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I went to Ukraine in summer 2005, and some of the singers said that the true power of group singing was in the unison. They also sang songs specifically to lift the veil between the living and spirit worlds. My friend, Merrill Garbus was the voice I wanted to hear on singing 'Please don't give up, please don't hide your voice - so many people did not have that choice.

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BELLOW
CHORUS:
Sometime, anytime you wanna bellow at the sky - Call on me, call on me
We’ll unzip the hori-i-i-i-zo-o-o-on with our voices.

Chant: Unzip the hori-i-izon with our voices
VERSE 1
Question: You ask me why I sing softer now, and did the world beat me down?
Cuz back then I sang hard, I sang proud, but where are the edges now?
STORY: Ukrainian summer before the revolution. I sat at the knees of the grandmother
Her daughter told me we could lift the veil between the worlds by singing.
We were sat outside in the dawn light of the midsummer feast and the short night.
Singing to the dead so they’d bless the crop, bless the young, bless the year

CHORUS
We’ll unzip the hori-i-i-i-zo-o-o-on with our voices.
Sometime, anytime you wanna bellow at the sky - Call on me, call on me
We’ll unzip the hori-i-i-i-zo-o-o-on with our voices.

VERSE 2
Answer: This is the way we call the unknown, and lift the veil to the other side
We’re singing to break the walls down the walls down. Throwing the gate open wide

BRIDGE 1:
Every breath I take has been taken before
Every note’s been sung………
Who can I sing them all again for? Baba, Baba Baba….
BRIDGE 2:
Please don’t give up - please don’t lose that sound
So many people fought to gain that ground
Please don’t give up – please don’t hide your voice
So many people did not have that choice.

VERSE 3
She told me the power of song was in the unison. She gathered her friends all around her
And they pierced the sky with a call - one melody from many voices
And from then til now, I remember, when the year is fat, and full of shadows.
I’m singing to the dead so they’ll bless the crop, bless the young, bless the year.

Chant: Unzip the hori-i-izon with our voices

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from Unzip The Horizon, released April 7, 2018
Moira Smiley - voice, percussion, found sounds
Merrill Garbus - voice
Steve Mascari - bass
David Weber - percussion
Chip Reardin - percussion
Seamus Egan - percussion

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Moira Smiley Bristol, Vermont

Moira Smiley is a Singer / Composer. Touring & writing with the finest in various worlds of music, she brings clarity and visceral emotion to any song she sings. She accompanies herself on banjo, accordion, piano, and hand & body percussion. She's toured with Tune-Yards and Solas among many others. Moira recently sang with Tune-Yards on Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. ... more

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