The Joke, the Divine, the Sunshine

by Lewis the Light

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1.	There Are Two Worlds 03:17	buy track
2.	Float Off 10:49	buy track
3.	Yeah! 02:54	buy track
4.	Exploration 06:32	buy track
5.	The Joke 02:40	buy track
6.	Water Ice 08:00	buy track
7.	The Divine 02:16	buy track
8.	The Sunshine 03:16	buy track
9.	Ode to Space 02:20	buy track

about

Words and sounds dripping out all over the place. The sun is high up in the sky and you are just kind of dragging yourself down Memphis Street toward the cemetery. The summer air never once letting you out of its grasp. Someone stops to ask you a question and you tell them to keep their hat on tight. You never know when you might just float off up into space.

Drink up some water ice and remind yourself where you are going. This is an ode to space. You heard the joke but you didn't know. Breathe in and breathe out. Breathe in, and breathe out. Our minds are divine, step out with me now, out into the sunshine.

9 songs (and 2 bonus songs - if you buy the pre-order) about a trip to Philadelphia last year. I tried to make a kind of Sun Ra influenced record but I lost my wood flute and I don't know where these songs went but it wasn't in a good direction.

Ambient synth-y dream folk for walking along hot summer sidewalks, getting lost in alleyways and leaning against the cemetery fence in a daze.

Recorded: March 2023 - June 2023 - San Francisco, CA

Instruments used: acoustic guitar, harmonica, microKorg synthesizer, harmonica, free online drum machine.

Any money paid for this album will be given to the SF Coalition on Homelessness (www.cohsf.org)

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released July 7, 2023

Philadelphia
Walking down Memphis Street in the afternoon sun toward Palmer Cemetery
Lanquidity - Sun Ra
Nobody Move - Denis Johnson
Constant Hitmaker - Kurt Vile
Sleepless Nights - Elizabeth Hardwick
Floating off into space past two different worlds and expanding into the very end of nothing

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Lewis the Light San Francisco, California

"Satisfied with his care and the width of his belly, Lewis escaped and returned to San Francisco, where he was arrested after ripping open his clothing and asking passersbys to witness the divine light that burned in his breast."

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