TILT
THE
HEAD
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tilt the head has been around for about a year now, but it feels like we're just getting to know each other. here's a song called heartbeat halves. this is a special recording of a story about a girl, her friend, a swimming pool, and something secret.
speak to you again in august.
While we're busy recording, you can learn a bit more about these three songs. Imagine, everybody else will be clueless, while you'll have a printout of the lyrics and accompanying artwork.
Who's cool now? It's you. You're the coolest.
Now we have three videos! One is not even really a video, but more like a cartoon like you might see on the TV.
Maybe if you feel like an adventure, make them all play at the same time.
Next:
Summertime Festival
31st July, afternoon
Grotemarkt, Den Haag.
The last gig was on:
4th June
Paard Café, Den Haag
With Soul Sister Dance Revolution
It was electric!
Before that it was:
7th May
Musicon, Den Haag
With Pop Up Animal Kids!
It went really well!
Tilt the Head is made from den Exter brothers Clemens and Emiel - on drums and guitar+vocals respectively, the fine-fingered Bob Zurcher on bass, and now Diede Oosterveen on the keys.
I've been sitting in on their practice, and together they've made some new sounds that I'm sure you're going to be into. It can be rough, rambunctious, raw, but also unsettlingly sincere and serene.
From intelligent to downright danceable - however you wanna rock, you can rock.
“You can't eat an egg on toast without a knife and fork.”
It had all been working so well, but as yolk began to slip through my fingers, I began to realise: he might be right.
Tilt the Head's Staff is currently me, “Deep Butter”, a.k.a Sam Gwilym, and I maintain the website, publicity, and write lyrics for the band.
Some photos around the site were taken by Wessel Baarda. Thank you Wessel.
Roads of Venus, stretching ahead, into you
Criss-crossing, lined out with lead, into you
But there's a lightness
that I feel's so real
Sugar blue atmosphere
I have to breathe
I'll never leave
Something broken,
something mended,
something frenzied,
something beating away
That beat's all I hear when I'm nearing
the night that is falling in place
And in my vehicle
my radio's on
only thing I hear is my
favourite song
Over the limit,
over the line
Just remember
that you've never seen us
Roads of venus
I lost an eye to that mercurial daughter
I don't know who she is, but I miss her
never quenched; steamed a small word from the water
I don't know who she is, but I miss her
'til dissolved and deserted my heart will defend,
I don't know who she is, but I miss her
In the glow of the girl, the eyelash will bend
I know who she is, and I miss her
Think she wonders if I'm ever near?
Keep on driving round this heavy sphere
I never see you but that's fine with me
If you'll excuse this, there's only the journey
I guess I'm still learning
For bookings contact us at ... or call Emiel den Exter
06 42768999
Press Kit (coming soon)
Technical Rider/Priklijst
You know the loop?
A tender diamond
A dangerous clue
The loop that can't let go
No no
Please, please let go
Night light
Short circuit sure is short
Still you seem so new…
Persimmon you
You know the loop?
Heartbeat counting
You know what I do?
Heartbeat count count telling away
I'm okay
My tricky way
Night light
Short circuit sure is short
How can it be that you feel, you feel so new?
Persimmon you
I'm not listening, glistening
Could've sworn that I've been holding you
could've sworn my teeth have held your core
could've sworn I've seen this fruit before
could've sworn, I can take so much more
There's something I really love about your smile.
Have a bite of mine! It's fresh. Believe me:
Persimmon Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays weekly.
You think you've heard it all before?
I know you have. And what hateful laws do you suppose
could cause the pause of this persimmon?
Sadly, these dreams:
Sadly run on clockwork.
Tender diamond
Dangerous clue
Heartbeat counting
My tricky way
Not listening
Glistening
Sadly dreams
Persimmon
I always thought Bob was very polite, but his frenzied bass-spinning was simply rude.
I'm so alone
Carry me home
Cause no one else will
There's nothing on
The television
It's like they promised
No more excuses
When I am older then
The thoughts I own
Playback my work
Feels like coming home
We'll get out
We'll work it out
One single step
Is so far from home
One single breath
Is more than my lungs can hold
We'll get out
We'll work it out
I've been sitting so long, could say that I'm done
You don't know how many times I've heard that theme song
Don't know if I can take another re-run
I've seen all of yours, when's mine coming on?
We'll get out
We'll work it out
Please forgive my decency
My memory - is what it used to be
I'm downgoing
No sign of slowing
today
Part of the wave
Nothing left to save
No way of knowing
I'm downgoing
today
Take it from me
there's so much more
Break yourself apart
step through the door
Smiling
straight down to that fractal core
A thousand pieces or more
Celebrate sweet secrecy
Soliloquy - not quite the word
My will is in my motion
and the ocean is the motion
that is me
So you bend, and you burn, my sweet thing won't you learn (Downgoing)?
Step down with me
Will you take the plunge?
Open up those sweet teeth
oasis lungs
Singing
songs of blue and hidden space
songs of that forbidden place
It's not the first time
It's not the last time
It's not the first time
It's not the last time
of my downgoing
A step is all I need
The step that I had thieved
of my downgoing
of my downgoing
The quiet day I died
The quiet day I lived
of my downgoing
I've heard of a planet
with a freaky frequency
Got myself a collection
wall to wall, reel to reel
I can't decode it
(encryption's hard to crack)
Still love the picture
so today I'll beam it back.
Leaving it on all night,
Thinking of you
It's reassuring,
(there's something out there, there's someone who dares)
Rib rosy valleys,
Light lips, constellation tooth
You tiny blue one,
The light you're letting loose.
Televise your smile
Round and round
(it'll only take a little while)
Earthling sound
Televise your smile
Round and round
(it'll only take a little while)
Earthbound sound
