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Tiny Specks of Delight

by Hélène Renaut

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1.
Spring Wind 02:16
where are the flowers i think that your eyes are closed you hide behind a wall I've seen you gently rise, don't want to watch you fall but does it mean anything at all? you took my day, you rob my soul, I hear you say using my words, something I wrote why should I let the spring wind take it and blow it all? when did you decide I was better left alone that you had used it all another shadow's growing and I'm feeling cold but does it even matter at all? you hide away, you took my thoughts, what did it take to crush the flowers on the wall why don't we let the spring wind take it and blow it all?
2.
It's three in the morning in Paris I wonder what they're doing there And I may sometimes seem not to be there I'm only wondering what goes through your head Will you tell me Will I tell you cause I still remember from over there Colors and dreams I sang about later And I coast through the grapevine just when you think you're looking for the next one And I went down the river There So I'll just keep walking without a care Ladybugs fly if you don't stare The way we never tell like we don't care Kaleidoscopes are flying everywhere Will you take me Will I take you And I coast through the grapevine just when you think you're looking for the next one And I went down the river There
3.
you think if you dare to touch I'll want to stay for ever you don't even know how many bridges I had to burn ringleader thinks he's a loner always buzzed around by pretty girls he's after and it goes round and round and round where is time we've been undoing, coloring, these chapters turn your back, roll over breaking hearts all over you're elsewhere and they're all flying on the crest of your laughter hugs just about everyone you'll feel his arms long after he'll slip into your dreams just like the lover he's never been ringleader relentless winker stab me with your song if it makes you feel any better but I'll go round and round and round where I'm bound, there is no limits no room for an answer turn your back, roll over breaking hearts all over you're elsewhere and they're all flying on the crest of your laughter but I've looked into the eyes of the tiger and it goes round and round and round where is time we've been undoing, coloring, these chapters turn your back, roll over breaking hearts all over you're elsewhere and they're all flying on the crest of your laughter but I've looked into the eyes of the tiger
4.
oh la belle bleue open up your ears and forget how to speak I haven't slept a wink oh tiny specks of delight running the mile right off my mind but my heart's been locked up in a cage golden bars, skies out of range get me out if you can not that you would know how oh la belle bleue blow your friends to the moon but let me recognize the leeways of your mind and I've never chosen my plights over there by the glistening dark yeah baby you know you're in my bones fantasy, reflection, ghost and I never thought I'd cry but now i'm learning how and there's nothing to stop it from pouring out of my eyes waves and wells they've overflown the levees, flooded all the gates spitting out foreign shells oh tiny specks of delight the wick won't take and you sang my demise who will know how to anchor me now? wild lifeboats, pastures of gold will I graze, will I go waves and wells I heard the whistle blow

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“You’d have to go out of your way to find a more charming EP released in 2012. And even then, you’d have a hard time finding another young woman with an alluring french accent singing timeless-sounding, British-flavored folk alongside a country pedal steel. With a move from San Francisco to Los Angeles, Hélène Renaut embraces West Coast tones steeped in the music history of Southern California's canyons. In the opening "Spring Wind", she coos heavy-lidded inflections as acoustic guitar arpeggios and twangy tones slow-dance around her voice. Imagine Françoise Hardy singing over Bert Jansch's 1974 opus L.A. Turnaround, and you're halfway there. Renaut's voice is more unique and bewitching than her contemporaries or influences. A full band accompanies her on "Kaleidoscopes", a song that's more rooted in whimsical chamber-folk than the psychedelic title suggests. But her lyrics here and throughout Tiny Specks of Delight muse on the ongoing process of falling in and out of love with all the bittersweet beauty of a Wes Anderson film.”
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"With instrumentation varying from very sparse (guitar, harp and pedal steel) to full band arrangements, the songs on Tiny Specks Of Delight encapsulate a certain idea of the West Coast sound - breezy and open - while offering a reflection on that eternal process of falling in and out of love - each song centering around a different point along love's roller coaster of learning and liberation. Contributions by Tom Heyman and Marc Cappelle (both long time Mark Eitzel collaborators), Russ Blackmar, Matt Montgomery, Willow Willow, Chris Molla, Christina Zirker, Amber Lamprecht and Bennett Grassano, make this a bit of a more produced collection than the last album."

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released October 2, 2012

Recorded by Monte Vallier

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Hélène Renaut Los Angeles, California

'Imagine Syd Barrett and Françoise Hardy having a musical baby'- West Coast Folk's best kept secret, Hélène Renaut's French psych-folk explores that improbable territory where Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, and 60s girl groups would be having a party while Brahms is conducting a quartet in the other room. "Renaut’s voice is more unique and bewitching than her contemporaries or influences." (Eric Shea) ... more

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