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Famile Chorus

by Van Tassel's Uncanny Elixir

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1.
When the moon has come To lull us to sleep We escape through the garden To hear crickets sing Let them welcome you home But the show must go on In lamp light So come and sing us your songs In lamp light Moonlight spills across the courtyard floor And she's dancing and twirling Like a phantom amore It's so welcoming Let it welcome you home In the greenery She spoke secretly Of where she longs to be It's a place in a dream On the balcony She waits and thinks only Of where she longs to be It's a place in a dream
2.
The Hotel 04:52
Well, it seems that I'm at it again I've poisoned myself and now it all depends On exactly how much I've had to drink And if I'll ever be a star Before I lose my glow So I pay the toll and join the conformed And inquire everyone why they're so far below 'Cause it all makes sense looking through the lens You can see the stars And the world for what it truly is There are many pieces to this portrait And I seem to have left mine back at the hotel So I'll Just pack my bags and go There's no need to call I'm sure I'll find my way Fall in love with an English bird We'll map out all the stars And head around on a holiday But we won't come back Pouring over old photographs You dream of a life you've never had You drift across the windowsill Ghost of Versailles You're alright Soon your day will come Even now you're the setting sun In a sky we have already won Darling, won't you take these last few words They might sink in
3.
You're timeless, my love You remind me of All the things I love Or have meaning Like the arc of the harp Or the shift of the ever-distant seas The sun on the red brick buildings You're like the last glimpse of color as Fall parts You're like nutmeg and cinnamon You're the beat to my conundrum heart When we took a walk in the late afternoon sun The trees burned red-orange And the bottles of wine Yeah, we drank them gone In the parlor you hung all your paintings I hung on your every word That's when I knew This must be love We took a walk in the late afternoon sun
4.
Lebeauco 01:57
5.
Floorboards 05:53
The sun creeps across the floorboards As it paints the Eastern Hills We're still tangled in these bedsheets As we awaken our deepest thrills To carry out childhood tradition We'll play but in a way that's new Your dress lays across the floorboards As my world revolves around you You can study the constellations and the weather But they can't tell you how you feel While stars are millions of miles away from here Your touch is what's close and real Oh, the highs Oh, the lows How they feel Fast and slow with you The bloodrush Your hot touch The beacon Of all such lust We lay in a pastel shade As the dawn dons the day The shine colors hair strawberry wine As we willingly while the waking wee hours away So I'll spend my days with you Under white-washed ceiling tiles And a warm August hue Oh what do we make of this? I don't know But it's wonderful
6.
Juniper 05:24
The night the lights peppered the canopy That's when I saw you there Your willowy, white porcelain fingers Stringing feathers in your hair I now know more than ever The curve of the moon was made for two I plead for my heart, honey baby I plead 'cause all it's wantin' is you I've been prayin' for you Yeah you I'd be perfect for you But are you a dream or are you true? I know I don't really know ya But I've been sufferin' from this paranoia That even for being a casanova persona I've been humbled by you I don't really blame my religion I've been prayin' for a girl with your disposition My head and heart are in a moral competition But it's a safe bet 'Cause I'll be bettin' on you I've recently felt alive And Juniper You're the whole reason why I don't mind taking my time With you, my dear I don't mind taking my time I'm enjoying my time here with you For you, my dear I'd do anything, my dear
7.
You lead me through the orchard Wistful were your eyes You can hear a Southern cold moan 'Cross a harvest moon rise The fields have a strange feel Your laughter grows distant like a dream Come with me Through this ghost menagerie Disbelieve what you see Only believe what you hear On and on We all sing so sweetly As long, as long As we can be among you We'll be drawn to the night Once the orchestra takes flight Let the milk light of the moon guide you there Songbirds will sing for you Let the sound wash over you An eerie carol to stem the foul Close your eyes and breathe your vows
8.
In the evening riding in the riverview I was humming to the dreamer blues Not lackadaisical But here the world spins a little slower Though we may have no happy cabbage We packed our world away into our paltry baggage Shed our worries, love You couldn't look or feel any finer So just come back down to the river You can steal away from dusking days for a while It's not quite the same when you're down by the riverside Listen closely It'll sing Oh, I'll be waiting here Waiting here for you, my dear Down by the riverside So play up that old piana The riverside will be our overgrown veranda Oh, I'm not leaving No matter what the season brings As long as we can play guitar, we can sing You croon and I will softly dazzle the strings forever We're all adrift in the scheme Of a weathered, ethereal dream And now we've found This wholesome sound That spins us around and around In a dizzying whirl I'll be waiting here Waiting for you If you ever wanna find me Just follow the sunflower moon

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released April 27, 2018

VAN TASSEL'S UNCANNY ELIXIR is Gavin Brown

All songs written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Gavin Brown at the Cereal House in Grand Rapids, MI (2018)

Technical consulting by Sam Lishinski

Additional vocals by Sandra Effert, Holly Wondergem, Sam Lishinski, John Schaak, Molly Lucille, Rachel White and Matt Plessner
Guitar solos by Brett Dame (track #6) and Blaine Brown (track #8)
Trumpet by Sam Lishinski (track #2)

Art and design by Gavin Brown

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Van Tassel's Uncanny Elixir Grand Rapids, Michigan

The Van Tassels are an archaic Autumn folk outfit bloomed by multi-instrumentalist Gavin Kendrick Brown. Concocting a gallimaufry of sundry romantic genres such as '60s folk pop, world music, and jazz manouche, Van Tassel aims for an eccentric, dreamy soundscape dazzled with nostalgic imagery, powerful choral vocals, and the orchestral resonance of yesteryear. ... more

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