Sneak preview of the final track of Jon Wiltshire's debut album, Childhood Cassette. Available on Bandcamp and everywhere else.
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Lyrics
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We're running out of time
The age-old lie
Tell that to my dead ancestors
Tell that to the redstarts
Tell that to the mushroom

We are headed for death
All the more reasons to live
We may be done
All the more reasons to love
All the reasons

Oh we're so full of anxiousness
But the rain keeps pouring down
And the storms keep swirling round

Oh I'm so full of ideas
I've been full for years
I've been foolish

What are we waiting for?
There's no knocking at the door
And anyway, the West can't last
Like us all, we must make the past the past

O Grandmother!
Who's sitting by the fire
Conspiring our finest hour

Climate change won't change life and death
It just changes all the rest
We must gather courage

Move the jumpers
That act goalposts
It isn't anybody's fault
It is everybody's fate
The fact that we are too late

There's poison in my wine
And there's poison inside
It is pointless picking sides

We don't know how we'll die
But it's worth thinking it through...

What a travesty!
To let the Earth bleed
But it still hurts
And it still hurts

All my life
I was full of peace
But I didn't notice
So all my life
I'm pillar to post
Trying to be God
But I became a ghost

We are all one God
We are all one child
I am all the apple I eat
We are soon to be dead

Oh the meaning of life is in an ice cream
It's a builder smoking
It's the ants building their nest
it's a civil servant
It's a journalist on an overnight
It's a nightingale, it is the night
It's making love in the afternoon
It is dealing with bad news
It's dismantling the fence
It is not making sense

If you want the truth
Make a joke :)

Chilldhood Cassette

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Following his independently released debut album, Childhood Cassette, Jon Wiltshire presents four acoustic tracks performed live for Mr Holiday's Stamp the Wax show on Worldwide FM, broadcast in January 2022. Recorded at Jon's alchemical hut, just outside Bristol, UK. Art concept and direction by Daryl Hooper.

released February 1, 2022

Written, performed live, recorded, mixed and mastered by Jon Wiltshire. Recorded with a tape delay effect box. Copyright and publishing Jon Wiltshire 2022. Art direction by Daryl Hooper.

Live

Untitled Track (Live)

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MMM, a mixtape.

"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence" - William Blake

Following Childhood Cassette, Jon Wiltshire's debut album, comes a mini-LP of purely electronic-ambient-wanderings. Fully mixed together, and as separate tracks.

Full of longing for wonder, of crossing the bridge into a life of deep connection with nature, self and others. Full of frustration, too. It features samples of great teachers on maturity, youth, and the painful journey of making a human.

Sounds of the human things - love, joy, dance - and the new things - post-Covid, post-lockdown and the grief of the era of climate collapse.

Originally put together as a Monday Morning Mixtape for Stamp the Wax.

These tracks were composed and recorded all over the place - parts of it as far back as in a damp, cold loft in Southampton in 2013, to a basement in Berlin full of dust and East German chairs, to various friend's houses in Bristol whilst I was still finding my feet back in the UK during Covid.

They're journeying songs with few words.

Released November 2022, Bandcamp-only.
*Merch (a cassette) incoming*.
Stay tuned to your soul, love, Jon Wiltshire
credits
released November 17, 2022

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Jon Wiltshire
C+P Jon Wiltshire 2022
Originally put out as a Monday Morning Mixtape for Stamp the Wax

Please note the vocal samples of the great teachers Martín Prechtel, Michael Meade and Steven Foster are freely available online

With thanks to all my supporters, great and small, and every mentor who cared to look :)

Photo credit: Jon Wiltshire

MMM, Mixed

“Gifted pioneer of a new folk-tech sound charting the overlap between global catastrophe and the emotional landscape of the interior” - Tom of England (L.I.E.S.)

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