Jim Lamarche Journal - ONE LIFE - extended

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind thalaiva

I lived up in the Punjab in 2008 for a few months
not sure why but I fell in love with India
from the onset
it wasn't the warm air, that masala hint
mass confusion - a magic

I remember once having a few days off
going to a hole in the wall cinema
it was dirty and people dressed in rags
watching bollywood

90 min movie - 60 was dancing/singing
I think about thalaiva often

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Saturday, 22 February 2020

MONSTER

systemic racism is something
that diminishes all of us
of course its worst effects are for its victims
but our entire country is held back
through the inequality and the mistrust
that it creates

pete buttigieg

M O N S T E R
volume up

why are your eyes against me sir?
optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

from the album TEMPLE REDUX

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

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http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/

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http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/

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listen to the youtube album ONE LIFE >>> HERE
(play all)

ENTANGLED IN ALGIERS OM

I'm not afraid of your suffering
I'm not afraid of your joy
I'm not afraid of your hunger, your desire
I'm not afraid of your rage
I'm not afraid of your love
I'm not afraid of your lies ... or your truths
or of the prisons you choose to live inside
I see you
I feel you
I need you
I love you

ENTANGLED IN ALGIERS OM
volume up

optimized for night vision

music by jim lamarche

from the album TEMPLE REDUX

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind entangled OM

temple redux is 25 years in the making

in 1995/96, I received a Toronto Arts Council grant
then a FACTOR loan
to do a new world music album
I called it temple

having to rush it’s completion
(because FACTOR gave me a deadline to deliver CDs)
it fell short, even having taken 2 years
seeds were however planted

I've since dissected & remixed it (3rd time)
now here in 2020 finished

my first inspiration came from having watched
a scorsese film years earlier
called 'last temptation of christ'
and the soundtrack blew me away
I bought my first CD player that summer (1988)
and listened to peter gabriel's 'passion'
endless times, fascinated
several years, then even decades later
and finally

temple redux

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listen to the youtube album ONE LIFE >>> HERE
(play all)

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Tuesday, 18 February 2020

CHINATOWN


it was a dream I had a long time ago
she was dangling 
mangled

C H I N A T O W N

optimized for night vision

music by jim lamarche

from the album TEMPLE REDUX

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

originally recorded Feb 1986 at spiral studio
toronto, canada
remixed Feb 2020 at temple studio
toronto

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唐人街

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Monday, 17 February 2020

DAAKOO

love is the ultimate outlaw

it just won't adhere to any rules

the most any of us can do

is sign on as its accomplice

kareena kapoor
volume up

optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut
from the album TEMPLE REDUX

featuring the Roland System 8
it's a touch thing

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(play all)

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RADION

hey dude
you lit r/n?

R A D I O N
volume up

optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

from the album TWO LIVES

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

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http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/

FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind radion

radion (long story):
a scalar field in quantum field theory
in spacetimes with additional dimensions

radion (short story):
a rave club in amsterdam that still thrives

not sure why I'm drawn to such sound/imagery atm
djs & beatmakers
who would have thought
being able to move so many people
in the moment like that
with just a few toys
and crystal clear
volume

I remember back in the early 90's
working at cherry beach sound studio in toronto
there were these illegal raves
that would blow in and would be packed
quietly rented warehouse out back
almost under the radar

curious one night late, finishing a session ... I went
sketchy bouncers, $20 to get in, right ok - loud
all they had to drink was this kool-aid punch
for $3. I was thirsty
the sound & visuals were stunning
walking into it, drinking my punch

I was the oldest guy there
like 40 what?

realizing these kids were lit like christmas trees
only because I was too

total blast

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(play all)

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Sunday, 16 February 2020

DEAD AHEAD

sometimes
by losing a battle
you find a way, to win the war

Donald Trump

D E A D A H E A D

sound up

a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in photoshop, logic audio and final cut

chapman stick by alun davies

holocaust footage from
O Dia Seguinte (The Day After) 1983
directed by Nicholas Meyer
courtesy of ABC Circle Films

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carry the battle to them
don't let them bring it to you
put them on the defensive
and don't ever apologize

for anything

Harry S Truman

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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind dead ahead

it's a POV thing
corn fields? right
long story
no time

alpha bravo charlie
whisky delta tango
we are ready to fight for our right
to believe in our country ... and

there's nothing in this manual
that says I have to like you
you look different
so, na ... so you?
gotta go

battle lines drawn - shadowy shapes shifting
enemy in my sights ... dead ahead
a blast from the past - then the future
collateral damage imminent
how does it feel
to be a casualty

nope, that doesn't belong to you
it belongs to us

putting these sounds together
something different
finding this game stuff
playing with it
with the music
rearranging

kinda works - fun to watch
layering in more synths and voices
on the final pass before merging
the final audio mix from logic
to the fine cut/picture edit
in final cut

I don't get war, never did
for some (many), it's just what is
never questioning why
we humans hate each other
so much

we just do