Geoffrey Armes

The Sun's Renegade Daughter II · 339 days ago

This music grew from love, loss and family with all its ancillary assertions and disturbance. Exploring the grace of life, through its sorrow and yearning and abusive pain. Yes, it’s personal.

Armes Studio June 2011

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The Sun's Renegade Daughter · 341 days ago

David 4:08
I Feel You 2:31
Our Berlin House 5:18
The Keening of Midnight 4:42
The Sun’s Renegade Daughter 2:16
The Other Side 6:10
Grace 9:10

Just over 34 minutes of new music…

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Mixed · 344 days ago

out probably the final song for the new release “The Sun’s Renegade Daughter”.

Entitled “The Keening of Midnight,” here’s the text:

The keening of midnight
The call of an angel and the curlew’s flight
Across the wind blown breakers and
Out of sorrow’s sight
Take leave
Fly to the light

“The Sun’s Renegade Daughter”

The sun’s renegade daughter
Home for the Bon
She says
There’s fire on the mountain and a sky of milky song
She claims she’s found a fortune and that
Nothing will go wrong
The sun’s renegade daughter
Home for the Bon

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David · 359 days ago

A new Ep soon come. Preview here and read lyrics below:

This song “David,” was originally sketched in 2005, but finally recorded in its present form April 2011.

you had me on the floor you had me all alone your hands were flying how you were so aroused open me cold nothing could stop your fire I was so doused so doused

It’s a silly time, a silly game
all those crippled by it will limp
through the door all the same stupid longing
from the deep heart’s core
I last saw you at the base

but now I’m so possessed because you never confessed
you never claimed anything or admitted any scene
did you ever sin
did you ever tell where you’ve been?

on the riverbank
stare at the houses
watch it go watch it flow
you did the damage long ago and
it’s a long way up to climb
before you hit the light
fly from the height david

we’ve loved and lost the same
well I still feel your pain
why don’t you feel mine david
it’s over now you’ll find solitude
you can bend even mend or change your ways
but it’s solitude david

This, “I Feel You,” is the ‘youngest’ song, first drafted May 13 2011:

How do I begin to speak of this unhappy end?
Where is the sin and the grace created there of?
Oh and me
I will wonder
Let’s try love true
Love try to love true
Love to try true
Love try life through
I feel you
I feel you
I feel you
Way down here
And way down inside

This song “Grace,” also dates back to around 2005:

This road goes on and on
now your love light beside me
inside of me
a four way shine
caught by the moon
caught by the moon
a never ending circle
mandala
I give
receive
give
receive
the ebb and flow
I ride this rodeo

I will arise and go now
fishing
I’m going fishing
I’ve gone fishing
I’m a fisher king
its of grace I sing
I carry this wound like flour
I carry my wound like flour
I carry my wound every hour’
I carry this man

ebb and flow
rodeo
light shining four ways
it’s our time
our time
time

I’m a fisher king
I’ve gone fishing
Fishing for grace
Wishing for grace
fishing for another day

why can’t I be
a better man
as in your plan?

it’s all a question of time…

why can’t I be a better man
as in your plan?
it’s a question of time
time misused
wasted or abused
precious time
well I would shine
where would I shine
same road same hill to climb
for the road goes on

grace there’s incoming fire
it’s friendly fire
the fire of grace
walk beside me
walk within
yours mine
yours mine
I carry on
I carry on
I carry on
on

light
love
life

“The Other Side”

I have cooked, and his place is set.

Waited in the night, whilst the trees bowed to the wind, and watched for the visitor who did not come.
Watched from the window, there was wind, but no dust above the road long trod.
There’s one who walks the road alone, only my love can follow him there.

No shadow on his road 
Just endless light that asks him gently
 Journey on with me.

I see you now
Clearer than ever
You wave from the other side of the hill
You don’t beckon me forward
Not yet

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1982 · 399 days ago

When I made Inside A Wall in New York, 2010, I was in a sense making my last visit to West Berlin, and making the album I would have made when I lived there, during the early eighties, if I’d had the resources available.

Now in Berlin, 2011, I am in the process of discovering the music that I should make now.

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On the U7 again · 402 days ago

A train I rode regularly to Südstern to a particular gig in 1983….

11/4/11
Brothers and sisters back in the language of my birth
Back down the tunnels that wind beneath the city
Back in the carriage where I learned to carry a notebook
Back on the very same line

1983 – 2011

This journey took too long to happen
Wayfarer waylaid on his way
By glory and beauty, shadow too, and more of all
Or an incomplete fool

Never mind doesn’t matter now you are home, the way beckons again

Wake up those tired faculties open up that brain
Certain things will always be the same
And others will grow again
And the new you bring with you
Raising up the game

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Possession and Place (in Rathaus Schoeneberg) · 441 days ago

so this is some act of faith
a little death
again
before a death
this discarding of possession
and place
casting off what is
hopefully
extraneous to requirements

watching myself

in an office

wait

after the waiting room of that hotel

I wait again

is this courage or foolishness
we leave stagnancy for sure
step into the flow
looking for the paddle still

nearer home for sure

PS Rathaus Schoeneberg is where JFK made the “Ich Bin Berliner;” speech. It’s also where residents of Schoeneberg register.

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Blog Hiatus · 514 days ago

Big moves underway. You can however, keep up with me on Twitter and perhaps the occasional entry here.

The music is of course very available, both here and in all the usual internet places.

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Release Bash Googies · 560 days ago

On reflection, a well fulfilling night. Buoyed on your warmth, audience, I was able to deliver the music into the night and the wider world… the players were outstanding as they midwifed the more awkward passages, soundman Stephen more than ably handled the sonics and the playing of Inside A Wall via Kita’s MP3 player… I was buzzed. Picture by Rob Dodson here and also by Alex Billink.

Next up, November 13th with everyone, generating

noise/chaos/harmonies/melodies/breakdowns/bassndrums

at Lulu’s and yes, get your music via download or on CD and yes, CDs were sold, so ably by Rebeka Bardou —- don’t forget your free pdf of lyrics and art here. And oh yeah Karen Mester for the fab hair! If only I could be so cool.

Thank you…...

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For My Father · 561 days ago

No shadow on his road
Just endless light that asks him gently
Journey on with me.

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