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{"id":9061498224890,"title":"Jana Horn \/\/ The Window Is The Dream CD","handle":"jana-horn-the-window-is-the-dream-cd","description":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカ・テキサスのシンガーソングライターJana Hornが、2023年3月に同国No Quarterからリリースしたアルバムです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e彼女が休学中に制作したポエティックなベッドルーム・フォーク10曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e※デジタル音源をご希望の場合はお気軽にご連絡をお願いいたします\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1521619205\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/noqu\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/noqu\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more No Quarter releases available at Tobira.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable on LP or CD. Please ask us for digital files.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e++\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist statement by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJana Horn, January 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e :\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Window is the Dream began as a failed poem. I wrote it as I was waking up... the last thing I want in this breath of existence \/ is not to throw myself into it \/ as any bird might stop flying \/ when the window is the dream. I think the original line was \"toad breath.\" My classmates were nice about it, even the teacher.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI was taking a class on esoteric lit, a fiction workshop, a poetry class. And while the poem wasn't quite... a poem... a song did rise from it, like smoke from a fire put-out. The song is called The Dream, which maybe the album is pointing toward. These recurring lines which depict the image of a bird hitting a window, though not out of oblivion, but because the bird knows something we don't.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e***What if birds aren't singing, they're screaming? (Aldous Harding)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e***What if nightmares were cries from hell? What if nightmares literally took place in hell? Why not? Everything is so strange, even this is possible. (Jorge Luis Borges)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI think of a line from a favorite story of mine, \"Car Crash While Hitchhiking,\" in which a man is observing someone badly hurt, and about to go: And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI won't bore you with more quotes... but perhaps my idea with this song, and album, was in part to help keep this broader, ongoing conversation in the air, like a beach ball.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI wrote these songs in the thick of a writing program. I was reading all the time, sometimes five-hundred pages a week or more, there was no music on, for years maybe; my record player broke, the stereo in my car, my laptop’s was on its last speaker and then it started twitching. The feeling of those days was holding on, as though centripetal force alone was keeping everything going. Songs spilled. Days go by \/ they don't have time. Even the walks I took were circular, around the cemetery and back.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe album was recorded in the breaths I could take away from school, over about a year. Once I had a number of songs, I drove to upstate New York where my friends Sarah and Jared warned me we could make something beautiful. I think I was the first, or one of them, to record in their barn, which is now a bonafide studio. The whole thing was a family affair. Jonathon, one of the guitarists, and I even have the same last name. I like the songs that we play together, how his guitar and my voice sound like they’re having a conversation, or arguing, or trust-falling into one another. 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Please ask us for digital files.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e++\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist statement by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJana Horn, January 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e :\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Window is the Dream began as a failed poem. I wrote it as I was waking up... the last thing I want in this breath of existence \/ is not to throw myself into it \/ as any bird might stop flying \/ when the window is the dream. I think the original line was \"toad breath.\" My classmates were nice about it, even the teacher.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI was taking a class on esoteric lit, a fiction workshop, a poetry class. And while the poem wasn't quite... a poem... a song did rise from it, like smoke from a fire put-out. The song is called The Dream, which maybe the album is pointing toward. These recurring lines which depict the image of a bird hitting a window, though not out of oblivion, but because the bird knows something we don't.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e***What if birds aren't singing, they're screaming? (Aldous Harding)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e***What if nightmares were cries from hell? What if nightmares literally took place in hell? Why not? Everything is so strange, even this is possible. (Jorge Luis Borges)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI think of a line from a favorite story of mine, \"Car Crash While Hitchhiking,\" in which a man is observing someone badly hurt, and about to go: And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI won't bore you with more quotes... but perhaps my idea with this song, and album, was in part to help keep this broader, ongoing conversation in the air, like a beach ball.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI wrote these songs in the thick of a writing program. I was reading all the time, sometimes five-hundred pages a week or more, there was no music on, for years maybe; my record player broke, the stereo in my car, my laptop’s was on its last speaker and then it started twitching. The feeling of those days was holding on, as though centripetal force alone was keeping everything going. Songs spilled. Days go by \/ they don't have time. Even the walks I took were circular, around the cemetery and back.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe album was recorded in the breaths I could take away from school, over about a year. Once I had a number of songs, I drove to upstate New York where my friends Sarah and Jared warned me we could make something beautiful. I think I was the first, or one of them, to record in their barn, which is now a bonafide studio. The whole thing was a family affair. Jonathon, one of the guitarists, and I even have the same last name. I like the songs that we play together, how his guitar and my voice sound like they’re having a conversation, or arguing, or trust-falling into one another. There’s more of this, I think, a kind of dialogue throughout, between the voices in the room.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Jana Horn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : No Quarter \u003c\/p\u003e"}
