Water Rises

by Rosalind

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We wrote a party song about climate catastrophe.

The ghost of Hurricane Sandy still lurks in New York City almost nine years later. You can see it in the high-water marks memorialized in corners of Red Hook, the endless service disruptions still caused by the flooding, and the millions of dollars allocated for defenses against rising sea levels that still have yet to break ground. In short, New York is a city haunted by the promise of its future: climate change.

What do we say to make it ok? Where’s the outrage? There’s someone more brilliant and qualified solving it. So everyday life as we know it doesn’t have to change...right?

WATER RISES is an ironic invitation to look a little closer. What would the government say to soothe us if spring disappeared? Plastic flowers are just as good? It sounds ridiculous, but is it so different from the mechanical polonizing “bees?” floated to solve our dying bee problem?

But screw bumming. WATER RISES is here to make you smile, make you think, and maybe make change by moving to a climate change anthem.

We hope you’re also inspired by the distorted, glitchy samples of Greta Thunberg's speech at the United Nations (2019), and moved to groove by the mason jar coin shakers, the paper recycling we taped behind the hammers of our piano, and the straw “mutes” we wove into the guitar.

We hope you'll join our trash party as we dance our way to climate revolution.

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lyrics

Water Rises

Oh water rise, Oh water rises
Oh water rise, Oh water rises

Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Sandy’s coming
And she’ll lift the sea’s horizon.
Storms. Storms are coming
Storms. Storms are coming
Birds are fleeing from the harbor
Oh water rise, Oh water rises

Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do, Brooklyn, Brooklyn?
1 foot, 2 foot, 3 foot, 4, 8-9-10-11 more
Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when the water rises?

If your borough floods tomorrow
Take the A train up to Harlem
Oh water rise, Oh water rises
If she swallows up the A train (Water rises)
Build a raft from cans and cellophane (Water rises)

Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do, Brooklyn, Brooklyn?
Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when the water rises?
1 foot, 2 foot, 3 foot, 4, 8-9-10-11 more
Whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do?

When the spring has disappeared
We’ll make plastic flowers for the trees.
The barometric pressure is falling
Why is everyone stalling?
Why in the hell is everybody stalling?

1 foot, 2 foot, 3 foot, 4, 8-9-10-11 more
Me oh my whatcha gonna buy
Whatcha gonna buy when the water rises?
Me oh my whatcha gonna buy
Whatcha gonna buy when the water rises?

When the spring has disappeared
We’ll make plastic flowers for the trees.

credits

released April 20, 2021
Producers: ALMA, Steven Xia, Alexander Rodriguez
Audio Engineers: ALMA, Steven Xia
Mixing Engineer: Elliot Moss
Mastering Engineer: Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound
Vocals: Alba S. Torremocha, Lillie R. McDonough, and Melissa K. Carter
Percussion: Alba S. Torremocha
Accordion: Lillie R. McDonough
Guitar: Horace Bray
Horns (trumpet & saxophone): Bobby Spellman & Emily Pecoraro
Keys: Noah Kellman
Drums: Steven Xia

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Rosalind New York, New York

Meet Rosalind. A trio of ladies in film scoring and audio engineering bringing a quirky, cinematic, DIY approach to pop.

Armed with a DIY sensibility, they use airplanes as cymbals and parental phone chats as texture to produce their music with the sounds of the world they inhabit.

Their debut LP Mosaic is a personal letter to NYC, delivering a moment in time in the city they call home.
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