BROAD RIVER

from SAILMAKER by GARRETT R. COOPER

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Trust and cross the broad river, there waits a crowd carolling curses of lost men who went to wash and drowned
Old barrelling tide that pulled them under, brilliant and strong in colours of bronze now lapping on ledges from floods that swept through
Curling reeds in water with tides running through them, they hum a song to me from church tower to sea
Winding and bold the river flows and gleams with blood from distant family and oil the origin of their skin

Conceptually the EP (SAILMAKER) is based on the Noarlunga region of South Australia, in particular Old Noarlunga, the changing of family names, and the squandering of land and birth rights over the last century.
These stories have their origin initially explored on Bronze Chariot’s album NIGREDO, released in 2011 with lyrics to Horseshoe Bend being written by my brother Benjamin Cooper and delivered by me.

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from SAILMAKER, released June 17, 2016
WRITTEN AND RECORDED FEBRUARY / MAY 2016
ALL MUSIC AND WORDS WRITTEN BY GARRETT R. COOPER
ALL INSTRUMENTATION BY GARRETT R. COOPER

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GARRETT R. COOPER Adelaide, Australia

Songs written and recorded as abruptly as possible between 2009 and 2016.

All music now written and released under the name MULE

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