Everything Beautiful Has Edges || Echoes and Edges [Official Music Video]
Channel: Iris Lyre
Date: 2020-03-21

The second music video from our upcoming debut album release, Glory In The Bone!

This gorgeous tranquil moment of reprise is Everything Beautiful Has Edges by Gillie Harries, accompanied by a calm soundscape and echoed by the voice of Charlie Frances. This poem was a lot of the inspiration behind the name of our collective as we echoed and responded to the poetry we heard and created beauty on the edge between music and poetry. The poem began as a line by George Wallace.

The video was shot in Reading, where Jake is originally from, on a walk along the canal and through the centre of town. Something about the peaceful scenes gelled well with the pensive poem and so this video was born!

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Everything beautiful has edges
The safe boundary of ribboned love
The wish for continuity
Not to live the unbidden life
to stop by a field of grace
And regret you lost the key
To unlatch yourself at evening .

Everything beautiful has edges
The lady of Shalott
In her loveless tower
Unravelled by desire
Her prediction of demise
The wish for an embroidered life
A symmetry of stitches
Of light and shadow
The salvaging of closure .

Everything beautiful has edges
This page this table this room
Each a space of opportunity
This hand bounded by skin
Meeting surface of wood
Even the sea, phantom with azure
Has somewhere an edge
Somewhere a return
Somewhere surely an ending .


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✦ Echoes and Edges ✦
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We are Echoes and Edges, a collective of poets and musicians based in Bristol who have been working together on creating ideas that merge spoken word with improvised and composed pieces of music. Through a combination of musical improvisation, atmospheric field recordings and soulful vocals, we transform the poems into sonic pictures of memories and moments.

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Bristol-based vocals and multi-instrumental duo, combining powerful, soulful vocals with rich piano to weave stories of love, friendship and sense of place. Often cute and cheerful, sometimes wandering into the misty and mellow then swiftly dropping into the groovy and sassy to get everyone clapping along again. Every instrument under the sun will be used in loopy chaotic explosions of fun.