“Red Earth Red Sky” is the first single from David Galea’s soon to be released recording entitled “In the Blood” and features amongst others Australian vocalist Elly Hoyt. “In the Blood” is quite the departure from David’s earlier releases as it is predominantly a vocal album featuring various vocalists from with in the Australian music scene that he has worked with and admired, it also features a vocal track from David himself. Each of these tracks are original and have been inspired by either the Australian landscape or people that have influenced David’s life.
“Red Earth Red Sky” was written and inspired by the north-western Queensland town of Cloncurry, some 1800 kms north west of Brisbane. The harsh and arid nature of the outback can easily over shadow the beauty that exists in these areas, only by taking time and living in Cloncurry for over twelve months was David able to realise the natural beauty that exists in the outback. When light strikes the various elements of the outback landscape, things like the weathered ground, rocky outcrops and the vast sky at different parts of the day it creates an ever changing and developing story that must be scene to be believed. “Red Earth Red Sky” is a musical attempted to try and capture some of these elements and present them using shifting melodic lines, pointed lyrics, dynamics and percussive texture with in the modern jazz context.
Dedicated to the Outback
lyrics
Feel the suns rays, as it bakes the weathered grown
Watch the Kites fly, as they brush the northern sky
Colours changing, as the sun it tracks its path
And reveals hidden beauty with in
Weathered rock and the land.
Will you fathom, what you see with your own eyes
Endless beauty, buried in the molten crag
Changing texture, as the rock and sky collide
Can you stop and just breath it all in
What seems harsh is in waiting to transform from with in.
As the rain falls on the barren land
Opens up the buried seed that hidden in the ground
A transformation as the desert flowers like the rose,
Flowers like the Rose,
Flowers like the thunder that rolls cross the sparse and great divide.
Lightening that dances across the darkened sky.
When the sun sets, as it drops behind the crag
Watch the show start, as the sun it paints the sky
With each minute strokes of red and pink and grey
As the stars start to pop and reveal
Will such beauty make you start to
Question who could make such landscapes for the eye to see.
credits
from In the Blood,
track released February 8, 2022
“Red Earth Red Sky” personnel
Guests:
Elly Hoyt: vocals
Ben Byrne: Soprano Saxophone
Quartet:
David Galea: Double Bass
Ade Ishs: Piano
David Gooey: Guitar
Adam Donaldson: Drums
Tracking by Myles Mumford at Rolling Stock Studios
Mixed and Mastered by Mark Smith at Real Productions
Artwork by Sahara Miles
David has worked with many Australian artists but has decided to make his focus of late more original music, particularly in
the jazz vein.
He continues to search for new ways to write interesting music. Be sure to check back as there is always something in the pipeline...more
