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Contact

by Harriet Brown

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1.
Intro 02:33
Ladies and Gentlemen Boys and girls Currants of all constellations I bring to you the one, the only Your very own HARRIET BROWN when i look at your body girl oooo you know just what i’m thinkin’ oohh and you’re leavin’ your letters on i can see that you’re thinkin’ oohh I’m here with you today, in thanks and in congratulations, in excitement and in extreme anticipation, in going beyond, and without further deliberation, (this all, incontestably impossible without your own participation – i’m talking to you, this inter-nation) as we enter, in collaboration, into a New Era. shapin’ me up, while you shakin’ it down, i ain’t never seen another like you around i drop to the ground, just to keep my feet, cuz when you’re lookin’ at me, it’s like an earthquake shakin’ the beat but i’d like to get to know your name, and i can only hope my lady that you feelin’ the same so imma crawl to you until i touch your feet and if i come to you, will you contact me? H-A double R-I-E-T  B-R-O-W-N do i have to spell it for you again? or will you remember this time? cuz all night i been sendin’ you signs i wanna know if you can read my lips, or additionally baby can you read my hips? i gotta message for you, tryna give you a clue but you gotta get to know me ‘fore you know what to do, that’s right I love you all very much
2.
ESP 03:15
this party puttin’ me in a daze, smilin’ back, when you look my way minutes pass, and i’m relaxed, but your shoulders tighten and you’re givin’ me sass when i look in your eyes, you think you showin’ me what’s behind baby please, know that i cannot always read your mind talk through ESP, baby i wish that was me but i was not blessed with that sixth sense, oh can’t you see midnight strikes, “shall we go?” i shrug my shoulders with an “i suppose” an hour passes and i’m feelin’ down, i wish we’d turn this ship around when you look in my eyes, can’t you see what’s on my mind do i have to spell out every word of my desire? it ain’t no ESP, at least i thought you could hear me never knew the sound of my words was that hard to read sometimes i think i’m an alien on your planet sometimes you must feel like an alien in my world whatever language you speak, i can learn it because baby i want you to be my girl ain’t got no ESP naw baby that ain’t me wish i had ESP
3.
paralyzed the moment you stepped clear into my vision burn my mind lookin’ for words but I cannot think everything, everything, everything you do it is what i’m looking for everything, everything, everything you do baby, please paralyzed common senses dissolve into fission venom eyes creep in slowly ‘til i cannot breathe everything, everything, everything you do keep me writhing on the floor everything, everything, everything you do make me come back wanting more oh my, look at the time, seventeen hours, is she passing me by? my heaven is now my heaven is now oh my, look at the time, seventeen hours, am i losing my mind? my heaven is now my heaven is now paralyzed slithered into bed while i was sleeping what a surprise see you in my heaven either way everything, everything, everything you do shoots me deep into my core everything, everything, everything you do make me come back oh my, look at the time, seventeen hours, is she passing me by? my heaven is now my heaven is now oh my, look at the time, seventeen hours, am i losing my mind? my heaven is now my heaven is now
4.
hello i- i saw you across the room but i haven't said anything oh, i'm usually just here but when i saw your face i knew i had to participate i see you saw you today, well at least i saw your name in the pixels on my shining screen, i talk to you that way i heard you were bored of your life, so i sent word in an instant just to see if i could offer some support but when we talk inter-space, you don’t always get what i say so i stop myself, but maybe it’s too late, baby starin' at the words that my fingers have formed and wonder what did i really communicate how will i ever find you if you don’t ever respond? cybernetiplegia without you, i can’t move on left in suspense, my heavy heart, mind tense only until your words notify me i can finally rest but that ain't nothin' but a dream, i’m still only eating ice cream at least until your name is flashing once again upon my screen then at last i can know there ain't no trouble with my beau and i can go outside; do you have the time? baby picturin’ your smile, but haven't seen it in a while, when you talk to me; can you talk to me, baby? how will i ever find you if you don't ever respond? cybernetiplegia without you, i can't move on cyclin' through your picture frames, don't underestimate me, i can cycle through these for days in fact that's all i can do, while i'm waiting on you, to get back to me, tellin' me that everything is the same 'cause i'm left wishin' for new visions of the lover i crave, i wanna see you validate me in the space that we make  it could be that you're asleep, but i seen activity, how can you do other things when you're not respondin' to me? oh babe!!! how will i ever find you? will you ever respond? cybernetiplegia without you, i just can't move on it's cool?
5.
Contact 02:39
now, light blurs into time moves so fast it freezes, all sound dies but bliss’s melody, all feeling, sight, space erased, but the face of
6.
Mother 04:53
mother, won’t you tell me, why these things, they goin’ on? all these things they goin’ on brother, please help me, with everything that’s goin’ wrong; everything is goin’ wrong i’m still trying to remember, every day, living up here, myself in space, is never a good idea when you can’t hear out what anybody else would say – i know got to look down on earth, see all the trouble goin’ round on earth, when she opens up her mouth but i think i’m too far out gravity can’t pull me down endlessly floating now i feel like i’m a supermassive black hole, pullin’ in the weight of our world all because i didn’t get that call back, heart attack, where would i be without my boo? i know that you had said, “boy, you gotta get your ass up out yo head” up out yo bed up from them sheets sinkin’ so low, just ‘cuz i ain’t caught my flow this week i know people tryna eat, but  i’m tryna thrive people strugglin’ to stay alive, when i’m trippin’ on catchin’ my vibe i’m up so high past the clouds, baby bring me back down and with my feet on the ground, maybe i can feel right wondering mother, won’t you tell me, why these things, they goin’ on? why these things they goin’ on brother, please help me, with everything that’s goin’ wrong; everything is goin’ wrong [so high in my pod, baby let me feel some sod] all i need’s your words to caress me down into your atmosphere, where i might see clear and feel an earthquake shake me up and down and all through from my toes to my head tell me, why am i still in my bed? need to get out from my eyes today, gotta see out of your eyes some way oh, but i can’t even handle my own, how can i think of the world’s? and then my own baby girl’s? ahhh now i can’t focus i think i broke this my oxygen be runnin’ low up here mother, won’t you tell me, why these things, they goin’ on? all these things they goin’ on brother, please help me, with everything that’s goin’ wrong; everything is goin’ wrong
7.
Obsession 04:16
can’t get up can’t lie down my mind’s numb without you no reason to get out I sit down and think about you i want your love all 24 hours of the day feel your lips at sixty-some kisses per hour every minute with you keeps my pain at bay but one millisecond with you missin’, i might melt my mind away can you take me with you, darling dear? oo you take me away, let me go, let me go, let me go, let me go with you you take me away, baby baby baby baby take me away baby can you take me with you, come take me away i want your love all 24 hours of the day feel your lips at sixty-some kisses per hour every minute with you keeps my pain at bay but one millisecond with you missin’, i might melt my mind away
8.
Cryptid 04:39
i am not always certain where to go livin’ what is better is not always the clearest on my mind they said you weren’t actual but the entire world regarded, you’re the realest person that i’d find baby won’t you let me touch you no one would believe me, doesn’t matter how much i could feel but only you can do it to me all the other ladies never knowin’ how to keep it real in my dreams she called to me in my dreams she said she’d come back for me in my dreams you don’t belong here son in my dreams you’re gonna come with us bettin’ every bottom just to prove that i am not alone you could give me some collateral baby but you know i love you dearly, your promises i never will let go baby come over and touch me they never will believe me, doesn’t matter how much you can feel but only you can do it to me all the other ladies, sometimes they make me feel so [crazy] in my dreams she called to me in my dreams she said she’d come back for me in my dreams you don’t belong here son in my dreams you’re gonna come with us
9.
Atlantis 05:51
oh baby, you should have left me there you saved me, you dried off every hair atlantis lures i’m sinking through my sheets but you, so pure you couldn’t let me dream sweet lover, why drag me from the shore? no other has known what i long for the overworld i’m sinking to escape but noble girl you couldn’t let me fade when i saw you i knew that i couldn’t let you get away i would give anything just to know that you’ll live through the day so baby won’t you call it love? so baby won’t you call me yours? you can stay here forever i’ll never let you wash away i would give anything just to know that you’ll live through the day so baby won’t you call it love? so baby won’t you call me yours? your fervent love has kept me for your own holy above won’t let me turn to foam
10.
doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo lady, it’s a one-way train and i know that it’s with you i want to go but lately, you been makin’ me feel like we could get up and conduct our own doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo lady, you can freeze your mind but the world outside will never stop its spinnin’ but lately, you been makin’ me feel like as long as we’re together we are winnin’ doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
11.
In My Head 06:42
in my head, you do love me down, kiss me back down to you in my bed, moon be showerin’ me with the fantasy of you you’re my lilac, girl my deep lilac, girl you smell ever so sweet, with your scent caressin’ me, baby girl do you know what you doin’ to me you do it with such ease, but it’s harder for me, please, honey why you always teasin’ me for so long; oh when i know girl you’re my lilac queen my private moonbeam you’re descending into my room come on closer babe i can hardly wait any longer honey take control of me you have sovereignty over this here country that’s right i am the land, and you have dominion you break me down, you make me weak, when i’m thinkin’ of you, you know it’s hard to eat, unless it’s you girl you take me up to space, and all the way back down, i’ll never grab the reins cuz i know you got the power, oo i like it i know just what i want, and baby girl it’s what you got, can you come and take me for a ride, we can use the lincoln you love it when i’m sayin’ that i think of you all day and i would rather be with you than be in heaven cuz you’re my heaven

about

Ascending from Los Angeles by way of the Bay Area, artist, writer and producer Harriet Brown is back to deliver his debut
album, Contact, the follow-up to his 2014 EP, New Era. Composed, arranged, co-produced and performed by your very
own himself, Contact is a concept album about communication and the contact we purposely, accidentally and inherently
struggle to make between friends, lovers and strangers, be them human or otherwise. And when it comes to the live show,
Harriet Brown will stun you. It’s an all-in-one package deal with sensual vocals, live loops, groovin’ drum machines, manic
guitar lines and thick synths, all at the hands of one being. It’s no secret that this multi-instrumentalist and producer is
influenced sonically and ethically by The Artist himself. And If Prince is his king, Sade is his queen, as they reside over an
ever expanding court of every genre that falls in between. Harriet Brown’s sound is not what you’d expect from a one man
band – sexual and sensitive, ambiguous and androgynous, prepare to be paralyzed by the sounds of Harriet Brown.

credits

released April 21, 2017

• • • All Words and Music Written, Composed, Arranged and Performed** by Harriet Brown • Additional arranging on “Mother” by Alex Talan • Produced and Mixed by Alex Talan and Harriet Brown • Recorded primarily from May 2015–January 2016 by Alex Talan at Cool World West in Koreatown, Los Angeles, with additional recordings from March–November 2014 by Harriet Brown at home in West Oakland and Koreatown, Los Angeles. Drums and percussion on “Cryptid”, “Atlantis” and “In My Head” recorded August 2015 by Dan Horne at Lone Palm Studios in Echo Park, Los Angeles • Mastered by Bernie Grundman • Artwork, additional mixing and overall executive bad bitch advising by Tammy N • • •

**except: raging synth solo on "Paralyzed" performed by Benedek • keyboard sparkles on "Obsession" and rhodes on "In My Head" performed by Leo Paparella • drum kit and bongo on "Cryptid" and bongo on "In My Head" performed by Ryan Wansley • bongo and aux percussion on "Atlantis performed by Ryan Wansley and Harriet Brown * guiro on "In My Head" performed by Dan Horne

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Host of "All About Our Love" on NTS Radio

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