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The Black Keys

from Altarwise by Twin Headed Wolf

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about

This song was Twin Headed Wolf's most popular song, Julie was well known for bringing out the top of the french hunting horn to sing like a gramophone through and to play her saw with a little silver milk jug.

The song was written late at night after a fancy dress Valentines ball in 2010 after Branwen watched the beautiful and strange be-costumed creatures running after each-other along the cobblestones with their heads full of delight and ideals. Having just reread The Picture of Dorian Grey, it is a song about the allure of illusions and peoples hidden shadows and the obsession and entanglement that follows.

Branwen used to perform this song at the NCAD singer songwriter society where their friend Jenny used to sing along with "I am your byson" instead of "I am your vice and" which led Branwen to have images of byson behind their eyes every time they played this song. Branwen took apart a number of pianos over the years and still uses the piano keys as puppet marionettes handles so in a way they created puppets that literally were made of Black Keys and the song came true!

There have been many iterations of this song and it took the twins to some of the most magical places. Abandoned swimming pools in Belfast, Ostara Balls in reclaimed opera houses in New Orleans, Manors and squatted warehouses, underground Piano Bars! There are some songs that carry you into an adventure, and this was one of them.

The first recording of this song took place in the apartment of their friend Nick Boon in Inchicore in 2012. They had boiling kettles and all sorts of varied objects in that recording session.
This recording is an older version of the song.

lyrics

Don't come looking for me
In these rainy skies
If you're hunting me down
Well I'll be in disguise
I can't undo the web of your lies
I can't unstick all of these droning flies


On your piano
I am the black keys
I am your fever I am your disease
And when you exhale I am the wheeze
I am your vice and you'll never be free


I hear the click clack of your shoes on the stones
Pulled by a thread you just can't be alone
No matter how much you scrape scratch and moan
The one that you want will never be home


You tear the skin until it bleeds
You'll find your ego among the weeds
This old sin you seem to need
Will rot and starve you
Just like a bad seed

credits

from Altarwise, track released February 1, 2024
Written by Branwen Kavanagh/ Fiddleophone

Dylan Gully: Clarinet
Sam Comerford: Bass Clarinet
Branwen Kavanagh: Vocals/Guitar
Julie Kavanagh: Vocals/ Piano
Simon O Reilly: Radio voice
Martin Brunsden: Double Bass/ Musical Saw

Model: Pier Paolo Vitale
Costume: Daniel Borstein and Branwen Kavanagah
Photo by Myriam Riand

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Lyrical, twin-edged, harmony-ridden, experimental, scrap-yard folk... with a saw.

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