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Black Blackness

from Cool. by seela

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    Cool is the 6th studio album by Seela, a veteran Austin singer/songwriter/performer and back-up singer. Though she’s always had deep involvement in the recording process in the past, she has also always had a producer to fall back on. This time Seela took the reins and self-produced the record she wanted to hear.

    The songs, some she has been playing live for years, pay no loyalty to any particular style but are the result of her many influences: The Police, Spoon, Anita O’ Day, Heart, Steely Dan, and Bowie to name a few. Pop, Rock, Folk, Gospel and Jazz have all been a part of her 20+ year career as an Austin musician and Cool lets it show.

    Backed by her solid-as-a-rock drummer/husband Jon Greene (Patty Griffin, Fastball, Jaimee Harris), her nephew Andrew Casile on guitar, Andrew Pressman (Jimmy LaFave, Nancy & Beth, Anthony DaCosta) on bass, as well as an impressive handful of Austin’s finest, Seela and engineer Britton Beisenherz have created a lush and catchy thirteen-track universe. With gorgeous harmonies and the occasional playful treatment, each song on Cool hits all the right spots.

    This CD comes in a lovely gatefold card case as well as a 6 panel lyric booklet with artwork by Seela.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Cool. via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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This is another Song Game song from way back. I was really irritated with the assignment because I thought it was a stupid title. Then I lost my glasses, locked myself out of the house, and it was the week when Mars was really close to Earth…. I like how this one came out and never again called an assignment “stupid.”

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Between me and Mars there’s a black, blackness. I’m hurled into space.
I can’t sleep past five AM, I’m so out of place
Between me and Mars there’s a cold, coldness orbiting my head
Something more than gravity’s been keeping me in bed

And by this time tomorrow I won’t be where you are
All my thoughts are hollow, I’ll blame it all on Mars

Between me and Mars there’s some big trouble for which there is no cure
Three hundred years ahead of me six thousand years before
Between me and Mars there’s a black, blackness and I’m scared of the dark
So I’m curled up in a little ball, a pounding in my heart

Between me and you there’s a whole country. I’ve only seen a bit
Was it just 21 days in a minivan, man I can’t get enough of it
Between me and Mars there’s a black, blackness and I’m hurled into space
I can’t sleep past five AM, I’m so out of place

And by this time tomorrow I won’t be where you are
All my thoughts are hollow, I’ll blame it all on Mars
And by this time tomorrow I won’t be where you are
As I’m watching you go, I’ll blame it all on Mars

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from Cool., released July 24, 2020
Seela - acoustic guitar, keys, and vocals
Jon Greene - drums
Robert Harris - electric guitar
Tom Pearson - bass
Nathan Delacretaz - pedal steel
Daniel Thomas Phipps - vocals

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seela Austin, Texas

Born to exhausted Indian immigrants on a mild, summer eve, Seela had an average childhood battling the forces of evil with her superhuman strength. On quality meals of Supertramp, Led Zeppelin, Fozy Bear, & U2, she flourished in nerdy-ness, topping off @ 5’3″. Though songwriting has yet to lead to fame & fortune, opportunity, adventure, & delight have yet to cease. ... more

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