Name: Keep On Breathing
Duration: P00H04M28S
Description: Helping you to live in the moment and up to your standards, "Keep on Breathing" won't let you quit until your last breath. The instrumental percolates tension with a haunting acoustic guitar progression that gives way to ominous sub base, swirling post-apocalyptic kosmische pads and slithering percussion. It makes one imagine a horror movie theme by Four Tet and Amon Tobin featuring Leila.

Keep On Breathing

from Elba LP by Elba

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Helping you to live in the moment and up to your standards, "Keep on Breathing" won't let you quit until your last breath. The instrumental percolates tension with a haunting acoustic guitar progression that gives way to ominous sub base, swirling post-apocalyptic kosmische pads and slithering percussion. It makes one imagine a horror movie theme by Four Tet and Amon Tobin featuring Leila.

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Speculation had me drowning
Fearing what would come to pass
Whether I’d succeed or not
In what’s perceived as excellence

Lost in the stories I’ve written
Hazy visions of the past
Truth resides in the air I breathe
And that breath is gone too fast

So what I gonna do now
What I gonna do now
Gotta be where I am not too late
Can’t focus on what’s coming my way
Right here’s gotta be where I say
What I gonna do now

So what I gonna do now
What I gonna do now
Gotta be where I am not too late
Can’t focus on what’s coming my way
Right here’s gotta be where I say
What I gonna do now

Keep on breathing
You’ve been holding that breathe
Keep on breathing
Till that kiss of death

Keep on breathing
You’ve been holding that breathe
Keep on breathing
Till that kiss of death

So what I gonna do now
What I gonna do now
Gotta be where I am not too late
Can’t focus on what’s coming my way
Right here’s gotta be where I say
What I gonna do now

So what I gonna do now
What I gonna do now
Gotta be where I am not too late
Can’t focus on what’s coming my way
Right here’s gotta be where I say
What I gonna do now
So what I gonna do now

Keep on breathing
You’ve been holding that breathe
Keep on breathing
Till that kiss of death

Keep on breathing
You’ve been holding that breathe
Keep on breathing
Till that kiss of death

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from Elba LP, released February 18, 2022

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Elba Vancouver, British Columbia

Elba is a collaboration between producer/engineer Dark Arps (Jon Bierman) and singer/songwriter amsii (Amber Sawicki). Sawicki's orations elate the body and soul, while her lyrics tap into the zeitgeist of urban decay presently unfolding amidst late-stage capitalism. Her vision imbues Bierman's technically sophisticated techno-tinged breakbeats with an elevated pop sensibility. ... more

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