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Salt

by Moonfruits

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deerpunc I heard this album for the first time at the release party held for it at Red Bird in Ottawa. It was a beautiful performance chaleureuse, et ce qui m'a restée en tête c'est quand tout le monde ensemble chantait, "we all do well when we all do well." It's hard not to be enchanted by Brittle Earth and Moon Cradle in particular on this record... 🌿✨
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1.
Tell me, should I want to live again Grow and feed and carry weight again You’re getting awful short on memory Building a brittle life outside my canopy Your heady way of knowing Lacks a deeper sense of empathy I could save you from the straight path Going nowhere fast Praying to dead gods at the last And there is an answer There is an answer There is an answer Somewhere down in the bitter earth Somewhere down in the ragged earth Somewhere down in the brittle earth Somewhere down here
2.
Pretzel Bell 03:53
Morning neared The season appeared When the young ones Would soon be running around Kinship found Changing towns Church bells And no more running around Days to nights Turning into, into a life Just two trees Growing roots at the bar Lunch hour neared The Pretzel Bell peeled Your dream of a boat Or a pool, both afloat In the prospects of a post-war boom Pretty soon Running and running And running and running around Printing books, making sales Back at four for a few cocktails Your feet planted firmly, deep in the Days to nights Turning into, into a life Just two trees Growing roots at the bar On your way to the Gate to the stars Gloaming neared Two volunteers A knock at the gate Memories left to fate Aluminum hats To detect screen doors Photographs circled red For folks lost in the war A great-grandchild on your lap You’re chairbound And no more running And running and running around Days to nights Turning into, into a life Just two trees Growing roots at the bar On your way to the Gate to the stars
3.
Salt 03:50
Even oceans can recall The smell of summer grass Even arctic colds have known This heat from sand to glass Sunshine glows on rows of stone Where spring has found its fall Harbingers of life on seas We all have never known When firmament and sullen waters Wash the womb away Stars will we become anew and Shed the light of day
4.
Wednesday 03:33
Wednesday We were both born on a Wednesday We were both born, now we’re here My dear Wednesday Earth doesn’t know about Wednesday But she surely knows that we’re here My dear We are seeds without bees Who believe post-beliefs In the noose of the now We are greed without heed Who will bleed to write our deeds On the tomb of the now While the rich speak for us anyhow Earth Day Planet doesn’t know about Earth Day Can’t be everyday while we’re here We made it clear Some say We’re being true to form, yeah, some say Tomorrow isn’t born while we’re here And we’re here ’Cause we threw out the brakes On the train, just in case Their weight was too great And someone might use them We are seeds without bees Who believe post-beliefs In the noose of the now We are greed without heed Who will bleed to write our deeds On the tomb of the now While the rich speak for us anyhow Someday We can’t really wait until Someday We can’t really wait while we’re here My dear
5.
Loki 04:52
One soul told another I’m sorry to bother You wouldn’t happen to have a light? It’s funny that you’d ask, my friend Why is it we both pretend We like fumbling through the night? So Loki grabbed his match And the fire started to catch Oh, the light began to divide Every single one a little soul inside One soul told another I’m sorry to bother But what now of those little souls we find? They’re just like you and me And it’s not hard to see That without love they’d all go blind So Loki grabbed his match And the fire started to catch Oh, the love began to spread wide Every single one a little heart inside Will they forget the sun And go spending all their spark in a season? Will they forget the light And get caught up in the night of creation? One soul told another I’m sorry to bother But if they love, then why do they need to fight? It’s funny that you’d ask, my friend Why is it they bother trying to pretend That being kind is worse than being right? So Loki grabbed his match And the fire started to catch Oh, the hearts where the love resides Every single one a little healing inside Will they forget the sun And go spending all their spark in a season? Will they forget the light And get caught up in the night of creation? One soul told another I’m sorry to bother You wouldn’t happen to have a light?
6.
The atoms of the apartment Are from 1952 And 10 billion years before then In some star we never knew The atoms of the apartment Linking arms and looking on At one cat and two humans Parachuting in, then they're gone And the writing and the wall And the author all recall We all, all are one We’re just having different kinds of fun The atoms of the apartment Giving us a wink on the sly Like we’ll see each other In another sun by and by The atoms of the apartment The heavens in the hall Two sides of a teeter-totter The listener and the call And the writing and the wall And the author all recall The bond and the band unseen The strings vibrating in between, we all say We all, all are one We’re just having different kinds of fun Different kinds of fun Dear atoms of the apartment Would you like to take our place? You could start a string band Play some songs we'd appreciate And the writing and the wall And the author all recall The bond and the band unseen The strings vibrating in between, we all say We all, all are one We’re just having different kinds of fun Different kinds of fun
7.
By the time the cranes unfold The tale’s been sold On cardboard panels Be sure to stand on by And nod at the guys While the dozers gambol Feel the horizon change A private game No renter’s ramble Collect your helpless thoughts ’Cause you’ve been caught In the big buck scramble Brick by brick Trick by trick Brick by brick It gets done Another house for Faust And then another one Wontcha go ahead and doze The little we own Our little flirtation Just go ahead and build Stuffed to the gills With your legislation What’s a tent anyways When you get paid Seven hundred salvations? To find a spot nowhere And ease our cares Emancipation Brick by brick Trick by trick Brick by brick It gets done Another house for Faust And then another one Who’ll be good enough to share The same hot air We heard at twenty? Who’ll chalk it up to fate And lie in wait With the buildings empty? Who’s got a petty want A heartless taunt Or a tone-deaf ditty? A vision Where home is bought Like a fish you caught In a far-flung, far-off Next door, next day Land of plenty Backroom deals Mayoral appeals Peel the veneer And it gets done Another house for Faust And then another one Brick by brick Trick by trick Brick by brick It gets done Another house for Faust And then another one
8.
Ladder Song 03:50
Who’s a climber? Who’s a rung? Up is up Down is down Or so the song gets sung Who’s a smoker? Who’s a lung? In is in Out is out So wags the tired tongue Who’s a builder? Who is hung? An oath’s an oath The oath is growth And growth becomes us The future’s burning fast The bottom line in our nature’s eyes We just imagined in the past Imagine what we’ll be Without that snake and staff Between you and me You and me
9.
Generous days Frightening days In equal measure In the blessed home Terrible days Killer days Without an answer Standing alone And the birds still sing Yes, they do And the kids still bring that smile to our lips The way they do Please don’t go on spinning Like a spinning plate All the pretty speeches are made In this time past time Laugh it off all you like Wring your hands a thousand times Our new house guest Dons a crown And levels us all With slippers and a gown A messenger called No surprise You were around And the coffee’s still sweet Yes, it is And we can walk in the middle of street Between clenched fists Please don’t go on spinning Like a spinning plate The moment is dying at the gate In this time past time And you’re spinning it into gold You’re spinning it into gold You’re spinning it into nothing to hold In this time past time Time It takes time, it takes time, it takes time First letting it go It takes time, it takes time, it takes time Then healing your soul It takes time, it takes time, it takes time Then watching it grow Beyond the bounds of the mouth That told yourself it won’t change me Just everybody else In this time past time And you’re spinning it into gold You’re spinning it into gold You’re spinning it into nothing to hold In this time past time Time, it takes time, it takes Not days or weeks or months But a lifetime divine Time can make you change your mind Time might make you reconsider What is really on the line Time can make you plainly see A force that’s so much greater Than any you and me So stop spinning it into gold You’re spinning it into gold You’re spinning it into nothing to hold In this time past time
10.
Carousel 03:36
All he wants to do is Sing his own tune All he wants to say is Get out of the way All he wants to ride is His railroad into the night Pretending that there’s no day Oh, what will we say To our children? Can we explain? All he wants to see is The fuel beneath his feet All he wants to know is The world in his own glow All he wants to sell is That true falsehood he tells Peddling the same old talk on his carousel Parents buy the tickets for the ride Never quite knowing If that locomotive’s going to day or to night One thing’s for sure They won’t be travelling on past the dusk But what will be left? What will be left? What will be left but a hollowed husk? Oh, what will we say To our children’s face? Can we explain? It’s not their game to play
11.
What’s just another couple degrees Creeping up on the mercury? What’s just another couple of towns Running from the waters rising up all around? It’s all for a handful of men Who pick the public pocket And wink like we’re friends It’s all “roll up your sleeves and scratch for dimes” So we can break the piggy bank At bailout time Oh, and then again Oh, and then again We’re seven billion people strong What’s just another century Bingeing boom and bust like it’s a soap on tv? What’s just another couple clowns Inheriting the working world like it was a crown? It’s all for that handful of guys Who live to play a game of chance With other people’s lives It’s all “pinch your pennies, put in your time” But there’s never no money for nothing And never you mind why Oh, and then again Oh, and then again We’re seven billion people strong We all do well when we all do well We all do well when we all do well
12.
Moon Cradle 05:15
Some nights Moon bends low To keep me company Swells as she reaches near And I am filled with such a feeling Such a sure feeling That she’s seen me before That her eyes and her hands and her heart All know the medicine I came for She eases all my fever dreams With the nearness of her heart As though its steady rhythm My dreaming body knows Gave me my earthly start She’s young and old and all at once She sheds the sun’s own glow To span that magic waking time When moonshine grows to light In the dawning hour When the ghosts come I sing for A moon cradle, a moon cradle Her hands, they tremble But they hold the lines Constantly unfolding Carry me safe knowing She’s bent these knees before She lives within my body still Her wrinkles are mine And I belong to that time before I was a twinkle, in a twinkle, in her eye Some nights Moon bends low To keep me company Swells as she reaches near And I am filled with such a feeling Such a sure feeling That she’s seen me before That her eyes and her hands and her heart All know the medicine I came for

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released October 7, 2022

MUSICIANS
​​Kaitlin Milroy – voice, chord organ, glockenspiel
Alex Millaire – voice, guitar, guitalele, banjo, orchestration
Tobias Meis – double bass
Olivier Fairfield – drums
Liv Cazzola – voice, mission organ, organelle, ukulele, singing saw
Braden Phelan – voice, baritone slide, electric guitar
Kelly Lefaive – violin
Brian Sanderson – pochette, mellophone, flugelhorn, valve trombone
Éveline Grégoire-Rousseau – harp
Anita Cazzola – voice
Annie Sumi – voice
Emery, Adele & Joel Harden – backing vocals on Seven Billion

ENGINEERS
Charles Fairfield – lead moon-engineer at nCode Studio and Venturing Hills Concert Studio (Time Past Time)
Olivier Fairfield – moon-engineer at nCode Studio
Boris Petrowski – engineer at Mixart Studios (harp)
Kelly Lefaive – engineer at The Pocket Studio (violin)
Braden Phelan – engineer at Potato Patch (backing vocals on Moon Cradle)
Philip Shaw Bova – mastering engineer

ARTWORK
Andrew Robillard – cover photography
Curtis Perry – landscape photography
Sue Passmore – graphic design
Gabrielle Dubois – logos
Ilona Garson – hair
Anthonia Bejide – makeup
Manahil Bandukwala – jewellery
Lynn Truong – tailoring
Keturah Johnson & Moonfruits – wardrobe
Chris Saracino – printing at Standard Media

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Moonfruits Ottawa, Ontario

Moonfruits—Ottawa-based partners Alex Millaire and Kaitlin Milroy—craft contemporary folk in French and English that addresses our collective humanity with heart, wit, and wonder. Their sophomore album, Salt (Oct. 2022), explores raising a child amidst deepening inequality and the climate crisis, telling stories of their families and the kinds of communities they hope to help build. ... more

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