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  • 7-inch Watercolor Print & Album Card
    Poster/Print + Digital Album

    Beauty to hold in your hands while you listen: a 7-inch giclée watercolor print and album card with lyrics and drawings. I was so happy to ditch the internet and work alongside my people at the Compound Gallery, the wonderful Eric Sanchez of Daruma Press and designer Chloë Dalby. We created and hand cut a limited edition of 100 prints, with the first set going to my beloved funders.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Yellow Blue Alizarin via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Album Card
    Poster/Print + Digital Album

    The album card, each with a unique outtake from the glicée printing process with Daruma Press. Featuring lyrics, profound gratitude, and a drawing by myself. Designed by Chloë Dalby.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Yellow Blue Alizarin via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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For all the untold stories of migrants in China, and the land they left.

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For all the untold stories of migrants in China, and the land they left.
Bright blinking, blinding light
I once had sky above my eyes
Waving laundry

Wide open centuries
Collapsing into cities
Tall and dusty

Street sweeper whistle part of the rice song
So my grandmother can fall asleep
Street sweeper whistle part of the rice song
So my grandmother can fall asleep

It's only concrete now
Moved from the old world to the new
From the country
They're changing China now
I wonder how I'll even breathe
In this city

Street sweeper whistle part of the rice song
So my grandmother can fall asleep
Street sweeper whistle part of the rice song
So my grandmother can fall asleep

I once grew that, with my hands
I once grew that
I once sang that, with my mouth
I once sang that

© 2017 Piney Ocean Music. All rights reserved.

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from Yellow Blue Alizarin, released September 27, 2016

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Melanie Ida Chopko Asheville, North Carolina

Songwriter Melanie Ida Chopko writes “little jewels,” exploring our relationship to the natural world and to one another. Her songs are as interested in the world around her as the one within herself, lush in melody, lyric and arrangement. If Joni Mitchell, Sufjan Stevens, and Ben Folds were neighbors and made music on Sundays, it might sound like this. ... more

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