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In Avalon

by Once Around Saturn

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In Avalon 04:37
Driving home, two hearts dying, Declaration and hope colliding, A paper moon, It's okay to be so wrong. Evolution, living is learning, Resolution as the world is turning, I'll miss you, But forever seems so long. Waiting for tomorrow, That was you and I, No regrets no sorrow, Just another goodbye. Illusions can't define us, In Avalon, Believe you can become, Avalon, A future all behind us, In Avalon, A new world just begun. We're just habit, You're too sentimental, You're hangin' on, It's inconsequential, A new day dawning, Can you wake up and face the truth. Seeking absolution, Though it's not the way that I feel, This is my solution, Time and space to heal. Illusions can't define us, In Avalon, Believe you can become, Avalon, A future all behind us, In Avalon, A new world just begun.
2.
Here I am, Adrift and I want to go far away from here, Setting a course, For destination unknown. Lost in space, The future is a beautiful endless sea of stars, Without a trace, Beyond the dark of the moon. You can see forever, Going Interstellar, I reach for the future until, This burnin' star, We dream so far, I'm falling in Happenstance, Gravity pulls me so far away from here, Careening through the sky, My destiny still unknown. Endless night, Whispered in the hope of a dream and the twinkle of stars, Compelled to you, Beyond the dark of the moon. Like a supernova, When the party's over, Time will not stand still, The deep unknown, Draw me closer, I'm taken in. You can see forever, Going Interstellar, I reach for the future until, This burnin' star, We dream so far, I'm falling in
3.
Numbers Game 04:13
Like a top I'm spinning around, With no direction I stumble and I, Give my heart but you kick it around, Upon reflection I've been foolish I ponder, Deep inside I'm incomplete, Why don't you promise your heart to me, I confide I fall at your feet, It's not the way I thought it would be. And I, Keep hoping you'll call my bluff, Still I wonder if I'll ever be enough, I know I know the price we pay, It's just a numbers game of chance. I love you now, I love you always, But you don't even remember my name, We met at a club in a drunken haze, So you don't recall you don't feel the same. Deep inside I'm incomplete, Why don't you promise your heart to me, I confide I fall at your feet, It's not the way I thought it would be. And I, Keep hoping you'll call my bluff, Still I wonder if I'll ever be enough, I know I know the price we pay, It's just a numbers game of chance. I stumble, I fall, I get up I stumble, I fall, I get up I stumble, I fall, I get up I stumble, I fall, I get up Deep inside I'm incomplete, Why don't you promise your heart to me, I confide I fall at your feet, It's not the way I thought it would be. And I, Keep hoping you'll call my bluff, Still I wonder if I'll ever be enough, I know I know the price we pay, It's just a numbers game of chance.
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So near yet so far, Breakin' your resistance, I need your love. Souvenirs, sushi bars, Hero of persistence, A fool for your love. Talkin' in my sleep, (Sweet dreamin'), I wake in solitude. With half a chance, Here I wait for you, Take my heart, I long for you, Try romance, As if we never new, (Always believing that), I still love you. In this merry dance, You barely break a sweat, Oh curse you love, And I'm surely going nowehere, But I fall without regret, I'd die for your love. Talkin' in my sleep, (Sweet dreamin'), I wake in solitude. With half a chance, Here I wait for you, Take my heart, I long for you, Try romance, As if we never new, (Always believing that), I still love you.
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about

2020 presented the opportunity to get immersed in writing once again. In Avalon is largely the result of that time, though the recording took place throughout 2021. I revisited older ideas long sidelined, but also came up with a couple of completely new songs. I deliberated methodically throughout the recording and mixing of each track, obsessing over every detail.

I had intended to produce a full album, however, when my father died unexpectedly in December 2021, I lost my appetite for creating and recording. Grief affects people in a myriad of ways it seems.

The spark returned in mid 2023. Production continues.

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released June 10, 2021

All songs written and produced by Dan Kelso
Synths: Dan Kelso
Lead Vocals: Amanda Easton
Backing Vocals: Glenn Whitehall & Dan Kelso
Rhythm Guitars: Daniele Natoli
Lead Guitars: Daniel March
Sound Engineers: Daniele Natoli & Richard Lake

Recorded and mixed at Kiln Studios and A Sharp Recording Studios in Sydney.

Mastered by Matthew Gray at Matthew Gray Mastering in Brisbane.

Artwork: Anton Wikstrom

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Once Around Saturn Sydney, Australia

The nights were cold but electric on Rhea, Saturn’s second largest moon. All the cool kids would gather at the edge of the Splat, a large crater and centre of Rhea’s nightlife. We’d tune into Earth FM and listen to 80s pop; The soundtrack of our lives.

Year's later, I headed for Earth, networked with Earthling musician talent and fashioned a sound reminiscent of my formative years.
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