The music duo Houses (Dexter Tortoriello and Megan Messinais) is many things. The songs are contradictions too: a coalesced vibratory stillness which resonates the secret longings of timidity as it finds its strength to reach for everything. The song “Beginnings,” enters your ear like the echo of falling flower petal. Yet, once nestled within your inner ear it does something else too, it dies and it blooms simultaneously. Dexter’s vocals stretch deep roots as fragile as unrequited longing into sun, moon and stars and beyond. This one stays with you long after silence has filled the space of its distant yearning. Although the album ‘A Quiet Darkness‘ via Downtown Records is set for an April 16th release I am hopeful for more soon, real soon. Peace.
Lyrics:
I watched the house
As it fell right to the ground.
I was away from you.
And I watched the birds
As they fell out from the sky.
Into the hands of decay
I wish there was a way for you.
And I felt your voice
As it carried with the wind.
Like a fire in my ears.
Like the darkness of fear.
And I would bathe in ash
As it rained down from above.
And it would cast me out now
Into the fields of love.
And I watched the birds
As they fell out from the sky.
Into the hands of decay
I wish there was a way for you.
And I felt your voice
As it carried with the wind.
Like a fire in my ears.
Like the darkness of fear.
Like the voice of God.