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moon summer

by towards the forest

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Jackson Wise
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Jackson Wise my god this is beautiful. everything about this album from the story telling, the instrumentation, the ambiance clashing with dis-associative harmonies - all piece together to create a beautiful work of art. Thank you for this Favorite track: moon summer.
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SylviaHaynes This album is a lush garden of digital flowers and a true testament to friendship. A wonderful way to get lost in uncharted sonic airspace. Favorite track: night: clinging, unraveling.
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1.
[moon witch]: and we will lisp loud! [solstice]: and we will lisp loud! [moon witch]: wear our scars proud! [solstice]: wear our scars proud! [moon witch]: let our songs shout! [solstice]: let our songs shout! [moon witch]: til the shame's out! [solstice]: til the shame's out! [together]: primrose, moonseed, honeysuckle, yew— i am starting to see you come clear into view. the sky amethystine, the grass somehow blue. let's wander together, take off our shoes. loosestrife, buckthorn, sow thistle, cress— we are tangled but untangled nonetheless. the clouds cirrostratus, the birds acquiesce. let's repair the fractures, live without regret.
2.
[moon witch]: cover your eyes, do not peek! excess is my territory. concealed in my environment— we are ecosystems, don't forget! stumble in bramble, barely seen as the sunlight begins disappearing. i'll stay where i am, though i'm afraid that being without you means i'm safe. ready or not here i come you can't hide! open your ears, listen to me! what i lack is a category. if i revel in not-knowing then i'll know i don't know and can begin growing. the sun's almost gone from the sky. did i catch a glimpse of you running by? if i can't find you, i'll shout your name— but i hope it's soon, it's supposed to rain. ready or not here i come you can't hide! find me and kill me! [solstice]: i have never wanted you so bad!
3.
[solstice]: you make me see through the dark you make me believe in my heart but i can't swallow everything you say can i speak of all the things that i erase? can we compose an accident: a utopia that's inhabited? [moon witch]: solstice! [solstice]: moon witch! [moon witch]: aren't we all just singing to a darkened screen? aren't we all just clinging to get back to the dream? [solstice]: we kept talking but didn't say anything [together, but apart]: i can't see you, but i can see the moon...
4.
[moon witch]: i began to bleed; anxious to please. an impulse to speak before i get weak— then, above the trees so, too, the moon did seep. a discovery: we share a body. below, the earth was waiting for the acheiropoieton. i saw them stare up vacant as if their nerve was taken. [solstice]: i spread my hair onto the water. reached for my reflection; it's what i could offer. i tumbled in and swam swiftly under in your general direction; the moon was my altar. [moon witch]: i knew a half-sweetness in my incompleteness i fall to my knees and then i syncope— [solstice]: my body kept moving as if it were blooming. i forgot "together." "apart" i remember. [moon witch]: ...................... [solstice]: i started to sink; reluctant to be asleep. a new dream untrained after i am renamed. [moon witch]: i wake to hear you in the water somehow plashless i can't stop bleeding! [solstice]: the world was inverted below the surface it felt familiar down here in the river all of this searching that i had been yearning was finally here and then i disappeared. [moon witch]: i left a trail of seeds that wouldn’t grow until i did, i do. i forfeit; my form split. i became again. [solstice]: i came to the surface bewildered but certain that something had changed. was this prearranged? [moon witch]: you can explain it a thousand ways but i’ll still wonder. i’ll always wonder. [together, but apart]: how will i ever tell? will the words compel? where will we meet once more? what can our songs explore? [the moon]: you will betray each other! you will lose your way! do not fret: just listen to what each other has to say. love is trust, honesty, and understanding. it's as simple as that. just work in tandem. forgive each other! especially when you fail to find the words to explain— then you will prevail. i am not saying there won't be pain; this is living. but do not let it control you; keep on singing!
5.
[solstice]: storming, forming. what aches the most? little death in my chest. are you gone with my lost words? touching, reaching. is the silence approaching? let's steer away from loneliness and we will talk just about being. i can see myself transforming though my old self still roams around. it's hard to escape the everydayness; even when i leave, it's my hometown. everyone else saw it different. but i know what i saw; i know what i felt. won't you believe me? believe me. i can't remember where i am and i don't mind. i can't remember and i don't mind. i don't mind.
6.
[moon witch]: i am living your yesterday. when tomorrow comes, will you still stay? you were shouting my sobriquet before you went and broke away. i saw you as you transformed; it looked as though you'd been reborn. the sky grew light as they rang the alarm. i watched them scatter back to their yards. i wasn't in the water, i had stayed up all night, i wasn't swimming, the space changed, i was lonely i was light. a place i cannot reach: i wonder if i wonder if if everyone is someone then is someone my befit? i became a local and so hated my location but i grew to love your use of words and frightening punctuation. i could visualize a change in the (maybe) future but seeing it so clear didn't make it happen sooner. i don't remember: what is ache? is it just an awareness of how we break? i looked up at the sun and felt out of sync seeing no deity with whom i could link. but i heard story of some mythology that made me believe beyond what's in front of me. i still can't commit beyond the innominate yet when we were moonlit i felt i finally fit. i was slack in my body as the morning came. i tried to exist less, but existed all the same. not a prayer nor a poem nor a verse to be sung that would make you see just how far i have come undone. i wanted our bodies to have some symmetry but i can't shake the feeling we were designed differently. perhaps i just need an explanation for what it is in how we speak that bars communication. do you regret your choice? is that why now your voice says, "see, what i destroyed is now what i rejoice"? well, i am sorry there is no guarantee the sun brings any clarity to our sense of identity.
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8.
[moon witch]: i went looking for the tigers and the lions downstairs you were waiting for me there but you were not even aware that i was looking for a way out of the house there was something more i could not pronounce [solstice]: where did i go? what could i be? on a rock i stood lost at sea i tried to explain my memory as the roses grew beneath my feet i dreamed a dream tonight i remember the feeling hallucinating light it left me reeling [together]: i found a way to sing to you from where i slept some strange wiring allowed us to connect [moon witch]: what would we— [solstice]: say if we— [moon witch]: we woke up— [solstice]: from a dream— [moon witch]: dream we dreamt— [solstice]: together? a dream— [moon witch]: dream we dreamt—
9.
[moon witch]: did you go out to hunt for hurricanes? did your paper crown get destroyed in the rain? it's not like this skin was mine to begin with. it's not like this body is permanent. [solstice]: is it time we should meet? before the world ends - and repeat. my head is a magic place: come in, come in, please stay. [moon witch]: it's far too easy to lie to ourselves. it keeps us warm when nothing else will. do things change? can things change? we tell ourselves we've been progressing since we came, but... [solstice]: ...the truth is that it's circular; there's far too much to unlearn. [moon witch]: i want to tell you everything. i want for us to feel no shame. i want for us to really change. so let's stop lying. let's rename. [solstice]: our palms, so sweaty. i know you know we're made the same. our hearts, so heavy. i know you know we'll unite again. [moon witch]: i vow to remember what change we found together, our miscible sense of tether. now we will never sever. [solstice]: i vow to remember what change we found together, our miscible sense of tether. now we will never sever. [together]: i vow to remember what change we found together, our miscible sense of tether. now we will never sever.
10.
moon summer 07:34
[together]: try to remember our first syzygy i know i was late, so i left early see: i am what it isn't and cannot be so bury what's left beneath the old tree and dig it out next spring... (((reconsider reconciliation!))) (((revisit reconsideration!)))

about

moon summer is a story-album about two friends who fall out of sync during a lunar eclipse and have to find their way back to each other. it is an album about how messy and heartbreaking it can be to experience the same event in different ways, as well as the process of reconciling and what it might require of us.

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released October 4, 2017

jason aviss - voice of the moon
ruhee dewji - tenor saxophone
cong li (李骢) - voice of solstice, story & lyrics, vocal arrangements, field recordings
jordaan mason - voice of moon witch, story & lyrics, musical composition & arrangements, vocal arrangements, production, drum programming & percussion, field recordings & samples, electric piano, organ, music box, guitar, casio, synthesizer, clarinet, accordion

the lines "find me and kill me / i have never wanted you so bad" were written by kristina born using a fragment of text from the play "equus" by peter shaffer, and are used with her permission and not his (RIP).

the orchestral sounds on "night," "dawn," and "evening" were composed using individual samples from a free sound database created by the philharmonia orchestra, who gave permission for these samples to be used as long as credit was given to them. this database is an excellent resource for composers, thank you to the orchestra for making it available!

the song "afternoon" features samples from samuel pasco moore's recording of "dear old pal of mine" which was recorded in the early 1920s and released on an album called "moooohieee!" in 2002.

moon summer was constructed and recorded by jordaan and cong at lenore and eloise's house in toronto from december 2016 - september 2017, except for the insects on "dusk" (which were recorded in southport, north carolina in june 2010), the birds on "dawn" (which were recorded in christie pits park in toronto in the summer of 2016), and the rain on "evening" (which was recorded on cong's front porch in toronto in the early summer of 2017). there is some construction noise buried underneath "twilight," too, but this was not on purpose so please try to pretend it's not there if you can in fact hear it (we've been mixing too long, we've been mixing too long).

the album was mixed by jordaan at home and mastered by eric padget / elbaradie at noisenoiseouchstop studios.

the cover art was made by cong and jordaan.

all our love and thanks to jason aviss, rianna thompson-paessler, kristina born, ruhee dewji, eric padget, seana rovito, steve coutts, dan berube, and andrew revolta.

we only have 200 free downloads a month, so if suddenly this album costs money it's because of that, and can still be downloaded for free here: jordaanmason.bandcamp.com/album/moon-summer

(月亮夏天)

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towards the forest is the recording project of cong li (李骢) and jordaan mason.

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