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NOUS - 16​-​Bit Standard Edition

by Sometimes With Others

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1.
One of those lazy days in April When she arrived on a truck I remember still Eyes sweet like violins Playing melodies of secret sins And the way she moved Like a cat on a roof Careful not to fall Not to slip at all No one knew her name Or why she came But I guess in the end it’s all the same And she was Easy as a gun Yes, she was Easy as a gun At first, they met her with a smile But in a few more weeks Their thoughts grew vile And the gentlemen were restless soon When she took her walks in the afternoon And no one understood Why she stayed alone And the wives would tear their hair at home ‚Please don’t take my man away from me’ But no one ever saw her misery But she stayed Easy as a gun Yes, she was Easy as a gun It was Joey’s bar she chose to go For a late-night drink Whenever she felt low And a million eyes would watch her dance With naked feet and open hands And one day in June when the fields were dry You could see a shadow rushing by And still no one knew her name Or why she came When they shot her down in Coldharbour Lane And she fell Easy as a gun Yes, she fell Easy as a gun I’m not the war I am the invention Of your fanatic minds Of your intentions I am released now By destiny’s hands And you will live And I will dance
2.
She picked a fruit It was no good and she threw it away She laughed at the night, that silly night And slept through the day She said, I’m not scared of your gods and sympathies She cried, Mama won’t you tell them I’m no thief Red horse, Oh red horse You burn my eye Sometimes I live and sometimes I die And sometimes I believe that I was never there Yes, sometimes it feels like I have never been there Mama I’m no thief won’t you tell ‘em He who gives not all has given nothing And I’m just dancing in the wind I’m dancing in the wind Yes, I’m just laughing in the wind I’m laughing in the wind Hear the train a comin’ hear the train a comin’ Hear the train a comin’ hear the train a comin’ Hear the train a comin’ hear the train a comin’ Hear the train a comin’ hear the train [...]
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Tamed 03:52
Call it a day Don’t call me tomorrow Tell me then When you return For the days are running wild Into the night Bring me the sea Take me to land I can wait But not ’til the end For my heart is far too wild To be tamed In the waking state The false man leaves the knife Was it a mistake To take it Just to make it Call it a day And call me tomorrow Tell me then, friend When you return For the days are running wild Into the night In the waking state The false man leaves the knife Was it a mistake To take it Just to make it
4.
The One 06:11
Oh, send to me The one that never fails the weight Oh, I will know him by the wistful sight It sure has been So many days of loneliness Oh, send him back Send him back to me In London town the rivers always have their way the days would trail the years of passing by but once you’ve seen the eyes that hold the golden reel Oh, send him here Send him back to me ... So many nights I stay outside So many nights Forging the way Oh, send to me The one that never fails the weight Oh, I will know him by the wistful sight It sure has been So many days of loneliness Oh, send him back Send him back to me So many nights So many nights So many nights Forging the way
5.
Ways 08:35
I had you there On the verge of ‚reasons fall’ You caught a glimpse of Something that you can’t recall But Oh Could it be easy Roads like cinemas And Oh Could it be pleasing Ghosts sway From the past Now that the cold has frozen fast your outward gaze Now that the past is Something that you can’t erase But you with your ways Passing strange like Passers-by And you acting way past the range That you provide But Oh Could it be easy Roads like cinemas And Oh Could it be pleasing Ghosts sway From the past

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A last drink on one of those lazy days in April. A slight heaviness lies in the room. An electric chamber orchestra plays melodies full of mysteries. Dark, dissonant music for nighthawks. A sad seriousness that hardly fits into this silly time that surrounds us so mercilessly.

The musical influences merge into a Sound Noir carried by guitarist Mika Bajinski's timelessly glacier-melting voice. With cellist Marie–Claire Schlameus, double bassist Yoyo Röhm (Mick Harvey Band/Martin Dean) and Kristof Hahn (Swans/Pere Ubu) on lap steel guitar, Bajinski heads a band that can confidently point to a wealth of musical experience and should be considered the most interesting new band to come out of the Berlin swamp at the moment.

“Nous,” the debut LP (Grand Chess Records) by Sometimes With Others, is a mature mixture of classical instrumentation and experimental interludes with a love for effect that need not fear great comparisons. Sometimes With Others are more complex and at the same time more open than their taciturn colleagues Bohren & der Club of Gore and a comparison of Bajinski's sonorous voice with that of Nico is almost too obvious.

Such comparisons, however, are quickly shattered by the uniquely dense sound, which will sweeten the sunrise for all creatures of the night. A soundtrack for all friends of the night, the loneliness in a hotel room, staring at the fridge and the daily waiting for the darkness.

- Stefan Ernsting (www.popmoderne.de)

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released November 13, 2020

Produced by Yoyo Röhm
Recorded and mixed by Ingo Krauss at Candy Bomber Studios, Berlin
Mastered by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering KG
Original Artwork by James F Johnston
Reproduction of "Figure in Water" (front) courtesy of Neil Ogden
Photography by Basti Grim
Cover Design: Sven Grot / B-99
Executive Producers: Guido Randzio & Carsten Hess

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media

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Sometimes With Others Berlin, Germany

Sometimes With Others is a sui generis electric chamber quartet formed by Mika Bajinski on guitar and vocals and Marie- Claire Schlameus on cello in collaboration with upright bass player and composer Yoyo Röhm (Mick Harvey Band/Martin Dean/Ben Becker) and legendary enfant terrible Kristof Hahn (Swans, Pere Ubu) on lap steel guitar. ... more

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