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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The full Songs From The Garden album, plus as bonus tracks - the Oom Chugga Remix Challenge album, all on one audio CD. Comes in a lovely eco-pack, with cover art by young Dex Ellis and package design by Katie Hawkinson. There's a fold-out insert (not pictured here yet) with liner notes, credits and photos, and that's about it! On Berkeley Cat Records, while supplies last.

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My wife and I are in our eighties. We live in, for us, a large house that we keep in cleanly order with the help of a Brazilian couple with whom we are uncommonly close. After the husband of the couple was injured, his wife arrived one day with an assistant, a young Brazilian woman who did not speak English.

I had no emotional space to include the assistant and effectively rendered her invisible. Soon thereafter, I read a newspaper article by a woman writer, down on her luck, who turned to cleaning peoples’ houses to make ends meet. Upon completing the article, I reminded myself that my father’s mother was born a slave, and that I had the right to invisibilize no one.

The next time she came, I asked her name and vowed to remember it by singing, each time she came, the three notes that wound up at the beginning the song. From the moment I sang those notes, a song crowded itself into existence behind them. This was a new experience for me. Not only did “Eliza” volunteer itself into existence, it opened me up to singing again, and — newly—to song writing. I have thanked Eliza for the gift.

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from Songs From The Garden, released November 20, 2021
Lyrics by Russ Ellis
Music by Russ Ellis/Jason Martineau/Dave Ellis
Performed by Russ Ellis and Jason Martineau; Jay Lane - Drums
Produced by Russ Ellis/Jason Martineau/Dave Ellis

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