"Hy-Brasil" is from Allison Russell's first ever solo project, Outside Child (produced by Dan Knobler). Stream/buy here: found.ee/AROutsideChild
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"Hy-Brasil" is written by Allison Russell and Jeremy Lindsay aka JT Nero.
An homage to my maternal Scottish Canadian Grandmother, Dr. Isobel Roger Robertson (the brightest light of my childhood) and her mother, Janet, whom I never met. I escaped into fairytales, myths, and fantasy as a child. I lived inside of old books and my Grandma’s eerie stories and ballads from the Old Country. She always told me her mother was “ a bit Fey”. I came to realize later that my great-grandmother was probably schizophrenic, as my mother is...And who’s to say that that’s not the same thing as being touched by Faeries... Hy-Brasil is a mysterious, possibly mythical, Atlantis like legendary island west of Ireland appearing on maps from 1325 to the 1800s. In Irish myth, it was said to be either clouded in mist or underwater except for one day every seven years, when it became visible but still could not be reached. There are many myths and legends surrounding Hy-Brasil. In some of them, the island is the home of ancient Irish Gods and Goddesses. In others, it is inhabited by large black rabbits and a mysterious magician… “Camhanaich” is a Scottish Gaelic word meaning the half-light of dawn or dusk. I know that words can be spells. Words are magic, and so is music.. - A
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Lyrics:
My great grandmother was a magic weaver
Came across the water and caught the fever
She wondered if her mother could hear her when
She said the words she learned to say
In the blue camhanaich all shimmering still
Dame Calluna low Lady of the Hills
Cup of cold sun and a winterpill
Send me back on my way
Seven black rabbits of Hy-Brasil
21 petals of daffodils
13th note of the blackcap trill
I’ll fly home today
Down in the cradle oh I would hear her
as I breathed my soul believed if
I sang those words I could leave there
leave my sorrow and pain
In the blue camhanaich all shimmering still
Dame Calluna low Lady of the Hills
Cup of cold sun and a winterpill
Send me back on my way
Seven black rabbits of Hy-Brasil
21 petals of daffodils
13th note of the blackcap trill
I’ll fly home today
Though my brittle body was caught in his snare
My soul would learn how to travel where
The eyes of the rabbits were gleaming there
on the isle of Hy-Brasil
Seven years we drown seven years we rise
Said the black rabbit with the ancient eyes
You’ll be free, oh lura lae
He cannot match your will
In the blue camhanaich all shimmering still
Dame Calluna low Lady of the Hills
Cup of cold sun and a winterpill
Send me back on my way
Seven black rabbits of Hy-Brasil
21 petals of daffodils
13th note of the blackcap trill
I’ll fly home today
Though I drowned for ten years, I’m still rising
Stronger for my pain and suffering
My body was broken but my heart’s reborn
I’m freer than the sky
In the blue camhanaich all shimmering still
Dame Calluna low Lady of the Hills
Cup of cold sun and a winterpill
Send me back on my way
Seven black rabbits of Hy-Brasil
21 petals of daffodils
13th note of the blackcap trill
I’ll fly home today
AllisonRussell​ #HyBrasil #OutsideChild​
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Lyric Video artwork by Niki Smith Frazier; edited by Frankie Cepero; graphics by Andy Hawkes
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The Community of Artists in alphabetical order:
Jason Burger- drums, percussion, apple cider vinegar bottle
Steve Dawson- pedal steel
Jamie Dick- drums, percussion
Dan Knobler- guitars, slide guitar, banjo, synths, mellotron
Drew Lindsay- Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Mellotron, pump organ, organ, piano
Alfreda McCrary- harmony vocals
Ann McCrary- harmony vocals
Deborah McCrary- harmony vocals
Regina McCrary- harmony vocals
Chris Merrill- bass
Ruth Moody- harmony vocals
JT Nero- acoustic guitar, vocals, co-writing
Joe Pisapia- acoustic and electric guitars
Erin Rae- harmony vocals
Allison Russell- songwriting, writing, lead vocals, harmony vocals on Montreal and Nightflyer, clarinet, banjo
Jake Sherman- organ on 4th Day Prayer
Yola (appears courtesy of Easy Eye Sound)- harmony vocals on The Runner
Produced by Dan Knobler
Engineered by Kevin Sokolnicki & Dan Knobler
Recorded at Sound Emporium, Studio A, in Nashville - September 18-21, 2019
Assistant engineer: Zaq Reynolds
Additional recording at Goosehead Palace
Organ on ""4th Day Prayer"" recorded by Jon Seale at Mason Jar Music
Mixed by Dan Knobler
Mastered by Kim Rosen, Knack Mastering
Outside Child, an album by Allison Russell
1. Montreal
2. Nightflyer
3. Persephone
4. 4th Day Prayer
5. The Runner
6. Hy-Brasil
7. The Hunters
8. All of the Women
9. Poison Arrow
10. Little Rebirth
11. Joyful Motherfuckers