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Mounts Bay Morning follows in the wake of classic songs insisting that the moment is now! Wham’s ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go’ and Laura Nyro’s ‘Jimmy Mack’ haunted Kelsey’s dreams as she tried to capture their celebratory immediacy during the recording of this song. Mounts Bay Morning urges the listener to act, junk the mundane routine, grab a coat, a soul mate, catch the breeze, tumble out of the door and go out and live!
Kelsey sings it from the rooftops, telling of emerald sunlit waves dancing with blustery blue skies and the tantalising promise of summer.
Both Kelsey’s band and forthcoming album take the name LETHOWSOW, an old Cornish word for the Seven Stones reef meaning ‘the milky ones’. Greg Dyer plays drums on the song and Ben Kypreos acoustic bass. Exhilarating backing vocals inspired by Laura Nyro’s Labelle collaboration are the icing on Kelsey’s arrangement. Guest vocalists breathing life into this vision are celebrated folk singer Angeline Morrison whose album ‘Sorrow Songs’ was Guardian Number one folk album of 2022 , and Maria Heseltine.
Kelsey’s album Lethowsow will feature seven songs capturing the essence of life in an elemental coastal place.The first single to be released from this collection on Dimple Discs in December 2023 was Music Of The Waves, with a luscious music video of the West Cornwall landscape and wildlife. Music Of The Waves has received enthusiastic radio play in the UK and across Europe and America.
lyrics
Mounts Bay Morning
I woke to a sea of jade
And a blustery blue sky
White horses on the rampage
As the fishing boats rock and ride
Oh and I wanna go taste the salt
And feel the spray splash up on my face
I’m looking for the wind to mess my hair
And blow it all over the place
I’m talkin‘ ‘bout a Mounts Bay Morning
Well they come without warning
Telling you go go go
Get yourself in it
Make time while this lasts
Mounts Bay Morning
Well they come without warning
Telling you go go
Get yourself in it
Make time while this lasts
I hear the rocks call, the horizon sets me free
Stones glistening
I’m a listening to the ebb and flow of the sea
Summer’s coming
Children will be jumping and doing what they feel
Folks lazin’ talkin’ bathin’
‘Cos the people here are real
Oh and I wanna go taste the salt
And feel the spray splash up on my face
I’m looking for the wind to mess my hair
And blow it all over the place
I’m talkin’ ‘bout a Mounts Bay Morning
Well they come without warning
Telling you go go go
Get yourself in it
Make time while this lasts
Mounts Bay Morning
Well they come without warning
Telling you go go
Get yourself in it
Make time while this lasts
Make time while this lasts
Make time while this lasts
Make time while this lasts
Everything’s shimmering sparkling new
Everything’s shimmering sparkling new
Everything’s shimmering sparkling new
Everything’s shimmering sparkling new - ooh - ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
I woke to a sea of jade
And a blustery blue sky
White horses on the rampage
As the fishing boats rock and ride
Oh and I wanna go taste the salt
And feel the spray splash up on my face
I’m looking for the wind to mess my hair
And blow it all over the place
I’m talkin‘ ‘bout a Mounts Bay Morning
Well they come without warning
Telling you go go go
Get yourself in it
Make time while this lasts
Mounts Bay Morning
Well they come without warning
Telling you go go
Get yourself in it
Make time while this lasts
ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh ooh ooh
Grab your things
Run down the hill
The air is sweet and the water is in
Come with me
Just for a while
The air is sweet and the water is high
And it’s a Mounts Bay morning
credits
released February 2, 2024
Artist: Kelsey Michael
Songwriter, arranger and producer: Kelsey Michael
Performer credits:
Vocals, backing vocals, acoustic piano - Kelsey Michael
Acoustic bass - Ben Kypreos
Drums - Greg Dyer
Guest backing vocalists - Angeline Morrison and Maria Heseltine.
Recorded at Lemonade Factory Studio, Falmouth, UK by Robin Tyndale-Biscoe.
Backing vocals and piano recorded by Kelsey Michael at The Rooftop Studio, Penzance and St Marys Church, Penzance UK.
Mixed by Kelsey Michael and Robin Tyndale Biscoe in The Rooftop Studio Penzance and Lemonade Factory Studio, UK
Mastered by Charlie Francis of Synergymastering, Wales, UK
Kelsey's music laces her love for classic singer-60s and 70s songwriting with folk drones and a contemporary edge. She
records and performs solo and with her band Lethowsow. The songs capture the essence of life in an elemental place.
You’ll find Kelsey’s voice on many a High Llamas album. She also features on Jocelyn Pook’s soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Eyes Wide Shut.’...more
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