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Rodin's Hands (vol. Deux) (AcousticDemo)

by Jonathan Bower

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On finding love, even in the apocalypse...
An acoustic demo for an album in process that we hoped to release in the coming winter...but may find delayed due to recent circumstances impacting all of us now. This song is part of a larger collaboration between old friends scattered in AK and NYC. Early last year, I started recording acoustic demos of new songs in Anchorage and sending them through the interwebs to old comrades (in music and life) based in the Big Apple, who would then work their musicians' magic on them. We intended to convene in NY in April 2020 to wrap production together, cut my vocals, tweak what we needed to, and more. Situations being what they are now, the production in real time faces a mystifying and indeterminable delay. "Rodin's Hands (Deux)" toys with the idea of encountering an off-the-charts love affair at the end of the world. Or, to recall Walker Percy, "love in the ruins," you might say...

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Rodin’s Hands (Deux)
Jonathan Bower, 1/19

So it all went down just like your mama planned
The clouds split apart and then Jesus came back
Separated the goats from the lambs, the sheep from the rams
The bottles and cans

And it was all such a sight to see
But it really had nothing on my baby and me
In the heat of the light
The white of the night
The blood in the bite

My baby said to find her when it all goes to hell
Said, "The end times are beginning and these never end well"
Said she knows where to hide when the rivers run dry
And I believe that she’s right

And it's all gonna be such a sight to see
But I swear it's got nothing on my baby and me
In the heat of the light
The white of the night
The left of the right

Now the moon’s turned to blood and might fall from the sky
But baby’s gonna lead the tribes back to the light
She says we can’t understand,
Our salvation plan
It rests in Rodin’s Hands

And it's all gonna be such a sight to see
But I swear it has nothing on my baby and me
In the heat of the light
The white of the night
The blood in the bite
The fist of the fight
The black in the white
The kill in our sights
The left of the right

She's outta sight
My baby's so outta sight
My little thief in the night
She's my little thief in the night

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released March 21, 2020
James Glaves, audio engineer
Jonathan Bower, guitar & vocals
Nina Schmidt, artwork

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Jonathan J. Bower Anchorage, Alaska

On the release of his 2012 EP, But So Beautiful, The Anchorage Press wrote, “[This is] masterful storytelling. These songs weave beautiful, forlorn tales in a matter of minutes, but with a defiant note of hope.” The songs on 2018's Light Years album play like postcards & snapshots written during an endless road trip around Alaska - or along every other dreamy, scenic stretch of highway anywhere... ... more

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