Everything Is Different

by Joy Askew

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1.	Silent 04:05	lyrics	buy track
Silent Extinction can be silent Happen any time The vital and the vibrant Oh Extinction can be silent Slipping out of time Where are the lights of defiance? I long to fly Navigate and follow stars across the rippled sky On waves of air Birds fly true Directions purposeful Following the earthlines they can see from there If time is mine why not use it? Can I see the gift Or sink into confusion By avoiding it Jump in to discover A million beating hearts We’re the door through which the world Can enter or depart Underground Millions make a murmuring sound As they work the soil and turn the earth Intertwining, Roots and branches wrap your limbs in mine Stem for stem no longer cursed To some it’s only daylight To others it’s the sky To me there’s a beginning My eyes are open wide Everyday a new light But lost and never known Extinction can be silent To some it’s only daylight To others it’s the sky To me there’s a beginning My eyes are open wide Take the wonder with you of all the ones you know Extinction can be silent Joy Askew 2021
2.	Into The Sun 04:03	lyrics	buy track
I Drove Into The Sun I drove into the sun with flashes dark to bright, as the trees blocked the light the road was treacherous at times as it wound and climbed up and over the hills sometimes completely disappearing from my vision in the intense sunlight, but I was loving so this lonely road all mine at 7 AM when the chateau with its spires came in the distance, sunflowers and the late summer fields, singing to the morning of unbroken blue sky, I’m leaving, I’m leaving, I wonder why, my Generation will as those before me march like disappearing phantoms on then slip behind like we were never here, I turn my mind to what’s ahead as if an old machine starts up the big and rusty wheel again, it never used to be like this, oh life was coming in with sparks from every side and we were always trying to get somewhere, not seeing our selves exactly where we stood in the late summer fields, singing to the morning of unbroken blue sky, I’m feeling, I’m feeling this is a goodbye. When you drive into the sun you risk the chance of what might come, the past it drops like stitches from a needle and can’t be redone, you may forget the future, the immediate beats upon the drum, you’ll never have this time again this very moment is the reason you stop the thoughts, stop the car get out and stand just where you are, you’ll miss the flight but what does it matter? Embracing all in front of you are the late summer fields, and singing to the morning of unbroken blue sky, I’m not leaving, not leaving, not leaving this time
3.	Diaries 04:20	lyrics	buy track
DIARIES Don’t Look at my diaries, please don’t look  You’ll see how I am and how long it all took  For the world to collapse around me when I’m gone Into the memories that pull me down down. Don’t look at my house don’t look in my room  At the ghosts of ideas I’ve got hidden in the gloom Don’t look at my hair my unwashed clothes  At the books that I’ve read, the people I’ve known Do you think I don’t know it’s now, not then?  That I could realise the future is open? Don’t look at the sorrow set into this face  The way that I shuffle around the place  We’re born and connected our voices intertwine The future is open I sit here with my pen Don’t read my writing don’t look at my art  As I weave into song my exhausted heart  Sometime ago I crept off to gaze  At the world from the sidelines hidden away  From the jostle and the mind games that just seem to waste waste your time. INSTRUMENTAL Tho I can see clearly my opinions form  I’m collecting knowledge but I’m not sure who for Some souls are lifted while others remain  And it’s truth I see that is drifting away I’ll come back one day I hope I’ll be kind  And when I do maybe you will still be around  I don’t live in these shadows with mountains of hope  Just a few building blocks to help me cope  I’ll come back one day life may never be grand  But I’ll have something real I can hold in my hand, once more Joy Askew 2020
4.	Coronation Street 04:17	lyrics	buy track
Coronation St Oh when Summer was a rare thing Only June brought the strawberries late Ripe red berries always sweet So much to expect so much honesty Now the day spits out a third world heat Y ou’re out on the sidewalk of President St Always some trouble for you to face Constantly feeling out of place Chorus And the quiet wet rooves of Coronation St Are pulling me I’m here of my own free will If this is me what do the others feel? Remember the summers in your old home town Now you’re burning under a midday sun Five long years a refugee It’s little wonder there’s not much relief How long? How long/? How long? Chorus The quiet wet rooves of Coronation St Are pulling me I’m here of my own free will I’m here of my own free will If this is me what do the others feel? You go where mercy is on the ground You go to find where the water runs clean You risked you’re life just to reach this place For all the years you are the displaced Chorus And the quiet wet rooves of Coronation St Are pulling me I’m here of my own free will I’m here of my own free will
5.	Turning Point 03:32		buy track
6.	I'm Writing Mama 05:52		buy track
7.	Brooklyn 04:25		buy track
8.	Aliens 04:16	lyrics	buy track
ALIENS Pour the coffee into a cup The morning comes to clear my mind Read the news as I wake up A virus on the surface of the surface of the earth Everyone explains away The walking dead who spread the hate Wake up wake up it’s not a dream A virus on the surface of rise up or death will come with Aliens We are many they are few Somehow a spell is holding you Numbs you out so you will chew The virus on the surface of the surface of the earth Spit in the eye and watch the fall We turn our backs ‘cause we believe The Queen will die and save us all A virus on the surface of rise up or death will come with Aliens Wake up wake up wake up ... Pour the coffee into a cup The morning comes to clear my mind No-one is suspecting Aliens are among us Wake up wake up wake up....... No-one is suspecting Aliens are among us
9.	This Is How The Story Goes 03:08		buy track
10.	Things You Gave 04:37		buy track

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Everything is Different
Was recorded during Covid’s first two years, with songs from the innocence of before the pandemic and the change, that had set in fast and deep during.

Looking back, looking forward and with a feeling that nothing would be (quite) the same, Joy Askew, singer, songwriter and musician, was working in her studio alone, pulling in separately recorded pieces of music from all the musicians collaborating with her on the project.
Like ribbons of connecting sounds they came, from Tokyo, Connecticut, Nyack, Long Island, Nashville, London and even just a block away in Brooklyn.
Some were recorded in living rooms, on pots and pans, on smart phones or in gorgeous sounding studios. Some with accompanying video footage shot sometimes in a garden, sometimes in the dark.

Piece by piece by piece.

After many months, when things were beginning to open up in Brooklyn and with only two more songs to go, Joy tripped on the sidewalk, (possibly from her own enthusiasm), and broke both arms and a wrist and the trauma to the rest of her body put her hopelessly out of sorts.
PAUSE!…………for a month.
With the last two songs to record, everything was different. Askew was unable to play the keyboards. “Aliens”, a song written in 2019, oddly enough, refers to the changing political landscape using the metaphor of a virus covering the surface of the Earth. “Silent” talks of how unaware we are of all the species that inhabit and intertwine on the planet and how much more there is to know and embrace! Both tracks were based on keyboard riffs.
Like rummaging through The Salvation Army Bins, Joy found and adapted previously recorded keyboards… and the record was finished.

Joy Askew has had an embellished past playing alongside more than a few music influencers and icons. Now, as a re-invented musical poet, this collection of new songs have been described as powerful, moving and magic.
Everything Is Different will be her 10th release.

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released May 20, 2022

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Joy Askew Brooklyn, New York

Joy Askew arrived in New York City from the North of England in the early 1980’s playing and singing with artists Joe Jackson, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel and Rodney Crowell. She also appeared in Laurie Anderson’s concert film “Home of The Brave”
Her album “Tender City” was released in'96 and since has released 9 more. “Everything Is Different” will be available in late Spring 2022! ... more

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