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Two Wrongs

from Dharma by Samana, The Road Records

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Inspired by the transient subculture of freight train riders that span across the landscape of America, ‘Two Wrongs’ symbolises humanities innate, continuous search for freedom; for a sense of release and escape. This song gives rise to the reverent and unrelenting intensity that burns inside the hearts of so many and their yearning to voyage beyond the perimeters of societal convention, in stepping beyond the control of predictability into the unknown. ‘Two Wrongs’ evokes the perpetual momentum of the freight train, scoring through vast landscapes of arid deserts, dark pine forests, illuminated mountains and stretches of infinite stars reflected in wide historical rivers. This is a piece of music that celebrates those whose devotion to wanderlust and to the direction of their dreams, is an unbridled part of their identity.

The photograph for Two Wrongs is taken by American photographer Mike Brodie, who spent four years embedded in the train riding subculture, amassing an archive of photographs that make up one of the few, true collections of American travel photography in all its raw grit, beauty and openness.

lyrics

It's coming on strong
And I’m on my own
Two worlds and a colossus of roads

The nights’ expanse
As the freight train rolls
The eternal hour, is the distance I know
This fast freedom is home

Rivers snake past
East of highway 99
The desert sun, and vastness collide.
Tehachapi Mountains; gold on every side
Here I wake to the stars and to the railway lines
This is my debt
Where these two worlds collide
This fast freedom is home

Its coming on strong
Its coming on strong

Fields of corn
Still the freight train rolls on
Blood red moon
Still the freight train rolls on

Within me a part
Of every vagabond forgone
A shadow in history is an angel undone
Graffiti carved into the box cab walls

Here I have no past, I’m just travelling through
This fast freedom is my home
Its the life that I choose
As I ride, as I ride, as I ride

Its coming on strong
Its coming on strong
Its coming on strong
Its coming on strong

Free
Free me

credits

from Dharma, released May 26, 2023
Song written, recorded, mixed and produced by Samana (Rebecca Rose Harris and Franklin Mockett)

Piano/Co-string arrangements - James Osler
Violin - Richard Jones
Cello - Fraser Bowels
Tenor Trumpet/Trumpet/Euphonium - Jools Owen
Double Bass - Rhys Lovell
Clarinet & Saxophone - Hugo Scott

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Samana is a journey of internal and external exploration. Their music is forged with its own distinct weight and significance, born from the interpretation of dreams, the study of ancient rituals, philosophies of love, loss & death, and the quintessence of interior discovery that results from personal experience. Samana create their art in their analogue studio in the remote valleys of Wales. ... more

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