ROGUE RIVER

may the stars carry your sadness away

may the flowers fill your heart with beauty

may hope forever wipe away your tears

and above all, may silence make you strong

chief dan george

'ancient warrior' - kung fu - 1972

R O G U E  R I V E R
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a jim lamarche remix

from the album THREE LIVES

assembled in logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8

source music:

douglas appling - greenland

 

https://emancipatormusic.com/

photographed by gerard de thame for

tanita tikaram - twist in my sobriety

from the album 'ancient heart'

WEA Reprise Records UK, 1988

https://www.instagram.com/tanitatikaramofficial/?hl=en

The story behind Rogue River

point aux roches '73

woodstock - jan. '23

I'm not sure 

how tanita tikaram's '88 classic 'twist in my sobriety'

& doug appling's newer haunted mix 'greenland' 

entered my orbit 

within minutes of each other - right

like they just fell in my lap

at the same time - ok

happens sometimes

I have lotsa lines out w/random returns

rearranging some

fun

still, too easy - I'm suspicious

time to return to camp, take a nap

and think this through

the land was dry and game was scarce

worse, we were surrounded by cherokee

connecting some dots, hearing one then seeing the other

download accordingly, in & out of logic & final cut

I just put one on top of the other

I did very little actually

beyond blending them

little nip & tuck

is all

I grew up as a kid watching

chief dan george on TV back in the early 70s

he was on shows like kung fu, daniel boone & bonanza

TV star (big deal)

he was the first (kinda cool) 'indian' (redskin) who was good ...

calm, compassionate, wise

first impression

kind - (me like kemosabe)

at 12 confused, gawking up at my screen thinking ... 

who removed them?

why?

half thinking, because that's what they deserve

the other half thinking otherwise

 

U.S.

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ALTIPLANO BOLIVIA

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HOME

It's where I want to go

to rest, reflect & remember again

my sun rises & falls

on you

H O M E

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it's a remix of a remix

a jim lamarche remix

from the album TEMPLE REDUX

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

source music w/matt gallaghan

https://thosewhoridewithgiants.com/

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AIR BORN 23

it is for a brief moment

that we are

A I R  B O R N  2 3
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a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

w/oleg bynoic & alla kadysh

https://olegbyonic.bandcamp.com/

assembled in logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8

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CLOSURE

we all need

just a little

C L O S U R E 

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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/jens gad

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DOG FIGHT

you don't have time to think up there

you think?  ... you're dead

Captain Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell

Top Gun: Maverick

 

D O G  F I G H T

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a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in photoshop, logic audio and final cut

featuring the Roland System 8

source music w/amadeusz malkowski

feat: kyrah aylin

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HURONIA

it's a hospital and a school 

w/ 'cottages' for those less fortunate

(or so they would like us to believe)

 

in orillia ontario

out of sight, out of mind

dedicated to robert c. batho

it's nuclear cartoons

I just ran w/it

H U R O N I A
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labour of love

grandfather

mother's side - deaf mute in the 30's - 60's

bob & mona, same deal

married - 3 kids

he could read a whole newspaper

in 18 minutes!  I clocked him once

ok he skipped half but still

dropping his paper in that dark living room

old musty furniture

looking at me

smiling

intelligent

well read - engraver by trade & painter/artist

truly gifted but he was damaged

hired then fired again & again

amazing work, but apparently?

difficult to work with

you know ... a little cuckoo (wink)

ok, he grunted a lot - always that scowl

that musky smell in those worn suspenders

he's been wearing for years

pipe smoke transgression 

if looks could kill

when he laughed

I thought the ceiling would cave in

scary if you didn't know him

idiot, freak, retarded

I mean, he deserved more

grandpa batho was eccentric

and he smelled bad AND ya he was

a fucking freakshow

exit stage left

a necessary shift

for 'safety'

no one understood him

he drank and publicly

punched a policeman in the face

not good for a deaf & dumb, unemployed

intoxicated misfit

stamped and stunned

sent to St. Thomas Psychiatric Hospital

for the rest of his life

we visited him there (60's)

it was actually quite humane

Huronia was a whole different story

more severe, detached

all relevant

if grandpa hadn't been British stock

he would have been sent to Huronia

I'm convinced of that now

our caste system

is still alive & well in Ontario Canada

money talks - and

we just pretend better

optimized for night vision

a jim lamarche remix

from the album THREE LIVES

assembled in logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8

inspired by the CBC documentary

Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children

Directed by Barri Cohen

https://gem.cbc.ca/media/unloved-huronias-forgotten-children/s01e01

clip footage from

Carrieanne Tomkins

Memories of the Ontario Hospital School

Orillia

Directed by Mitchell Wilson

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see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
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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/

a parting thought production

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