Saturday 23 February 2019

ASTRAL

in the end
you end up accepting everything in your life 
suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it

Harry Dean Stanton



A S T R A L
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a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in logic audio, photoshop and final cut


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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind astral

another message in a bottle
closing track on ONE LIFE now

stopped me in my tracks and paralysed for a moment
his hands on my shoulders ... gently turning me
"look there"

and it sounded a lot like
"go there" 

when I was putting the music for astral together
I imagined being able to teleport back in time
and snapping random pictures of disturbed people
shell-shocked, some sad, some just numb
some batshit crazy

those who feel that they

have nothing left 
to lose

pulling it all into 3 minutes

to show you what I saw
the music never resolves
in perpetuity

for a reason



for Tom Lodge




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Saturday 16 February 2019

FAMILY FOTO

life is pleasant, death is peaceful 
it’s the transition that’s troublesome

Isaac Asimov




F A M I L Y  F O T O
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a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in logic audio, photoshop and final cut


visit my music page

read more of Jim's blog posts here 
scroll down 


listen to the album ONE LIFE  >>>  HERE
















FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind family foto



there'll be bluebirds over

the white cliffs of dover
tomorrow
when the world is free

it's a song my mom used to sing to me as a child
a lullaby to help me slip into surrender


it's a sound that tickles the limbic
then moves down, grazing the frontal lobe
then further down into my dark body
flickers of light, shapes ... landscapes
passing that place I abandoned
left to decay years ago 
familiar unsettling


seeing it all again
from a distance, then up close
realizing it's a dream, I roll over and fall back asleep
only it returns; this time in greater detail

memories of the family farm
in Eastwood Ontario
this time


for kenneth henry batho
(uncle ken)

1926-2012




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