We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

a christmas chant for a hyperminimal household

by sonja berlin-jones

supported by
nobodaddyo
nobodaddyo thumbnail
LVIV
LVIV thumbnail
ciderlord
ciderlord thumbnail
/
1.
a christmas chant for a hyperminimal household 28:00
buy track

about

.

FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER

oh yes thank you you are too kind i am humbled - I fought shy of doing a long piece of Christmas music. But in the middle of some ironing this morning I had a cuppa-soup and while I was waiting for it to cool I quickly made this piece. It is a bit more austere than I intended. But the average Hyperminimalst will be leading a wonderfully austere lifestyle. This will fit in nicely.

I do nothing but iron and drink cuppa-soups and make music and hear music and sleep and wake at 4am and make love for three hours every morning. You need nothing else. The tragedy is - when you reach this summit of hyperminimalism, there is nowhere else to go. I've had lovers panting and crying with gratitude and I've thought where can we go? - where can we find the secret door in this life that leads to the garden where it all becomes like Breakfast AT Tiffanys ?

This piece starts badly but as the echoes intensify so it becomes warmer. Unfashionably, I tend to like Christmas music. I love the Vaughan Williams Christmas Carols thingy and the famous John Rutter pieces and I even like that Greg Lake song and perhaps even the Chris Rea Driving Home For Christmas. And of course Judy Garland's version of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. I've never actually had a good Christmas in my life. But they get better. As I get rid of shit, so all of life gets better.

Tomorrow evening - probably in a continuation of this heavy rain we're having right now - there will be a performance on a village green of one of my short carols. Oh it is very beautiful. When I want to, I can cook up a good tune. Everyone will hold sparklers and we'll drink mulled wine and because it'll be too dark to see each other we'll all be relaxed and everyone will be fairly bored but I will know that this is about as good as life gets - and they will realise it too, one day, a long time into the future.

I was going to record tomorrow's world premiere performance of my Christmas carol. But you know what - I am sick of everyone recording their life on cameras etc. I don't want to become part of that vicarious crap. I want memory to play its tricks in the coming years and the half-remembered mythologised moment will be a climax which, unlike real life, will get better and better until I die.

.

credits

released December 14, 2012

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

sonja berlin-jones image

sonja berlin-jones Southampton, UK

katharinebeastman.bandcamp.com

contact / help

Contact sonja berlin-jones

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like sonja berlin-jones, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now