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Flesh To Flower

by Heirloome

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Grief and loss are no strangers to ethereal Australian artist Heirloome - but neither are magic, resilience, and the transformative power of music.

Written in the wake of the sudden loss of their younger brother, Heirloome’s “Flesh To Flower” is a piece of delicate, surreal chamber pop/electronica produced by Netherlands-born Santpoort (Chillhop, FoF Music). The song features a string section, angelic harmonies, and shimmering beats made from ‘found sounds’ - while Heirloome’s gossamer voice questions the experience of death.

“Losing my little brother was the deepest grief of my life - it completely broke me. He was 23. I had to create this magical world to protect myself, and to grieve, or I just couldn’t cope.

I saw a shaman ten days after he passed, and she said that his spirit was still in shock - so we sang to him, to help him understand and move on. That’s how this song happened. The shaman called in the spirit of a hummingbird to guide me, and the next day three birds appeared at my window and told me to write three songs for my brother.

It’s really me singing to him - asking his spirit questions about life, about what it all means... and what it is to die.

I didn’t want the song to be dark - I wanted it to be filled with the mysticism of this human experience we are having, to transform the pain into beauty somehow. I wanted to create a magical soundscape where it was safe enough to feel the loss, and begin to heal.”

lyrics

Will it eat me gently
When it does?
Will it burn me softly
When it does?

Will soil return me gracefully
To seed?
A gardenia catching flight
To become the breeze?

Brother tell me
Did it hurt?
Or was it like being born again
In the dirt?

Did someone hold your hand
And did you dream?
Did you call the angels in
Did you think of me?

Oh the room gets emptier
Year by year
And the veils that lie between our lives
Get thinner still
The room gets emptier
Year by year
Year by year
Year by year
Year by year

credits

released October 21, 2021
Lyrics & Music - Heirloome
String Arrangement - Dryden Thomas
Production - Santpoort
Mastering - Jack Prest

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There is a giant lily that grows, slowly, in the Himalayas. For most of its life, it appears to be an unassuming collection of heart-shaped leaves - until one day when it sprouts to 3 meters tall and unfurls in to angel-horn flowers.

For queer Australian artist Heirloome, a self-confessed ‘weird kid and late bloomer’, this flower is more than just an analogy - it’s a prophecy. ... more

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