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    A limited run CD version of our debut EP, Jorinde and Joringel, fully colour printed in a gatefold double pocket wallet with a full colour lyrics booklet, and wrapped in a biodegradable eco wrap.

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Waxwing is a haunting tale of love and loss, freedom and captivity, and womanhood. The song tells of a world filled with captive birds in cages, and beings petrified in an enchanted forest. Originally conceived by Georgia as a 12 part choral piece, the work slowly metamorphosed into its new form; first as a live arrangement for a previous incarnation of the band, and finally captured as a recording for the first time in its current lush orchestration.

lyrics

Waxwing
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Once, under juniper

a wicked word

from bones and broderie

became a bird.


She cut her feathers up

into a cloak

and fled back to her almond tree 

when he awoke.

Fair Jorinde it be Hallowtide! 

Oh Fitcher’s feathered head

wherefrom, wherefrom?

Find the petal with the pearl inside -

black eyed Susan’s out of bed

and up in song.

Seven ravens stalk the inbetween,
the fairytale foretold.

September sent the rain

in silver darts.

Send them soupy for the guillotine, 

how many heads have rolled?

To see our livers slain

and eat out our hearts.

(Birdy be wary

Birdy be wary

Birdy be wary

Birdy be wary

Would you like to bake a pie?)

Fairings for the four and twenty,

don’t you brood, little birdy. 

Would you like to bake a pie?


(Please be wary 

Please by wary

Don’t look on the shelf 

The woman tells a lie)

If you need a lesson

I have plenty -

kick the jinx

and kiss him goodbye.

Jorinde I’ll carry you up and into the sky...

Oh God, make me small make me somebody else.

(We’ll make it out brave, we’ll make it out whole)

I flew through the forest and wept where you knelt.

(You watered the grave, you met with my soul) 

You ran with the flames and you taught them to dance.

(Come back to bed, come back to us)

Now they would burn if you gave them a chance.

We can turn back today, turn back to dust

Sang the ring dove from the willow spray 

“My pretty nightingale

where have you gone?”

“Sir the forest took our words away,

and that is how this sorry tale became a song"

Lyrics by Georgia Harris

credits

from Jorinde and Joringel, released July 29, 2021
Music: Georgia Harris, Rich Bond

Lyrics: Georgia Harris


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Recording and production


Producer: Rich Bond (Gift Horse, small dogs, Venus Demilo)

Recording engineer: Joel Anthony Patchett

Recording engineer: Rich Bond

Mix engineer: Rich Bond

Mastering engineer: Jim Spencer at EVE Mastering

Mixed at Wise Tree Studios, Liverpool

Recorded EVE Recording Studios, Stockport

Additional recording at Wise Tree Studios, Liverpool

Mastered at EVE Recording Studios, Stockport (EVE Mastering)

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Instruments


Lead Vocals: Georgia Harris

Harmony Vocals: Rich Bond, Siubhan Macauley, Jed Timms

Piano: Georgia Harris

Bowed electric guitar: Rich Bond

Clarinet: Rich Bond

Recorder: Rich Bond

Harp: Rich Bond

Harmonium: Rich Bond

Hammond organ: Georgia Harris

Percussion: Rich Bond

Bowed vibraphone: Rich Bond

Tubular Bells: Rich Bond

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Loris and the Lion Liverpool, UK

Loris and the Lion weave gentle tales of joy and loss; a patchwork of sonic delights built by (wo)man and machine to soothe the soul and feed the heart.

A duo from Liverpool, navigating life together accompanied by: fairytales; folktales; lifetales.

Calling to mind the sounds and spirit of Joanna Newsom, Tori Amos and Jesca Hoop. ... more

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