We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Twelve Moons

by Erica Bramham

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7 AUD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Beautifully packaged in a gatefold card case with photographs by Jiří Špiegl and artwork by Erica Bramham. Includes detailed liner notes explaining the Twelve Moons project and the inspiration behind the music.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Twelve Moons via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 AUD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 4 Erica Bramham releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Colour Trio I, Enamel, Songs From A Midnight Room, and Twelve Moons. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $21.45 AUD or more (35% OFF)

     

1.
Červenec 01:35
I use my teeth to make a tiny hole in your skin and I climb inside all the roads here are red and blue - I choose a red one.
2.
A low heavy sun is melting into a golden horizon a breeze tries to undress us and all of the birds that pepper the air with sirens are watching our hands as we find the spaces between our bodies and fill them with questions that ripen the skin on our bare shoulders and echo our hearts.
3.
The night is so sticky the neighbours all finish our jokes but it's not the heat that melts all the skin from my bones. And I hope that our children are born with your eyes like your mother she hoped you'd inherit her nose but I love what your father gave you just the same. The daylight saved for us now melts like the ice in our drinks but the air is so heavy and we've thrown off our clothes. And if I could just save I would buy you a house somewhere cool where the neighbours don't keep us awake but I'll love you in our little flat just the same.
4.
High above the city the sky is flat and grey and I can see so far below. A fine sheet of water it falls so slowly down caressing all the traffic lights. Keyboards click and staplers crunch and printers hum and my heart sings a melody that tickles minutes right along a waiting song 'til my lunch hour, and love I miss you all day long. A field of black umbrellas unfolds to greet the sky and my feet take me through the crowd. Past all the windows of antique jewellery stores nestled in the alleyways. And around my finger winds your heart a band of gold that whispers your name softly as the lift ascends and takes me back up to my desk to sleepwalk through the hours I miss you all day long.
5.
Your tongue lashes little sharp words that start the feathery cracks creeping across the surface of my heart. A hairline deepens as each I Love You separates to lonely islands in a sea of time until we've come so far from the last one that we're in open water. I expect it but it's still a surprise when it comes a light little blow that builds inside me until it reaches those fractures and suddenly crash a piece is gone. Plunging down through my feet and into the earth where I can't ever reclaim it. Rushing blood is warm and pools through the remaining cracks widening them with its passage. A slow throbbing in my chest until crash another piece falls away. This heart inside my chest now incomplete treacherous and unpredictable. Days can pass with no movement then a warm memory bubbling up from an old summer begins to melt my icy defences until crash another piece drops tears through my stomach tears through the soles of my feet another piece of me swallowed by the earth.
6.
7.
I asked my love did he love me he couldn't tell me so I asked my love to the forest and under an oak tree where the air was quiet I asked my love for his pocket knife. I asked my love for his pocket knife and I carved our names on two acorns I tossed them into the river they danced across the water and I willed them toward each other. I asked my love did he love me: his arms unfolded.

about

When I began working on the music for this album the only concrete thing I had in mind was that I wanted to write a song cycle. The final idea for this project came from my Czech language studies, something I have been pursuing slowly alongside music. Czech is a difficult language to learn, as it is full of idiosyncrasies and embedded meanings that are difficult to truly grasp as a native English speaker. The names for the Czech months are an example of this character, with their etymology relating directly to their season, and they became the starting point for all the compositions on this album.

The names for each month have multiple possible translations, some quite abstract, so I had to bring my own interpretations to the creative process. Many of the lyrical ideas on the album come from research into European folklore, but I couldn't ignore that I have grown up on the other side of the world with a very different culture and landscape. I have drawn just as much from my own experience of language and location as from European art, literature and travel. This resulted in songs with a kind of universal sense of place, and an emphasis on the human experience that remains constant regardless of language, culture or location.

Twelve Moons was written to be performed in full from start to finish, with each composition giving way to the next, and I chose to record it in the same way. While each track can be enjoyed alone the experience is definitely richer on listening to the whole album from beginning to end.

-- Erica Bramham, July 2016

credits

released July 16, 2016

Erica Bramham - voice
Nathan Liow - piano
Adam Spiegl - bass
Justin Olsson - drums

Recorded and mixed by Callum Barter at Newmarket Studios
Mastered by Isaac Barter
All compositions by Erica Bramham
Photography by Jiří Špiegl
Artwork by Erica Bramham

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Erica Bramham Melbourne, Australia

Genre-slippery songs, soundscapes and improvisations.

contact / help

Contact Erica Bramham

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Erica Bramham, you may also like: