Скачать или смотреть Raphael Mann - Late Blooms (excerpt 08)

'Late Blooms' is track eleven from my debut solo album, The Changing Of The Seasons... The last song on side 2 of the LP...

I'm posting the whole album up here in bitesize chunks... This is the eighth & final excerpt from this song...an instrumental coda...the closing seconds of the album... Maree Choie on clarinet & flute...

You can hear the whole song here -    • Raphael Mann - 'Late Blooms'  
Or the whole album here -    • Raphael Mann - The Changing Of The Seasons...  

Find it here to buy or stream...
Bandcamp: https://theraphaelmann.bandcamp.com/a...
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/57nzfc...
Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/id1...

(vinyl and CD coming soon!)


Another song that uses imagery from the natural world to say something about human beings…

Being young is a wonderful thing, but in our culture (and especially in the arts) we prize youth too greatly I think… Age is something to treasure and to enjoy and to learn from…


Lyrics:

There'll be bluebells
There'll be crocuses
There'll be daffodils that show their hand
Start a working band

There'll be dandelions and daisies
Every time you turn your head
There'll be colours all around and there'll sun
To warm the ground

Then August and September comes
October and November comes
And even when December comes
There is still work that must be done
Without the sun

There'll be new spells
There'll be openings
There'll be brand new ways to play and sing
The same old Summer things

There'll be blackberries and elderberries
Everywhere you go
There'll be fruit that's ripe to eat
And it will always taste as sweet

Then August and September comes
October and November comes
And even when December comes
There are still hungry mouths to feed
And plant the seed

Late blooms
Green leaves and berries
Flowers pressed and dried
In winter rooms
Where voices are merry
Something still kept inside
Yarrow still
Giving us its flowers
Neglected by the road
And so few will
Understand the power
That you so rarely showed

Late blooms
Green leaves and berries
Flowers pressed and dried
In winter rooms
Where voices are merry
Power still left inside
Endless rows
Of pink and purple heather
On the mountainside
Their beauty shows
Whatever the weather
When younger flowers will hide

(Raphael Mann)


Raphael Mann - vocals, 1/2 size Spanish guitar, bass guitar, Clavinet, kalimba, ukulele, glockenspiel, melodica, drum kit, hand drums, tambourine, tamborim, shakers, cabassa, afuche, woodblock

Maree Choie - vocals, clarinet & flute

Written, arranged & produced by Raphael Mann

Drawings by Maree Choie - paintings & design by Raphael Mann