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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    140 gram black 12" LP in a full color, glossy inner sleeve and jacket featuring song lyrics and photographs of Lucy and Lehmann's recording in Skenes Creek.

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1.
Offering 02:27
See the tall boy standing there Dark and gentle, with his hands He smiles And it's not surprising Everyone wants to sing along Call the name of a favourite song I know This isn't much of an offering I am quiet and often shy But I'd observe as he went by His love for his friends Giving them all that he had Anything that we can do Help to see you through and through I know This isn't much of anything I recall him at a summer show We made a dance floor For Tim's band A dance floor of five We danced for two songs Then we sat Many memories people will share Doesn't always help But it can I know We'll carry them into the future
2.
Warning 02:37
I could live without warning I could never without desire For things that shouldn’t exist Harden How could I have hardened? Knowing how sometimes you tried to blister me with bliss Now I’m wrapping my heart like a ribbon around your wrist But now wherever I go The stars seep and the moon snows So if you find me the eulogy should be “Glad you’re mine again”
3.
Started no different than I dreamed it The day after the party Ran into him standing in the street Wearing linen in the sun I held a hand in front A month in, we're lying on the bed Pulls a hair off his tongue, says What are you thinking on? Don't I tell you all the time, man? I guess you need to know In the museum, in a new town I watched him looking on Walking to the hotel in the rain Feel his fingers on my arm Some man thinks we are lost Sat on a chair, I take the hair dryer Hold it to my clothes His phone rings in the hall I think, what are we taking on now? I guess I need to know He's moody But he's warm
4.
Crooked 03:18
Am I working like a clock? Cause my hands just won’t stop Trying to touch your face for lines Running circles chasing time All that I feel is all that’s forgotten now All that I know is everything in its power Was it a long time? I wouldn’t know Tracing a life back to zero Will I find anything of the man Now the fabric changes strand? All that I see is all that is rotten now All that I know is everything in its power gone
5.
I woke you to the bells of a bushfire The windows were blackened And the walls were red I lost you where the flames took your footsteps the children were crackling And the walls were red But who can remember the start of the day When the burn of the city lost its smell? Will the end begin yet? Will it play the same as it’s leaving returning? I saw two wings whiten the garden on the cauliflower growing in the bed that you kept
6.
Wild Violet 02:26
7.
In the doorway I took a guess And I guessed right By the summer You'd have a babe Yes, I'm shocked too There's fire in your sign But I get jealous too There's spite in some things you say Some in what you do In the doorway I cried Wet your collar through Now it's summer I wonder What you'd think of the light It's a game Made up for two And I wouldn't play That one with you Many months, nearly years Held between us like secrets Maybe months, maybe years Till I see you again
8.
Not For Long 02:12
Want nothing wrong when nothing’s wrong And all that I have got is not got for long Try to get myself drunk Can’t get drunk enough Though my cup had runneth Wasn’t for long But by the time you get this note I will have forgot what I wanted to say
9.
Go On 03:07
Stars are suns that twinkle and go on Hunger for the carrion won't go on Go on Bones that become stony things go on Flying, swimming, slithering won't go on Go on Go on

about

Humming in harmony with Oceania’s autumn and winter season is Dark Green, the collaborative full-length release from Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalists and folk artists Lucy Roleff and Lehmann B Smith. Conceptualized in tandem over the course of two years, Dark Green is the result of a remote, creative retreat off of Australia’s iconic Great Ocean Road. Across nine intimately prismatic works, Lucy and Lehmann’s collection rests in the ether between the reflective stylings of Joni Mitchell and exploratory instrumentation of Sufjan Stevens. Dark Green sees individual meditations from both past and present brought to life as a dialogue of kindred acoustic anecdotes and euphonious orchestrations.

Where Lucy and Lehmann have both established themselves individually in Melbourne’s rich music scene, their artistic congregation was delayed by their disparate musical backgrounds. Lucy, a classically trained musician and painter, enjoyed a childhood immersed in European classical music, story telling, and folk styles. Her solo work pays homage to these influences and aesthetically runs parallel to her acclaimed still-life paintings, evoking a sense of romanticism and otherworldliness stemming from everyday life. Lehmann’s musical resume spans credits with a number of heralded local indie outfits including Totally Mild, Pikelet, Grand Salvo, Laura Jean, and Kes Band. His discography, spread across twelve full-length LPs, emphasizes experimentation on the foundations of rock, folk, and vintage pop music and has made him a sought-after name for local artists and international acts alike, including Bonnie Prince Billy and Sonny & the Sunsets. Aware of each other's talents though not yet acquainted, it wasn’t until Lucy and Lehmann shared a bill together that they noticed their creative overlaps; their similarities and a mutual respect for one another’s fingerpicking styles, guitar preferences, and artistry inspired the potential for collaboration.

The outline of a project began to form as both Lucy and Lehmann traded old sketches of songs and homeless riffs, slowly coalescing into the world they would come to inhabit in Dark Green. Cherished recordings of woodwinds, deep YouTube obscurities, and wonky pastoral folk gems filled up their respective inboxes and inspired fresh angles in which to build anew on top of their older, unfinished works. In the Autumn of 2019, after two years of weaving together demos, Lucy and Lehmann made their way to a remote lodge in a small town along the Great Ocean Road known as Skenes Creek. There, among the verdant foliage and soothing rhythm of crushing waves, the bare bones of the album took form. Between tracking, editing, re-recording, and re-writing lyrics, the two found a sense of solace in the interminable quality of their retreat; the comfort of crackling fires, homemade meals, pots of tea, and walks on the beach breathing a palpable sense of closeness into each recorded take.

Thematically, the songs of Dark Green interchange between Lucy’s contemplations of love & loss, and Lehmann’s confrontation of one’s self in the face of life’s hardships, both explicit and abstract. The album plays out as two friends trading stories and sentiments late into the night, free of burden from the day, yearning for it to stretch longer still. It’s hard to pin down where or when these writings originate - some reflections seem recent whereas others echo from a distant past, or both at once. But spiritually, Dark Green impresses a feeling of welcomed nostalgia and achieves a level of kinship with its escapist origins: a place free of demand and the trappings of the day, beholden only to existing in the moment. As Lehmann aptly puts it: “We wanted to make a record that was outside of time, a magic document, a Voynich Manuscript you can listen to.”

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released June 16, 2022

Produced by Lucy Roleff and Lehmann B Smith
Guitar, Flute, and Voice by Lucy Roleff
Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Cello, Piano, Organ, Clarinets, Percussion, and Voice by Lehmann B Smith
Songs 1, 3, 6, 7 written by Lucy Roleff
Songs 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 written by Lehmann B Smith

Mixed by Lehmann B. Smith
Mastered by Nick Huggins

Artwork by Lucy Roleff and Lehmann B Smith
Design by Nicholas Concklin & Lehmann B Smith

Executive Produced by Nicholas Concklin and John Moses
Published by Mushpost, LLC (ASCAP)
Created in collaboration with Oscarson

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Lucy Roleff Melbourne, Australia

Lucy Roleff is a classically trained, folk musician from Melbourne.

"The focal point of Roleff’s music is, of course, her voice: this quavering, rather deep husk, that has the blunt European tongue of singers like Nico and Sibylle Baier"- Happy ... more

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