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Sorrow Trees

by Joni in the Moon

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Philip Graham
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Philip Graham Quirky and yet direct, lush yet also simple. Music that's busy with emotional details that fit in unexpected places. I'm so pleased I found this "folktronica" album. Favorite track: L'il Star.
DJHDD
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DJHDD "Born on the edges of hope" Aussie siblings Joni and Josh Hogan freak folktronica soars to ethereal heights with multi instrumentals, sublime singing & earthly lyrics. A short album but each track has been polished to perfection. Favorite track: Sorrow Tree I.
Stefan Szo
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Stefan Szo Just heard this song last night at The Moon. Extraordinary. Fell in love with the band, with Joni, her voice, the music... Favorite track: Woman on Fire.
Ember Kate Fairbairn
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Ember Kate Fairbairn I discovered this album when it first came out and even now I’m 2019 I still return to it and binge listen.
There’s just something magic here, the recipe of all the elements combined. It’s sorrow but also it’s ethereal quality, complexity but also it’s accessibility
Jet
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Jet I've had this album on regular rotation since I bought it a few weeks ago. The music has depth and complexity without distracting focus from Joni's amazing voice, and the lyrics are heartfelt and emotive. Favorite track: Woman on Fire.
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1.
Yellow Moon 03:41
Yellow Moon Lyrics by Joni Hogan Walked into AWOL just today Should’ve seen it coming miles away Would you believe it, I survived Never felt more alive in my life Oh yellow moon, I am standing so far from you But I feel your golden fingers Touching my face through this cold winter gloom Oh yellow moon, What’s a wild and wily woman to do When her head is churning but her body’s burning With a love she’s keeping for you? Oh this light in all this winter fog Is so beautiful.... Oh yellow moon, Why the hell am I so goddamn confused? Oh my love is like a fog Wasting away on you Oh yellow moon What’s a wild and a wily woman to do When her head is churning and her body’s burning With a love she’s keeping for you?
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Sorrow Tree I Lyrics by Joni Hogan I was born on the edges of hope Caught asunder by the devil know, you And I rode with the dust cloud into your town Big dark ribbons of your past are hanging ‘round But you made this blood And it burns through my veins Burns through these remains....
3.
L'il Star 04:38
L’il Star Lyrics by Joni Hogan When the sirens Sirens call me back to the white squall I’ll go find my way back to the water Crawling out of the blue Crawling l’il star, I want you Crawling out of the blue Crawling l’il star I want you I’m the keeper Dancing with lust on the wing of your fabled song And our bodies bend underneath the water Crawling out of the blue Crawling l’il star, I want you Crawling out of the blue Crawling l’il star I want you And the sea will swallow I want you And the sea will swallow us
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Sorrow Tree II Lyrics By Joni Hogan Everybody’s got a different story Painted with their own guts and their own glory I try to beat those demons as they rise Ash and smoke like ghosts curling free from the coal’s eye But you made this blood And it burns through my veins Burns through these remains
5.
Woman On Fire Lyrics by Joni Hogan Turned your secrets to stones And threw them on into the river Sink down, never be seen again Hope that no-one dives down to the bottom reaches out and brings them on up to the surface Oh lie I’m a woman on fire Come into my arms I’m a woman on fire Jesus told me to wait So I went out and got laid How I love to crush the good girl inside of me And how is it strange freedom awaits for the wild ones to break free and run? Oh lie I’m a woman on fire Come into my arms I’m a woman on fire Don’t you dare tell me That god only knows what’ll happen to us You’d never tell me and i’ll never know So if god only knows, then god only knows Liar Liar Liar Liar Liar Can you scream louder than this? (Liar, Liar, you stood up on my body babe, don’t you forget) Oh how I hoped our love would not know That forever is a shackle to a stake in the past ‘Cause your secret life whips at my hide With the force of a storm battered tide Oh Life, I’m a woman on fire, gonna burn and burn Into my arms Oh life.... You Liar, you liar, You stood up on my body But i’m never gonna break
6.
Dove Song 03:35
Dove Song Lyrics by Joni Hogan It’s a long way back Up the hill to the house by the track And the seeds are curling down into the mud And I lay down and sob with the wild oats towering above ‘cause you told them all that i’m the liar And the trees bend down to wrap me up I’m swimming in the leaves like a tiny dove The secret spilling from my beak Is a song singing truth that’ll set me free The trees bend down, wrap me up I’m swimming in the leaves like a tiny dove The secret spilling from my beak Is what you did to me... And I walk on alone Fill my pockets with riverbed stones Where the reeds are reaching out to touch the sky And you never cared to see when the wild woman danced in me And you told them all that I’m the liar And the trees bend down to wrap me up I’m swimming in the leaves like a tiny dove The secret spilling from my beak Is a song singing truth that’ll set me free The trees bend down, wrap me up I’m swimming in the leaves like a tiny dove The secret spilling from my beak Is what you did to me Oh, have a look.... Come home heart Touching clouds with your dirt-stained glove A box of leaves and spinifex buried in the mud And you never cared to see when the wild woman danced in me And you told them all that I’m the liar
7.
Sorrow Tree III Lyrics by Joni Hogan You went and lit fires with my name It’s going to feed our lives, feed us Down where the sorrow trees, They grow, Into joyous old oaks Into joyous old oaks Down where the sorrow trees, They grow, Into joyous old oaks
8.
This Love 04:04
This Love Lyrics by Joni Hogan This love river flows Deep, dark indigo Touches like a ghost This love tastes like the wind Cerulean sinking in Oh how I dreamed of him Oh and this love it bleeds in circles Out of my chest into the night And I’m a hundred different purples Violet streaming from eyes As we look up, our gaze will tangle We’re making love in our common sky If I could push aside the desert And the sea between you and I, This road between you and I, I would... I’m longing for your love here (Longing for your love) Oh I’m longing for your love here Oh you, oh the batten down love Oh I’m longing for your love here This love lives in trees Tossing down the falling leaves As you pass underneath And this love sounds like a rock Hitting water as it drops A cool hand, oh this love... Oh and this love it bleeds in circles Out of my chest into the night And i’m a hundred different purples, Violet streaming from my eyes As we look up our gaze will tangle We’re making love in our common sky If I could push aside the desert And the sea between you and I, This road between you and I, I would... I’m longing for your love here (Longing for your love) Oh I’m longing for your love here Oh you, oh the batten down love Oh I’m longing for your love here

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released February 7, 2014

Sorrow Trees has been self produced by Joni in the Moon in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Produced, written and recorded by Joni Hogan and Josh Hogan.

Mixed to tape and Mastered by Lee Buddle and his magnificent SSL at Crank Recording.

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Joni in the Moon Perth, Australia

Self produced folktronic sonic reverie 'Joni in the Moon' is the collision of siblings Joni and Josh Hogan's songwriting and musical arrangement. Creating lush, layered electrofolk, the duo weaves together world-sample electronica, bazantar-bellied strings and melodic heart-on-sleeve folkpop lyric, exploring the interdependence of humans and nature, and the reverie in which the two intertwine... ... more

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