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Circular Waltz

from OPHELIA album by Angeline Morrison

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Paul Sands Not so much song, more rather spell. It gently pulses between two worlds and summons you through the cracks in our reality to a world that moves at a different frequency. Honeyed & lullabied tones ease the transition, but an element of disquiet hovers on the periphery. Irrespective it's a world I happy to be
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This song came to me as I was pacing around in the rain, in the dark, waiting for someone who never came. Circular Waltz is a meditation on the passage of time, in particular those moments when time drags its heels. When waiting for an hour to pass feels like a punishment from a faerie villain, as though you had failed to separate the peas from the beans in the enormous mound before the sun rose, and are now turned to stone until every last leaf to falls from the rowan tree... Seconds falter, far too slow.

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Walking circles on the ground,
Mad circumference, round and round...
I am not very good at waiting.

Treading circles, round I go.
Seconds falter, far too slow...
I am not very good at waiting.

How long must you wait and see?
Hours drop like falling leaves...
I am not very good at waiting.
At waiting...
At waiting...

credits

from OPHELIA album, track released April 2, 2021
Music and lyrics written and arranged by Angeline Morrison.
Vocals, acoustic guitar, double bass & handmade music box by Angeline.
Recorded, mixed & produced by Angeline.
Cover image from an original photograph by Angeline.

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Angeline Morrison and The Ambassadors of Sorrow

"Bewitching and otherworldly... Morrison's voice is eerily confiding, strangely present, insistent even at its quietest" Folk Radio UK.

Believing in the beauty of sad songs, weaving folk, soul and beat sounds of the '60s into a tapestry of the human heart. Homespun sounds that reside in a nostalgic universe.

"Dark, unsettling folk that verges on the hymnal" BBC Introducing.
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