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Holy Mountain

by Grandamme

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1.
Poolside 02:04
Poolside Damn this retrograde Messing with my brain I make my mistakes In white satin lace First I said I do Now you’re turning blue I’m wife material Turning serial And in all these summer months You were sweet on me like sipping iced tea Then everything changed When we married by the poolside I'm your sad bride by the poolside Don't call me angel in my living hell I see your lies in her crying blue eyes And now our love is dead Dead and newlywed I'm not saying I do I'm not saying I do Again, again
2.
Big Escape 05:34
Big Escape It might come and get us All that we been running from to paradise Another punctured tyre Another time we could have gotten lost out here You’re the Thelma to my Louse One more for the road Here's to never getting old If we’re going down Then together we’ll make it home Cos I know where you’re coming from There ain't no point in hiding We’re diving we’re diving from our old world New oceans will wash up our aching wounds And it's like a holiday in my head You save me from nightmares You’re my big escape My big escape My big escape Some will say we’re no good Nothing going for us in this city life Failing every 9 to 5 You draw a bigger picture I feel like a part of something me and you No one knows you like I do When the world left us empty Slaving for that wage Waiting to get paid We were dying skin ‘til you gave me something to believe in I know where it always aches I see all you are inside We’re diving we’re diving from our old world New oceans will wash up our aching wounds And it's like a holiday in my head You save me from nightmares You’re my big escape My big escape My big escape I split into the hundreds From the nymph to the new The young venom pours out my skin like honey dew I’m evolving like rivers running wide you can see from space I’m awake all my old fears evaporate Out of our mother’s womb we walk alone I've been bursting out of my skin Touch me on my new body Touch me on my new body
3.
Nirvana 04:42
Nirvana Floating on this high tide I want to break away fade out from this Are you coming with? Old wounds made deep canyons I found new rivers Dive in my blue You’ll see that I hurt too ‘cause were affected Always waiting for the rain to make us rise to ruin Are you having fun now? When you’re getting to know me are you okay where I am broken I see the morning light My dark is held inside I see the morning light I’m bursting from the bones I’m reaching out so close But I am stolen back Warm sunlight on my face I’m almost home To Nirvana You take me higher This old familiar place We can make the sky break then we fall down harder The past is uncontained I'm getting decomposed Staring at the sun I'm the apple of my gun Feel me I’m sinking You know a drowning woman can't give you what it is you’re needing You've been waiting patient For a sign to come to show you your time has not been wasted And somehow it might I see the morning light My dark is held inside I see the morning light Warm sunlight on my face I’m almost home To Nirvana You take me higher This old familiar place We can make the sky break then we fall down harder Your heaven turns to hell It’s hurting me You got me left out in the sun for far too long And it was all for your love You made me higher than the gods Now I’m coming down
4.
Deep Dark Sky You're pretty in moonlight Body and soul You’re all of my fantasy I've got no social skills and you’re a freak like me Your eyes are brilliants diamonds They illuminate me in this chaos Life had abandoned us on an island But you made me enjoy its sweet silence Been waiting out for you Manifesting you I kept my faith Even when it ached All your perfect skin is warm silk satin Always on my mind Somehow you both scare and excite me Like a deep dark sky You don’t need me to want you that’s even more reason for why I do I’m transcended beyond mortality in pure raw female sexuality Been waiting out for you Manifesting you I kept my faith Even when it ached I never knew love How to love or how to love myself Now my feelings are so deep They terrify me You can make it heaven or hell With this power now Don’t ruin my world Been waiting out for you Manifesting you I kept my faith Even when it ached
5.
8 am 03:36
8am In some weird way I found myself some inner peace And it's something new I found myself high and dry I put my heart out on the line For a someone that you turned out not to be My lust for you Was burning bright Devoted despite the heat And this figment of my desire That I created of you Was a burning effigy In the deadliest desert planes You came as a mirage My darling belladonna I’m Icarus to the sun I got too close And now I’m in deep water It was 8am and a brand new sun Was giving me insight Enough to come undone You came along I filled the gaps in my mind I saw perfection I was blind ‘cause you’re not the one In the labyrinth I made up in my head I lost my way back home Too consumed in this new world Where you couldn't do no wrong And with this I deceived myself In the deadliest desert planes You came as a mirage My darling belladonna I’m Icarus to the sun I got too close And now I’m in deep water It was 8am and a brand new sun Was giving me insight Enough to come undone You came along I filled the gaps in my mind I saw perfection I was blind ‘cause you’re not the one
6.
Honeymoon 03:34
Honeymoon Blind from the morning sun One more day awake Cutting lines with your travel card All our dreams are crystallized In a square white packet for the bad times Nothings real when you’re high From a tiny smoke filled room We inhale a honeymoon In this daydream it will steal our minds awake In our own paradise we take in it takes over us How can we stay in oblivion to numb the pain that won't go away? It's not just a coke vision no, no Fade with the medicine Take what we prescribe Give us some relief from this life No conscience in blank consciousness No need to feel in autopilot Nothing haunts you when you’re high From a tiny smoke filled room We inhale a honeymoon In this daydream it will steal our minds awake In our own paradise we take in it takes over us How can we stay in oblivion to numb the pain that won't go away? It's not just a coke vision no, no
7.
Holy Mountain I want country living Wide acres Space to breathe I want all that while captured While you’re holding me Make it safe make it exciting Make it sinful climbing up this holy mountain Crown me, tempt me Swallow me, spit me out Shock, save me Be my high, be my ground Be my lover, be my best friend You know I can't give you everything All the blossoms are falling They fall before they see the summer trees You know it's lonely if you let good things go And life’s faster than you know There's no one who can give you all you need When it's you and me you want a whole society When it's just you and me I want liberation, make it homely Make me break, make me mend Chase, smother Lick me, make me start again Show me how I can do all that Show me how to throw the stone like you and be perfect All the blossoms are falling They fall before they see the summer trees You know it's lonely if you let good things go And life’s faster than you know There's no one who can give you all you need When it's you and me you want a whole society When it's just you and me
8.
Wild Time 02:44
Wild Time Screen time limelight’s and pheromones Gold bullion girls and ripped clothes I wanna catch the light out before it goes I think she knows I think she knows Dalston diamond shining on the scene You’re the biggest superstar of my wet dream Martini 2 for 1’s out with my frenemies I'll be all you want I'll be all you want Falling in love It don’t mean nothing I’m hungry for those games you play Silicone and champagne Here for a good and a long time I'll saddle up for your rough ride Show me your dark and your soft side I wanna come here for a wild time Porcelain water dripping down your skin Chlorine daydreams anything but clean Sugar daddies in a bikini reverie I see it all I see it all Your body’s like a desert and I'm fever pitch We don’t need forever, but the shoe fits Were all palette cleansers, but I’m the thirstiest I’ll take what you got I’ll take what you got Falling in love It don’t mean nothing I’m hungry for those games you play Silicone and champagne Here for a good and a long time I'll saddle up for your rough ride Show me your dark and your soft side I wanna come here for a wild time
9.
Forever 03:32
Forever Isn’t it great isn’t it good isn’t it better here Isn’t it good isn’t it good Do you see me crying inside me It’s only to the mirror all the words I never speak Then everything echoes round when I hear you say How can I give you forever? How can I tell you forever? Just love me like you do Till all my grey’s will come through Will you love me like you do? Isn’t it great isn’t it good isn’t it better here Isn’t it good isn’t it good Do you see me crying inside me? It’s only to the mirror all the words I never speak Then everything echoes round when I hear you say How can I get you forever? How can I tell you forever? Just love me like you do Till all my grey’s will come through Will you love me like you do?
10.
Love Hurts 03:31
Love Hurts Love hurts, love scars Love wounds and marks Anyone not touched nor strong enough To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain Love is like a flower Pours a lot of rain Love hurts Love hurts I'm young, I know, but even so I know a thing or two I learned from you I really learned a lot Really learned a lot Love is like a stove Burns you when it's hot Love hurts Love hurts Some fools dream of happiness Blissfulness, togetherness Some fools fool themselves, I guess But they're not fooling me You know it isn't true No it isn't true Love is just a lie Made to make you blue Love hurts Love hurts
11.
I Won't fail you Never have I ever been so safe from my past Never have I ever wanted to share my vulnerable Never have I fully known how to trust someone Never has it felt so good Never has it felt so good With you ‘cause you know how to see through my eyes With you now you got me be careful with what you do I won't fail you’ cause you feel me to the bone I won't trigger you but I’m still running from the hurt I know I'm still here I won't abandon you I'm just buried deep with all I find hard to say to you All I know is what I've lived and I’ve got me to protect I've been the only one that's got me through all my loss and regret Now I let you shelter and its freeing now to let me go And all I know is it feels good All I know is it feels good With you ‘cause you know how to see through my eyes With you now you got me be careful with what you do I won't fail you ‘cause you feel me to the bone I won't trigger you but I’m still running from the hurt I know I'm still here I won't abandon you I'm just buried deep with all I find hard to say to you When our blood runs cold you think that I don't care But it's the way I cope to carry my cross alone You hate me now ‘cause I'm lost through familiar eyes But it's the way I know how to survive I won't fail you ‘cause you feel me to the bone I won't trigger you but I’m still running from the hurt I know I'm still here I won't abandon you I'm just buried deep with all I find hard to say to you

about

Grandamme

Taking cues from filmic, dystopian retromania and a distorted yet romantic aesthetic of fading glamour, new duo Grandamme are formed of Claudia Kane and Bastien Keb. Effortlessly interconnected, Kane’s timeless songwriting and soulfully affecting voice is wholly complimented by Keb’s dream-like production of dolorous orchestrated instrumentation warmly rubbing up against 80s sci-fi synthesisers and lo-fi beats. Their combined vision of haunting chamber-pop blends vintage and future aspects like a classic black & white movie being experienced anew in a virtual reality world.

Reoccurring themes of escapism, love, sensuality, vulnerability, melancholy and introspection permeate the lyrics of their songs. But a noir sense of the abstract blurs the obvious, leaving the listener to develop their own meaning. “Bastien’s music might be communicating something different to what I want to say and I find that interesting, as communication and expression aren’t just within the lyrics themselves” explains Kane. “Maybe as a listener, there could be things that may be quite jarring, opposing or complementary as there are different details of expression that could be picked out. I prefer to write lyrics later as a sort of interpreter for the subconscious.”

She continues, “I like to write music with a strong visual scene or moment playing out in my head like something from a film. A lot of the songs seem to capture a weird feeling and imagining what it would be like to escape”. This desire of flight juxtaposes her own life, as Kane admits that she’s “not really an outdoorsy person, I prefer the great indoors, watching documentaries and anything to do with the supernatural, sci-fi and horror movies.” However, she also loves “going clubbing, queer nighttime culture, fashion, and DJ’ing”.

On his formative musical influences Keb says “I generally got lost in movies and music as a teenager, which is where all my influences come from. I also got a lot of music off skate videos or hunting down samples from hip hop tracks''. In his music you can hear snippets of Western soundtracks, wistful do-wap ballads and eerie psychedelic folk. When asked how he wants people to feel when listening to Grandamme, he replies “Ideally, I want them to cry. Whilst dancing.”

As a solo artist, Claudia Kane has received tastemaker press and extensive radio play on BBC Radio with syncs to film & TV for A Simple Favor, The Spy Who Dumped Me & The Royals. Bastien Keb is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter and composer whose artist albums have gathered extensive radio play and widespread critical acclaim with the Guardian describing his recent album ‘The Killing of Eugene Peeps’ on Gearbox Records as "An imaginary soundtrack that recalls the proto-trip-hop of Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Vannier, the rumbling scores of Bernard Herrmann and the cinematic swagger of Barry Adamson".

After meeting through mutual industry friends, they began collaborating on music virtually between their homes in Bath and east London. Finding shared passions over films and music, the idea for Grandamme was born. A debut album is currently in production, set for release by London label Def Pressé in 2022.

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released September 30, 2022

All songs written, arranged and performed by Claudia Kane and Seb Jones (Bastien Keb)
Except ‘Love Hurts’ written by Boudleaux Bryant
‘Poolside’ lyrics written by Claudia Kane and Natalia Salter
‘8AM’ lyrics written by Claudia Kane and Michelle Manetti
‘Wild Time’ lyrics written by Claudia Kane, Natalie Salter & Olivia Strange
'Forever' contains elements of 'All That Love in Your Heart' by Bastien Keb, featuring Claudia Kane. Courtesy of Gearbox Records.

Mixed by Tim Southorn
Mastered by Earl Davis (Damu the Fudgemunk)

All songs recorded by Claudia Kane and Seb Jones (Bastien Keb)
Produced by Claudia Kane and Seb Jones (Bastien Keb)
Seb Jones (Bastien Keb) published by Metropolis Songs

Front cover photography by Natalia Rowley
Design and Layout by Tom Dryden for Remotely Art
All rights Reserved Def Pressé (2022)
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Taking cues from filmic, dystopian retromania and a distorted yet romantic aesthetic of fading glamour, new duo Grandamme are formed of Claudia Kane and Bastien Keb. Effortlessly interconnected, Kane’s timeless songwriting and soulfully affecting voice is wholly complimented by Keb’s dream-like production of dolorous orchestrated instrumentation.

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