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LIVE @ the Minack

by the Ascension plan

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Ascending 06:59
Lay down To breathe A long time To sigh Open the roof I want to see Chasing the sound Taken in Ascending Pull me up Make it so You don't move Hold still Open the roof I want to see Chasing the sound Taken in Ascending... Scream for life Ache for the light...
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All Ways 05:22
It's time to change all the colours It's time to check all directions Without somewhere to go There's no reason to stay here I will walk to you from all ways All ways.
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Gold are the days Loving child is here to save me Gold as the sun I never thought I'd be the one I followed the stream and stone You coloured my dreams in gold I hold you and don't let go And take in the sky, all night I wandered through A thousand faces for a glimpse of you How could I know All my searching would lead me home I followed the stream and stone You coloured my dreams in gold I hold you and don't let go And take in the sky, all night
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Found 05:38
Be still See me from inside I'm found Touched in frozen time This door Is open all the time Deep love is life
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lyrics by Mimi Goese Head of a pin, a pin in the map of where you are and where you will be The mountain is salty The sea is moss green Ferocious bloom of the racing sun falls To slate sky then wolf moon Airplane trails sew a fabric of your day to my night with color Woven tug of war Locked in a woven tug of war In you eye lives a cluster star nebula Where I dive leagues under your skin Molecules hair breath and muscles fused Loose stone soft earth voice with color Collide Collide There are mysteries out here Collide Collide Collide The sea and sky stitched seamlessly Collide The sea and sky collide There are mysteries out here Collide The sea and sky woven in a tug of war Molecules hair breath and muscles fused Collide The sea and sky Loose stone soft earth Molecules hair breath and muscles fused The sea and sky Life you are a delicate spec You are a delicate spectacular
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lyrics by Mimi Goese Don't fight buck up Let in the bright bits of everything Sweet nothings shut up Flail untethered in thick inky dark matter Pipe down stand stock-still Listen to the hunt listen to the love In a mosquito's humming Dandelions float light as paper wings Sea foam anklets effervescent tingle cool like peppermint Chaos and cacophony of birds alight A heimlich manouver needed on the laughing Buddha I hand you all this beauty I hand you all this nonsense to move you Calibrate drumbeats audible heartbeat stomp stomp it out I am hallucinating I am hallucinating you and your happiness Sssshhhhhhhhh catch up ketchup catsup catch up ketchup catsup I am hallucinating your happiness Peach stone sucked dry A glutton to your birdlike appetite Leaving DNA everywhere Pulsate reverberate Slap a napping mind wide awake A pattern of resistance meets the world of difference I hand you all this senseless beauty it's all I have to give I hand you all this crushing beauty as proof as a buoy as a lifesaver As a reason to move you move you
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Glow 11:32
High on the silence the ind of peace that will bind us we can evolve glow so need the love i know i've become the rain not the sun my head in the storm i know where you are there in the calm be all around me i see the forest crown thee all will resolve glow i've been missing from myself but i'm sure i'm here now this time i'll breathe a sigh endless open sky oh my dearest friend oh my love our chalice full and i want to taste it all i wanna see you fly

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Review by Lucy Cooper
THE MINACK'S dramatic setting, open to the elements, with a jaw-dropping backdrop of sea and sky, provided the ideal launch pad for a night of epic and ethereal sounds from Penwith-based band The Ascension Plan and special guests.
On Friday, May 2, 2014, hundreds gathered on the cliffs at Porthcurno to witness the four-piece band join forces with New York singer Mimi Goese, of 1980s cult American band Hugo Largo, and Penzance choir the 50 Degrees.
The night marked what the band call, "the completion of a curious circle". The circle began back in the 1990s with Quietly Torn, the band started by The Cure's Porl Thompson when he moved to Zennor.
When Mimi Goese, the band's original singer, left – homeward bound for New York – Thompson recruited St Just guitarist and singer Martin Jackson, then 16 years old. On a May evening in 1998 Martin took to the Minack stage to play a memorable gig with Quietly Torn.
Martin went on to form The Ascension Plan with Quietly Torn drummer Nick McLeod, bassist Mungo Shoddy and former Bates Motel man Paul Adams on electric violin.
In 2012, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, Nick McLeod (who also plays with The Incredible String Band's Clive Palmer) and Mimi Goese began to hatch a plan.
This resulted in Mimi's collaboration with the band on a number of tracks, including Ascending, from their All Ways EP, and forthcoming singles Buoy and Life (You Are).
Ultimately, it led back to the Minack and the wild Cornish cliffs on a May evening in 2014, bringing Mimi and Martin together to share the stage for the first time.
The result was an evening that managed to pull off the feat of being both intimate and epic.
Axolotl set the tone with an introductory soundscape that melded with the waves and the wind. Building from womb-like gongs and elemental murmuring, The Ascension Plan's sound swelled into celestial flights of liquid violin melting into out of this world vocals, transporting the listener to realms at once familiar, strange and beguiling.
With years of collective musical experience under their belts, the band moved together effortlessly through the haunting waltzing chorus of Old Wings, via the alternating swing and raw power of Disengage (and Remain The Same), the ethereal Ascending and meditative All Ways. Mimi Goese brought her extraordinary and formidable vocals into the equation – which can also be heard on Moby's Into The Blue and When It's Cold I'd Like To Die – bringing theatrical flair and sparkle to the stage along with her trademark vocal acrobatics.
Adding the vocal harmonies of the 50 Degrees choir into the mix, under the skilled direction of Vicky Abbott, sent beautiful, fluid, yet precisely aligned harmonies rushing across the Cornish skies.
"The sky and sea stitched seamlessly," Mimi sings on the forthcoming single Life, (You Are). As the daylight faded, sea and sky vanished into one another and the stage was bathed in a dance of colours, courtesy of projections by renowned local artist Paul Lewin.
Sky, sea, music and light stitched seamlessly into a mesmerising fabric, entrancing the senses. The resulting frisson carried echoes of Sigur Ros at the Eden Sessions.
Maybe it's the tuning, the band tune their instruments to a pitch of 432HZ – said to be the natural universal frequency – rather than the standard concert pitch of 440HZ. Maybe it's the combined power of more than 50 voices. Or maybe it's just that special something that ignites when a plan comes together beautifully.
Whatever the secret, this will be remembered as a night when magic was made, when The Ascension Plan unfolded their wings and took flight with Mimi Goese and the 50 Degrees.

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released June 23, 2015

Live Sound by Kieran @ KSound
Live Recording by Richard Blackborow

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