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Bring This to Bill

by Cecilie Anna

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Working with the new album, Cecilie Anna decided to write a solo song for Bill Callahan’s voice. Her love for his singing stretches back twelve years. She loves the dark ring to Callahan’s voice and the beautiful simplicity carried within it. The lyric of the song is a portrait of how words lead us when we’re not thinking. The inner structures of our feelings, experiences, relationships made audible through the repetition of thoughts.
Cecilie Anna has barely ridden a horse, but she’s certain Bill Callahan has done it a lot, or at least his voice has. The tranquility it possesses resembles that which you can find if you’re in contact with animals over time. Cecilie Anna merely lit the thought and the song started to evolve in her head. The recording is only the second time she’s sung the song out loud.
The soundscape was built by Cecilie Anna from recorded sounds, with the dark, deep rumbling sound from an electrical toothbrush. The sound of her little girl in the beginning.
Cover image by Cecilie Anna’s favourite photographer, Paal Audestad, taken on their trip to Manchester in 2019.

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Never saw you like this before
Riding gently, hair to your side
I love your back and your quiet light
These winter times
Oh love, stay quiet with me
Let's not smoke cigarettes together anymore
Let's not argue about the old lovely stuff
Just falling snow in your hair
Riding along in these winter times
I love your back and your quiet light
I found a new path now
How can I get back up on that old horse again
Forcing my road
No peace but solitude
And my restless heart for you
Oh love, oh love
Oh love, stay quiet with me
Let's not smoke cigarettes together anymore
Let's not argue about the old lovely stuff
Just falling snow in your hair
Riding along in these winter times
Together, alone, oh I love you so
Oh when we're together
Forcing my road
Sun scratching my eye
Your hair to your side
Your hair to your side
I love your back and your quiet light
in these winter times
Oh love, stay quiet with we
Let's not smoke cigarettes together anymore
Let's not argue about the old lovely stuff
Just falling snow in your hair
I found a new path now
Never saw you like this before
Riding gently, hair to your side
I love your back and your quiet light
In these winter times

credits

released September 11, 2023
Music, words and soundscape: Cecilie Anna
Recording, Mixing and Co-Producer: SirSound, Stord
Mastered by Alex Wharton in Abbey Road, London
Cecilie Anna Records 2023

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Cecilie Anna Hordaland, Norway

Cecilie Anna is a Norwegian Artist and Songwriter.

Her first release 'Going North' appeared in 2016 with her band Familieforetaket. A spirited debut it marked her out as a raw talent.

The following year saw the release of 'I'm Here' a starkly accomplished and astonishingly haunting album.

2021 brought her third album, New Bird, which took the form of a lo-fi exercise in elegant emotions. ... more

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