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Icon - song 1

by Jen Lush

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This is the second single and video release ‘Icon – song 1’ from the forthcoming album 'Hum of the mettle' due out in August 2023. This song has arrived directly from a poem by Maria Zajkowski, award-winning poet, lyricist and librettist based in Melbourne, from her most recent book of poetry, Icon. Of this book she writes “My father, Eugienuisz Zajkowski, had a hard, miraculous and normal life. He never intended to be an icon. This collection preserves some of what I lost to his Alzheimer’s. And then, what I lost when he died.”
In writing the song, I wanted to capture something of the delicacy and sadness that surges with the words, but hold it within an uplifted melodic progression. These shifts between the quiet acoustic guitar and the swelling of the surrounding instrumentation, the upward, lilting vocal melody with the darker poetry, the percussive elements against a sustained bed of keyboard sounds, this is folk pop laced with the bittersweet.

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Icon – song 1
Maria Zajkowski

At the altar of the imminent
I stopped below the sword
Is love pairing us adrift?

The statue on the cliff farewells
age and the valley into which we unravel
Relocating echoes at depth

I cut hearts free from sense
and tune the clocks of night
to the grasses of our final meadow

Choir of the strata
where bodies in earth
strike wooden letters
from wooden stars

A blossom rings on the days branch
above and as close as messages are
to their brief and beautiful passing

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released June 30, 2023
Words - Maria Zajkowski
Music - Jen Lush

Jen Lush - vocals
James Brown - electric guitars, sound design, keyboards
Sam Cagney - acoustic guitars
Mark Seddon - bass guitar
Paul Angas - drums, percussion, keyboards, synth

Produced by James Brown
Recorded, engineered and mixed by James Brown at Wizard Tone Studios
Mastered by Michael Lynch at Shoehorse Sound
Photography and design Tobin Lush

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Jen Lush Adelaide, Australia

Jen Lush is known for her spacious and emotive, starkly modern folk songs wrapped around expansive storytelling. From her 2017 album of poem-songs ‘The Night’s Insomnia,’ to her 2021 album ‘Let Loose the Beating Birds’ Jen and her stellar band have appeared at festivals and venues throughout South Australia, Victoria, NSW, WA and Tasmania. New album 'Hum of the mettle' is out now. ... more

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