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about
We made "Is / Was" out of musical fragments, across space and time. For me music, memory and dreams make the world more coherent. One day when I was feeling really isolated during the heart of the pandemic I sent some fragmented guitar recordings to one of my all time favorite drummers, JT Bates. We played a little musical ping pong with the fragments: adding, taking away, exchanging…and then all of the sudden we had a coherent piece. It had a beginning and an end. When I heard the instrumental track I flashed on a song I had written one night in Paris in an apartment that had a blue door and was 59 stairs up. Why did I count the stairs? Why did I flash on this song when I heard our track? I sang what I could remember of the momentary Paris song and somehow it all connected and became "Is / Was."
lyrics
59 stairs
and a blue door
dancing on
a dusty floor
a dusty floor
like the old man dancing
out in the hall
telling the world
some rain gonna fall
some rain must fall
in the bar
watching skateboarding
the lights go down
and the colors sing
the colors sing
tomorrow’s parties
have begun
i feel like dancing
with the sun
with the sun
with the sun…
credits
released October 20, 2021
Producers: Pieta Brown & JT Bates
Composers: Pieta Brown & JT Bates
Lyricist: Pieta Brown
Mixer: Alex Proctor
Mastereding: Huntley Miller
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