Tuesday 7 April 2020

BABA YAGA


the end of a story
a soft kiss on the forehead
"go to sleep now"

one must never be afraid of the babushka
for she is kind
wise

and quiet




B A B A  Y A G A
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optimized for night vision


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

feat. sheila livingston
featuring the roland system 8

moscow aerial
hаша работа о mоскве, которая собрала более 2,5 миллионов просмотров на YouTube за год
https://timelab.pro/




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(play all)








Friday 3 April 2020

SHOW ME LOVE



the lion is most handsome
when looking for food

rumi



S H O W  M E  L O V E
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from the album TWO LIVES
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8



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


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http://www.jimlamarche.ca/threelives/



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







THE SILVER LINING


self reflection is both harrowing and enlightening
 especially when we are forced into it
  
regardless of what's unfolding 
and how grim it looks?
there's always that pondering thought  
what good can come of this?  
who will we be on the flip side?  different? 

absolutely!
(wishful thinking)







A viral lockdown releases one such reckoning ... an opportunity to look under that rock and see what's been lurking there all along.  Just what's buried in the back of this closet anyway?  Dad's bulb hasn't been replaced in decades and 'wow, what's this?'  All humanity's twisted experiments revealed and all without really having to do anything, except watch. Yes, there is a silver lining.  It shines a spotlight.  It puts humanity's strengths and weaknesses under a microscope and forces us to look - at what's real.  All this stuff he didn't want us to see.

Lockdown - day 19.  April 3, 2020.  I'm gazing into my computer screen like it's a portal into the universe - at all the planets, stars, galaxies and then closer ... at all our space junk scattered in our pious proximity, momentarily blocking the view ... the thousands of large used metal things orbiting the earth - no longer functional.  Who put them there?  Why?  Who benefitted?   What will happen to them?  What will happen to us? 

Contemplating our continuation is a daunting task.  It also requires keeping our eyes wide open and our spirits high.  So this silver lining ... right.  Cottonelle - 3 ply.






the reckoning

A most recent signal is that there is an environmental recovery unfolding.  Who would have thought?  Just staying still for a few weeks and the healing begins - silver lining.  Gas is 63 cents a litre.  No problem with that.  A redundancy in fossil fuel consumption is upon us - a silver lining.  Barely an interest rate on mortgages and loans.  Banks finally saying 'alright already - time to stop taking'.  We surrender.  Like everyone needs to - stand down.

A re-evaluation of the social safety net that supports and protects us; recalibrating our response time and resetting our default settings - a silver lining.  Out with the old complicity and in with a new contingency.  It's only beginning (so they say) and we're out of respirators?  Up until now there was no profit in the preparation.  Scrambling to catch up in our reformed recalcitrance - a silver lining.  Collateral damage yes, but that's the price of progress - yes?  

It's in the news.  There's an abandoned hospital in Philadelphia w/500 beds that stays empty because the owner of the property wants a million a month for it.  Remaining hospitals at capacity and this guy is holding out; dwindling supplies.  The trolls remain.  Plastics and paper products - aerosol sprays and EZ pain relief.  Easy and convenient.  
Just flush and forget.







the resolve

Jesus!  I finally found toilet paper yesterday (a month later).  Are we really that scared, that greedy?  The tide is shifting; a new awakening.  The plan is morphing from out to in then back out again.  We're growing up out of necessity and all because a microscopic organism just decided to walk onto the world stage one day and say, "wakey wakey - eggs and bacey".  

Now they're saying the fallout could last years.  Fuck me.  No swims - no life.  I dream of cool water on hot sunny days.  This silver lining ... I get to dream.  It's all so temporary.

Survival instincts.  Who would have thought?  I'm so thankful to still be alive and I am so grateful to be shown such seriousness.  The time to ponder and the time to express.  I love my life!  Yes, there is a silver lining.  It shines a spotlight.  It puts our strengths and weaknesses under a microscope and it shows us - what's real. 

wishful thinking - ah right ... been there - done that.
sweet dreams 




Tuesday 10 March 2020

COLD MOUNTAIN



I would have followed you anywhere
to mongolia

ada monroe




C O L D  M O U N T A I N
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optimized for night vision


music by jim lamarche
from the album ONE LIFE
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8


MIRIMAX films
cold mountain 2003


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it's always something I've wanted to do
music to something like this
cinematic, sweet - big

fun
the movie was ok
for me it was more about the pieces
being the best part



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http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/



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http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/


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



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











Saturday 22 February 2020

MONSTER


systemic racism is something 
that diminishes all of us 
of course its worst effects are for its victims 
but our entire country is held back 
through the inequality and the mistrust 
that it creates

pete buttigieg



M O N S T E R
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why are your eyes against me sir?
optimized for night vision


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

featuring the Roland System 8


read more of Jim's blog posts here 












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/



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












ENTANGLED IN ALGIERS OM



I'm not afraid of your suffering
I'm not afraid of your joy
I'm not afraid of your hunger, your desire
I'm not afraid of your rage
I'm not afraid of your love
I'm not afraid of your lies ... or your truths
or of the prisons you choose to live inside
I see you
I feel you
I need you
I love you



ENTANGLED IN ALGIERS OM
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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


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FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH
the story behind entangled OM

temple redux is 25 years in the making

in 1995/96, I received a Toronto Arts Council grant 
then a FACTOR loan
to do a new world music album

I called it temple

having to rush it’s completion
(because FACTOR gave me a deadline to deliver CDs)
it fell short, even having taken 2 years
seeds were however planted



I've since dissected & remixed it (3rd time)
now here in 2020 finished


my first inspiration came from having watched
a scorsese film years earlier
called 'last temptation of christ'
and the soundtrack blew me away
I bought my first CD player that summer (1988) 
and listened to peter gabriel's 'passion'
endless times, fascinated
several years, then even decades later
and finally

temple redux













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

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


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


see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>







Monday 17 February 2020

DAAKOO

love is the ultimate outlaw
it just won't adhere to any rules
the most any of us can do
is sign on as its accomplice

kareena kapoor

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optimized for night vision

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

featuring the Roland System 8

it's a touch thing

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see the TEMPLE REDUX album/page here >>>


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

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


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