I'm immediately taken by the lyrics. So clean, sparse, and elusively meaningfully. The musical backing and the vocal do full justice to these words. Plenty of musical meaningfulness here.

Definitely want to check out your latest with Janine while I'm here. I wouldn't be surprised if I heard this on a recent Anything Goes. :)

Ooh, i like that more chill middle bit. A sit and await the next moment kinda feel.

Great track. That was a lot of fun, you two. :)

Great track Jonathan; fine vocals; a haunting quality to this excellent sound production!

An edge to this one, a brooding pulse, the dark theme of death's finality...But I detect a tone of resoluteness as well. Perfect combination between two great artists. Brilliant as always Jonathan.

Janine: voice, words, vocal melody https://soundcloud.com/janinelevinson

Jonathan: initial music, instruments, mix

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on a frozen berm
in a carriage house
with a veil of gauze
on a frosted hearth
 
on a ledge of iron
in a blinding storm
on the peat and earth
of the winded moor
   
in the ink and lead
in the skin of men
in the final beats
of a trembling heart
 
it is quiet, shhh
oh but it is quiet 
 
it is quiet
oh it is quiet
 
on the rolling sea
in the folds of sails
in between the planks
on the salty rail
 
in the thorny vines
in the rumpled flowers
in a nest of crows
on a crumbling tower
 
in the swirl of smoke
from a dying fire
it is grey and green
and it is quiet
shhh

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image: Boudewijn Huysmans via Unslpash

It Is Quiet (with Janine Levinson)

A laboratory with an open bar and floating altar. Come on in! 

Here are various solo and collaborative projects - songs, soundscapes, live looped solo guitar improvisations. 

This project used to be called "imaginary friends", but it became too real for that name, as did many of you.

I hope you enjoy something you find here. Do feel free to be in touch, you never know what might happen.  

I also invite you to attend @hypnopompetus, a duo project with the illustrious Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley https://soundcloud.com/sel-sync, and Fictive Sisters, a transatlantic band with  the incomparable Wheelwright https://fictivesisters.bandcamp.com/album/immaculate-distraction.

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