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oracles  10:  lose  my  soul

3/20/2012

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Photo by Gina Loes
LYRICS
(by Sam MacKinnon)

Well how come 

We never talk anymore? 
There’s a hole in your head 
At the back with a door 
Am I an illusion 
Or anything more 
Than a shout in the dark 
That you fight to ignore, oh I know 

I don’t want to 

lose my soul 
It left me alone 
In the night, I was hollow 
Oh I don’t want to lose my soul 
I followed it down 
to the the docks 
Where the crows go 

So wake me from 
A rolling dream 
And take me down 
Where the wind is screaming 
All for the pull of the tide 
I’m so filled with time 
But I never feel full, and I know 

Well I don’t feel 
Like I’m ready today 
So I folded my heart 
And I put it away 
I’m losing myself 
And I’m losing my mind 
I’m a rock,I’m a shell 
I’m a song over time, a
nd I know


I don’t want to 
lose my soul 
It left me alone 
In the night, I was hollow 
Oh I don’t want to lose my soul 
I followed it down 
to the the docks 
Where the crows go 

Lose my Soul, in a general sense, is a song about feeling disconnected.

Moving to a new city comes with a mixed-bag of emotions.  It can be exciting and stimulating, but it can also be lonely.  When I first came to Vancouver, it was easy; I was already familiar with the city, and I had plenty of contacts, both friends and family, so it felt very natural, at least at first.

I made it my personal duty to explore Vancouver, tried to see a different part of it every day, jogged around the seawall, looked for obscure restaurants, and generally just wandered around aimlessly.  I didn’t have a plan (clearly).  I was fresh out of music school, where I was a drum and composition major, but I never truly entertained the idea of playing music as a career.

Drumming certainly wasn’t the first thing on my mind.  I wanted to be an animator.  Or a composer.  But for a year or so, I didn’t  do much of either of those things.  I just worked – enough to get by, but not enough to save anything, and I became increasingly depressed.  I volunteered for various things, but it always felt somewhat empty.  I just felt tired, constantly.  I stopped exploring the city.

I needed do something.  I applied for animation school, got in, and then dropped out the first day, realizing that I didn’t want a job that required me to sit at a computer all day.  I decided to try something completely different, so I began taking first-year science courses, and discovered that I loved ecology.  I also started playing music again, and quite fortuitously, ended up in The Ruffled Feathers.


The video for Lose My Soul is not really a video, in that it wasn’t filmed; it’s an animation – specifically a series of photographs (around 1500) that I took while walking around the city.  I probably looked insane doing it – taking a picture, walking a foot forward, taking another picture, walking another foot, etc, etc.  I ran them together at 8 frames a second.  The result is a little jarring… it looks like a shaky camera.  I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not 

The process of taking the photos was quite nostalgic.  It reminded me of moving to Vancouver for the first time, back when I was compelled to explore its crevices.  It felt good to do it again.  It connected me to the geography of where I live, and it reminded me of the fact that newness, and novelty, and exploration, are all things that stimulate me, that connect me to life, that feed the empty spaces.

- Sam
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ORACLES  9:  OUR   BEAUTIFUL  HEARTS

3/20/2012

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LYRICS
(by Gina Loes)

Everyday I try to let you know 
What you mean to me 
Face to face or even on the phone 
It’s your choosing baby oh 

Cause I can’t get enough of your eyes 
Doing their dance over me 
I’m sick in bed, I’m loosing my head 
Every time you leave 

How do I begin to tell you 
Everything I’m going through 
Without you thinking 
I over do it 

CHORUS 1
I get lost in your house, in your arms, on your couch 
I can’t think from the thought of everything we did only this morning 
Shine on me, honesty, in this dim lit fantasy 
All I need is some time to acclimatize 
In this language of letters, I am choking on my feathers 
Falling further from the sun and it’s only begun 

I would choose time with you 
Over anyone else 
I get scared when it’s too quiet and now when I’m by myself 
Like I’ll never have enough 

Every day I have to let you go 
Untie all of my strings 
And what a waste of energy 
Cause loving you is a good thing 

(CHORUS 2)
Our Beautiful Hearts praises our desire for daily connection in our relationships and confronts the energy that is misplaced when it is remains unreceived. 

Constantly consumed by possibility, probability, and compromise; Our Beautiful Hearts lays aside the consuming vacillations of the mind and makes a request for understanding while emphasizing a need for tangibility and consistency.

To celebrate the release of tracks eight and nine, “Our Beautiful Hearts” and “Lose My Soul”, we will be giving away three pairs of hand made ceramic heart shaped tumblers made by myself.


- Gina


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ORACLES  8:   ROOFTOP  GARDEN

3/6/2012

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LYRICS
(by The Ruffled Feathers)

Grow, grow, grow 
Oh brave seed 
The earth can be tough 
Maybe too rough for you and me 

I don’t know, I don’t know what it is you need 
I don’t know, I don’t know what it is you need 
Give me one time just this one time 
Give me one time just this one time 
Give me one time just this one time 
Can we hold on and see... 

Rooftop garden, oh oh oh oh 
Crumbs for the birds 
City of bulbs 
Plans a metropolis 
Oh oh oh oh 
All I got is weeds 
All I got is weeds 

Dig, dig, deep 
Break of dawn 
The earth is drying out 
And all my energy is gone 

I don’t know, I don’t know what it is you need 
I don’t know, I don’t know what it is you need 
Give me one time just this one time 
Give me one time just this one time 
Give me one time just this one time 
Can we hold on and see... 

Rooftop garden, oh oh oh oh 
Crumbs for the birds 
City of bulbs 
Plans a metropolis 
Oh oh oh oh 
All I got is weeds 
All I got is weeds
Last week saw the inauguration of the studio we’ve slowly been setting up.  We’re calling it Sky Lantern Studio in honour of the paper lanterns hanging from the ceiling.  You may remember them from the video we made for “When You’re Ready“.
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The first tracks recorded here were for Charley’s side project, Axelrad (formerly Gunshot Wounds), with Ian Sellers and Galen Elfert (of Murder Castle).  Matty engineered the recording, and is looking for more bands to record in the future. 
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Drop us a line if you’re interested.  Maybe one day The Ruffled Feathers will have our own label.  Although, right now, we’re just hoping you guys are enjoying the music we make.

- Matty 
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ORACLES 7:  MOCKINGBIRD

3/6/2012

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LYRICS
(by Gina Loes)

Hey baby it will be alright 
I don’t care where you went last night 
Times ain’t easy and I know it’s been hard 
I left you standing in the old school yard 

Hush baby it will be just fine 
Spring is coming and it’s just in time 
I’m going to pick you up and spin you around 
There’s nothing like this love we’ve found 


Hey baby just don’t you cry 
I can’t bare to hear the tears in your eyes 
There’s nothing left in my own place 
Nowhere for you to make your great escapes 

Hush baby don’t you say a word 
I’m bringing you back a mockingbird 
And if that mockingbird don’t sing 
I’m going to get you a diamond ring 

Video by Palais Nouveau.

- Gina
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