jane's notes on "The Walking"

you met on the siblings list??  i LOVE these notes, thank you so much for
sending them. i am so fascinated in learning how they create the music. i'm
currently watching peter gabriel's "still growing up" dvd disc 2 and he is
talking alot about "art" and creating. i LOVE that stuff.

Tracy

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Karl Berry <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Karl Berry <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: SoJ/I, Week Four (one day late): "The Walking"
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 7:40 PM

    mango
?

This was the last record of Jane's I bought on vinyl.  I came across it
by chance in a small store, after many years away from her.  What a find.


These notes written by Jane about The Walking were posted to siblings
back in 1997, by [email protected]; she and I are now married :).

                    Jane's Notes:
                    this record was originally going to be called
                    "Twillingate". I see it as an autumn album, the
                    blue of the cover too cool. really, it should have
                    been dark reds, burnt oranges, golds. more like
                    "when i was a boy". i recorded wrote the songs
                    for this album in the basement where i recorded
                    my first record. (i also wrote "the speckless
sky"
                    there). strings all around the little room with
                    pages and pages of lyrics and music drawings.
                    when i think of certain songs i see in minute
                    detail the white-washed bricks on the wall so
                    intently must i have been peering at it while i
                    heard music in my head. "the white tent the raft"
                    took up a whole wall. it was going to be around
                    35 minutes, i figured, each clearing expanding
                    into a new song until you almost forgot where it
                    came from and then side-stepping back at the
                    last minute. there was a lot of difficulty at this
                    time and I had bad headaches. i was grateful
                    for the songs to lose myself into.

                    Twillingate was a small town in Newfoundland
                    that was the setting for songs like Lena and Red
                    High Heels. "first you go up the hill and then
                    you...". chipping red nail polish and new found
                    love and goodbyes. My sister told me a funny
                    story about being in an elevator and wearing an
                    unusual hat. It became The Lobby. I couldn't
                    remember her telling me. People have to be
                    careful what they say to me. My left brain
                    doesn't always know what my right brain is
                    doing. The Bird In the Gravel - "I don't mind
                    when it's over, I don't mind when it's all
done,
                    it's just the moments in between, just before it's
                    gone". The crux of it.