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Unreleased 'classics' ("Break", "Samaritan", "Marigold")
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And more... ("With My Hands", "Sweet Relief","High Def Distance Romance", "Secret Tapes", "Untitled", "Not For Nothing")
Early songs
SMILE
YOU'VE FOUND THE WAY
IT TAKES TIME
(Fan video)
DEEP FOR YOU
SIMPLY ON MY LIPS
FIRE
TO AND FRO
DON'T GIVE UP ON ME
CRACKS
STRAIGHT FACE
MOUNTAINS ON YOUR SKIN
LAPSE
Unreleased 'classics'
Early demo.
Studio version.
Live at St. Kilda Festival (Melbourne), on Feb. 13, 2011, with Timon Martin (guitar, backing vocals), Fagan Wilcox (samples/synth), Ben Davey (keyboards/backing vocals), and Stevie McQuinn (drums). (Listen to the full concert here.)
SAMARITAN
MARIGOLD
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And more...
WITH MY HANDS
From the album "Frankenweenie Unleashed!: Music Inspired by the Motion Picture" by various artists, released by Walt Disney Records in September 2012 (song not used in the film).
Live at the Summafieldayze festival (Gold Coast, Australia), January 5, 2013.
SWEET RELIEF
HIGH DEF DISTANCE ROMANCE
Released as a free exclusive download to fans signed up to Kimbra's mailing list: "It’s one of my favs of the whole collection—she wrote—but for various reasons it did not make it on the final album [Primal Heart]."
Version from the EP "Songs from Primal Heart: Reimagined" (2018), with Lars Horntveth (guitar, bass clarinet), Zach Tenorio (piano, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ), Spencer Zahn (double bass, vibraphone), and Olga Bell (vocals). The EP also included reimagined versions of 'Black Sky', 'Everybody Knows' and 'The Good War'.
SECRET TAPES
"I recently invited the team from Focusrite into my lil sacred space at home so they could film me working on a Sogn where I integrate their gear and plugin packs. They asked if I could pull up a song I’ve been working on and it made me think of this track, currently called ‘Untitled’ that I had written during Quarantine as part of a group I was part of called, ‘A Song A Day’. The requirements of the group was to write and produce a song each day for 5 days. This was one of the songs that emegered on one of those days. I haven’t really got a home in and fr this tune so I just thought… why not give it away for free to my Patrons! So here it is ! Untitled !" (Kimbra)
Unreleased demo (2020).
Advertising
Simlish version of "Good Intent", a song from the album "Vows", as part of a marketing campaign for the new Sims 3 Pets (October 2011).
AIN’T ABOUT WHAT’S BEHIND ME
Wrangler campaign (2016).
FIJI AIRWAYS
LEAVE NO GIRL BEHIND
Kimbra releases exclusive record on a mission to empower vulnerable girls living in poverty in East Africa
Grammy and Aria Awards winner, Kimbra has joined forces with international non-profit organisation, So They Can to elevate the voices of vulnerable girls in East Africa.
The exclusive record ‘Leave No Girl Behind’ is named after So They Can’s newest initiative, and has been created in partnership with the organisation to help raise awareness and funds to empower girls through education.
The song was inspired by conversations Kimbra shared with students from some of the schools So They Can supports in Kenya. Many of the girls at these schools have suffered or escaped the cruel cultural practice of Female Genital Cutting, child marriage and early pregnancy.
Talking about the record, Kimbra said: “I want this song to represent their power and their fight for freedom. I listened back to their stories and began to write the lyrics from their perspective - what would they want the world to know? My role is a storyteller so that’s the biggest gift that I can give - to tell the stories to a larger audience. So I approached it with a real purity of heart. I’m here to tell their stories, to say the things that maybe they wish they could say to the world.”
“It was really important to me that we got to feel a sense of their strength because it’s really easy in these scenarios to paint these young women as powerless and victims of their situations and I can’t emphasise enough that they are so incredibly strong and their spirits are so courageous and determined, it was important to me that that came through first and foremost in the song.”
Kimbra joined So They Can as an Ambassador after being inspired by the measurable impact the organisation is having on children’s lives — particularly young women — through education.
Discussing the mission behind the record, So They Can’s Co-Founder and CEO, Cassandra Treadwell said: “Sadly the World Bank talks of about 120,000 girls dropping out of school annually in Tanzania and 6,500 of those girls drop out due to pregnancy or having children — and they have double those numbers in Kenya. That’s what we’re trying to fight.”
“The reality for so many girls in the communities we work with is that they suffer female genital cutting and child marriage before they turn 13. When I speak to mothers about why this happens, they tell me that every person in the village needs to have a purpose, including the children, and if the children don’t have access to education then they will get sold off into child marriage to a significantly older man as his 5th or 6th wife to provide the much-needed dowry to feed the rest of the family. Part of what we’re doing with our Women and Girls’ Empowerment Program, which is what Kimbra has come on board to help us with, is to ensure that we can keep these girls in school. A group of the young women we support told me ‘our stories need to be heard’ . I could not be more grateful for Kimbra for ensuring that they are.”
The record is being hosted on every.org, a platform that helps NGOs share their story and raise funds online.
[Source: Press Release, January 18, 2022]
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