Only a Link in a Chain, by Zoe Heselton

Only a Link in a Chain

by Zoe Heselton

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1.	The Old Music (Ursula K. Le Guin) 00:49	lyrics
I sought a newer music, But it sounded false, and wrong. I’d find a tune and lose it, Hearing an older song. I’d find a tune and lose it, And always, all day long, Among my thoughts and doings, Half hear some older song. Among my thoughts and doings A tune would ring out strong, Yet change when I pursued it, Lost in that older song. The tunes of my own choosing All sounded false and wrong. I sought a newer music, I found an older song.
2.	Grinnin' In Your Face (Son House) 02:06
3.	To Sing On This Stage 05:13
4.	A Rose For Winter 06:09
5.	Bird On A Wire (Leonard Cohen) 05:16
6.	Songs Are Thoughts (Orpingalik) 01:10
7.	Hangman (Traditional/John Jacob Niles) 02:56
8.	Le Tengo Rabia al Silencio (Atahualpa Yupanqui) 02:48
9.	Lxs Hermanxs (Atahualpa Yupanqui) 03:03
10.	Mangé Pour le Coeur (Alain Peters) 04:46
11.	A Song is a Being 03:22
12.	Layer After Layer 07:12
13.	Only a Thread in a Cloth 00:52
14.	Every Desire is an End (Sun Ra/Elaine Mitchener) 03:29

about

Only a Link in a Chain • Live Songs 2017-2022

This album is based on the the setlist I performed live from 2017 through to 2021. It is dedicated to all of the amazing musicians, audiences, organisers, volonteers, artists and technicians I’ve had the chance to share with these past few years, whose intertwining lives make things possible, and make music make sense! Thank you my friends! You make me grateful to be part of such a precious life.

credits

released December 1, 2022

Guitar, voice, drawings: Zoe Heselton

Track 1, words by Ursula K. Le Guin, in Later in the Day; Track 2, words and music by Son House; Tracks 3, 4, 10, 12 & 13, words and music by Zoe Heselton; Track 4, words and music by Leonard Cohen*; Track 5, traditional, after John Jacob Niles; Track 6, words by Orpingalik**, in Technicians of the Sacred; Track 7 & 8**, words and music by Atahualpa Yupanqui; Track 10, words and music by Alain Peters**; Track 14, words by Sun Ra, original improvisation by Elaine Mitchener.

*Alternate words improvised/based on live versions by Leonard Cohen
**Lyrics in places have been reworked as to be made gender inclusive

Track 3 recorded by Zoe Heselton & Léonie Risjeterre at Soleils Bleus HQ, Spring 2020; Tracks 5, 8, 9, 10 & 14 recorded by Guillaume Cassagnol at Festival Lisle Sauvage, June 2021; Tracks 11 & 12 recorded at la Chèvre, Molodoï, Strasbourg, April 2022; Tracks 1, 4 & 13 recorded at home, Strasbourg, September 2022.