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You can review the changes here . music video community Golden Cut by Tanya Donelly and Gabi Lima supported by sarunikai Get Set Go alantaylor_fc DaveO RB Sayre Aron Smith Charlie Welch MtthwDyr aperture13 KeithL78 John Kustak jim wood Jason Zampino mistishen dexitroboper theandor1100 Teresa Cowles eclipso23 hugeshark Lisa Holm M. Taylor James Randall Dave Theriault danceswithgoats CowboyEtienne 2fs daniboi358 garrydean Eric G. Rachel Palmer paul b cosmorley M. A. L.opez UE405 ShannonH Kevin perlalaloca Allan Raible Bn Mā leahtheminx Dave Speredelozzi Mark Brown Simon Smith Robert Telford Tom Jacobsen Johnny Barr cliffmanna mirandamx BeagleBay soniapbarron dosora David Kannikal djbelle Francesco Ciabatti Dan Nooter sauckly Yeti_Kerina_andtheBug andrew burnett David McGuire Tremelo68 more... / Digital Track Streaming + Download Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card Buy Digital Track $1 USD or more Send as Gift about A little over a year ago, Gabi Lima sent me the music for this song with the line recessive gene swimming upstream”, accompanied by a beautiful description of her concept for the song. We got on a zoom call, and she held up a pine cone as an example of the Fibonacci sequence, and the golden section (golden ratio, golden mean, or Gabi’s choice: golden cut). She envisioned the pinecone as an analogue for the continuum of family, and more specifically, the matrilineal spiral of mother/daughter/mother/daughter. (The golden section is apparently present in a DNA molecule in this way: it measures 34 x 21 angstroms for each cycle of the double helix spiral ~ 34 and 21 being part of the Fibonacci sequence.) Having held an amateurish interest in the golden ratio for a long time, I loved this idea, and the image of a rogue recessive gene attempting to make a break for it. From that first conversation, we traded lyrics back and forth, tweaked structure, and then invited some of our very favorite people to play ~ Gail Greenwood, Magen Tracy, Melissa Gibbs, and Tamora Gooding. Some of the words in this song are pulled from our texts to each other ~ the possum in the fig tree, the swan feathers on duckweed. Gabi and I are both literal tree-huggers and will occasionally send each other pics of the plants and creatures we come across on our walks, and we included some of those snaps in the lyrics. Gabi had the idea to release the song around Mother’s Day, a loaded and layered weekend for many. The luckiest among us are able to describe family ties as "complicated", and this song covers some of that, I think. The navigational decisions made around these relationships, whether for peace, for love, for support, for escape, sometimes for survival ~ and the shifts made as we go and grow. Speaking for myself alone, it’s both hard and healthy work teasing out the patterns and scripts of family, and it’s ever ongoing. Anyhoo. This is our song! We like it a lot and hope you do, too. I am dedicating it here to my own beautiful mama, who I love very dearly and who contains multitudes, and also to my deeply missed grandmothers, amazing daughters, and beloved Bub. Please check out Gabi’s BC page ~ if you don’t know her yet, she is a crazy-talented multi-intstrumentalist, singer/songwriter, and producer/engineer. gabilima.bandcamp.com lyrics Golden Cut Tanya Donelly, Gabi Lima I watched your faith ground down to paste and powder Treading water in a flat sea wasting power Can you learn to be still and live to swim again another day I’ll be your body of water I’m the lagoon the ocean didn’t swallow Recessive gene, swimming upstream Dangerously trying to break free Grounded here by love and fear In a time well beyond the time to leave You are your mother’s mother’s mother’s spiraling golden cut So don’t cheat yourself out of a good life Swan down feather on duckweed Possums up our fig tree I’ll carry them with me when I see myself out My blood is full of stories in a language I don’t know I should’ve learned it long ago Should’ve known the voices I’d follow Recessive gene, swimming upstream Dangerously trying to break free Grounded here by love and fear In a time well beyond the time to leave You are your mother’s mother’s mother’s spiraling golden cut So don’t cheat yourself out of a good life Recessive gene, swimming upstream Trying to get out of here My blood is full of stories in a language I should know Should’ve learned it long ago I am my mother’s mother’s mother’s mother’s gold Life it always finds a way Love is written in your veins Life it always finds a way Life is written in you credits released April 10, 2024 Golden Cut Credits Written by Tanya Donelly and Gabi Lima Produced by Gabi Lima and Tanya Donelly Mixed by Gabi Lima at Gabinthebox, Los Angeles, CA Mastered by Katia Dotto in São Paulo, Brazil Vocals: Tanya Donelly and Gabi Lima, recorded by Joel Edinberg at Q Division, Cambridge, MA Drums: Tamora Gooding, self-recorded at Boom Boom Studios, Malden, MA Bass: Gail Greenwood, self-recorded at the RRCC, Aquidneck Island, RI Electric Guitar: Melissa Gibbs, recorded by Charles Hansen at Pearl St. Place Studios, Somerville MA Keys: Magen Tracy, recorded by Ed Velauskas at Bassment Studios, Medford, MA Acoustic Guitar: Gabi Lima, self-recorded at Praia do Laranjal, Pelotas, RS, Brazil Artwork: designed by Gabi Lima, photo by Tanya Donelly Lyric Video by Elke Lamers ​images by Gabi Lima, Teresa Cowles and Elke Lamers license all rights reserved tags Tags rock folk rock singer-songwriter Boston Shopping cart subtotal USD taxes calculated at checkout Check out about Tanya Donelly Boston, Massachusetts placeholder Twitter Instagram discography Golden Cut Apr 2024 Swan Song Series (Vol. 1) Aug 2013 Swan Song Series (Vol. 2) Sep 2013 Swan Song Series (Vol. 3) Oct 2013 more releases... contact / help Contact Tanya Donelly Streaming and Download help Redeem code Report this track or account If you like Golden Cut, you may also like: Holidays 2022 by Belly supported by 43 fans who also own Golden Cut” like the best lyrically driven bands from the 90s, stripping Belly down to their elements only serves to make their impact that much more poignant. 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