Postcard # 4: Songs for a Soft Heart, by entertainment for the braindead

Postcard # 4: Songs for a Soft Heart

by entertainment for the braindead

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Ƒiͥℝnͣwͫสld Ein wunderschönes Album Favorite track: Sister.

James Peto The "Postcard" series, based on Julia's travels are varied (and sometimes uneven) recordings. This is by far the best of the series.
Unusual and beautiful melodies combined with her often stark lyrics make for a memorable album.
Best Songs: One Moment, Two Birds, Wolf Within. Favorite track: One Moment.

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1.	Intro 02:11	buy track
2.	Fools 03:28	buy track
3.	One Moment 05:25	buy track
4.	Sister 04:10	buy track
5.	Sand 03:48	buy track
6.	Heaven and Hell 06:11	buy track
7.	Two Birds 04:27	buy track
8.	Wolf Within 03:18	buy track
9.	Blank (Bonus Track) 09:34	buy track

about

The desert. The vast lands.
In fact I am already back home in the city, and yet the silence of those Californian wastelands doesn't cease to resonate in me. I walk through Germany's dull winter days, still dragging a faint notion of those vivid, flawless skies along, and still pretend to feel the dusty heat as I am wrapped up and my scarf is sparkling with the frozen drips of condensed breath.

And there is more I can't let go of yet. And days get heavy as the new year rolls in, dark and dull and full of disappointment. I am weak and aching, turn into a ghost of retrospection, tired of dragging on the yearning for a far place and lost love like a dead limb. Fail to drown my woes in black ink and in chlorine water. Curled up into a ball and waiting to implode.

Then suddenly I find myself in someone's kitchen, playing a weird instrument he brought from South America, and as I leave I hear: hey, by the way, I brought this one for you. This might have been the greatest gift ever received; a scissor to cut loose my inner knot, evoke the memories of my journey and to cast that winter's demons into sound and song, just when I needed to.
Those demons have been hidden well and sleeping now for almost two years, but it is high time to release them. They're not scary anymore.

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released December 30, 2012

these tunes were sawn in fall 2010 in California, then harvested in January in Cologne. Except for 'Blank', which was written and recorded on the spot on a twelve string guitar in the garage of Rick Walker in Santa Cruz. Performed and recorded, mixed and arranged by Julia Kotowski aka. entertainment for the braindead, then released a long long time later as the fourth in a series of audio Postcards in December 2012. Published under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-SA.

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entertainment for the braindead Berlin, Germany

Julia Kotowski, based in Berlin, weaves her sonic universe from shy song lines, small instruments and field recordings, carefully wraps them in paper cut-outs and serves them with home-made ginger cookies. And coffee.

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