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Kaleidoscopes

by The Autumn Isles

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1.
Afraid to listen are you lost in your familiar place oh you see, so contented And in the twilight are you waiting for your curtain call with a face to the wall I try to temper all the fantasies that whisk you away but chain the cold floor beneath you A certain feeling lurks beneath the smiles and sultry stares Let’s just leave these ruins and talk together Boundless fields of rage and guilt to climb And I would rest this plague for calmer weather now I’m painting a corpse beneath the sun soaked horizon What do you crave beneath the sun soaked horizon And I remember as we sat amongst the autumn leaves beneath the stone cold horizon Afraid to whisper as the urgency of sanity emancipates me Let’s just leave these ruins and talk together Boundless fields of rage and guilt to climb And I would rest this plague for calmer weather now
2.
A wayward storm collects the night and shadow overwhelms the cause I wonder what they see on higher ground Trajectories set for way off lands but no one ever really knows Where we’re coming from or choose to see In the moment with a fortress inside a mystery for you to hide Will it ever come and salvage your bones, a conquest or empty life An understated love is your end A place to mend a wounded mind was never really there to buy I wonder what they see on higher ground A thought that leads to endless roads but no one ever really knows Where we’re going to, or choose to be In the moment with a fortress inside a mystery for you to hide Will it ever come and salvage your bones, a conquest or empty life An understated love is your end A wayward storm collects the night and shadow overwhelms the cause I wonder what they see on higher ground In the moment with a fortress inside a mystery for you to hide Will it ever come and salvage your bones, a conquest or empty life An understated love is your end
3.
It’s up for the taking but I found a prison cell And I heard a whisper but I want a sentence If you weren’t so black now I would mistaken this The sake of a hand shake and closing the distance So throw stones everybody could tell its hard when your mindset’s been dragging to hell I’ll phase into focus the ring of a bell So it’s a fine line a balance of innocence Wait for the fresh air with stains from a cigarette Alone when you sleep now with crowds in the distance Knives to the back with the smiles of a gentleman So throw stones everybody could tell its hard when your mindset’s been dragging to hell I’ll phase into focus the ring of a bell Enough of the quagmire and time for the jail break I’ll play to the kill screen but lose on the sentiment Justice was relayed in files that are faded And still in the background are critics and traitors So throw stones everybody could tell its hard when yourmindset’s been dragging to hell I’ll phase into focus the ring of a bell
4.
Why so over complicated Rising tides and suffocating news Past editions overloaded Future plans and weeded out half truths Well look at the scenes out at the city fires Oh you’re looking for fruit only to be fed like swine Oh taking it back over the summer time I hope nobody knows and leaves it all behind And I just want to understand the righteous laws of rabid dogs and man It’s the seed you plant for sorrow when your hearts are braced for golden lands Well look at the scenes out at the city fires Oh you’re looking for fruit only to be fed like swine Oh taking it back over the summer time I hope nobody knows and leaves it all behind Oh its you no don’t you tell me other wise oh don’t you tell me twice Oh you’ll be swimming
5.
Darkness Leave it alone it’s like a bad day working straight at your bones and I am waiting for comfort unknown into December Moonlight A scepter in space I’ve encountered worlds just look at your face and it’s a painting perfume or mace into December Believe it’s old romance to find Leaving your portraits behind Take it in turns now in time Temper Fall out the boat I’ve resigned my wish lists for feelings unknown and it’s a promise I’m walking alone into December Into December Into December Into December Into December
6.
Neutered gentile that never crawled out for the new day A listless wonderer decided to stay Pack your memories and other old robes a journey calls you Your fleeting screenplay was never meant for trade Little stumbles lead to falls I never could answer for Just like the others around you just like the others around here And on the sea shore a memory unfolds of a new day the unborn child remembers to play And in the night time that never grows old terror holds you a single gesture renders you cold Little stumbles lead to falls I never could answer for Just like the others around you just like the others around here Neutered gentile that never crawled out for the new day A listless wonderer decided to stay Little stumbles lead to falls I never could answer for Just like the others around you just like the others around here Just like the others around you just like the others around here
7.
Space reaches across a billion suns I shout it out loud an echo starts to reign And this is earth Now that you’ve built your endless roads I found a dark cloud That speaks from a million tongues The warring jewels and fateful fantasies get burnt in the summer sun The sacred calls and empty screams are cued I don’t doubt that the walls will crumble and eagles claw and a sheik A fateful choice as a sick man stumbles An empty glass of relief Riding on the magic waves of a setting sun A phase for the ones to become A page from an ancient region Let it run Crossed out to a world of endless pain I shout it out loud this victim takes the blame Each to his own a moment in time can change the course of victory unsung that speaks from a million tongues The warring jewels and fateful fantasies get burnt in the summer sun The sacred calls and empty screams are cued I don’t doubt that the walls will crumble and eagles claw and a sheik A fateful choice as a sick man stumbles An empty glass of relief Riding on the magic waves of a setting sun A phase for the ones to become A page from an ancient region Let it run let it run
8.
Voices 00:59
9.
Endlessly I take it to the breadth of me I'm soaring through a grey tinged dream I let it soak. I hope to last and make the graduation dance if only to enhance this grin and set in stone. Hard to find a beautiful pantomime Set the scene to sit up and write the line All at once to go with a longing to find A bigger piece of your mind All good men are products of a gentle friend a favour from the gods they said a woman knows. A tale to tell a flower and a white sea shell the silence and an old church bell sweet company Hard to find a beautiful pantomime Set the scene to sit up and write the line All at once to go with a longing to find A bigger piece of your mind And we find a bigger piece of your mind Hard to find a beautiful pantomime Set the scene to sit up and write the line All at once to go with a longing to find A bigger piece of your mind And we find a bigger piece of your mind A bigger piece A bigger piece of your mind.
10.
Let me down slow I’m starting to spin like a furnace from the sky wherever you've been and I know I must contend with this force that lurks in every bin Jewels from the soul come complementary I can walk into the edge of democracy can you tell me what to do with the noose that hangs so comfortably And if your love is blind and there’s peace of mind A season walks in time A friendly tree to climb Stand up and listen to me Victims to the west and demons the east a colliding majesty with war as her beast I can hardly understand the cold words that crawl from pages of scripts Suped-up let loose fallen to shit the intentions of a man with nowhere to slip can the fairytale end with these words I tried so heard to believe And if your love is blind and there’s peace of mind A season walks in time A friendly tree to climb Stand up and listen to me
11.
Searchlights 05:16
For every man and child there’s a raft that’s floating out to sea An island in the sun was always part of your inherent chemistry Rain undercover and the light that’s like no other Huddle round the fire and the fear will have it smothered Fumble in the night but the time is always right for you Creatures of the night were never part of the initial tapestry We would always add to things that never had the need but now you see Rain undercover and the light that’s like no other Huddle round the fire and the fear will have it smothered Fumble in the night but the time is always right for you And let me tell you now Why don’t you write it for me It’s the story of a mad man’s saving grace And all the cut throat glory With the undercover jury filled with hate And the searchlights are slowing and its high time you’re knowing and the searchlights For every man and child there’s a raft that’s floating out to sea An island in the sun was always part of your inherent chemistry Rain undercover and the light that’s like no other Huddle round the fire and the fear will have it smothered Fumble in the night but the time is always right for you And let me tell you now Why don’t you write it for me It’s the story of a mad man’s saving grace And all the cut throat glory With the undercover jury filled with hate And the searchlights are slowing and it high time you’re knowing and the searchlights and the searchlights
12.
Isolation 05:08
Calling out isolation Trading off all forward direction Through the doorway lays a mirror Containing all your past and future Calling out indecision Claiming all your forward direction Through the doorway lays a mirror Containing all your past and future Across the sea a changing tide for those you’ve lost and cast aside A spoken word a moment spent The days you lived And tears you wept Calling out isolation Calling out isolation
13.
Runaway 03:25
Inside Fading atmosphere with an empty view A page with nothing more than a lie a threat and a fine for all your yester years Once I could hold a crowd with a tale of youth Shake a hand with all that is near a family in fear yet freedom walks the lane Tonight I don’t look back and I could taste the freedom in your lap Runaway it’s the chemistry you say And so Many days have come to pass when all that was right came flooding in time for your expected birth And now I insist we take the plunge I never knew that thoughts could ensue your bleak reality Tonight I don’t look back I could taste the freedom in your lap Runaway it’s the chemistry you say Darling tonight a one way track and I could taste the freedom in your lap Runaway it’s the chemistry you say Bright lights fortune fame and money won’t stop the aging faces coming set sail and float somewhere Tonight I don’t look back I could taste the freedom in your lap Runaway it’s the chemistry you say Darling tonight a one way track and I could taste the freedom in your lap Runaway it’s the chemistry you say
14.
Fire Away 04:19
It starts with waves of fear and memories so cold A place in your heart a dungeon in chains A danger you’ll never know Watchtowers are here to stay as wolves enter town A shield you have lost and claimed at a cost A price you will never know They'll start crying Hard to take hard to know Deep inside let it go All’s well that ends well in tidal waves Hard to say when you sigh Never tamed and you tried All’s well that ends well in tidal waves A sense of justice dwells in murderers shoes A cunning disguise you tried to deny but dwells in the heart of you It’s fair to say to this that blindness is bliss A hole in the road distractions in vogue a cliff face in front of you They'll start crying Hard to take hard to know Deep inside let it go All’s well that ends well in tidal waves Hard to say when you sigh Never tamed and you tried All’s well that ends well in tidal waves They'll start crying Hard to take hard to know deep inside let it go All’s well that ends well in tidal waves Hard to say when you sigh Never tamed and you tried All’s well that ends well in tidal waves

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Music video for MYSTERY TO HIDE can be seen here: youtu.be/3wg_As801Ek

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Recorded over a period from August 2009 to September 2010 in studios such as Studio Couch, Yo Yo, Rabbits Den and Western Lantern Studios.

RIP to our initial producer Shaun O'Callaghan from Studio Couch who passed away weeks after the completion of this album, he will be missed.

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released July 8, 2011

Alex Arpino – Vocals, Guitars, Keys, Piano,
Tin Whistle, Percussion.
Russell Loasby – Drums Percussion & Vibes.
Brian Maloney – Bass, Chimes
Tenille Bamford – Vocals, Piano, Keys, Vibes,
Harpsichord
Danny Silvestri – Guitars

Extended Family Members:
Aidan Gordon – Lead Guitar
(Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 14)
Hayat Feghaly – Synth (Track 2)
Elliott Brennan - Trumpet
Pete Yunken – Trombone
Erik Hecht – Lead Guitar, Vocals (Track 9)
Malcolm Clark – Piano (Track 9)

Additional Musicians:
Adam Brockway - Violin
Alix Hamilton - Violin
Cheralyn Simpson - Viola
Makato Takao - Cello

All songs written by Alex Arpino/The
Autumn Isles.

Lyrics by Alex Arpino

Produced by Alex Arpino and Shaun O’ Callaghan

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The Autumn Isles Perth, Australia

The Autumn Isles are a long standing contributor to Perth music scene, with two well-crafted EP’s and a much loved debut album. they're now onto their second full-length album, the band are building an impressive catalogue of material, reminiscent of the timeless pop music that continues to influence and inspire them. ... more

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