Seen It All

from Near Equator by Fancy Colors

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Here's the story of Near Equator, which took about 2 years to finish:

While the members of Fancy Colors toured the world with various artists like Regina Spektor, of Montreal, Sondre Lerche, Vetiver, CHAPPO, and Jupiter One, the musicians worked at home when they could.

From songwriter Zac Colwell:

"It happened one wintery night as I was drifting off to sleep, listening to the critters under the floorboards of the house I live in in Brooklyn.

"It was about 3 am and I was in the twilight state. The critters were scratching and snoring, and as it turns out, dreaming.

"I finally managed to get to sleep on the uncomfortable futon. As I drifted off I had the most powerful sensation of being pulled into the floor. (Having had the experience as a kid of being woken up from a concussion, I can say here was a similar feeling, but in reverse.) I opened my eyes in my dream and saw something I've never seen in life.

"This album is an attempt to evoke some of that experience.

"After a lot of reflection I realized weeks later that somehow my psyche had melted with the critters' and I experienced some of their dreams. Sometimes I appeared in them, as they had been watching me. My influence was there as well, and we dreamed together as one mind.

"I don't know how this happened and it hasn't happened since. Perhaps it has something to do with the magic spells my girlfriend mutters in her sleep. She doesn't know about this.

"This album is an attempt to capture some of what I remember of the mixture of the dreams."

Colwell insists on talking about the music in unconventional terms. Describing the mood of the album, he mentions a "Buddhist hallucination", or "the memory of an experience, rather than the real experience".

The group is currently working on new material while performing in their current residence of Brooklyn, New York.

The album was released on Sandolyn Records in September 2012 in time for a national tour supporting Sondre Lerche. Fancy Colors also served as Mr. Lerche's backing band on the tour.

lyrics

SEEN IT ALL
Can you love if you can’t be there
Can you care if you can’t be anywhere
Should you speak if you haven’t found your voice Do you have to choose if you’re fine with either
choice
The more I ask around I find the questions never
end
Do you have to start if you don’t know where to
begin
Can you love if you can’t be there
Do you get the vibrations that I send you through
the atmosphere
I got so old. I think I’ve seen it all
You shoot me down, so I crawl across the floor I’ve been so bored, I thought I’d seen it all
But I hear your voice and I crawl across the floor
You can see when you close your eyes And mysteries can reach you through the
darkness sometimes
What makes you proud of a waving flag
My father said: You know that everyone’s awake
when they’re not asleep
In every other land
You would sing but you don’t know how You would leave but it’s just impossible now You don’t care if they told you so
You think you don’t have to learn what you
already know
I got so old. I think I’ve seen it all
You shoot me down, so I crawl across the floor I’ve been so bored, I thought I’d seen it all
But I hear your voice and I crawl across the floor