The Restless Tides

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Paul Andreas Meixner

Paul Andreas Meixner

Paul Andreas Meixner

Writes all songs

Plays and records all instruments

Programs percussion/drums

Mixes the recordings

some vocals

Sarah Lakshman

Paul Andreas Meixner

Paul Andreas Meixner

Vocals on most songs.

wrote From the Flagstaff

Juanita of the Cross: single, released November 2022

  

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!

link to Spotify

Juanita of the Cross. single (release Nov 22)

Stream music from SoundCloud

Across the Dreaming Seas

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.

From Here to Eternal Sea (released 2020)

 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.

Paul Andreas Meixner

Wrote, played and recorded the album

Sarah Lakshman

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


Michelle Boyle

Vocals for:

Wasted

Where the devil lies

Hold on

Talk show


from the band The Lazy Hyena

Video

City of Light 

Video

Miss Havishams lovely hours.

 From Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, a song about Miss Havisham's lovely, lonely hours in her crumbling, dark mansion. 

Where

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https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iVuT4HzpASxxKpnVQF8w6?si=VTqKt80-R0azPXNnxfN3cQ


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 


Apple Music

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https://music.apple.com/au/album/from-here-to-eternal-sea/1526330881


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