Honestly I'm just a bit perplexed as to how a lighthouse is capable of winking. Does the light go dark from top to bottom then back up? I'm unclear.
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about
Welcome! Thanks for checking out "Wink of the Lighthouse"! This song was written, performed and recorded by me, using conventional and DIY instruments.
Here's a bit of the story behind it: during the lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, I began making experimental musical instruments from items around the house, developing them parallel to songs I was writing for what became my debut solo album, The World to Breathe. I fell in love with the instrument-making, and how my songwriting morphed and developed with the instruments I created. Like many others, this period allowed me time to reflect. I arrived at the realisation not only that creating is a core part of my identity, but also that I had been suppressing that part of myself in favour of being a proper, serious adult.
"Wink of the Lighthouse" puts music to this evolution. It is a celebration of self-actualisation, and of coming out as one's authentic self. I hope it brings you joy.
Thank you so much for listening. I appreciate you.
lyrics
See a seabird
Silent as the air
Surging off the ocean
Stoic and lithe
Solemn seabird
Summons a second wind
Longs for land abandoned
Hiding her homesick songs
Tell me that restless runs in the family
Maybe then I'll feel the instinct sinking in
Oh, I'll take up the torch and try so to not be the
Single seabird
Weary of wandering
Sick of the sailing aimless
Pining for something solid,
More substantial
Tell me I don't exist but for traveling
Read me the rulebook that Nature penned
Oh, it's only when I'm nesting I feel like I'm meant to be.
Reframe me
Shape me
Something right
I'm dreaming of the line in the sky that charts the flight away
Lend me a lift
I honour the shifting winds and I let them
Still me
Grant me
Safe passage home
I'm dreaming of the wink of the lighthouse teasing me close
Calling me, distant
Invoking an echo and in it there's something
Haunting and true
Inherent and new
A staggered release, and in pieces
I know my
Name
I want to mould to what it makes me
It's a birth, a return, it's a word that escapes me
Oh, I want the scene it plans to set me
The self-portrait it's painting me
Coming home
It's a voice, it's a tuning that pleasures and aches me
Oh, it's the arena that it's building me
The memoir it dedicates to me
Coming home
I'm coming home
Oh, secret songbird
Trill your siren call
Your love letter to the ocean
Warmest regards,
Forever and ever and ever and ever
credits
released February 23, 2023
Fathom: acoustic guitar, electric guitars, bass guitar, piano, trumpet, DIY drums (plus standard crash cymbal), DIY ululophones (the sax-ish things), vocals.
Track mixed by Morgan Allen, mastered by David Chechelashvili.
Fathom is a singer-songwriter, musician and maker with a passion for inventing and building experimental instruments. Her music incorporates influences of ‘70s folk-rock, jazz, and indie, but the sound of homemade instrumentation is uniquely her own.
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