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na​ï​ve

by Ramona Córdova

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1.
These kinds of days / when the mouth of autumn cracks open and brays / blows the memories of birth and light / of spring / warm blanket of summer and sun hot stinging foreshadows the fall and the darkness that will soon encompass all / makes me tingle / the magic in this single moment / haunted / enlightened / spirit / brings out the spirit as if we know it / a bit within it / row round through it / float right on it / strolling into / onto / whereto / finding / we find dwellings / hidden dwellers / lovers and love / occurs / feed the heart / the soul / the intuition / come to fruition / watered and sunned / who is our ruler ? / are we ruled ? / who made the rules ? / rules / respect makes for perfect / heart healing / feeling / sensitive sensation / curious reaction / attraction / exchange / communication to satisfaction / it's a sudden fraction / to violation / penetration / armies of newcomers / wild in frenzy / thoughtless action / blind bucking rush into gaping black hole / destructive domination / domino motion
2.
Peace through violence / piss through the silence / sleep through the storm / thunder boom / someone's in their room / shooting out the gloom / through the tube / out their mushroom / plus or minus / more or less / loud or quiet / harsh or smooth / crash or slide by / disturb or join
3.
Where will you be with your feet planted / i am used to abuse from the men on the mountain / mound on you all their talk and dispute / for who is the leader of you / in the end who takes care of who / you choose / you do / you do / do you And to see all the peace and the love gone / if as if it was ever there / it seems that he is the worst whenever he is praised for his worth / while all hold on to his great mountain / but in the end when the mountain crumbles down / where will we be with our feet planted
4.
Loving Him 03:39
Please tell me why am i still loving him / when he's always trying to take over / he disregards you / he disrespects you / then he tries to keep you under his lock and key / so tell me why am i still loving him / please tell me why am i still loving him / he does it to you / he does it to them / he'll keep on doing it until he's dead / he's not going to listen / he's on his own mission / he wants the control / he wants to control / so tell me why am i still loving him
5.
Don't need a monument of any man / but can admire the bridgework / the bridge / from one side to another / come across to the other / the bridge works / in a place like this / so many bridges work / the bridges work
6.
Still 04:34
You know it's been a long long time that i've been here now / and i spend most of my time trying not to drown / with his hand on my head / holding me down / every time i catch my breath / all i can smell is death / it's filling my head / it's filling my lungs / and i can not breath It's been a long long time that i've been here now / and i see he's trying to tire me out / with his hands on my head / holding me down / i can't catch my breath / all i can see is death / it's filling my lungs / it's filling my head / and i can not breath / i can not see / i can not think to save myself from sinking
7.
Woke 04:20
I woke up again in my hole with a hole in it / where light gets in / laying on the floor with my eyes wide open / dizzy daylight / i survived another night / between the white shadow is black shadow
8.
So Long 03:18
So long has passed since we first met / so long has passed since we first crossed that ocean / so long has passed and you've said so long to the notion of letting me in / loving me full / open arms / oh say can you see it was never ever me who wanted to be here / but so long has passed and you never / no, you never said your sorry
9.
Can you just leave us alone / at my core there is fear i don't show / surrounded by hope / coiled and ready / firm and steady / scared i'll bite you / can you just leave us alone / i wanted you to wake up as i impassively nudged you
10.
The End 04:59
Don't you know it's always like that / better get used to it / evils out there always trying to push and scare / don't you know it's always going to be like that / evils out there / always trying to push and scare / don't you know it's always like that in this world / it's been so long / but it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine / want to know why ? / i've been working behind the curtains on all things so important / because it's the end of the world as we know it / and like a cocoon things will soon butterfly away / while darkness looms / flowers bloom / and doom is for the evils at play / 'cause i've been listening and that's the tune she's been singing / it's the end of the world as we know it / and i feel fine

about

When I first started working on «Naïve» I was completely consumed by all of the technical details involved in making a 'professional studio recording' on my own - one which could not be refuted or disregarded as subpar. My only other hope was to tell some sort of story with whichever songs i could piece together. The content and message of which were much less important to me.

The story that «Naïve» ended up telling comes from a cohesion of themes, ceaseless in my personal experiences living day to day in the world. Although the album dares to tread on tact while speaking poetically and lyrically about issues such as systemic oppression, racism, misogyny, policing and patriarchy - I think the album really just wants to reflect - to serve as a reflection - in order to foster healing and healthy growth towards maturing. I feel it commanding a kind of firm kindness as a reminder to love yourself enough to accept others, by way of accepting yourself.

Pressed onto this 180-gram vinyl are 10 songs I wrote while living in many different places around the world. Spontaneous recordings of inspired notions of song, written one rainy evening up high above the vineyards in Banyuls-sur-Mer became «Men on the Mountain». A Scrap of paper holding jots about a sudden storm on a hot day in August while helping friends on their farm in Puglia became «Mouth of Autumn» and «Peace Through Violence». As I dressed myself into the fragile reality of the United States, I became flooded by its manipulative social governing systems. As the monuments of slave-owners, colonisers, and white supremacists came crashing down in the name of responsibility and accountability, The «Bridge Works» was built, a song about crossing bridges towards empathy and equality. Civil rights activist and American-Football quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, taking the knee during the United States national anthem pre-game ceremony, brought about «So Long». The incessant murdering of black, brown, and transgender citizens brought «Woke», «Scared I'll Bite You», and «The End». The murder of Eric Garner and the feeling of being choked-out and suffocated under the weight of systemic oppression brought about «Still».

From all of this birthed the collection of songs that is «Naïve», a title given to the album by French Ghanian artist Eden Tinto Collins. Although written both in Europe and the U.S., most of the songs were performed and recorded at the end of the year 2018 in Philadelphia, during the American-Holidays season. «Still», «Loving Him», and «The End» were written in Philadelphia, but produced in Vlorë, Albania. This helped serve as a reminder that the issues these songs speak of are not isolated to the United States of America. - Ramona Córdova

credits

released June 10, 2021

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Recorded in Philadelphia, USA
December 2018 - January 2019

Additional Recordings made in Vlorë, Albania
September - October 2020

All songs written between 2014 - 2018 and performed, mixed, and produced by Ramona Córdova

Mastering Engineer - Matt Colton (Metropolis Labs / London, UK)

Cover Inner Sleeve Artwork - Eden Tinto Collins
Photography (Inner Sleeve) -- Ali Donohue
Cover design - Stassia Saromova, Ilja Tulit, Valentin Sitnyanski
Layout - Ilja Tulit

Vinyl Record Edition Released by Hidden Harmony Recordings (HH04)

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