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aka Mr. Gallery.
from the book by Michael Crummey. same name . Galore. I used the name not as a manoeuvre of theft, but as one of thanks and homage.

lyrics

He left Virtue lying on the floor. Pale as sea ice, just inside the door.
The door was barred, he climbed the roof, he lowered down the wooden flue, he dragged her back into the room.
What? What?
In the tilt in the droke off the Tolt road
Bitter cold, sharpened knife, took the child but spared her life.

See the lonely man? Look at his soot-black hands.
He sits by the fire, always cold. Mr. Gallery.

In her heart was his home. She had waited so long.
But if down is where he wants then down is where he’ll go.
And wanting what you want is sometimes all it takes to make it so. And,
the ocean opens wide & welcomes saints and sinners both with blessed cold.

He said “Virtue, see the ceaseless waves?
Always endless. That’s you and me, babe”.
Then he would fold his heart in two a dozen times in front of you ‘til nothing that he said was true.
What? What?
A year went by since they found Gallery, drowned.
Then he returned cold as stone to the tilt in the droke.

See the lonely man? Look at his soot-black hands.
He sits by the fire, always cold. Mr. Gallery.
See the lonely man? Look at his soot-black hands.
He sits by the fire, always cold. Mr. Gallery.

Now time has gone by and what has she left?
A thin angry ghost who will not confess.
Twisted by torment and hungry for torture,
reminding her always what she didn’t get.
Oh sweet heartbreak, the sea cannot swallow you.

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from i've been picking caruso's brain; i think i have the information we need to make a new world, released March 4, 2016
Jesse Baird – drums
Doug Friesen – bass
Selina Martin – vibraphone, organ & foot pedals, guitar & vox
Brodie West – alto sax
Peggy Lee – cello
Chris Stringer – synths, Wurlitzer, vibraphone, acoustic guitar, bleep drum

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Selina Martin Toronto, Ontario

This France-based Canadian songwriter fuses organic instrumentation, samples, field recordings, physical synths as well as plug-ins plus vocal improvisation in a buoyant expansion of genres that could be described as electro-post-rock, or singer-songwriter art-pop or simply experimental pop. (with a slightly punk sensibility). ... more

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