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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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

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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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STRANGER

there she was, my distraction

my reason to forget everything around me

she was nothing more than a mere stranger

how could someone so unfamiliar

make me this oblivious
reckless, elusive

S T R A N G E R

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from the album ONE LIFE

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NUMBER ONE.

3 things on my ‘life to live’ list of tings
 I'd like to do:

1. I want to learn how to paddleboard

2. I want to go skydiving

3. I want to adopt a child 

Taylor Ryan Elliott 
Miss Teen USA finalist - 2015

N U M B E R  O N E
volume amplification recommended

they're all looking at you
the chosen one

a jim lamarche remix

from the album TWO LIVES

assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

trumpet:  James Lynch
voices:  Vanessa Lancaster & Jim Lamarche

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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH

the story behind number one

1964

I first fell in love with Elizabeth Dent
in Woodstock Ontario, in Grade 3
beautiful, humble -  hot
total smoke-show

elegant, timeless, even at 8 years old
I kissed her 3 times under her winter hood
out in the woods behind Springbank School (her idea)
in March '65 - it was surreal

shortly after I turned 9
I found a stack of Dad's playboy mags
stashed under his tool bench
in the basement in a box

Mom was snoozing that afternoon
and he was away - traveling salesman/absent father
on the road a lot

I knew nothing and was curious
flipping through the pages - naked girls/wow 
pulling out the centre-fold
and almost fainting

feeling aroused at 9 even
not a clue and just as well
blondes always my preference
ever since

televised beauty pageants
make-up, high heels - lubricated tanned skin
that provocative smile
tailored to tease

boner ... I mean bonus

our preoccupation with beauty is distracting
my own attractions (still) ... conditionally condoned
how it's supposed to look

how it ends up looking

Elizabeth was my number one
still is

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MY WORLD

inside a circle forming low

in a world that only you could know

go slow

M Y  W O R L D 

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for reishi

a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in logic audio, photoshop and final cut
butterfly FX in adobe premiere

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CRATER

it's a warning sign

C R A T E R

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your humility resonates
ja ma sans

a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in logic audio, photoshop and final cut

spiral sky music

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IT'S RAINING

darkness cannot drive out darkness

only light can do that

hate cannot drive out hate 

only love can do that

Martin Luther King Jr

I T ' S  R A I N I N G
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a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in logic audio and final cut
rain FX in adobe premiere

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SMOTHER ME

she lowers her lashes until they almost cuddle her cheeks 
then slowly raises them again
like a theatre curtain

S M O T H E R  M E
sound up

a jim lamarche remix

from the album ONE LIFE

assembled in logic audio and final cut

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