaving things behind - offering darkness and beauty in equal measure.

On Black & Amber, Eckleberg explores what it is to trade a world you know for one you don’t. In Someone I’m becoming, he asks ‘Was it something I was becoming? Something I’ve become? Someone coming undone?’. It’s a soulful, lush guitar-based album of sparkling tremolo, ragged radio speaker vocals, rippling sunshine delay lines and Eckleberg’s knack of balancing world weary whisper with fragile wail. From the disorientation of I swallowed the ocean to the sweet nostalgia of Mini Moke, the album merges a lost sixties garage soul with an off kilter indie aesthetic - magnifying small details into glimpses of what it is to make it through the day.

“Berlin was a crazy endless summer, but Kyoto is a different world - I’m walking past centuries old temples and sculpted gardens by the river, past Maiko and priests catching bullet trains. The silence, the detachment, the confusion throws a curious light on who I was, and who I could be…” - TJ Eckleberg

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released August 30, 2016

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tjeckleberg Sydney, Australia

TJ Eckleberg is an Australian alternative singer / songwriter, producer and guitar player. 'Black & amber' is his seventh independent album. Originally a regular on the Sydney alternative scene, he lived in Berlin from 2010-13, and currently lives in Kyoto, Japan. ... more

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