SOMEWHERE NOWHERE IS A SONG WRITTEN FOR ONE OF RUNE’S CLOSEST & MOST DEAR FRIENDS.
’WRITTEN IN AN ATTEMPT TO TRY & SEE & FEEL THE WORLD FROM HER PERSPECTIVE’ RUNE ALITH
ON A CHILLY MORNING IN OCTOBER 2021 ON THE FAR SOUTH COAST OF NSW, MAX (TROMBONE), WILLIAM (FAR SOUTH COAST AUDIO AND RECORDING) AND RUNE GOT TOGETHER AND SET UP A DIGITAL PIANO AND A COUPLE OF MICROPHONES IN A BEAUTIFUL OLD DRAFTY HUT AT THE FOOTHILLS OF A VERY SPECIAL MOUNTAIN AND CAPTURED THIS RAW RECORDING.
RECORDED, MIXED & MASTERED BY WILLIAM ADAMS OF FAR SOUTH AUDIO & RECORDING.
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SOMEWHERE NOWHERE
STRANGE FRUIT IS A SONG WRITTEN BY LEWIS ALLAN. A SONG ORIGINALLY PERFORMED BY BILLY HOLIDAY IN 1939. IT WAS LATER COVERED BY NINA SIMONE WHICH IS THE FIRST VERSION OF THE SONG RUNE HEARD.
RUNE HAS RELEASED HER VERSION OF THIS SONG RECORDED LIVE AT A SHOW EARLIER THIS YEAR.
’IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SOBERING SONG. I LOVE THE SIMPLICITY OF THIS ARRANGEMENT. MADE UP OF THREE VERSES, NO CHORUS AND NO BRIDGE WHICH I FEEL DRAWS ATTENTION TO THE INTENSITY OF THE SUBJECT AND HEAVY THEMES’ RUNE ALITH
‘THIS JARRING SONG ABOUT THE HORRORS OF LYNCHING WAS NOT ONLY HOLIDAY’S BIGGEST HIT, BUT IT WOULD BECOME ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PROTEST SONGS OF THE 20TH CENTURY – CONTINUING TO SPEAK TO US ABOUT RACIAL VIOLENCE TODAY.’ *reference
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