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The Becoming

by Isla Craig

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1.
Intro * 00:48
2.
The Becoming 05:30
Stranger at my door knocking loudly Crying at the night asking for me Cannot push him out of here he came to show me So we go walking into town Pull my courage as we 'round the corner Bring the dawn to break the night Down the street Wheels and feet Must I go meet To be and be becoming Snakes under the kitchen sink Dangling from the trees In the vibrant green countryside Squished in the legs of my jeans They come following but you can't tame a wild thing No What lays hidden under leaves Bare as hives in January trees The sound inside no one ever hears The drone of alone The sound and the flow Of water as it goes To be and be becoming A hole to find and hide in A forrest near and deep Pull the greenery over And steady myself to keep I will keep still in this hole Free and still and be in the becoming There is no There is home There is water and there is smoke Slow the pace to held and holding Mind maps space then back to the beginning Where there is always recognition And substantial confusion There is always some movement
3.
Aqua grey blue green Sunken question exhume the scene Buried by gravity Buried something somewhere close to me Buried something somewhere deep So I go out of a dream, into another..... Show me in a dream Face the places of the mind unseen Your face on screen repeats Desperately seeking some kind of ease But I cannot hold you to me When life lines cross to a T Not a soul in the world who could be A compass guide to bring you to peace Not a wink's sleep and you've got something to say? When I asked out loud the words came and hit me The memory The body The fear and the swell Draw your lines And map them well When you want to hide something (Dig it in the earth) When you want to feel land (Feet in the sand) Water carries the weight (Surfacing to air) Fire reduced matter to ash Piles of ashes fly away fast and I am in the wind here water carry into another
4.
Love Song 05:26
Awake Wait Just a little longer Tucked into your shoulder Nothing else gets in here You wear your face so well When I'm looking I see you come alive Here in this space We are dancing soul's entwined And I can feel the spirit Shinning through those eyes And you've been working late love And I am waiting here inside Here I am here Here for you Let me be weak Let me not know where to go Let me stay here Let this be home And make room for some wonder I want the world to go to sleep too And you'd be here Here for me Watching and following The full arch of a feeling Compassion so raw When your Buddhist is seeding Watching and following The full arch of a feeling
5.
I'm Lost 00:15
6.
Faraway Blue 05:15
I went running from you Into the faraway blue Nothing but the light gone lost here And the dish that ran away with the spoon In the blackness of the morning hours Stunted in the throat A sharpness akin to nettles on skin Bucking horses penned in So you escape into the throws But the body knows what they body knows The shadow is in the left and the right Of our very true nature You have got a storm Running through your veins Complicated by the weather Another sacrifice for the ages Another digest on repeat In the circle of the storm And worse is the fear of the no thing You can't see it but you can feel it This violence between us me and you Under the skin and above us too A violence so old that it's running us through Kicked up in the dirt of the Tasmanian swirl Whirling across the plains Whirling wind and rains Coming in any day
7.
Who Am I 04:57
Who am I You are who I'd like to know I know something is happening here Something I need is living as seed Who am I writing When I need to know something I am writing myself things to be clear I am writing to you through vapour and years Blood on blood your beautiful blood Life giving wars of Venus - blood Living in a new world order Of a force that does not slow
8.
9.
Rainbow run the colours across the sun Brighter even still the shine You be living on the edge of forever Bird of paradise fly on Into the valley deep to the mountain high Taken by current carry your song to the sky View it all through sea salt eyes Into the sunset and out of time An earthbound schizophrenia You were porous to the night But even the moon don't blink herself full Wanderer wandering With no one to answer to but the unraveling mind And what it leaves behind Punched out in typewriter lines I get sentimental mostly when moving Past the landmarks and the building That can't contain the memory Between the dream the music and the method A present self and the projected We take it to the street Let the rain come and wash away the heat Let the rain come and wash away on me All will be well There is love all around you There's always been Love all around you
10.
We are not invisible Just travelling in parallel worlds Plug my ears close my eyes A public soundtrack fortified by eyes That are looking but still unseen Smoke the leaf you rolled up tight In the magazine dream ---------------------------------------------------- There is a hole that cannot be filled by anything Into this hole you pour your dreams And anything you really need Anything you truly love Devouring of beauty isn't enough So I call it out to get to know it Shadowbox the painted tongues away And you call it out in hope of finding Another way Still there is a hole that cannot be filled By the union of flesh The motion and sweat you leave in the bed And the hole remains at the end of the day The body is a shell She's the ocean's vastness Echoing until her last breath Tidal flows and cosmos shift A hit Words weave webs that catch line The parasitic appetites of eyes on lines and eyes and eyes Spin China plates on pristine crystal spikes And ambition burns a wildfire Circling steel coal eyed And rising higher
11.
Absorbed the offering like a thirst A longing for heat you thought would never come The value of the giver's gift A tapestry of work come undone Following each thread of time Back up through your body Falling in Being In Never knowing Til it isn't Broadcast on private radio When strangers know what you don't so Now you're falling and falling fast Arrows back track to find their shooter But in the light all is colour In the light standing clear In the fog is the memory And the mystery ever near In my garden All the healing powers that are growing in my garden Pulling up the weeds one by one in the garden 44 feelings in my garden But the stones you laid sit heavy All the man made unweathered The stones you laid in the golden hour Where everything is a premiere Early morning Watching thought Solitude Pulling cards to tell the news Doing the dishes in the nude
12.
Gregory 04:05
You are the likeness Of some sort of kindness I don't see My Gregory When I am just too full of love My heart needs some protection When the gaze is piercing through When the lion's are hunting You turn time into a slow luxury Gregory against the Patriarchy

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Vinyl Edition available for purchase through Pleasence Records
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www.pleasencerecords.com/releases/the-becoming

* tracks not available on the Vinyl edition

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released June 22, 2018

Produced & Mixed by Prince Nifty

Band recorded at 6 Nassau by Jeff McMurrich
All other recording by Prince Nifty at the Department of Recordings
Vocals recorded at Wildlife Sanctuary Sound

Mastered by Fedge

Isla Craig - songwriter, vocals, guitar
Evan Cartwright - drums
Bram Gielen - bass
Johnny Spence - synths & keyboards

Prince Nifty - additional synths, strings, drum programming (3)

Additional Performances by:

Jeremy Costello (12)
Daniela Gesundheit (2,3,7)
Tamara Lindeman (3,7)
Ivy Mairi (2,3,7,9)
Daniel Pencer - saxophone (4,12)
Nick Storring - cello (2)
Brandon Valdivia - congas & percussion (3,11)
Felicity Williams (3,7)

"I'm Lost" audio clip used by permission of Finch W.B. Griffin

Intro & The Becoming (Reprise) were recorded live for Ex Libris Arts Sunday Sessions

Claire Harvie - photography

Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for making this project possible and to the great unknown for keeping me reaching.

All songs copyright Isla Craig 2018

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Isla Craig Toronto, Ontario

Isla Craig is vocalist and songwriter living and working in Toronto, ON. With pointed attention towards vocal delivery and melodic play, her music is underpinned by languid rhythms and arrangements that tumble into trance states. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she is an active collaborator in Toronto, performing with Jennifer Castle, IC/JC/VC, and the Cosmic Range. ... more

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