Writes all songs
Plays and records all instruments
Programs percussion/drums
Mixes the recordings
some vocals
Vocals on most songs.
wrote From the Flagstaff
This is about the disappearance of journalist and community activist, Juanita Neilsen, in Kings Cross, Sydney in 1975. She was trying to prevent the eviction and intimidation of poor and working class residents by developers. The song references her fateful last walk on Victoria Street to meet a night-club owner who allegedly had deep connections in the corrupt Kings Cross. She was never seen again.
This song is to remember her.
Keep on walking, Juanita!
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The 2023 Release
Start with the Celtic and Indian drones of "From the Flagstaff" and journey to the exhilarating rock of "sentimental" and "Juanita of the Cross". Then, let dreamy jangly songs move you to the psych rock of "Divine Geometry". Save the best for last: where Kate Bush meets Tricky vi the Cocteau Twins.
How to listen:
From Here to Eternal Sea plays like a wave.
With the first songs, you are at the peak of the wave. Its loud, its intense. You then descend to the dreamy calm of the middle of the album: before building to the space rock conclusion at the final peak at the end.
This 2020 release is more spacey, dreamy and psychedelic.
It's more electric, less eclectic but always melodic. Listen for a new kind of genre: heavy ambient, where a heavy guitar driven song moves into an ambient calm. Just like a trough of a wave.
We take you from where you are now to a taste of an eternal distant sea, within and without you.
All songs written, played, recorded and mixed by Paul Andreas Meixner
vocals by Sarah Jane Lakshman
Album cover design by Lucy Lakshman.
They swam before the tides and sang beautiful songs
(released 2018)
Be taken out on a tide of jangly acoustic Dream Rock, rippling Gypsy Sea Pop, and late night torch songs - sometimes rocking in a stormy sea of driven guitars and sometimes becalmed in ambient laments to Miss Havisham and remembrances of lost time.
Where ever the Restless Tides take us, we go. Depending on the winds, we sound like a late night torch song in an empty ballroom on a 1960's ocean liner. Other times, we are a dream pop jangle perhaps recorded in a Darlinghurst studio in Sydney, 1987. Sometimes, those Restless Tides wash us up playing a Gypsy pop song on a sad, lost beach in the Mediterranean.
Greek gods may be mentioned, with great expectations. Stormy seas may take us on a Rockabilly journey or pitch us on the shores of France, during the revolution. Deities, Devils, and Angels playing Telecaster guitars are all sung about.
Sometimes the voices are Sarah Lakshman. Other-times, Michelle Boyle.
Climb aboard, and set the sails, for the wind is rising!
Final mix and mastering by John Kilbey
Vocals for Hold On and Wasted recorded by Ben Lancaster who mixed those tracks.
Brian Yatman played some of the piano on Poet in Love.
Jonathan Knowles played ride cymbal on One Afternoon.
Edwin Zigterman wrote some of the lyrics for Poet in Love.
Wrote, played and recorded the album
Vocals for:
One afternoon
City of light
How long
Heartland
The poet in love
Black gypsy cat
The lovely hours
The black gypsy cat dub
Vocals for:
Wasted
Where the devil lies
Hold on
Talk show
from the band The Lazy Hyena
City of Light
Miss Havishams lovely hours.
From Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, a song about Miss Havisham's lovely, lonely hours in her crumbling, dark mansion.
Stream on Spotify
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Tidal
https://tidal.com/browse/artist/9458838
YouTube
https://music.youtube.com/channel/UC_8ocyt1DUg1KNwmdNKp_oQ?feature=share
and other streaming sites
or just search for
The Restless Tides
Zdigital Australia
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email pmixe@yahoo.com.au