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Dark​/​Grey

by nightjrrs

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'Dark Grey' is a piece made from three sources. It takes existing songs and text from the members of the band and combines them. There are clear crossovers between the pieces thematically, but the listener is involved in navigating the three sources to create their own overarching meaning for the piece as a whole. You, the listener, have a choice of which 'narrative' you wish to listen to - and which of the melodic threads to follow. It deals with memory and connection. Each piece touches on the idea of family and absence - as well as the notion of warnings and the unconscious.

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It is a dream that you have, a happy one
Your father is there
He is staring straight ahead
There are things on his mind
He is staring at the horizon
Perhaps trees, perhaps the bend in the road
Perhaps the dry stone wall
A left turn, A right turn
Places you will know
People you once knew who lived there
And direction
And directions
And signs
To places you may not have dreamed of.
That are the aporial wall That cannot be broken
The landmarks you share
The places of adulthood
The places of doors and sash windows
And distant midnight escapes
And reckless places in dream
In eyes in smiles
In recovery
You can get it back
You feel if your fingers could find the corners of the picture
It would all be brought back
And he is a happy man
And you are a happy child
And everything would be fine
The way the seat looks forward
The feeling of the seat in front on your knees
There is no limitation
There can be air
Perhaps and perhaps and perhaps
The dreams that you have relate to things
And things are not lost
And can be replaced
And are findable in the places that they have been put
A drawer,
A drawer of decades
Pictures, slim pickings of pictures
Things you do not want to collect but have collected you nonetheless
The undesirable pictures
The ones at an angle
The ones without daylight
The ones without light
Their flesh is your flesh
His flesh is your flesh
The way he stands, the way he walks
The way he talks
The contempt for things
The judgement of things
But he is here and he is happy
And he acknowledges your happiness
And you sit looking at the road ahead
Without imperfections in skin
Without acknowledging age and change
Without acknowledging season
Because it is a seasonless dream
And the sycamores are all things at once
They are Summer and Autumn at once
And there are Chestnuts and sunlight
All of these things
There is illness and age and youth
And they are all wrapped up in one thing
One perfect and undeniable thing

It is a good dream.
He is here
It is a good dream
He is here
It is a good dream
He is here
It is a good dream
He is here


It is a good dream

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released May 15, 2020
Written by John Chambers, Andy Hopkins and Nicci Reed
Acoustic Guitar Spoken Word and Sonics Andy Hopkins
Keyboards and Vocals Nicci Reed
Electric Guitar John Chambers

Mixed by Lee Shackley and nightjrrs
Mastered by Andris Kiss at Heavy Rain Studios in Kendal
Copyright nightjrrs 2020

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nightjrrs Carlisle, UK

Nicci Reed: Keyboards and vocals
Andy Hopkins: Guitars, sonics, loops and vocals
John Chambers: Guitars and vocals


nightjrrs create music through complex layering of sound, music spoken word, found sound and song. The material often relates to the environment, time and place in a post industrial world. ... more

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