Materials: avocado stones, soy milk, water based ink, 100 % cotton
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The bag is 36.5cm wide x 36.5cm long.
Handle hangs approx 29cm long at its mid point.
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Limited Edition Compact Disc
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Comes in a hand folded paper sleeve, with artwork by Asthmatic Harp
Includes full colour print of lyrics and credits.
Printed using sustainably certified, 100% recycled fibres.
Includes unlimited streaming of Things We Learned to Live With
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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about
Limbo is a quirky-catchy indie folk song based on a poem by Manchester-based queer writer and performer Roma Havers. The song is an up-lifting indie statement driven by guitar and vocals, synth, piano, percussion and clarinet interwoven in a playful patchwork of rhythmic poetry.
The poem itself was written in a week, mostly overnight in a bath in Hull (it was one of those days). Limbo balances on a sharp knife's edge between ‘I love you’ and ‘I hate you’. It portrays the dizzying limbo between comfort and pain in a break-up between lovers.
lyrics
Lyrics: Limbo
This isn’t public art anymore,
This is intimacy made so you want to look away,
Unless you have the stomach for it.
I wanted to hold your hand
but I was so far away,
And I was distracted by the way your lower lip
was surplus to your moonface:
You articulate mime,
must you pale that way
like a slowly freezing pond?
And if this is a kind of ending let it be a kind one,
This terrible birthday present:
Just a small ruck of ice-shavings
after ungrateful slice of blade,
giftwrapped in Mondays.
I wanted to hold your hand
but I was so far away,
And I was distracted by the way your lower lip
was surplus to your moonface:
You articulate mime,
must you pale that way
like a slowly freezing pond?
I don't know if I believe my self anymore
or if I even recognize my voice
When I replayed the tapes.
Take your time.
I don't want a thank you note.
I wanted to hold your hand
but I was so far away,
And I was distracted by the way your lower lip
was surplus to your moonface:
You articulate mime,
must you pale that way
like a slowly freezing pond?
The problem of comfort and comforting
is not what matters but how we make a mattering of it.
I wanted to hold your hand
but I was so far away,
And I was distracted by the way your lower lip
was surplus to your moonface:
You articulate mime,
must you pale that way
like a slowly freezing pond?
credits
from Things We Learned to Live With,
track released July 29, 2020
Lyrics: based on a poem by Roma Havers
Music: Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones
Vocal, Acoustic Guitar: Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones
Synth, BV's: Ruth Shave
Clarinet: Heather Ryall
Percussion: Kendall Perry
Piano: Julia Koelmans
Mix/Master: Green Door Studio, Glasgow
Supported by Help Musicians UK
“A delightfully playful slice of alt-folk pitched somewhere between Regina Spektor’s characterful delivery and Laura Marling’s near-perfect tones.”
Asthmatic Harp is the musical moniker of Oxford based songwriter and composer Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones.
Ani DiFranco acoustically revisits classics from across her career, with assists from Amy Ray, Billy Bragg, and Maceo Parker. Bandcamp New & Notable May 18, 2019
