galltones.com/gabriel/hardtoreachsketch.mp3

an unedited, unmixed, incomplete sketch of one of Relatives' songs from our new EP, recorded in Virginia...


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Barbara Newhall Follett

“My dreams are going through their death flurries,” she wrote that June. “I thought they were all safely buried, but sometimes they stir in their grave, making my heartstrings twinge. I mean no particular dream, you understand, but the whole radiant flock of them together-with their rainbow wings, iridescent, bright, ( Read more... )

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http://galltones.com/gabriel/kmastman2-compress.mp3

http://www.galltones.com/gabriel/cityhall.mp3

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Rotterdam Blues

won't you ease my love and ease my pain?
we coulda gone far but we won't, again
I was bitter in the rain
I'm sorry

so be gentle, set me down
i'm trying for joy in solitary movement

two new songs in the works:

You've Been So Hard to Reach

it was so nice to meet you,
i'd even do it all over again
it was made to be
your shadow, your shape
in this time, against mine

you've been so hard to reach
you've been so hard to reach
i gave you prayer every day
i wrote your letters on my arm
but what happened? did you get scared off?
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i dreamt i was lighter than air last night. i filled up my lungs, spread my arms, and moved gracefully above the water, the towns, and all the people with their busy lives. i coasted 20 feet in the air and saw children on jetskis below, and a robbery at a clothing store in a crusty parking lot. i moved from dock to dock, inviting my friends to ( Read more... )

Doctor Zhivago