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about

As a child, I had an unforgettable dream where I was flying. It started as I was walking around my yard, then running, then realizing my steps were becoming more spaced and less connected. Eventually I discovered a technique of jumping at a high angle and gliding for further stretches. As I built my new skill, the music that would become "Sunbound" began fading into my consciousness.

Each time I would leap further up and the music would swell. I would drift back down to the ground softly as the music for “Earthbound” played. As I flew straight toward the absolute zenith of the sky, the two pieces merged. Rain began pouring down into my face as I struggled to ascend upward like an arrow. The music was so beautiful, and it was coming down to me directly from the beautiful Sun, a symphony of light and sound. But the harder I struggled to reach it, my body would fall into limp exhaustion and I would again tumble down. I was crying as the rain was hitting my face, but kept flying into the warmth of the sun until the music became so beautiful and intense that I woke up.

I have remembered that music my entire life, and only recently developed the skill to feel comfortable recreating it with notation and recording technology. It will never be as beautiful as it was in the dream, but I feel very strongly that it's time for me to share it. When I figured out how to connect that music to Jonah’s story, the concept of the album basically took on a life of its own. These are the riffs and chord sequences that just won't leave me alone. They rearrange themselves into clever segues and remixing while I'm sleeping.
So just as Jonah emerged from his whale a changed man, I want to create a multi-layered musical and narrative project that communicates a sense of transformation and emergence; to build on my own emergence from my childhood dream, and some of the musical ideas that came with it and after; and to offer a humble suggestion for how us modern humans could emerge from our self-created whale of technological isolation into a new era of communication and connection.

lyrics

SUNBOUND
Music by LL
Lyrics by Shea Broussard & LL

He slips to slumber, leaving worlds behind him
With winged feet he rises to her warmth
Ascending past what once were bones and truth
A star, like death, he folds into her arms

Illuminated by her ancient beauty
A dying, desperate heart, the young man cried,
"I yearn to know the things you know, and freely,
I'll choose the blindness just to see your eyes."

Do you remember me?
I knew you once in a childhood dream
Now if you feel my warmth
Deep inside
I'll take your hand and pull you toward the...

Darkness holding space amid her brilliance
A mind and body turned to ash and wind
The only way to see into her center
Is to close my eyes and to surrender
Surrender to the truth

I will remember you
As you say goodbye to the life you knew
And if you'll let go
I'll bring peace to your restless soul
And with our bodies gone
And spirits free
We'll be at one with the sea, and the sun, and the dream.

I am a dream of eternity
I am spirit transcending
I am a beautiful ending
Longing for a beginning

credits

from JJ vs the Digital Whale, released July 31, 2015
Drums recorded by Scott Solter, early 2014.
Piano, B3 and Rhodes overdubbed at Soundpure
Vocals, guitars and synth programming by LL at home throughout 2014
More guitars, bass and vibraphone recorded by Scott Solter, late 2014
Background vocals by Shea Broussard, Katharine Whalen and Shawn Luby
Banjo by Curtis Eller, recorded at home by LL in late 2014
Violins played and recorded by Thomas Van Der Brook at Tonehaus
Ending drum solo recorded in the Rambler garage, Austin TX, around 2007.
Additional sound effects sampled from ON (2003)

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