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Preternatural

by Moulettes

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legbertandsquid I saw these guys a few years ago at a folk festival and I've been trying to remember enough to find them ever since! Exquisitely crafted songs that can stick with you for years. Favorite track: Pufferfish Love.
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ROWIAL There are quite extensive liner notes to this album/band (left side below). The following may serve as an (too) easy entry: If you'd like an interesting & very fine alternative/continuation to Kate Bush 1978 - 1993 get some Moulettes-albums. E.g. this very extended version of ’Preternatural’. 5 GBP is an irresistible bargain for ± 2hrs of very crafty & "nourishing" songs. OK, 9 of them in ≥ 2 versions. (Album ’Constellation’ is even better i.m.o.. But yet not offered on BC.)
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Fritz Marial This was a bolt from the blue, and utterly badass.
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Behemooth 04:07
Deep down, things that don’t want to be found, lurking in the underground, rearing up ahead / To break the surface /Each day brings new things to find for the curious mind, working through the night, to learn the purpose Big sound! Impossibly unimaginably,heart-stoppingly colossally loud BEHEMOOTH! Big sound! Impossibly, unimaginably, heart-stoppingly colossally loud BEHEMOOTH!Move in the dark picking up invisible strands, to formulate and understand the planet we live on/ Scratch the surface /Thousands of years with an eye to glass, staring up at the stars and everything between / To learn the purpose /Big sound! Impossibly, unimaginably, heart-stoppingly colossally loud BEHEMOOTH!Big sound! Impossibly, unimaginably, heart-stoppingly colossally loud BEHEMOOTH
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If you’re not really looking then you won’t seeColour matched for colour Meticulously Way down in the dark mysterious deep Many are the strange creatures that never sleepAn underwater painter, a hidden cameraGlowing Neon, all the lights ON!Glowing Neon, all the lights ON!Limited palette, infinite themesLayer by layer / SymbioticallyChameleon of luminosity A mirror of everything that we seeGlowing Neon, all the lights ON!Celestial supernature, light show illuminator Glowing Neon, all the lights ON
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Coral 04:13
In a kaleidoscope of a million castles. A Jungle Garden, ‘a holiday place’ , the place I’d like to be Who’s the architect? Well there’s a million membersWho serve their purpose, because they need one another equallyWe are the force of nature we can not control / can controlAnimal / Mineral / Plant, mangrove and seagrassElectric purple, yellow and peach, turquoise and plumLike an opening eye, in this wonder kingdomof light and shadow under the tropical ocean sunWhat is done is done / can’t undo itWhat is lost is gone / can’t get to it What is done is done / can’t undo itAnd it’s all in the palm of our hands...We are the force of nature we can not control / can control What a delicate thing, to hold in tension Fractal perfection now just skeletal fingers pointing at the skyAnd with the colours gone, and the visitors absentWe’ll know the value of what we’ve lost when we watch it dieWhat is done is done / can’t undo itWhat is lost is gone / can’t get to itWhat is done is done / can’t undo itAnd it’s all in the palm of our hands...We are the force of nature we cannot control / can controlAnd it’s all in the palm of our hands...
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There’s a hidden world beneath your feet In the hairline cracks of the gold mineThree and a half hours down below the crust Patterns realignPreserved like an insect in amberTrapped in crystallineMade to a different blueprint Built to a new design Always here but never known meInvisible to the naked eyeI me-ta-bo-lise so slowlyI live forever, I need never dieThe Universe winding around me As I move death-ly slowCaught in the dance of a lifetime you are too young to knowOpen the door to the last unexplored supernatural kingdom far from the sunSo far from what we imagine All the impossible things we have doneA strange phenomenonThere’s a hidden world beneath your feet.
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After twenty four long hours every day for seven days If you’ve got the time to spare, I’d really like to meet you to show you what I have madeCircle around it with bird’s eye vision to get the perfect view My passion is written in concentric circles It’s a labyrinth for twoWherever you are, I am looking for you to come and see it through Wherever you are, I am here, and I am waiting... The work is done for the lonely artist, but all glory fades The love note to you in peaks and valleys will vanish beneath the waves I myself blend in to the background, my craft is what I can giveThe love of beauty in concentric circles is what spurs us on to live Wherever you are, I am looking for you to come and see it through Wherever you are, I am here, and I am waiting...Sooner or later I will discover the lover I long for in youSooner or later I will discover the lover I long for in you Wherever you are, I am looking for you to come and see it through Wherever you are, I am here, and I am waiting..
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Patterns 03:43
Ever feel like there’s a Secret that is close at hand? and if you could touch it, if you could reach it you could peel it back Numbers, the pattern that moves in Numbers Numbers, the pattern that moves in Numbers If there’s a code, if there’s a cipher, if there’s a pattern that moves in numbers- leans over to whisper, what is it trying to tell you? Ever feel like there’s a secret that is close at hand? and if you could touch it, if you could reach it, you could peel it back It’s never quite as it seems...Ever feel like there’s a secret that is close at hand? and if you could touch it, if you could reach it, you could peel it back Numbers, the pattern that moves in Numbers Numbers, the pattern that moves in Numbers
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Learned Behaviour: it always turns us back round to the start just got in brand new skin, no leeway for slow learningthere is no ‘try’ to do your best there’s only one outcome if you fail the test I was born curious, I leave to know my way back by heart This is learned behaviour It always turns us back round to the start Its as if everything to me was new and sent to thrill my senses Its as if everything was pointing to my rite of passageWhat fresh blood must undertake how nature can educate what are the odds of my design short fall long climb so small, spiralling downwards 400 ft so hard so fast this is learned behaviour it always turns us back round to the start Its as if everything was new to me and sent to thrill my senses Its as if everything was pointing to my rite of passageIts as if everything to me was new and sent to thrill my senses Its as if everything was pointing to my rite of passageI was born curious I leave to know my way back by heart This is learned behaviour It always turns us back round to the start I was born curious I leave to know my way back by heart This is learned behaviour It always turns us back round to the start
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Medusa 03:50
Enigma, shimmerer could I have the answer? You have seen a glimmer of supernatural power what made me so Medusa? for I am my own Saviour perpetual rapture like a blooming flower...As far as the eye can see.. As far as death and immortality As far as the eye can see Beholder, Mirrorer for I am my own saviour what made me so, Medusa? for I am my own Saviour Perpetual rapture like a blooming flower As far as the eye can see... As far as death and immortality As far as the eye can see... As far as the eye can see Across the water her reflection follows me echoes across the water As far as the eye can see her reflection follows me like mother, like daughter
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Parasite 03:39
Something is in control of me eyes are open but no-ones home viewing the world 2 dimensionally feeling empty but never alone There is an enemy in me, I only see in flashes Chemical enemy release striking off like matches overtaking by the inch, sizzling up my bloodstream a soldier, bolder than before for someone else’s army “There's an enemy”. There is an enemy. Through the eyes of the enemy I see fear spreads like a fever perpetrators, instigators Liars and deceivers From the top of the food chain the worst in human behaviour blame the blameless time and again the routine without failure they’re saying: “There's an enemy" There is an enemy In the cold blue light of my darkest dreams I hear rhetoric like bricks in a perimeter wall we’re no stranger to the enemy that we should fear if we let them win then we’ll have nothing at all
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Little bird, you don’t sing today, tell me, what is it that ails you? “My friends are all gone, and I don’t have a song worthy of such an occasion.”Who will sing the songs when all the singers are all gone? Little bird, will you fly away, where do you think you will go to ? The trees round here are something to fear, where feathers instead of the leaves grow blood and meat fresh and sweet, that is how the trees grow. Who will sing the songs when all the singers are all gone? A world away, in a different place where all of the nightmares come true And its hot as hell and the sickening smell is something you never get used to And the cries in the night in the flickering light is something that never leaves you And a memory span is the lifetime of a man and a cycle that keeps on repeating Who will sing the songs when all the singers are all gone?
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Silk 04:46
The things you make are made of you curved mirrors hanging there reflecting the idea It’s another point of view and what is it for If not to look upon what you fear? There’s a message coming over low frequencies There’s a message coming over in sequences Suspended by a thread, turning on the illusion Suspended halfway between the miraculous and the everyday... The hammer fell clear as a bell, echoed through the air sounding constantly, ringing out clear! too tangled up, I couldn’t tell catastrophe architecture was all I could hear...There’s a message coming over low frequencies Travelling along the line There’s a message coming over in sequences There’s a message coming over low frequencies Travelling, Travelling There’s a message coming over in sequences Suspended by a thread turning on the illusion Suspended halfway between the miraculous and the everyday...you wanted miracles, well here they are...
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MOULETTES- PRETERNATURAL Liner notes: Preternatural/ ˌpriːtəˈnætʃrəl /From Medieval Latin preternaturalis (mid-13c.), from Latin phrase praeter naturam(praeterque fatum) “beyond nature (and beyond fate).” In contrast to thesupernatural, the dominion of deities, preternatural phenomena are... “suspended betweenthe mundane and the miraculous in a domain of Wonder & Marvel. Strange specimens evoke questions about the natural order...they provoke the spirit of investigation. ”‘Preternatural’ is a word particularly subject to etymological metamorphosis, describing the phenomena that fall “between the known and the unknowable”...“recognising that the areas of magic, religion, and science are fluid and that their intersections should continue to be explored, contextualised, and challenged.”In the spirit of this mindset, we set out to make a record about the phenomenal creatures that inhabit the earth, demonstrating creativity, industriousness & knowledge; capable of generating electricity, continually defying accepted scientific ‘truths’ and redefining perimeters. Inspired by their ability to challenge our expectations we imagined an idiosyncratic song for each creature through the writing and production of this record, looking for new ground to explore sonically between the dichotomies of Nature & Technology, D.I.Y & Industry, Acoustic and Electronic. It features spiders who pluck harmonics on the strands of their webs to test the tension; Pufferfish who trace concentric mandala patterns in the sand to attract a mate; the phenomenon of the mind control parasite and the enigmatic ‘Immortal’ Jellyfish. The symbiotic underwater jungle of the coral reef & the bioluminescent light show of the Octopus; the mystery ‘bloop’sound recorded in the pacific; the visual patterns that run through the natural world and the chaos that is its turbulent accomplice. From the Barnacle Goslings of Greenland, who at two days old leap off a 400 foot cliff, to the claustrophobic underground existence of the Halicephalobus Mephisto Nematode Worm, whose discovery re-defined the perimeters of life, the theatre, thrill and artistry of nature is undeniable. The aim of this record is to explore and celebrate the often surreal and miraculous wealth of fascinating diversity that exists in the natural world, and examine our relationship to it as humans: our similarities, our differences and our role as caretaker or threat. To hold in tension the emotional world and the scientific. To acknowledge that the natural world still keeps many secrets, and to hope that consideration and scientific enquiry will help the human race in our struggle to protect the wild beauty of the only planet we have.

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released October 11, 2017

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sotones Music Publishing
Licensed From – Moulettes
Copyright (c) – Moulettes
Licensed To – C.R.A.F.T Pop Ltd.
Distributed By – Republic Of Music
Marketed By – Republic Of Music
Engineered At – Berry Cottage
Mixed At – Berry Cottage
Mastered At – Loud Mastering
Credits
Artwork – Hannah Miller, Niamh Murray
Design [Additional Design By] – Ollie Austin*
Design [Graphic Design], Artwork [Artwork Assistance] – Aaron Miller (5)
Drums [Drum Kit], Percussion, Noises, Guitar [Guitars], Synth [Synths], Vocals – Oliver Austin
Electric Bass, Double Bass, Synth [Moog Bass], Ukulele [Baritone Ukulele], Baritone Guitar, Vocals – Jim Mortimore
Engineer [Additional Engineering By] – Hannah Miller, Ollie Austin*
Engineer, Mixed By – Jim Mortimore
Guest [Additional Musical Contributions], Piano – Anja McCloskey
Guest [Additional Musical Contributions], Technician [Sound Librarian] – Mike Dennis (6)
Lyrics By – Hannah Miller (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 11)
Mastered By – John Dent
Music By – Hannah Miller, Jim Mortimore, Ollie Austin*, Raevennan Husbandes, Ruth Skipper
Other [Makeup] – Anna Inglis Hall
Other [Styled By] – Carley Hague
Photography By – Kamil Kustosz
Producer – Hannah Miller, Jim Mortimore, Ollie Austin*
Vocals, Bassoon, Autoharp – Ruth Skipper
Vocals, Cello [Cellos], Autoharp, Synth [Synths], Noises – Hannah Miller
Vocals, Electric Guitar, Baritone Guitar – Raevennan Husbandes

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