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The Wicker Word

by String Sound

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1.
Piece of Heaven (Nicholas Horner) She’d seen it all before and carved it on her bedroom floor One wicker word was all we found So charlatan the night ‘about beneath the plastic light That held the cry and lullaby to save her from this town When breathing is bereft and looking down means nothing left The fingers cleft are giving way So do the things you please and leave me with my damn disease That snares the young and spares the ones who’re lost within the sound ‘Cause I’d take a piece of heaven following you down Take a piece of heaven to the ground I’d take a piece of heaven to the ground
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Segue 01:48
Segue (Instrumental) Improvised by String Sound
3.
Love Is Simple (Nicholas Horner) Wading stare from her pupils bloom The white that peels ‘cross the darkened room I’d cling my chest and my breath will swoon For love is her simple song Shelter bleeds ‘cross her whisps of hair The linen sea coursing through the air Her voice lies still- submerged, yet bare Her love is a simple song Love is a sound humming violet and blue Echoing by as the oceans renew Love is a child singing lithe and nimble For loving is simple
4.
Dae's Waltz 04:19
Dae's Waltz (Instrumental) (Nicholas Horner)
5.
The Flood 03:39
The Flood (Music by Lucas Chohany, Lyrics by Nicholas Horner and Lucas Chohany) Paradise was humbled down by churning flame into the ground When 40 day turned 40 year of crystal flood and waters clear Wisped away by torrent tide where funeral pyres sang far and wide And weary suns sank to the sea, the last remains of Galilee Moonshine fell upon the earth cradled in a watery hearth And trembling gazed the stars in fear for floods arise in every tear Now hollers rang into the deep as I was lifted from my sleep To gaze unto her sky and stone, a wealth of water, blood and bone So hang your light from the pillars of your soul where your heart is burning bright And tie it tight for 40 years of water clear, the flood she comes tonight Heaven open up your door and take your pilgrims from this shore But all that paradise would save became the gravel for the grave
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Mourn Not For Me (Lucas Chohany) In peace, my soul abides Just as the crystal waters flow Within the mountain side Your memories bittersweet I hear them in the leaves The swaying oaks that noon and night Go waltzing in the breeze With every tear you cry Falls dew upon the rose That’s blooming there in fragrance sweet That lends my heart repose Mourn not for me my friends In peace my soul abides Just as the crystal waters flow Within the mountain side The songs of grief you sing Abhorred in my dismay They move the wave and set the sail That carries me away

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released May 15, 2016

Nicholas Horner- Voice, Banjo, Mandolin
Lucas Chohany- Guitar, Mandolin, Voice
Dan Ketter- Cello
Alex Lacquement- Bass, Voice

All compositions by Nicholas Horner and Lucas Chohany

Recorded live at Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY on January 5th, 2016
Engineered and Mastered by Jon Rosenberg
Additional Engineering/Creative Consultation by Nathan Blankett
Sessions Produced by Phil Haynes
Produced by Nicholas Horner

Thanks to René Pierre Allain at Scholes Street Studio, Ron Allaire, Drew Garfinkel
Special thanks to Stephen Potorti

Visual Art by Caitlin Allen, Graphic Art by Nicholas Horner

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String Sound Brooklyn, New York

The lovechild of Nick Horner and Luke Chohany, String Sound is an experimental playground for two young artists brandishing rock 'n' roll roots, fingers in jazz and new music and admiration for the earnest expression of folk music.

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