Songs Of, by nathaniel russell

Songs Of

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1.	Wonderful To Be In Love 03:05 video	lyrics	buy track
all the worms sing for what the sun brings and the tallest grass gets it first we lay in the shade of the tallest blade watch the light warm the dirt wonderful to be in love with you wonderful to be in love as the grass grows it grows up in between it nibbles, in numbers it never is seen i know the way it filled up the sky i know the way it looked in my eye wonderful to be in love with you wonderful to be in love all my bees in bed a breath blows through the air makes my teeth tingle it stands up our hairs all my sleepy ones hum my busy ones do it’s wonderful to be in love with you wonderful to be in love with you wonderful to be in love
2.	Silver 02:20	lyrics	buy track
maybe if i watch i could see maybe if i was i could be it’s all silver all of your troubles they’re your best friend all of your friends there is no end they’re all silver silver
3.	Nude Beach
4.	Everybody Ever
5.	Bloodsucker 02:48	lyrics	buy track
i believe in the breath of the bloodsucker it follows me everywhere i go everybody knows that I'm a number i send signals from down below there’s something wrong with us there’s a mouth in the ground that sings a perfect sound there’s an eye in the sky that sees one true tone i’ve received the sight of the all-seeing i can see through yesterday, today and this we are not a name or a word not a thing, i’m am sure there’s nothing wrong with us there’s a mouth in the ground that sings a perfect sound there’s an eye in the sky that sees one true tone there’s lips they shape the word that floats like smoke and eyes they hide the light/life you live inside there’s a mouth in the ground that sings a perfect sound there’s an eye in the sky that sees one true tone
6.	Nightwalker
7.	Wish I Was Born An Animal
8.	Stop Let’s Listen
9.	Sleeping Grass
10.	Off On

about

This record began with a funny and sad idea I had about a funeral. I imagined a picture of a funeral with a merch table. Mourners could buy a souvenir t-shirt or a poster. They could purchase a book of the deceased’s writing and artwork and a record of their songs and music. I thought about a bored teenager running the merch table, tired of being on tour and trying to keep up. It was an idea full of darkness and sweetness to me. Immediately I thought about what my merchandise would look like, what it would be. I began to think about what the record for sale at my funeral would sound like. I started to think about the songs I have made up and sung to and with my friends, family, and myself over the years. I noticed how the songs I had sung the longest seemed connected to others from a different time. I had changed some words and how I played them but they were all of me and my time on earth. I heard how these things fit together. Of course I now needed to see this project become a reality.

I asked my dear friend Amelia Meath to help me make this record. We have known each other for a while and worked on various projects with her bands over the years but this would be a chance to really collaborate and spend some quality time working on something together. Over the course of several months, we had frequent long telephone conversations about songs, creativity, vulnerability, our own lives and what it means to make art and music.

In March of 2023 we recorded this record at Betty’s in Durham, North Carolina. We spent beautiful days playing music, drinking coffee, going for walks, making dinners and laughing all day. Alli Rogers engineered the recording that became a true collaboration and would help turn this idea for a record into a real thing. Some days we were joined by Joe Westerlund on percussion, Matt Douglas playing saxophone and clarinet, and Nick Sanborn on bass, keyboards, drum programming and singing. On other days it was Amelia, Alli and I figuring things out as we went along and adding ideas as they arrived.

The balance of the surreal imagery and open nature of the lyrics became an important focus for our project. The words articulate feeling and memory in a way that can keep them close and eternal. We thought a lot about how to make these words into sounds and explored how to reference specific places and moments with tones and textures: the ocean, dirt, worms, loss, flowers, worry, light and shadow. Can the drums be a beach? How can a horn be the sunlight? What notes can appear and then vanish like a cloud or a bird?

Nine days after we began I packed up and drove back to Indiana having experienced one of the most meaningful and lovely creative experiences of my life. I am so grateful to Amelia and my friends in Durham for making this record. Art and friendship are true gifts that we can share with each other and it can keep on going forever.

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releases May 24, 2024

Produced by Amelia Meath
Engineered by Alli Rogers
Mixed by Alli Rogers
Recorded at Betty’s in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 3rd - 12th 2023

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nathaniel russell Indianapolis, Indiana

Nathaniel Russell is an Indiana-based multi-disciplinary artist. His new album Songs Of, is out May 24 via Psychic Hotline. Produced by Amelia Meath of Sylvan Esso and The A’s,

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