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Shanti's Shadow

by Phoebe Hunt & The Gatherers

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1.
Frolic Of The Bees 03:02
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Come all the wild ones, Come all the thieves Come all you furry feathered friends Where we are headed, Know one can harm you Anyone can stay until the end Bring what you carry, Love what you marry We’ll toast your tattered taken time The Bars are lifted, The moments shifted You will never know what you might find INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE You in the flames there, Burn through the night now You with your steady studded hand Holding the crimson, holding the pistol Witnessing the frolic of the land Shedding our skin here, the medicine’s here Here we can cleanse our crystal clear The moon has risen, the answer given Thrown into the flames we disappear V 1 REPEAT
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Pink and Blue 03:51
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I like to pick at my wounds until the bleed Take in the moon on a bended knee Stare at the sky in the morning light Pink and Blue are the color of God’s eyes There’s a bell that rings when the school day ends That’s not the bell that rings for me Sitting here till I make amends Sitting here till I am free Only then will it ring for me The morning air so damp the dew I know you can feel it to Burning off this childish pain Help me see the endless change Running again and again I stray From what do I run away Searching for what is underneath Knowing here I am complete I like to pick at my wounds until the bleed…
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Road To Kolhapur 03:13
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Lint Head Gal 02:49
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I aint gonna be no farmers wife I’m moving to the city I’m bound to be a lint head gal I’m gonna change my world I’m picking up, I’m putting down I’m factory educated I never tried to be civilized But I can change my world Aint got a ma, aint got a pa, Aint got no blood related I once had a man, but away I ran, He couldn’t keep me satiated Love is over rated Yeah I can see right through the mud, Right through the bone and marrow I’m getting back down where the blood hits the ground, I’m flying like a sparrow I’m flying like a sparrow My hands are hard as any mans My head is even harder I don’t make the rules, don’t you suffer fools I got a razer in my garder I aint your little Omie Wise I’m not your Pretty Polly I’m not your God Damned Lint Head Gal I’m Gonna Change My World The sun is gone, the dark sets in Come listen to my story About your dark eyed lint head gal Of Mercy and of Glory Of Mercy and of Glory
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Take Me Home 03:33
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Boathouse, Highway, Airplane flying My soul’s crying take me home Sidewalk lovers, stormcloud covers Small talk hovers, take me home CHORUS Sing to me, quietly Walk with me slowly Dance with me, smile for me, comfort me hold me Somehow I’ve ended up tattered and torn, Take me home Self betraying, memories fraying But I’ll keep praying take me home Quiet, needing sleepless dreaming Loving healing take me home CHORUS What makes me think that I’m better alone? Take me home La da da… CHORUS Why do I run from the places I know? Take Me Home
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Call My Bluff 02:23
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Trying so hard to keep my balances unknown You would never know I’m from a broken home Call my bluff, if you must Tell the soldier on the corner Lay it down and turn around We all have bills to pay Saving all my tears up for a rainy day Stepping stones keep falling from beneath the ground Though the stream keeps pulling me to be unbound Fly away if you dare, there’s a choice in every moment Lay it down and turn around We’ve all got words to say Saving all my tears up for a rainy day…
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Round and Round 03:36
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Where is the line between your heart and mine? Where does the road meet the ground? How does the wind climb up over the hills And what keeps those fans spinning round and around? What is the difference between you and me? Why does the soul make no sound? How does the flame burn up into the night? And what keeps the world turning round and around and around? Somewhere the apple is far from the tree And someone is calming you down Cuz somehow the difference between you and me Has kept you from coming around and around and around Where is the line between your heart and mine? And Where does the road meet the ground? Cuz somehow the difference between you and me Has kept you from coming around and around and around
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New York 03:57
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I’m headed to New York for the month of July Will it suck me up will it leave me dry? WIll it stone me cold? Will it eat me up alive? I’m a country girl with a city drive And there’s a small town waiting for me if I die If I look back now, I’ll be running for the rest of my life CHORUS City sleep inside me leave me whole through the darkest nights Let me shine through these bright lights Take me in I think of slow down Sally Think of take that ride Time to play Think of flying high Think of keeping cool Think of going deep inside There is a wave to catch There’s a thrill a tide There’s a flowing stream And there’s a party tonight There’s a friend waiting for me at the corner on the other side CHORUS I think of sticken’ around when I look in your eyes Never scared of nothin’ never compromise Ever pure of heart, ever open for another ride And so I take your hand and I squeeze it tight Hoping you’ll stick by and keep me warm at night And we take this city by storm for the month of July CHORUS
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Just For Tonight 03:29
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Just for tonight let me hold you like I’ve never held you before Just for tonight let me haunt your memories Can we fly through the night on a gold tapestry Waking up in the morn to our river of dreams Just for tonight Just for tonight won’t you hold me like you’ve never held me before Just for tonight put your hand on my skin With a comforting glance wash away all my pain Won’t you ask me to dance on that fairyland train Just hold me tight Won’t you see through your eyes what you never have seen With the waive of your hands wipe the tarnished slate clean Let us not be concerned what the future may bring Just for tonight I will love you like I’ve never loved you before Just for tonight in our candlelit room Let the stillness in you clear the shadows in me Let me look through your eyes and see nothing but peace Knowing you’re by my side knowing not what I’ve seen Just hold me tight Just for tonight
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Telephone 03:06
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You are young You are wild You watch over me Inner child Running Free I am not alone You are bold You can fly Take me by the hand Innocence you command Won’t you take me home? Telephone Scriptures say Takes me far away from where I stand and what I see Right in front of me And I know that time is king Its holding everything You are young and you are wild Won’t you take me home?
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I Really Love 03:02
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I really love putting the phone down and spacing out for an hour Feeling the water touching my brow in the shower Hearing the sound of piano downstairs Watching the smoke disappear into the air And singing I really love... I really love losing track of the seconds that pass while I sleep Staying off course so they drift on away while I’m awake The spinning sensations that role through my spine Diving down deep in into the depths of my mind And singing I really love I really love….

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“Shanti’s Shadow breathes new life into a genre that’s sometimes so respectful of the past, it fails to push toward the future. Hunt certainly doesn’t neglect her roots, but she doesn’t wallow in the dirt of her influences, either.”
-Rolling Stone


The generative idea at the heart of Shanti’s Shadow lies in the double sense of its title — it refers, on the one hand, to the obverse of peace and tranquility, to the entangled ego at play in a world of knotty contradictions and selfish desires. In that sense, Shanti’s Shadow refers quite literally to the ego and the inescapable necessity of confronting it and claiming it as one’s own.

It is also, in a literal sense, a reference to Shanti Phoebe Hunt the artist, to her music’s quest to transcend creative limitations and give flight to her innermost voice. “Each of us, no matter who we are, has a shadow side, a realm of our being associated in many traditions with the ego or the self,” Phoebe says. “Though what I create may have its roots in my soul, it first has to pass through the filter of my body and ego before it finds a place in the world. Knowing that, my goal for this album was to be as vulnerable and raw as possible in order to share my shadow.”

That vulnerability is apparent throughout the record on tracks like “Pink and Blue,” a song Hunt wrote while traveling through India. During the daily ten-hour meditations at the Vipassana center outside Kolhapur, the song’s mystical celestial images and lyrics continually sought refuge in her mind, when she was supposed to be clearing it of all thoughts. At the end of the retreat, after meeting up with her friends and fellow musicians to learn about Indian classical music under the tutelage of Kala Ramnath, she wrote the instrumental part of the song and incorporated her lyrics with the rhythmic and melodic concepts she was studying. “I like to pick at my wounds until they bleed / Take in the moon on a bended knee” she sings in the song’s opening verse, a tender declaration of purpose for the album.

On “Just for Tonight,” an elegiac waltz about the nature of forgiveness, Hunt’s luminous vocals melt away the song’s carapace of doubt and regret: “Let the stillness in you / Clear the shadows in me / Let me look through your eyes / And see nothing but peace.” Written beside a river at RockyGrass Festival in Lyons, CO the song sprang from a painful personal experience, a wound that the song’s creation helped to heal.

On an album that opens with the joyous incantation of “Frolic of the Bees,” it’s only fitting that the final track is a kind of quiet exhalation and reflective summation of the record’s major ideas. “I Really Love” opens with just that – Hunt’s soft exhalation – and proceeds as a slow recitation of a few concrete joys that make life worth living: “I really love putting the phone down and spacing out for an hour / Feeling the water touching my brow in the shower / Hearing the sound of piano downstairs / Watching the smoke disappear into the air / And singing…”

The song is heartbreakingly beautiful in its specificity, and, rather than coming off like a hyper-personalized update of “My Favorite Things”, “I Really Love” sounds like a confession of the most profound sort. The song is so evocative because of the pathos inherent in Hunt’s voice, which she uses to sublimate the most everyday experiences into deeply personal, spiritual rites. That process, the sanctification of Hunt’s most private self, is what Shanti’s Shadow seeks to articulate.

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released June 2, 2017

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“Shanti’s Shadow breathes new life into a genre that’s sometimes so respectful of the past, it fails to push toward the future. Hunt certainly doesn’t neglect her roots, but she doesn’t wallow in the dirt of her influences, either.”
-Rolling Stone

As an indie folk artist with a global twist, Hunt's music opens a kaleidoscope of sounds that brings the listener through a mystical journey. ... more

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