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Vanessa Ifediora - Off​-​White Sheets (Vanessa Ifediora)

from Sowing Acorns EP by Emma Langford | Vanessa Ifediora | Gráinne Fahy | Arvo Party

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    A very limited, Bandcamp Friday special! Pencil not included...

    The Sowing Acorns cassette artwork was created by Grainy Graphics aka Gráinne Fahy and features 5 tracks: the title track from my forthcoming second album Sowing Acorns, recorded, mixed and produced by Chris O'Brien and Graham Murphy, aka The Production Suite, between their Dublin studio and Golden Egg Studios in Laois in 2019; a full reading of Belfast writer Vanessa Ifediora's poem Off-White Sheets which is sampled on the track; remixes by Mayo producer Gráinne Fahy and Belfast producer Arvo Party; and a stripped-back acoustic version.

    The ‘Sowing Acorns’ cassette is a profit-share between me, Arvo Party, Gráinne Fahy and poet Vanessa Ifediora all of whom played key roles in the song's journey.

    Each purchase includes a digital download of the songs too.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Sowing Acorns EP via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Off-White Sheets is the opening poem from a 28 page collection of photographs, anecdotes and poems confronting fear, trauma, survival and hope.

lyrics

My sister told me to buy white sheets.
She said it would make my tiny box room seem bigger.
I've never had white sheets, I told her they looked clinical.
I wanted the soft pink set that was out of stock for single beds.
I took the white sheets home instead.

My bed is the safest and saddest place I know.
It's where I wrap a tired arm around myself
when my skin hurts from exhaustion,
where my loneliness reverberates around the thin, cold walls.
It's where I sleep, where I work, it's where I daydream
and where I battle with myself,
shielding my tired eyes from the glaring ceiling light.
My bed is where inspiration comes, where I drew my sketches.
It's where I wrote these words.
My bed is where I imagine a gentle hand holding mine.

My bed is where I decide to survive.

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from Sowing Acorns EP, released August 7, 2020
Written and recorded by Vanessa Ifediora
Mixed by Emma Langford

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Emma is a Limerick-based songwriter with strong folk, traditional influences that shine through her work

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