Monday 28 February 2022

REQUIEM


look mummy
there's an aeroplane up in the sky

roger waters



R E Q U I E M
volume up/720p













optimized for night vision


a jim lamarche remix
from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8














it matters no more
how long we're here for



read more of Jim's blog posts 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 >>>



Wednesday 16 February 2022

LET'S PARTY



when all is said and done
there's really only one option left
ok, I'm thinking



LET'S PARTY
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optimized for night vision


a jim lamarche remix

assembled in logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8

visual: tim bendzko
hoch

















read more of Jim's blog posts 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 >>>



Friday 11 February 2022

POV



FREEDOM
is relative
to a point of view



P O V
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optimized for night vision


a jim lamarche remix
from the album TEMPLE REDUX

assembled in logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8



source music: vangelis
















read more of Jim's blog posts 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 >>>



Friday 4 February 2022

THEATRE MOUSE



I carry on the show
and play my favourite part
but in the silent rows
no crowd will feed my heart

story below



T H E A T R E   M O U S E
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optimized for night vision


a jim lamarche remix
assembled in logic audio & final cut


music composed & performed by
mark clifford


voice: michael kelly

tape restoration: rod phelan












sweet salvation
the story behind theatre mouse
it is with fond remembrance


a 40+ y/o tape
buried in the back of a closet, dusty
longshot; maybe rod can save this
I mean, no one has heard this
in decades

old friends can make things happen 
still passing the torch & hoping for the best
if anyone can salvage it?  It will be rod
a familiar focus, in quiet deliberation 
days later and

ok, holy shit
rod flawlessly snags theatre mouse
just after baking the tape & immediately before 
the crumbling oxide it's on 
disintegrates forever on his revox 
what are the odds? ... and so

here we go










my old friends & 70's musical cohorts
are once again, collaborating
mark & I played in 3 bands together
and recorded stuff when we studied at
music industry arts
in london ontario

rod phelan, a mentor of us both back then
and did the sound for BOND in '79
when mark & I were in it
visionary


in late '77, I talked mark into leaving school early
to join me in major hooples in kitchener
big show - transport, road crew
floyd, supertramp & elp prog covers mostly
a ridiculous production - a blast

.

after a roller coaster year,
he returned to fanshawe to finish his final year 
and recorded this masterpiece
w/vocalist & songwriter extraordinaire - michael kelly
at springfield sound just outside london ontario




T H E A T R E   M O U S E








epilogue


mark finished MIA and then joined BOND
w/me for another year before I shifted
into studio mode; both still here
42 years later
cool

both still w/a fractured appreciation
of magic - recognizing early on
when it's about to arrive, knowing
there's a good chance
of a revisitation
or not

like, if it happens it's because it was meant to
doesn't? wasn't supposed to be
kind of attitude - miss that

.


honesty?
it's even more relevant now
the old man in the empty house
his best performance

theatre mouse







read more of Jim's blog posts 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 >>>