Monday 25 July 2022

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


read more of Jim's blog posts here 



唐人街








see the TEMPLE REDUX album/page here >>>

see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/


see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/


see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/


read more of Jim's blog posts here 


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








Tuesday 12 July 2022

MIND OVER MATTER



 'I could shoot somebody 
and I wouldn’t lose voters' 


Donald Trump


just take a second w/that






M I N D  O V E R  M A T T E R
yes you too! can become ME

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optimized for night vision


assumed supposition: 
they will believe whatever I want them to believe, so
that leaves you, with a problem
I think they call it
leverage.

if you had read my book
art of the deal?
you would have known that
give me the means?
and I'll show you
the way








a jim lamarche remix
assembled in photoshop, logic audio and final cut

featuring the Roland System 8


source music: theo zouzou (øfdream)
1994 - 2019



















visit ONE LIFE - the page
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/


  read more of Jim's blog posts here 

LISTEN TO ONE LIFE  >>>  HERE






Monday 11 July 2022

SACRIFICIAL LAMB


there’s a feeling I get, when I look to the west,

and my spirit is crying for leaving


robert plant




SACRIFICIAL LAMB

volume up









life is difficult


you can't force it, can't 'will' it to be

doesn't work like that


You get to this point, later on … where the stakes are raised 

and the returns diminish, a compromise if you will.

Lot's of wisdom, learned a lot

so what?


Where every day, awakening, thinking wow ok

Another one, like walking around knowing

that this could go sideways in a real hurry

and that balancing will become difficult

the inevitable


that familiar 8am scuffle to the toilet

arm stretch to the ceiling

coffee, computer

eat, swim


this lamb thing is kinda cool

maybe I should just

run w/that


telegraph

sent


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Ok.  It would be a preference


Where letting go can be more natural and less painful

I wish it could be but why? It’s the challenges that 

enrich us, make us stronger … make us believe

that the unthinkable … can be done

and what it was all for ... to savour

the human connection




surviving and being able to tell the story

Is all the fun




optimized for night vision



a jim lamarche remix
from the album THREE LIVES
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut


featuring the Roland System 8

source music by lamb
feat. lou rhodes


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read more of Jim's blog posts here 
http://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/



listen to the album ONE LIFE 
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/
 



see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
SACRIFICIAL LAMB

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Friday 8 July 2022

KISSING


 
you can't blame gravity
for falling in love

albert einstein



KISSING 
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optimized for night vision


a jim lamarche remix
from the album TWO LIVES
assembled in photoshop, logic audio and final cut

featuring the Roland System 8



source music w/steffen aaskoven & marc-george anderson
feat. alexandra hamnede

clip courtesy of HBO/Warner
Tokyo Vice
w/Ansel Elgort & Rachel Keller















visit ONE LIFE - the page
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/


  read more of Jim's blog posts here 

LISTEN TO ONE LIFE  >>>  HERE







Thursday 2 June 2022

PROJECTION




fake a smile
no one knows you're broken

demi lovato


P R O J E C T I O N

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story below














optimized for night vision



a jim lamarche remix
composed & performed by Mark Clifford
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8




read more of Jim's blog posts here 













PROJECTION
the story behind the song


Recorded 43 years ago in a community college 8 track studio in London Ontario (all analog). Ah ... to be 22 again - we kinda knew what we were doing but were clueless at the same time.

In 1979, my old friend & musical partner Mark Clifford returned to finish his third & final year (Music Industry Arts) there after we had performed together in Major Hooples out of Kitchener. Touring in the large format was epic. Blast actually. Thunder Bay to Halifax (and everywhere in between). Hundreds of shows - serious fun.

Turns out, Mark's intimate & accelerated recollection of turbulent times closing out that torrential year (particularly amongst band members) lives on. A difficult memory. It felt like a 747 (landing), careening off the runway at 200 mph and crashing into a forest.

and so there's a dark departure, followed by a welcomed arrival. 

Crafting layered taped vocal loops (not unlike the U.K. band 10CC did just a couple of years earlier on their monster hit 'I'm not in Love'), only in a much humbler recording environment; playing all the instruments - including sitar which he still has, and engineering it himself. 

Listening now (4 decades later), it almost defies all logic that such a beautiful song production could possibly be created in such a rudimentary place (w/fondness). It's almost inconceivable that it gently unfolded into such a brilliant conception in such a quiet, unassuming setting (Fanshawe College), flying under the radar since. 






Major Hooples - 1978 (Matador - Galt/Cambridge)

(left to right)
Peter Beacock - baldwin piano, B3 organ, mellotron, arp synthesizer, vocals
Jim Lamarche - guitar vocals
Ed Miller - drums
Keith Stahlbaum - bass, vocals
Mark Clifford - guitar, vocals



Mark, (living in his hometown, St Catharines now) sent a .wav file to me a week ago (late Oct 2022), vaguely remembering it before doing it up after imagining a new mix launch after a few listens, enjoying it more & more as it evolved. Finishing an audio remix first, then seeing pictures; faces. Out of Logic and into Final Cut we go. So here we are. 

I'd like to think that it's a fresh take on a classic caper. Relevant? ... oh ya.


JL.


















see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/


see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/


see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/



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











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Wednesday 1 June 2022

CURIOUS WAYS 22



I'm lost in your lullaby



R I O U S   W Y S   2 2




composed & performed by Jim Lamarche
square-dance (imagine) - Embro Ontario. July. 1964
from the album - old friends. 1986/87
assembled in logic audio and final cut
first remix Toronto. Aug. 2018
second remix Woodstock. Nov. 2022



stars, fading forever lies

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there is no hope for


An extended family square dance - Embro July 1964.
Granny & Grandpa right down to us grandkids.
They always thought Ricky was a bit peculiar but this?
Bringing Brad and not even hiding it?
Jesus, this is embarrassing.

Other boys like them there
all under the radar.

Some gender tension there I guess.
They didn't care - love them for that.
Ya Ricky & Brad, whatever
I mean, who cares?

The rest of us had fun. 

Square dances later in secondary school
a safe & structured intimacy
in gym class - who knew?
All very heterosexual.

I lived for Friday mornings back then 
at 10:45 - noon in 1970/71.

All legal.











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see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/


see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/


see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/


read all of Jim's blog posts here 



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















1987 - spiral studio 
58 phoebe street, toronto





R I O U S   W S   2 2



it's nuclear cartoons
I just ran w/it.



























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