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Tangier

by Selina Martin

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Tangier is about the desire to lose oneself, and about the unattainable, and it's about wanting to disappear.
It compares Tangier to a lover I want but I cannot have.

I went to Tangier as a result of discovering suddenly I was about to be an illegal alien in Europe. It was last-minute. I spent 4 weeks in Tangier on my own, learning about Arabic music and about the culture. I didn't learn nearly enough, but I did the best I could.
The field recordings I made became samples in this song.
This song came from that incredible experience.

Thank you very much Aziz and La Maison Blanche for your invaluable help.

lyrics

Got a hole in my heart. And I can’t fill it up.
Big as that long breakwater; wide as the Straight of Gibraltar.
Gibraltar.
Gib-ib-braltar.

I’m not done getting lost.
I’m a wayward astronaut; A map-less pioneer,
riding a wind that brought me here.
Here to Tangier.

All day long a rooster crows. The collared dove sings along.
And I’ll sit by, sit by your side a mile above, above the tide.
And I’ll sit by, sit by your side. We’ll watch the boats go by.

You’re made of sand and wind. I cannot touch your skin.
The way a lover oughta. The way I really wanna.
I wanna.
I wa-wanna.

I’ll tell you all my thoughts while you peel the apricots.
And when you’re standing near …ooooh .
I like being here.
Here in Tangier.

I got a hole in my heart because I must depart
With the wind across the water in a boat without a rudder.
A rudder.
A ru-rudder.

Let me disappear.
I could do it here.
In Tangier.

credits

released October 14, 2022
Doug Friesen (electric bass, double bass, noise improv), Chendy León (percussion), Meredith Bates (violin, noise improv), Alex Gamble (sample randomizer), Selina Martin (guitar, voice, programmed drums, samples)

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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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