Name: Jahman Brahman - Bookmark by Casey Chanatry
Duration: 7 min 28 s
Description: Bookmark from 5.24.15 at Dark Star Jubilee

2023-10-02 Live @ Brooklyn Mirage

Sound of Silence

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Bookmark from 5.24.15 at Dark Star Jubilee

Jahman Brahman - Bookmark

This one was the one that reunited Trey and me again after a long silence in September 2007.Trey was in Saratoga Springs, NY, working very hard in his Drug Court program -- helping himself, helping others...but not communicating with anyone...on purpose.His dad was key to breaking the silence and said I could email Trey a Happy Birthday and he "might answer".At first I thought he was joking, because until that moment, Trey NEVER used email!So I sent off a birthday poem...these lyrics.2 hours later I received an "Oh My God, Tom" email.Then soon after, a phone call where he played me this song.Our writing conquered the chasm...the rift.The thing we did best and did forever, songwriting, reignited our friendship.


Backwards Down the Numberline

This one holds a great deal of significance for Trey and myself.  It was a dark period in both our lives.  It was a dark period for the country.  I wrote this poem for my son...it read almost like an epitaph for my own grave.  It was depressing.  Trey and I also (due to my work situation which was dire) were holed up in a dark, miserable NJ hotel right near Newark airport.  But one thing we knew how to do was write and record songs.  Trey liked these lyrics, and with me essentially on the sidelines, he created this entire song...piece by piece.  The most impressive to me was his piano intro.  He's quite a good pianist, and he uses it as a compositional tool very effectively.  Those chords just kept building and building...heck, the song has FOUR intros if you count them like I do...until finally a bed for the lyrics appeared.  And he sang them...I didn't get involved, he was on a mission from god.  I just handed the lyrics to the song-machine and my job was done.  Later I found that people thought this was a tribute to the World Trade Center...WTC = Walls of The Cave=World Trade Center.  So is it?  Trey says yes.  I say probably...but unintentionally on purpose.  [this continues in COMMENTS below]

Walls of the Cave

This is a song we wrote twice.  We have a few of those actually...where we have an idea and revisit it later, sometimes years later.  This first time was the same session as A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, Oct 2003 in Vermont.  This was a poem of quiet desperation that my friend Scott Herman and I emailed to each other when we were deep in work-misery.  Trey turned it into a cool jam, and then later (the next time we rearranged it in 2009 in New York for the album Joy) a rock anthem.  I love this version -- it jams at the end...the "band" remember is Trey on drums, Trey on guitar(s), Trey on bass, Trey on keys, Trey on vocals...etc... Multi-tracking heaven.  Maybe I'm singing somewhere in there...

Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan

Dug this one up off my hard drive...A different spin on one of the first guitar progressions I ever learned: Am::G::F::G.  We used to have words for this tune and it was called Firewood, originally written by Justin Brown, Nate Brown, and Todd Silverman

::The Case::Firewood::2010::Remix::

An "original" tune created using more subtraction than addition...

::Casey_Chanatry::The List::Interlude::

Me playing over the Hiatus track: Call off your storm...Be sure to support him and download the album! Check out my band at jahmanbrahman.bandcamp.com

Hiatus - Call off your storm w/ Casey Chanatry

This was recorded in 1993 sometime.  Trey did it all by himself on a cassette multitrack.  I only supplied him the words on a piece of paper.  This version rocks and clearly displays how Trey's vision for the song was the blueprint for the Hoist version which followed in 1994.  The image of Aquitana is courtesy of my friend H. Spencer Young in NYC. @hspenceryoung
(This song is one of many demos of Phish songs recorded by Trey and myself and released in 2000 as "Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove" which is available at livephish.com)

Julius

A song of awe and wonder at the beauty and magnificence of nature and all of creation throughout the Universe.

When I Gaze (Demo)

::Guitarist and Co-Creator::Jahman Brahman::

Jahman Brahman - Bookmark

Casey Chanatry

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