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Oh, What A Beautiful Morning

Jennifer Castle
Camelot
PoB-078
LP/CD/Digital
November 1, 2024

Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills everyday experience into art and art into faith, subliming terrestrial concerns into sublime celestial prayers to Mother Nature, and to the unfolding process of perfecting imperfection in one’s own nature: “Back in Camelot / I really learned a lot / circles in the crops and / sky-high geometry …” (Includes poster with lyrics.)

“Castle’s songs are vibrant and bountiful landscapes, and even in their quietest, darkest moments, they thrum and glow. [She] has a stunning capacity for crafting lines rich with nuance, humor and devastating beauty.” – CBC

“Castle channels the lunar radiance of Emmylou Harris and the heartfelt barroom blues of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, quietly gleaming with a rustic beauty and a deep, patient understanding of the mystic.” – Aquarium Drunkard

Camelot

Earthsong

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Jennifer Castle: Earthsong

Jennifer Castle's "Blowing Kisses" (as heard on Season 3 of FX's "The Bear") is out June 27, 2024, on Paradise of Bachelors and Solstice Radio.
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On the ravishing country-soul ballad “Blowing Kisses,” her first new song in three and a half years, the celebrated Canadian songwriter Jennifer Castle contemplates time and presence, love and prayer—and how songwriting and poetry both manifest and limit all four dimensions: “No words to fumble with/I’m not a beggar to language any longer.” Featuring a sweeping string arrangement by Owen Pallett, performed by Estonia's FAMES Skopje Studio Orchestra, “Blowing Kisses” can be heard in its entirety during the pivotal scene of the penultimate episode of the third season of FX's The Bear.

LINKS

https://www.jennifercastlemusic.com/ 
https://jennifercastle.bandcamp.com/ 
https://www.instagram.com/jnfrcastle/ 
https://twitter.com/JNFRCASTLE 
https://www.facebook.com/jennifercastlemusic 
https://www.youtube.com/@jennifercastlemusic 
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2RzmnX5DXwcryxwUyREPbK 

CREDITS

Produced by Jennifer Castle and Jeff McMurrich
Recorded by Jeff McMurrich at Palace Sound and Sonology
Mixed by Jeff McMurrich
Mastering by Josh Bonati

© 2024 Jennifer Castle, SOCAN (administered by Domino Publishing, BMI)
℗ & © 2024 Solstice Radio (Canada) // ℗ & © Paradise of Bachelors (everywhere else)

Performed by:
JC // acoustic guitar and lead vocals
Carl Didur // piano, Wurlitzer, electric piano, ace tone organ, roland RS 101 strings, mellotron
Evan Cartwright // drums, conga, glockenspiel, tambourine
Mike Smith // bass
Paul Mortimer // acoustic guitar, electric guitar, 12 string electric guitar
Victoria Cheong // vocal arrangements and BG vox
Isla Craig // vocal arrangements and BG vox

Strings arranged by Owen Pallett
Strings performed by FAMES Skopje Studio Orchestra, Estonia
Conducted by Sasho Tatarchevski

Photo by Jimmy Limit

LYRICS

choose to enjoy 
one’s time by the water 
and let one’s future flow 
out on and in her honour 

no words to fumble with 
i’m not a beggar to language any longer 
a state of mind 
only a god could come up with 

and don’t get it twisted 
my heart’s still in it 
my dedication’s a star 
and it shines on our differences 

and there’s love in the meantime
i’m so proud of this moment 
in the stimulation here with you 
i’m so fucking honoured 

can you feel me? 
can you feel what i do? 
i’m at the front of the moment 
and i’m blowing my little kisses to you, baby 
i’m blowing my little kisses 
can you feel what i do? 
i’m at the front of the moment 

so don’t be mad 
if i choose to spend my time down by the water 
and i let my future flow 
out on and in her honour 
there’s no words to fumble with 
i’m not a beggar to language any longer 
it’s a state of mind 
only a god could come up with 
only a god could come up with it 
only a god could come up with it

Blowing Kisses

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Jennifer Castle: Blowing Kisses

Jennifer Castle
Camelot
PoB-078
LP/CD/Digital
November 1, 2024

Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills everyday experience into art and art into faith, subliming terrestrial concerns into sublime celestial prayers to Mother Nature, and to the unfolding process of perfecting imperfection in one’s own nature: “Back in Camelot / I really learned a lot / circles in the crops and / sky-high geometry …” (Includes poster with lyrics.)

“Castle’s songs are vibrant and bountiful landscapes, and even in their quietest, darkest moments, they thrum and glow. [She] has a stunning capacity for crafting lines rich with nuance, humor and devastating beauty.” – CBC

“Castle channels the lunar radiance of Emmylou Harris and the heartfelt barroom blues of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, quietly gleaming with a rustic beauty and a deep, patient understanding of the mystic.” – Aquarium Drunkard

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Jennifer Castle: Lucky #8

ALBUM ABSTRACT

The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his fingerstyle acoustic guitar magic and finally manifesting the title of the classic Hiss anthem “Run from the City.”

He’s uncovered a rich seam of songwriting, classic-sounding yet modern, unquestionably nostalgic in temperament but undeniably vital ... Even when he’s at his most melancholy and hangdog, the songs themselves gleam like diamonds. – Uncut

The sound of the record approaches bliss: the sonic equivalent of a beer on the beach at sunset. It flows like a well-conceived song cycle and moves gracefully from one thought to the next. – Pitchfork

Exquisitely beautiful … It has the wondrous, enveloping quality of a daydream. – American Songwriter

I love this music so much ... So many of these songs give me chills. – Kurt Vile

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Around Sound

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Mike Polizze: Is There Anybody Out There?

Mike Polizze: Everybody I Know

Mike Polizze: Around Sound

leave us behind with nothing to show for / it's going by so slow / high and dry / do what you please / I'll end up paying for the separating of shore and tide / you'll never know / you'll never know what I did to the pieces of us / faded memories / I don't wanna keep / pieces you never got to hold / do you always leave when they get to keep you? / like you, I won't / "nothing will ever change what was here" / sooner or later it disappeared / erased and replaced with the moment of truth and honesty / taking us back to finally erase it / erase it

PIECES

A Journey through a night of wakefulness and the attendant fears, to finally reach dawn and the hope it brings.

Fugue

Best 1991 - 2004

Crazy (Acoustic)

A Real Hero

Back against the wall and odds
With the strength of a will and a cause
Your pursuits are called outstanding
You're emotionally complex
Against the grain of dystopic claims
Not the thoughts your actions entertain
And you have proved to be
A real human being
And a real hero

Real human being
And a real hero

A pilot on a cold, cold morn
155 people or more
All safe and all rescued
From the slowly sinking ship

Water warmer than his head so cool
In that tight bind knew what to do
And you have proved to be
A real human being
And a real hero

Real human being
And a real hero

College - A Real Hero - feat. Electric Youth

Henry Mancini - Moon River , performed by Audrey Hepburn

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