Beginnings

by Island Seeds

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1.
Stray Cat 05:07
Stray Cat I envy you You know no borders Green eyes you cross the line Obey no orders. Over walls, under wires Playing with the shadows Risking your many lives To serve your desires. Hanging round in the sun These streets are your quarter What’s that curious sound Behind the corner? Louis, Hendrix, Sergeant, Jazz Known across the buffer Find their names on the walls But not in their folders. Home Where the moon is shining Bright Where I don’t need to Fight For a place to belong Be kedi, don’t you dare Gozum ustunde Ussu re pu dame Quit with that stare Chipped tooth, crooked tail Such charming glory What’s your number? What’s your count? Tell me your story. Home Where the moon is shining Bright Where I don’t need to Fight For a place to belong High Where I’m one With the sky All my troubles aside On a roof I belong Stay on the roof all night Picking fights Stay on the roof all night You just might Stay on the roof all night Picking fights Stay on the roof all night You just might All night - (Stay on the roof all night, picking fights) All night – (Stay on the roof, you just might) All night - (Stay on the roof all night, picking fights) All night – (Stay on the roof, you just might) Stay on the roof all night Picking fights Stay on the roof all night You just might Stay on the roof all night Picking fights Stay on the roof all night You just might All night - (Stay on the roof, all night picking fights) All night – (Stay on the roof, you just might) All night - (Stay on the roof, all night picking fights) All night – (Stay on the roof, you just might
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Easy With It 03:36
Memories slip through my mind Constellations in the sky And I just can't deal with it Thoughts are torturing my mind While I'm trying to unwind And I can't get free from it Thief in the night Stealing moments from the dark Just to find some peace with it But I’m tortured by the light Is it really such a crime If I just go easy with it? Slow down You’ll think yourself right to the ground There’s more to this than what you’ve found And soon you’ll see it Breathe out Clear your mind from all the clouds There’s beauty in the here and now Can you feel it? Easy with it Take it day by day Come what may Soon you’ll find your way Come what may Tried talking to a friend but she said I was a mess gotta put some heart in it And the doctor always says Patterns trap me once again gotta set my mind to it Guess they were right this ain’t no place for fainted hearts careful what you do with it And if I promise to be kind strip the judgment from my life Can I just go easy with it? Shut them out It’s that little voice that truly counts Opinions serve to give you doubt So take it easy Down and out Wondering what it’s all about You would have found your way by now But what’s that feeling? Easy with it Take it day by day Come what may Soon you’ll find your way Come what may Worries fade away Come what may It will be worth the wait Come what may
3.
Someday 04:52
Heart of stone Now alone I’ve come to see That where I’ll go You won’t follow It’s all on me The feeling grows Now full blown The storm in me Cause heart of stone Come bleed it out all And learn to be… Learn to be free… Someday - I will find a way On it goes Time ticking on Leaving behind Neglected souls Dreams now grown old Now learn to find… Some peace of mind Break and grind This beating rock Cause heart of stone Has gold in its core Just choose to see… Choose to be free…. Someday - I will find a way
4.
I put it all on the line And now I’m nursing my pride Still can’t wrap my head around it (That you didn’t give a damn about me) How come you gave no second thought? I feel I spend all my time Endlessly searching for rhymes Constantly try to trace all my steps back Again and again, faced with this bitterness you’ve left. I thought of reaching out What more could I say? We’re both at fault for leaving this so late To set the record straight With every passing day We keep slipping away Can’t find my way out of this heavy haze You’re just another face Who would have thought (x2) It would be this way I think I’m losing my mind Is it by force or design? (Tell me) Where do I go from here Got nothing left But this bitter taste that you kept I would have never thought It would be this way Just wish you’d come to me instead of them When you noticed that We were drifting apart And now I find it hard I realise that I no longer recognise The strangers we’ve become (strangers we’ve become) Who would have thought (x2) It would be this way Who would have thought?
5.
Komo's Drink 04:46
It’s Saturday night Another glass won’t bite I’m taking my time This Brandy Sour’s divine It may be half past ten But I’m already mid-flight Will I reach the top? Well Tonight - I just might. On To another bar (can’t take no more, maybe one more) Oh! Where is my car? (can’t be that far, can’t be that far) This sweet music is tight And i’m riding this vibe There’s talk of a war But that’s no business of mine At last, I try to get up But found myself in mid-sea Check these eyes in the mirror who’s this confident me? I’m forgetting Left from right (can’t tell apart, wrong from right) Sounds are Colouring my mind (I can’t decide what’s rude or kind) All now a haze, Suspended daze My drink is still cold Need to go home For how long was I out I don’t know anyone here Got a habit of losing Everything I hold dear Gonna need a dog’s hair To get me out of this mess Were there zivo shots? Well that’s anyone’s guess One More Sour for the road (just make a call, catch a ride home) Oh! Where is my coat? (it’s not that cold, just walk back home) All now a haze, Suspended days My drink is still cold Need to go home Gotta go home (x4) Be a good boy and go home Gotta go home (x4)
6.
High 06:29
I’ve been wandering in the dark (wandering) I've been wondering in the dark chasing, yearning for what is missing a feeling Thoughts circling in my mind (circling) Shadows dancing dreams enticing this feeling (x4) I feel high (Feeling alright under the lights) In the night (Just give me tonight) So alive (feeling alive under the lights) In my mind (Just give me tonight) Wandering in the night (wandering) Down these streets I'm reminiscing This feeling (this feeling) (x4) I feel high (Feeling alright under the lights) In the night (Just give me tonight) So alive (feeling alive under the lights) In my mind (Just give me tonight) I feel high (Feeling alright under the lights) In the night (Just give me tonight) So alive (feeling alive under the lights) In my mind (Just give me tonight)

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Island Seeds introduce their "Mediterranean Soul" with their debut album "Beginnings". Addictive sunny melodies, pulsating psychedelic grooves and esoteric lyrics, Beginnings reflects the band and its members' own reality; eyes firmly fixed to global musical waves and hearts anchored on the island of Cyprus. In that way, Beginnings is quintessentially Cypriot and yet effortlessly outward looking.

The Island Seeds formed over coffee in Nicosia's buffer zone in the spring of 2022. is powered by the Home for Cooperation under its United by Sound program, with the mentorship and support of the Program Coordinator Lefteris Moumtzis. This program benefits from a grant under the Active Citizens Fund through the EEA and Norway Grants 2020-2024, financed by Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

Buy the "Beginnings" Vinyl here: www.home4cooperation.info/el/product/island-seeds-album-vinyl-beginnings/

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released November 29, 2023

Ezgi Akgürgen - Vocals
Alexis Sunder - Vocals and Guitars
Cemre Arca - Vocals, Flute, Keys
Alexandros Komodromos - Electric Guitar
Alexandra Astreou-Karides - Electric Guitar
Arman Tatlicioğlu - Bass
Odysseas Vlamis - Keys and Synths
Ulaş Öğüç - Drums and drum machine

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String Arrangements by Marios Takoushis
Produced by Eleftherios Moumdjis
Recorded and mixed at studio eleven63 by Andreas Trachinitis
Mastered by Yiannis Christodoulatos
Design by Zara de Arakelian
Logo designed by Naz Atun

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Through their dreamy soul-infused melodies, pulsating psychedelic grooves and esoteric lyrics, the Island Seeds offer a unique musical blend of the island's ‘Mediterranean soul’, which is quintessentially Cypriot and yet effortlessly at home beyond its borders. Formed over coffee within Nicosia’s buffer zone, the Seeds is a collective of seven artists from the island’s two largest communities. ... more

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