Quiet Hours by Electra Day
Steady rolling guitar layered with deep and densely imagetic lyrics, drawing from the mystique of the places they were inspired by, work together to create an experience of engaged relaxation.
Lyrics describe a spiritual journeying that is both personal and impersonal. The Quiet Hours project, a collection of songs, of which the first offering, Quiet Hours, has just been released, and the second will be recorded hopefully next year, represents the impressions, searchings and synthesis of a life through songs written during travels over an 11-year span from Berlin Germany to The Mojave Desert to British Columbia to Northern New Mexico to Iowa in the Midwest of the US.
Influences in both music and literature:
Musicians: Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Kate Wolf, Nick Drake, Laura Nyro, Tracey Nelson, Phoebe Snow, Patti Smith, Ricki Lee Jones, John Coltrane
Writers/Poets:Jack Kerouac, Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, Gary Snyder, Galway Kinnell, Rainer Marie Rilke, Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado, Pablo Neruda, William Faulkner, AR Ammons, Richard Brautigan, James Agee, Juan Goytisolo, Gabriel García Márquez, William B Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins
Tracklist
| 1. | Big Sky | 6:38 |
| 2. | Falcon's Gaze | 8:06 |
| 3. | Not Against It or For | 7:33 |
| 4. | From Boulder to Oblivia | 5:43 |
| 5. | Ferry Song | 10:25 |
| 6. | Endlessly Rocking | 5:54 |
| 7. | Romance of the Stars | 6:15 |
| 8. | October Nights | 5:39 |
| 9. | Old Blind Couple | 7:09 |
Credits
All songs written, played and sung by Electra Day
License
All rights reserved.
After college I traveled around the USA and lived in various places. In 1994, I started traveling around Europe and stayed in Germany where I lived in Berlin for 12 years. During my last four years there, poems and stories started to emerge, later I bought a guitar and started to play a bit. By the last two years in Berlin I had started writing songs.