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B i o g r a p h y
(by Airlock)

Elizabeth Anka Vajagic is a singer and guitarist writing raw, uncompromising gothic folk/blues music with modern dissonances and timeless catharses. Vajagic was born in Montreal and has been unleashing her devastating voice in chillingly controlled doses in her hometown for some years now. With this debut recording she sets her vocals against a backdrop led by ragged guitars. She moves from harrowing, dry-as-a-bone intimacy on tracks such as With Hopes Lost and Iceland, to reverb-soaked torch-song balladry on Around Here and Sleep With Dried Up Tears, incurring the odd explosive noise freakout along the way. Vajagic's voice and lyrics are uniquely powerful, with points of comparison ranging from early PJ Harvey, Diamanda Galas, and Siouxsie Sioux, to Hope Sandoval and Lisa Germano. Through much cross-pollination within the local noise/improv scene, Elizabeth has assembled a fine cast of players to add focused textures and arrangements to the seven tracks on this debut record, making for an intense cycle of songs peppered with skittering drums, contrebasse, cello, harmonium, piano, bowed cymbals, and oud. Guest players include Chris Burns and Simon Fazakerley (Crackpot, Steak 72) on 2nd guitars, Beckie Foon (Silver Mt. Zion, Esmerine) on cello, Michel Langevin (Voivod) on drums, Fluffy Erskine (Molasses, Hrsta) on percussion, Sam Shalabi on oud and Efrim (gy!be), Silver Mt. Zion) on piano and harmonium. The album was recorded at the Hotel2Tango in Montreal by Howard Bilerman.

With Hopes Lost

Nobody needs to know
Nobody wants to show
There's someone looking
It seems you've lost your beliefs

All your precious things
All hold up your soul
They want someone to know
I know the way it feels

Let it go now
Before your hopes get lost
Let it go now
They'll hate you more
Let it go now
Before your hopes get lost
Let it go now
They'll hate you more

Those tall walls won't change
The one's your heading for
Somehow you need more
And I won't be enough

Let it go now
Before your hopes get lost
Let it go now
They'll hate you more
Let it go now
Before your hopes get lost
Let it go now
They'll hate you more

Let it go now
Before your hopes get lost
Let it go now
They'll hate you more
Let it go now
Before your hopes get lost
Let it go now
They'll hate you more

Around Here

Why can't you?
A garden of angels
Mother's covered
All of it colder

Lonely
How can such happiness end
Around here
How can such happiness end

Young spark around me
It's all that I miss
Tonight those tears crowd
Scared, what have I done

Around me
How can such happiness end
Around here
How can such happiness end

Around here
How can such happiness end
Around here
How can such happiness end

We are whole
Lonely, they ask tremulously
We are home now
Only they ask tremulously

Where You Wonder

Nobody saw your face before
When you walked among the hopeful ones
You'd think I could've changed some things
In the way you saw nothing

Shop for bargains everywhere
How would they notice your despair
The gathered ones, you were dead
Hungry for something else

Saw your face when you killed yourself
Smashed your head and you killed yourself

We all went to bed with this scene in our heads
You grabbed a piece of our mind-space
Something with death in your face
It numbs everything else

Saw your face when you killed yourself
Smashed your head and you killed yourself
Saw your face when you killed yourself

I will dream with you
I will dream with you
I can't

Something with death in your face
Numbs everything else

Saw your face when you killed yourself
Smashed your head and you killed yourself

I still see this

Iceland

How long until you turn around
What kind of help will you need
I don't think you can see
Something's bound awfully wrong

I fantasise you and I
What a nice piece of mind
But the guilt holds me back
What could I change now past

I'd like to go through Iceland now
I'd like to go through Iceland now
I'd like to go through Iceland now

Things never quite stop him
I somehow rued your life
And it will never be clear
I think you need more time

I'd like to go through Iceland now
I'd like to go through Iceland now
I'd like to go through Iceland now
I'd like to go through Iceland now
I'd like to go through Iceland now
I'd like to go through Iceland now

Why

You standed in the way
Why are you angry
I'd reverse things I say
It won't change
It won't change a thing

Why
Why
Oh, why
Why

A few memories
They could wait whenever
Not always
Bursting into tears
Never again brings another [?]
I'd like orphans to drift
To words you take you in
I'd the wind to be
Strong enough to push you out

Why?
Why
Oh, why
Why

Why
Why
Oh, why

Why
Why
Oh, why
Why

And The Sky Lay Still

I stand with the stillness of the day
The ever-stolen song on the [?]
Hanging on past scars I believe is bad
Don't ever let things grow old

I had a dream of you
Sadness will go
I had a dream
I had a dream of you
Sadness will go
I had a dream
I had a dream of you
Sadness will go
I had a dream

I had a dream of you
Sadness will go
I had a dream
I had a dream of you
Sadness will go
I had a dream

Sleep With Dried Up Tears

Sleep with dried up tears
Sleep with our dried up hearts
The love I give is nothing you wish

I sleep alone
And I walk alone
I sleep alone
And I cry alone

Mountains of dust are heady strangers again
You stop your last dreams
You'd rather not feel the weight of our fears
The weight of our kiss

I fade alone
And I rock alone
I fade alone
I cry alone

So empty is the sky
You make me want to never die

I sleep alone
For you
I cry
I sleep alone
And I walk alone
I cry

Nostalgia

I want you to know
I don't hate you
I crave dark melodies
Busy, sad ones
Busy, sad ones

Say nothing on my own
Half the time
I don't say
Don't say what I want
I don't say what I want

You're not to blame

Endless fear [?]
Emptiness invade
Invade me
Invade me

You're not to blame

Your nostalgia
Don't blind me now
Your nostalgia
Don't blind me now
Your nostalgia
Don't blind me now

How many times do I say to you
Walk away to another life
I don't think I say good night
I say good night
I say good night

Pain

Do you need pain
To get what you want?
All the hidden places
No great escape
You want to forget
Look somewhere else

Do you need pain
To get what you want?
Can't stand you anymore
Can't stand you anymore
You want
You want to forget
And look somewhere else

[???]
It brings me here
And holds me here
It brings me here
And holds me here

Beneath Quiet Mornings

Though sometimes
The law you apply
If all would fade
When you left things behind

These quiet mornings
Take me in
These quiet mornings
Take me in your arms

Though they'd move
[?]
You leave behind
The wide dusk sky

These quiet mornings
Take me in
These quiet mornings
Take me in your arms
Your arms
Your arms