Well, after several months of preparation, we’re ready to launch our first single! Listen to it right here, or click the ‘download’ link through to our Bandcamp page, where you can download it in almost any audio format and quality. It’s yours for free – or, if you want to help keep Cavalcades afloat, you can make a donation when you download it. So much choice!

Keep an eye out for the full E.P. Awaken Quite Alone, which will surface in May!

Here’s me performing “All Gathered ‘Round” in my room.

Our car, moving slowly
In the morning, in the morning.
My mother holding
an old dog, and talking.
The clouds were so perfect
on the hills, in the sunlight,
on Boxing Day, driving,
our minds were far away.

We’ve come to
the end of –
the end of –
the end of –
Bend and take your shoes off,
your shoes off,
your shoes off.
Those clouds are going to come down
from the hilltops, the hilltops.
The morning’s going to get rough,
going to get rough.

All gathered ’round
the small death that prepares us.
All gathered ’round,
it’s our grief that repairs us.

In the fading light,
on the level plain,
we could drive and never stop

on the empty road,
along Ellesmere.
We want the world, we want the world!

All our dying days,
we have to bend our backs
under a weight of expectation,

and weave ourselves
elaborate cocoons;
but there are holes in the fabric we wrap ourselves in!

I want to stand outside of time,
to float above the tidal lake.
I’m tired of trying to fight the current,
feeling it accelerate.
The outflow will have to wait…

And now the gathering
a catalogue of thoughts;
identifying and arranging
for a manifesto,
for a song to pass the night,
for a boat of words to emigrate in.

I want to stand outside of time,
to float above the tidal lake.
I’m tired of trying to fight the current
feeling it accelerate.
The only goal in mind’s to stay
alive and in the company of friends.
whatever kind of road we’re on,
it’s good to travel with the ones who understand.

I want to stand outside of time,
to float above the tidal lake.
I’m tired of trying to fight the current,
feeling it accelerate.
The outflow will have to wait…