The debut EP of Seattle-based Vibrant Mortals, “6 songs for dancing / weeping / laughing” is candy-pop electronic dance beats wreathed by a 7-piece live orchestra and dark, urgent lyrics. We hope to dance beautifully, knowing full well that we are going to die. Dancing can be good medicine and we hope it is for you.
lyrics
You are my friend
we met the very bottom
and it’s so easy
to share everything then
In a literal basement
we both wanted to kill ourselves a bit
We didn’t do it, no
we didn’t do it
And look at as now!
Both of us dancing!
Neither one of us is all that good at dancing...
You know that I love you
You know that I miss you
You know that your happiness
makes me pretty damn happy
and I don’t know about past lives
or future lives
but I bet you’d recognize me.
And when my head is on the floor
and when I cannot take
the excruciations of this world anymore
I’ll call you up weeping,
scared and weeping,
and you will open up your heart
like countless times before
And I will owe my life to you
I already owe my life to you, it’s true,
So this song is a thank you
This song is 13 thank-you’s and now
let’s see what I can do... for you.
So call me up homie
Call on me pal
Ask me to do you a favor
and I shall
I’ll come running and running and running
because for whatever it’s worth
there aren’t too many friendships like this on this earth.
And all the pain that we’ve been through
and the bright times
and we’re still friends
And all the laughter
all the tears
all the meals
all the parties
all the years
and it never ends.
And it never ends...
Because you are my friend
You are my friend
Cause you are my friend
You are my friend.
credits
from 6 songs for dancing / weeping / laughing,
track released December 18, 2022
Cornet, trumpet, and french horn by Eric Padget
Baritone saxophone and clarinet by Kate Olson
Trombone by Ben Swanson
Violin, viola by Alex Guy
Violoncello by Maria Scherer Wilson
Drums by Galin Hebert
Violin, vocals, electronics by Nathan Langston
Vocal recordings, mixing and mastering at Rack Recording
Engineered by Greg Blaisdell
Acoustic instruments recorded at Jack Straw Cultural Center
Engineered by Daniel Guenther
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