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Burn So Bright (full album)

by Jane Willow

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chrisp01 Beautiful and richly textured, a delightful record. Well done Jane
Andy K
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Andy K Here and there, shades of Nick Drake and The Waterboys, (naturally with Mr Wickham on board), but mostly well-crafted and beautifully sung original material. Jane has really proven to be an excellent songwriter with this debut album, and the delicate musical arrangements and subtle production put many more established performers to shame.
Lovely stuff. Favorite track: Burn So Bright.
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frank939599 Unique, distinctive voice with strong songs and great arrangements. 'In your house' is just gorgeous and the other tracks are growing on me with every listen. Excellent stuff!
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1.
Ignore us free ones 
Defy all our truth 
Leave all our dreams to the side 

Stuck in a rental trap Wasting half my wage 
I try getting on but there’s no end in sight
 [Chorus]
 This free life, this free life 
This free life, this free life 
This free life, this free life This free life 

Hold onto your ideas
 Hold onto greed
 Rent it out though we’ve nothing to spare

 See what your big machine
 Churns out on the street
 Just 10 000 people barely there [Chorus] Oh this free life, this free life
 This free life, this free life
 What free life, what free life? Oh this free life [Instrumental] [Chorus] This free life, this free life
 This free life, this free life
 What free life, what free life? This free life, this free life Oh this free life, this free life
 Oh this free life, this free life 
Oh this free life, this free life 
Ah…
2.

This river runs on
 And this world turns the sky 
Now this all came to be
 But I don’t care to know just how or why

 The distance we cross 
The width of our dreams
 And this passion that guides
 Don’t mean anything to me
 [Chorus]
 Turn the world in your hands, let it burn or let it fly 
Doesn’t matter to me, if it lives or if it dies 
But put your hands on my hips, hold my body, chase my mind
 Take your hands off this world and just put ‘em back on mine Put ‘em back on mine Put ‘em back on mine 
This justice that speaks 
But never comes to be Your heated exchange
 Oh this hopeless world it amuses me 

Oh try if you must
 See if I’ve will left to fight
 Offer one-sided claims
 Your account of what is wrong and right
 [Chorus]
Turn the world in your hands, let it burn or let it fly 
Doesn’t matter to me, if it lives or if it dies
 But put your hands on my hips, hold my body, chase my mind
 Take your hands off this world and just put ‘em back on mine Put ‘em back on mine
 Put ‘em back on mine
 [Outro]
 This river runs on This river runs on This river runs on This river runs on
 Oh this river runs on Oh this river runs on Oh this river runs on Oh this river runs on, on, on
3.
Let there be light Let there be days Let there be hope That helps you thread your way Through the crowds You’ll find a face Someone that reaches you In some kind way In the commotion it’s getting hard to know What really matters and what’s worth letting go What’s your intent, and do you intend to know? No, let there be light, light for the day I know you’ll become I know you’ll remain I know you’ve wandered But you’ll find again No need to be strong No need to push on Just follow what guides you along In the commotion it’s getting hard to know What really matters and what’s worth letting go And I miss the mornings when you said ‘I love you so’ No, let there be light, light for the day No, let there be light, light for the day [Instrumental] With all this longing I’m finding it so hard to know What really matters and what’s worth letting go But I have this music and I want the world to know Let there be light, light for the day No, let there be light, light for the day No, just let there be light, light for the day
4.
Unfailingly 04:10
Leave your boat here at the shore 
Throw your anchor down to me
 As the moon changes the tide 
It is you that changes me
 As the sand slips through your hands 
Let your dreams slip into mine 
Now we lie here on the coast 
Far from the city, unmoved by time 
[Chorus] 
‘Cause you are my love, my love
‘ Cause you are my love, my love 
Unfailingly
 We can build our paradise
 Out of bricks and old debris
 We’ll create a world ourselves 
All we need is to believe But if ever I should fade 
Or if ever you should leave
 Then take solace in the fact;
 You can come with me and I can come with you [Chorus] 
And you are my love, my love 
And you are my love, my love [Chorus] And you are my love, you are my love
 And you are my love, you are my love Unfailingly

5.
Linger Here 03:14
Linger here with me my lover 
I long to touch your mind and your skin 
Some light in you, it strikes me so gently I long for you to let me in Linger here with me new lover
 My thoughts have been running so wild Let’s see how night shifts into morning
 The changing colours of the sky 
[Chorus] Oh, it doesn’t mean that we are changing 
We only brought new colours to the night
 Linger here and think of this body 
Your eyes, my hands and our two minds
 We’ll sink so deep in needing and wanting 
It’s a simple thing called desire
 [Chorus] Oh, it doesn’t mean that we are changing
 We only brought new colours to the night 
Oh, it doesn’t mean that this is love now
 It’s a simple thing called desire So linger here with me my lover 
I long for you to let me in I long for you to let me in 
I long for you, oh, to let me in
6.
The Fool 04:02
I've taken what's left of this warm eve But it all somehow still brings me down With memories of days under the same sun When you still came around
 I gave more I thought I'd care to give But somehow I've been left with nothing to keep I don't think the letter sent as you left for good Did anything for me
 [Chorus] 'Cause if it means that much to me How come it doesn't mean that much to you? Oh honey I'm the fool, the fool, the fool That keeps running round for more
 You spend most your days inside your world Boy, when do you take time just to think of me And you're stretched on my bed as the night Tries to take me in, but I just have to leave things be Oh, now don't tell me I never knew about pleasure How can I give you this pleasure when it's causing me pain? I cannot satisfy a need when it's not what I desire Since when did you become so vain?
 [Chorus] 'Cause if it means that much to me How come it doesn't mean that much to you? Oh honey I'm the fool, the fool, the fool That keeps knocking on your door And if I give so lovingly How come you often take so carelessly? Oh honey I'm the fool, the fool, the fool I won’t be running round for me For more, oh, for more 
Not anymore [Chorus] 'Cause if it means that much to me How come it doesn't mean that much to you? Oh honey I'm the fool, the fool, the fool I'm done knocking on your door And if I give so lovingly How come you often take so carelessly? Oh honey I'm the fool, the fool, the fool I won't be running round for more Oh honey I'm the fool, the fool, the fool I won't be running round for more 
Not anymore, not anymore
7.
Up Here 04:04
Lift me up here, up here 
Lift me up here for a while I know the moment, the laughter 
So vivid in my mind 

[Chorus]
 I have to feel it clearly, like your skin 
Like your words that broke the blue I hid within
 I have to feel it clearly, don’t pass me by
 I hold onto things but maybe that’s alright
 I hold onto things but maybe that’s alright Oeh… 

Lift me up here, up here 
Lift me up here for a while I want to see things, moving Through this purple sky
 [Chorus] 
I have to feel it clearly, like this night I know that darkness formed a certain kind of light I have to feel it clearly, these bygone times 
I hold onto things but maybe that’s alright I hold onto things but maybe that’s alright [Outro]
8.
Sing to me my love From your dark room
 In your house there 
By the sea 

I’ll still hear your song 
In this city
 Where the cars trail
 Along the streets 
 [Chorus] 
And you can make this town
 Look so kind now 
Look so simple
 Look so sweet Sing to me my love From your dark room 
In your house there By the sea 

I feel so estranged
 From these people 
And their talking 
On the street 

I’ve become a fool To my old love 
To my family
 And to me [Chorus]
 You can make this world
 Look so kind now
 Look so gentle
 Look so sweet Sing to me my love From your dark room 
In your house there 
 By the sea 
[Instrumental] Oeh…
 Lay me in your bed 
Close the curtains We know there’s nothing there to see 
All I want to hear Is your breathing 
 And that birdsong By the sea [Chorus]
 You can make a girl/boy
 Look so kind now
 Look so gentle 
Look so sweet Sing to me my love From your dark room 
In your house there 
By the sea In your house there
 By the sea Oh, in your house there
 By the sea
9.
Give It Time 03:00
I know too little And want too much And when it’s given It’s not enough

 But maybe I have changed And you can meet me here Tumbling through old times 
Before the sun appeared Cause all you’ve got to do is 
[Chorus] Give it time, slowly things will realign There is no telling how or when 
But you will be alright You will be alright

 So come on over
 Don’t linger on I’ll find means to
 Help you move on 

I’ve been there before
 The black of fear
 When all was obsolete 
Before the sun appeared
 Before the sun appeared [Chorus] So give it time, slowly things will realign There is no telling how or when
 But you will be alright 
[Chorus] So give it time, slowly things will realign There is no telling how or when 
But you will be alright You will be alright You will be alright
10.
I know I have lost I’ve felt this once before
 I need to set my ship
 Out for another shore

 Something I did gain
 On that night we kissed
 I hold my love at bay
 Oh I must run from this [Chorus] But you burn so bright Burn so bright in me
 You burn so bright
 Burn so bright, can’t you see? What you mean to me Your scent caught in my breeze
 Your clouds before my eyes Your hands they seeks my skin
 I try to walk on by This foolish innocence
 We cannot be a lie
 You don’t love like you should 
It pains me to say goodbye [Chorus] ‘Cause you burn so bright
 Burn so bright in me
 You burn so bright Burn so bright, can’t you see? [Chorus]
‘Cause you burn so bright Burn so bright in me 
And you burn so bright
 Burn so bright, can’t you see? What you mean to me
11.

about

Debut album by Dutch-turned-Irish musician Jane Willow. It includes the bonus song 'Morning Moon' (bonus song available on bandcamp only).

'Burn So Bright' (out Nov 19th '21) takes influences from Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake and Richard Hawley. The album features string arrangements by Joe Csibi (Head of RTE Concert Orchestra). With Dave Hingerty on drums (Glen Hansard, Josh Ritter) and guest performances by Steve Wickham (The Waterboys), Pat Byrne and more.

Four singles of the album got placed on the RTE Radio 1 Recommends playlist and reached about 40.000 to 50.000 listeners a day. The RTE Concert Orchestra also released an orchestral version of her song 'Let There Be Light’ for Women's Day 2021. In 2022 the song 'In Your House There' got placed in a TV ad for charity organisation ALONE.

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"Luminous, peaceful, comforting and uplifting all at once.” - Fiachna Ó Braonáin (RTE Radio 1)

“Jane Willow has made a serious impression on those that value craft and musicality above all else.” - The Irish Times (Tony Clayton-Lea)

“A powerhouse of a performer” - Mathieu Norry (RTE Radio 1)

“a remarkable voice” - Hotpress

"Perfecte toonsoort, krachtig doch gevoelig stemgeluid, mooie melodie. Ik was plat." - WonoBlog

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credits

released November 19, 2021

Recorded & Mixed at Audioland Studios

Strings/piano recordings: Ventry Studios

Produced by Anthony Gibney & Jane Willow

Mastered by Simon Francis Mastering


Songs written by Jane Willow

String Arrangements by:
Joe Csibi (track 3, 7,8,9,10 & bonus track)
Marco Francescangeli (track 1, 4, 5)

String Quartet:
Cello: Gerald Peregrine
Viola: Karen Dervan
Violin: Lynda O’Connor & Deirdre Reddy

Drums: Dave Hingerty
Bass: Alice Grollero
Double Bass: Joe Csibi
Keys & Harmonium: Scott Flanigan
Guitar, Mandolin, Ukelele, Bass & Backing vocals: Jane Willow
Mandolin (track 6): John Denby
Electric Guitars: Anthony Gibney & Jane Willow

Featuring guest musicians Steve Wickham (The Waterboys) and Pat Byrne.
Guest backing vocals, track 7: Fiachna Ó Braonáin, Riona Sally Hartman, Naomi SV Alice Grollero & Shane Hennessy, track 2: Elder Roche.

Album photography: Dave Keegan

I want to dedicate this album to my crowdfunders at fundit.ie that made my debut album possible. And to the people here at bandcamp who buy digital downloads, CDs and merchandise. You make it possible for me to continue to be a musician. Thank you. x

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Jane Willow is a Dutch-turned-Irish folk musician. Jane's debut album 'Burn So Bright' is out Nov 19th. With string arrangements by Joe Csibi (Head of RTE Concert Orchestra).

Jane also regularly shares live music videos: www.youtube.com/janewillowmusic
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