Little sweetheart, I’m doing one thing after another tonight that brings
you near.
Just finished mixing one of the songs for the new album, your
voice soaring above all. Then found a YouTube video of a forum at the
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard about the West Wing and burst
into tears as they played the theme song, my first thought of your
enduring goodness.
As I was thinking about that and how I’d like to
express it maybe as the caption to the big photo of you inside the CD,
someone said something that suddenly made me think about the song
“Leaving on a Jet Plane”.
Little sweetheart, that was one of my mom’s
favorite songs and everything came to me in that moment- all the loss
and my love for you.
“Every place I go, I’ll think of you
Every song I
sing, I’ll sing for you
When I come back, I’ll wear your wedding
ring”.
The song is written by John Denver, but the version my mom loved
was the one by Peter, Paul and Mary, and afternoon that last line that
Mary Traverse sings, they repeat, almost plaintively shouting in the background, “I’ll wear your
ring!”
Oh my little sweetheart, I’m weeping as I write this. I miss you
so! Please please please help and guide and take me to you as soon as
heaven will allow. Love forever.
Showing posts with label documentary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label documentary. Show all posts
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Of, For and About - You!
Little sweetheart, someone was talking to me the other day about that little documentary we did last year about the making of our album Til Morning Is Nigh. I’m pretty sure I’ve written a little bit about it within these pages, probably at the time of its release last fall.
What this person said though was very nice because he was particularly struck by the Part Six, in which I speak at some length about you. So, I actually watched it last night for the first time, I think, since we filmed it. It’s here below.
As always, you are so very much in my every thought. With all my love.
What this person said though was very nice because he was particularly struck by the Part Six, in which I speak at some length about you. So, I actually watched it last night for the first time, I think, since we filmed it. It’s here below.
As always, you are so very much in my every thought. With all my love.
Sunday, October 27, 2019
On The Radio (again)!
We were back on the radio this morning, little sweetheart! Back on WFMU. Carol Crow featured us on her Sunday morning show and it was a really interesting program because she used interview clips of each artist to precede a track from one of their albums. The three hour show included Aphex Twin, Nick Cave, Philip Glass, Max Richter, Brian Eno and... us.
The clip Carol used from from Part 2 of the new documentary about Til Morning Is Nigh and she followed that up with “Angel Frequency”, so your vocals were way up front.
Hey, little sweetheart, you’re on the radio (again)!
Full show here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/89167
The clip Carol used from from Part 2 of the new documentary about Til Morning Is Nigh and she followed that up with “Angel Frequency”, so your vocals were way up front.
Hey, little sweetheart, you’re on the radio (again)!
Full show here: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/89167
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Mini-Documentary
Little sweetheart, we’ve finished rolling out the documentary about the making of Til Morning Is Nigh.
Each Friday for the last six weeks we’d been uploading a new “episode” of the six part interview and a new music video from the album. The whole thing is up now in a playlist entitled The Making of “Til Morning Is Nigh” on the band’s YouTube channel.
I think two of my favorite clips are Part Six of the interview, set in Central Park, because I talk quite a bit about you. And the video for “Noel” because your vocals are so prominent and there are lots of images of you including some footage of you on our trip to Ireland.
Thinking of you always and with love forever.
Each Friday for the last six weeks we’d been uploading a new “episode” of the six part interview and a new music video from the album. The whole thing is up now in a playlist entitled The Making of “Til Morning Is Nigh” on the band’s YouTube channel.
I think two of my favorite clips are Part Six of the interview, set in Central Park, because I talk quite a bit about you. And the video for “Noel” because your vocals are so prominent and there are lots of images of you including some footage of you on our trip to Ireland.
Thinking of you always and with love forever.
Monday, August 19, 2019
On Wings, of the Wind
Little sweetheart, we’re going back over the footage now of the documentary we shot that I was telling you about.
All of it is done on location and meant to evoke the nature of a quiet conversation and as it was recorded that way - quietly, with the ambient sounds of the city and other environs all around - Sylvia had the idea to add subtitles and close captioning (in both English and French). We’re working on that now, working ahead. A few episodes are already up but we’re working on ones that won’t be aired until next month.
The last one, part six, was filmed in Central Park. We went up to the north of the park to The Ravine, where I had never been, and saw the little waterfalls there and the big green pond they call “The Pool”. It went well but we tried a second time a little farther south by The Great Lawn and the light was really nice there, so I think that one is the keeper. The other one will probably be an “extra” after all six parts have been published.
Anyway, like I said, we both felt so close to you during all of this and maybe especially so on this day because I was talking about you a lot. And we didn’t even notice this until now, but listening to playback there is a moment where I’m talking about how I feel that the there of us, you, myself and Sylvia, almost become like one voice during the album, and this incredibly mysterious gust of wind just appears, like underscoring all of that as I say it and then ascends.
How well I know that you near, my little sweetheart. How blest I am. How very much I love you. Forever. Forever.
All of it is done on location and meant to evoke the nature of a quiet conversation and as it was recorded that way - quietly, with the ambient sounds of the city and other environs all around - Sylvia had the idea to add subtitles and close captioning (in both English and French). We’re working on that now, working ahead. A few episodes are already up but we’re working on ones that won’t be aired until next month.
The last one, part six, was filmed in Central Park. We went up to the north of the park to The Ravine, where I had never been, and saw the little waterfalls there and the big green pond they call “The Pool”. It went well but we tried a second time a little farther south by The Great Lawn and the light was really nice there, so I think that one is the keeper. The other one will probably be an “extra” after all six parts have been published.
Anyway, like I said, we both felt so close to you during all of this and maybe especially so on this day because I was talking about you a lot. And we didn’t even notice this until now, but listening to playback there is a moment where I’m talking about how I feel that the there of us, you, myself and Sylvia, almost become like one voice during the album, and this incredibly mysterious gust of wind just appears, like underscoring all of that as I say it and then ascends.
How well I know that you near, my little sweetheart. How blest I am. How very much I love you. Forever. Forever.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
"The Making Of..."
Little sweetheart, we’ve completed a documentary about the making of last year’s album, Til Morning is Nigh.
It’s a six part interview with me that Sylvia filmed just absolutely gorgeously on location in iconic setting here in NYC - up at The Cloisters, on the roof of the studio with the skyline at dusk, in Central Park near The Great Lawn - and it’s being released via Slugg Records episodically, a new part each Friday over the next several weeks. There’s also five music videos from the album.
It was so interesting to work on and you felt so close to us both as we did.
As ever, it’s all for you, little sweetheart. With all my love…
It’s a six part interview with me that Sylvia filmed just absolutely gorgeously on location in iconic setting here in NYC - up at The Cloisters, on the roof of the studio with the skyline at dusk, in Central Park near The Great Lawn - and it’s being released via Slugg Records episodically, a new part each Friday over the next several weeks. There’s also five music videos from the album.
It was so interesting to work on and you felt so close to us both as we did.
As ever, it’s all for you, little sweetheart. With all my love…
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