MELODY NELSON

Bought an original copy of this from an old man by the river Seine in Paris.

Most expensive and beloved record in my collection.

Il Postino

perfetta per una sera d'estate calda

OLD TOM

Body of 'Old Tom', Killer Whale from Eden

September 17, 1930

The Old Man and The Sea

Ernest Hemmingway. Read this.

Home

is where?

Catalina Cafe e Mercato

On tour with Houlette - our apartment window looking onto my favorite neighbourhood in Barcelona

Fake Rocks

Military Bunker - Switzerland

Location : Secret

The Cars That Ate Paris

a film by Peter Weir

Basel-Land

Die alt stadt. Ein schoene tag mit Mutti.

Vielen danke fur alles, Mutti.

Houlette Freso - Saint Erme

Felicity, Liam et Cecilia

Residency at the Performing Arts Forum.

Village of Saint Erme, a short train ride from Paris.

PRAHA

Prague.
Howling Dog Hotel in Kobylisy.
Philharmonic Orchestra performing Arvo Pärt inside a pale blue palace.
Fell in love with a Czech Conductor.
Where an orchard grows in the middle of the city, surrounded by a golden forest.



Where history screams so loudly in the eyes of the older generations.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Kafka

Czech Cubism

The House at the Black Madonna.

Inside the cubist museum in Praha.

I want to adorn my apartment in cubist furnishings.

First I must aquire an apartment...

FINAL HOULETTE SHOW IN EUROPE

October 27 - POP IN, Paris

So far our trio have played in the following cities...

Germany - Oberhausen, Berlin

France - Paris, Saint Erme, Rennes

Latvia - Riga, Cesis

Finland - Helsinki

Holland - Amstredam, Utrecht

United Kingdom - London, Aberdeen, Scotland

Spain - Barcelona

... Je suis fatigue x

Jewels on the body

Flying to NZ

see you in a few hours little Jessie x

Francoise Hardy

Europa Tour 2010

We will be touring our debut record Bless Bless during August and September

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So Long Melbourne

So long to this internal storm

So long Winter

So long to the lovers who kept us warm

Bless Bless

(t. 'so long' or 'farewell' in Icelandic)

Santa Spirito

The piazza, where many lonely glasses of wine sweetened the afternoon glow

Schlafend

Is it sad that I will be forever fond of you?
The birds have been kissing your ears so long now

and still you are sleeping.

El Quetzal

she eats wild avocados

Busking for Baguettes

Paris, awaits us

'till death do us part

My dearest and oldest friend.

I can remember when you were a turtle.

For BR

Fairport Convention

'what we did on our holidays'

Niki de Saint-Phalle

what will I do now that you've left me?
will I cry a million tears?
will I die?
will I take to drink?
take a trip?
will I consult the stars and a crystal ball on how to win you back?
will we stay friends?
will I fall in love again?

Nana Hon (she) by Niki de Saint-Phalle (1966). Stockholm, Moderna Mosset, first shown in 1966 in Stockholm.

I can feel your heart beat

Serge Gainsbourge & Jane Birkin

L'Hiver

Francoise Sullivan, Les Saisons Sullivan (2007)

MIRO & DESNOS

Joan Miro i Ferra (1893-1983)

Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor and ceramist.

This reminds me of the importance of space and acheiving resonant simplicity within a work - Miro's art illustrates the way I would like my music to sound.

Miro also illustrated the manuscript of French poet, Robert Desnos.
Desnos was a surrealest writer and an active member of the French resistence.

He was deported to Auschwitz in 1944. Desnos' work, along with Miro's inspires dedication to ideas and creating alternative realities where anything can happen...

One day Desnos was taken with fellow prisoners away from their barracks towards the gas chambers for execution. As they were lining up to enter the chambers, Desnos jumped out of line and grabbed the hand of a woman standing nearby. He began to read her palm. He told her she would have a long and joyous life with many grandchildern. Others rushed towards Desnos to have their palms read... The gaurds became disorientated and were unable to continue with the executions.
Desnos created a new reality; the power of his imagination saved his life and the lives of others.

VIK

Some time ago

Alexandra og Felicty

falleg hross

diamonds were thrown.

The Warmth Merchant

Still from the film 'Heat and Dust' (1983)
Directed by James Ivory who also played the tanpura for the score, along with Zakir Hussain's tabla.

Rhythm is part of us from the time we're in our mother's womb. The heart is pumping, there is a pulse, so we respond to that... The tempos of the songs that have become hits are the tempos that either you walk in, you breathe in, or you make love in...

-Zakir Hussain

Just another diamond day

In the mood for Vashti today...

Feeling warm as the cold settles in

Sous La Houlette

Deer antler
Now branching at the joint
Farewell

-Bashō

таа го сака, на стариот свет

To my most darling friend
For each evening that we spend

In the cosy walls of our kitchens

Spilling stories over dishes
Drinking European cider
In the early part of winter

As the cold enters your bones-

We'll hang on to our dreams
And someday find eachother
Basking in the LA summer

For LV

Over Oceans

Soon you'll be sleeping just as I'm waking

My sun will be burning -

Your moon will be waning

Sie liebt dich, she loves you

Zum Geburstag Jessie
Missing you
x

Love is the anchor, the ice below the sea...

J'attend le soleil

Pour me rechauffer

Super 8 Still

(By Tim Hillier... recording days at Point Lonsdale '09)
Weekend by the beach reminded me of this still, taken in the make-shift 'vocal booth' last autumn where we recorded our first record, Bless Bless.

Cohen-inspired french romanticism for Record #2

Je suis une femme

Je ne pas une mère

Si vous voulez être mon amoureux

Il faut trouver une facon de le faire

Adrift The Gypsy Princess

Artist : Allison Gibbs b. 1978 Penrith, Australia

Her latest work- an installation and canal boat journey, will take place today in Glasgow, departing at Speirs Locks Wasteland.
Houlette have composed a sea shanty, which will provide a sound scape as the Gypsy Princess drifts along the canal.


Wish we were by the sea right now Alli x

Akrostichon Anonymität

Liebe

Intuitiv

Auslander

Magie -

Is fleeting.

Discovery can ruin.

El Perro Del Mar

I was there when she sang aloud in a swedish accent-

'love shouldn't wait'

And tears fell quietly as I stood beside ...

And so it begins...

Houlette and Horse by Warwick Baker