Forever Breathes the Lonely Word, by dakota suite & quentin sirjacq

Forever Breathes the Lonely Word

by dakota suite & quentin sirjacq

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oliviablue5 forever breathes the lonely word was suggested to me by bandcamp. the music instantly drew me in enough to investigate the artist. then I read the story and immediately needed the album. beautiful, provoking, so sad. my husband feels music in that way- in his very skin, seeing colors. I'm so sorry for your loss.

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1.	Edge of Mourning - Opening 03:35	buy track
2.	An Immeasurable Sorrow 04:46	buy track
3.	A Call From Beyond 03:29	buy track
4.	The Only Truth I Know (for Johanna) 06:08	buy track
5.	This Accident of Being Lost 01:32	buy track
6.	When He Was Here 05:19	buy track
7.	Committing Ourselves to Uncertainty 06:59	buy track
8.	Our Wounded Landscape 03:44	buy track
9.	These Unimaginable Things That You Bear 05:14 video	buy track
10.	Words Left Unspoken 02:11	buy track
11.	Meanwhile 04:57	buy track
12.	In The Darkness We Still Wait For You 04:55	buy track
13.	When Absence Became All We Knew 05:30	buy track
14.	In The Silence of You Leaving 02:29	buy track
15.	Fending Off Collapse 03:21	buy track
16.	Edge of Mourning - Closing 03:39	buy track

about

nick was one of my oldest and closest friends. he was like the other half of me. nick was the kindest most humble person I have ever known, his way of interacting with the world and how he treated others was a yardstick by which I still measure my own aspirations as a human being.

when nick called me to tell me about his cancer diagnosis on 24/02/23 it hit me so hard I could barely breathe. there was hope that we might have a few years to spend with him but we lost him only 6 months later. it still seems unbelievable to me that I must now travel through life without him, but I try to remember that his love and friendship formed me like the sea shapes a coastline and that it continues to do so.

nick’s passion and need for music was immeasurable. he was the only person I knew other than myself who ‘felt’ and ‘saw’ music and who it changed internally. our daily conversations about new music or about sections or even individual beats and how they made us feel were unlike any discussions I have had with any other person. nick and I had a private internal universe which it appeared only he and I could understand and interpret. I feel privileged that we spent so much time there with each other. nick’s passion for truth and beauty in all its creative form was quite something to behold. if something moved nick, he wanted you to know about it so I wanted you to know about him and how beautiful a human being he was.

making this music with quentin was the only way I knew how to process my immense grief and loss. I found comfort and solace in the melodies which helped me convey my sorrow and pain. I am grateful to quentin for how he held me through this process and enabled me to convey how I felt through these pieces of music over two weekends with him at his home studio in paris. I could not have done it without him. they were dark and yet beautiful weekends of reflection and mourning in musical form.

there was and never will be anyone like nick, or what he gave to me. I think about him every day and am committed to becoming someone he would have been proud of.

this record is for him.

nick hawley (06/12/63 - 04/08/23)

credits

released August 4, 2024

chris hooson
acoustic guitar & voice

quentin sirjacq
piano, prepared piano, vibraphone, harmonium,
soma terra & haken continuumini

with
sébastien surel - violin
élodie michalakakos - violin
violaine despeyroux - viola
caroline boïta - cello
colin dunkley - cello
éleonore billy - nickelharpa
anna elias - harmony vocal on 'when he was here'

recorded by chris & quentin at houses in leeds, paris & montreuil

all music composed by chris hooson & quentin sirjacq

except:

6 - composed by janis ian
11 - composed by paul buchanan

all arrangements by quentin sirjacq

mix & mastering
hiroshi iguchi

photography by johanna hooson

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dakota suite Leeds, UK

Formed in Leeds during a particularly melancholy 1996, Chris Hooson and David Buxton have set about making both singer songwriter and ambient / cinematic soundscapes since the beginning.

They do this with varying degrees of success.

The band has toured with only slight vigour across Europe and Japan. The music of Dakota Suite has featured in mainstream cinema, art house cinema and also TV. ... more

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