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Patterns

by Matthew Carter

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    Poignantly arranged acoustic songwriting in the alt/folk tradition, featuring harmony vocals over acoustic guitar, piano, cello, and violins. May contain some references to boats.



    About the single 'Weary Traveller'

    The song (i suppose the whole EP really) is about how we spend our time looking forward into the future, or back into the past, and only very rarely find ourselves in the moment.

    Often it's nature that brings us back into the moment. It helps us get out of our own heads.

    This song is about a journey, retracing steps you've made before, but somehow not being able to. Things not being the same, as perfect, as you remember them being 'in the moment'. It's about accepting that the past is the past. It's about moving on.

    The chorus is taken from Hardy's Drummer Hodge - 'portion of that unknown plain will Hodge forever be, and strange-eyed constellations reign his star eternally' (or something like that).

    It's trying to communicate that idea that sometimes we find ourselves overwhelmingly in the moment, and so rarely does this happen that it feels significant. Things look different here. It feels like you've been brought here, by design. That this experience, that star, is in some sense, meant for me.     ... more
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1.
By the Storm 04:09
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2.
Bliss Mill 03:27
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3.
Weary Traveller 03:15
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Into the forest we go A weary traveller is on it Footprints swallowed by the snow Leave no trace of you upon it Through the forest there’s a clearing A sight nobody else has seen The canopy open green tops And your breath is lost against the breeze Strange eyed constellations Reign down eternally Yet hear tonight, through bleary eyes I see That star is meant for me In the morning as I wake up A mist lays heavy on the ground You gather all of your possessions And disappear with out a sound But with memory ever stirring Years later you return But the trees have disappeared now in their place a lantern burns Strange eyed constellations Reign down eternally Yet hear tonight, through bleary eyes I see That star is meant for me
4.
Little Comets 03:06
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5.
Into the Light 02:38
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6.
Capsize the Stars 02:52
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Poignantly arranged acoustic songwriting in the alt/folk tradition, featuring harmony vocals over acoustic guitar, piano, cello, and violins. May contain some references to boats.

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released September 5, 2015

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Matthew Carter Oxford, UK

Poignantly arranged acoustic songwriting in the alt/folk tradition, featuring harmony vocals over acoustic guitar, piano, cello, and violins.

Influences include: Nick Drake, Scott Matthews, Laura Marling, James Taylor...

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