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Live board mix from 3.5.16 show at Sam's Burger Joint.
Jackson Parten - Guitar/Vox
Chris Compton - Drums/vox
Chris Hagerty - Bass
Miranda Terry - Vox

Burn Me Alive - Jackson Parten Live @ Sam's Burger Joint 3.5.16

"Fakutori, Mon Amour" was written for an art installation in San Antonio, which opened March 5, 2016 at Period Modern.  Curated by Hills Snyder, "That Thing on the Side of the Road" brought together artists and musicians who created original pieces based on the titular theme.

I wrote my song on February 10, 2016 drawn from my personal history working in factories and with inspirational debt to the painting above I first saw at Period Modern last year.  It is titled "Factory" by Cindy Tower,  2008.  The emotional center is from the film "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" [1959 Pathé Films]

The song is a broader tale about unintentional consequences and the abandoned detritus of human history, played out at mankind's inglorious end.  Even our dead factories will likely survive us.

I started tracking on March 7, 2016 in New Braunfels with Chris Compton and Luke Leverett.  We'd talked about them producing something for me so we did this in a few days at Chris' home studio.  I did acoustic guitar and vocals, all the other tracks were done by them.
JJ Golden mastered it on April 8, 2016.

"Fakutori, Mon Amour"

In a while, grass will find its way through the concrete cap
Black drops of rain through expansion gaps
And twisted fists of iron like

Metallic flowers
Blooming in the empty fields of hanging wire
Inch by inch, the color back into her skin
Not like it's been but soon enough

She'll throw off the chemical peel
Shrug off her cloak to slowly reveal	
The beauty we all worked so hard to conceal 
Waited us out anyway

In a while, sky of blue will change its hue from ashen grey
Chemtrails of overreach will float and fade away
Soft summer clouds made of

Big mistakes	
We knew how it'd end without apple or snake
Paradise lost writ by William Blake and
Painted by Hieronymus Bosch

A garden of decaying machines
Rusted and hulking and stuck in-between
Never to be the rocks they'd once been
Fakutori, Mon Amour

And I, I remember disposable cans
And I, I remember disposable plans
And I, I remember disposable life

Written by DMC
Performance by Chris Compton, Luke Leverett & DMC
Engineered & Mixed by Chris Compton
Produced by Chris Compton & Luke Leverett
Mastered by JJ at Golden Mastering in Ventura, CA


Burn Me Alive - Jackson Parten Live @ Sam's Burger Joint 3.5.16

Jackson Parten Music

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