With the current advisories, lockdowns and life-altering craziness that is afoot, this intimate archived home recording by Gemma Ray is seeing the light of day for the first time, to serve as a gentle reminder of what we should all be doing right now during the Covid-19 outbreak.
All proceeds will be donated to the WHO’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund.
Written and recorded in 2006, it was forgotten until the events of today jolted her memory of it. Though the song itself is obviously not about curbing a pandemic (it’s a melancholic folk-blues portrait of self-isolation), nevertheless – do the right thing and STAY INSIDE
lyrics
There's people down on us
They just radiate spiders and dust
Look outside your window pane
It's raining blades.
Things won't always be the same.
Stay inside with me.
credits
from Stay Inside,
track released April 10, 2020
written and performed by Gemma Ray
recorded by Ray Williams in his North London flat.
this track brutalizes me emotionally and forces access to things I spend huge amounts of energy burying... its like fuckin ayahuasca... but I love it. Bob Furtado
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