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PLACES

by Jonathan Hape

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masnitram I love this album because it's the best album of 2012. Favorite track: Height Hit Heads.
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the only time that i'm at peace is when i am fast asleep cuz i never have to know exactly where i'm gonna go the thought of the future begs that right now i'm on strong legs but as we already know our legs were always meant to bow though you and i do hypnotize spinning highs pensive sighs certain words need underlined i hear your knock at my door i hope i can hear them more we'll make a song silent too long i have just the house to haunt hurt skin healed again usable and soft again the eye can see what it wants what it wants is usable usable and soft again
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i feel like something's stuck between my teeth and everyone is guessing what it could be but we both know it is the flesh of the beginning love that never let me cut so hard you'd feel sore for another month it's cooked by fire of the demons demons demons that would later send an IOU for things they'd never give to me i have been cheered on, screaming "defense defense defense" but the way i see it i would rather crash a plane into the bleachers as i look back and start to count all of my losses will i count you as the greatest or are you the one that i can keep i have i just forfeited all my chances and mistake a christ figure for a trade wind that delays my flight as i am forced to eat a meal or 2 or 5 or 6 or 7 while i'm waiting very patiently though i know that i live next door i'm getting dizzy thinking i'm overcome with feelings but maybe this swan that's made of stars is just what i am looking for don't cross me out
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i ease into things i've spent my whole life just easing into things cuz you can't go wrong when you're standing still (i can't move) no i won't go wrong cuz i'm standing still (i can't move)
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i see my life explained as the years waste away and ever other day feels so much more normal do you think that i could get away with murder of my fate? am i just too afraid? is there is there is there is there a third way? is that me, is that me or is it running down your neck?
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Buttons 03:25
hey love wanna come over? hey love when is it over anyway? hey love: attaching my strings hey love: that's lingering anyway before you bite all your buttons off we both know that the fall kills what we grow in the spring so lets eat the seeds that have grown into what we need
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i hope you don't dream of those hands beating down your door i hope you don't dream of dark rooms that you cannot explore i hope you don't dream of oceans i hope you don't dream of kites i hope you don't dream of long roads i hope you don't dream tonight i hope you don't dream tonight cuz it's better if you don't: that wilderness prepares you it makes it so you wont make your own decisions life your kind of life so if you want to move on i hope you don't dream tonight i'm full of indecision and you are full of spite so if you don't mind me saying so i hope you don't dream tonight make your own decisions life your kind of life so if you want move on i hope you don't dream tonight
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it takes a while to notice our trails light up like oil next thing you know you're seeing rainbows pool in the soil so go and i'll shed my wings so you can observe some things about the weight that your mind can take so come on and beat it out, come on and beat it out of your head i'm honest like a doubt i'm on it like a drought to your dread i'm eating just like i'm a mistress competing weights the haze of clouds is just a smoke stack so let it break we know that you'll go west as i walk back to my nest that's built with my distress so come on and spit it out come on and don't just eat what you're fed i'm haunted like a house the ghosts fly from my mouth to the dead
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every day i live i say "i want to win" but today i want to lose every day i live i say "i know my path" but it's still so hard to choose nothing here's directional i'm not just here speaking to you i am also speaking to YOU can't you tell? nothing here is permanent look, the mark is permanent you remember the smell if you ever wanted to write my name down just remember there's a line that goes across every word that i've said so it extends all the time i can say i own a radio then say "what's a radio?" i don't know who i'm talking to half the time but as long as i can circle and you can draw a circle then you need not draw the line (look the curls were permanent for months before they fell)

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"Hape's sound defies easy description, pulling from many genres, but his reverb-drenched vocals tie his tracks together. Sounding like something from Audrey Horne's jukebox, his multitracked vocals echo dreamily off in the distance even as entire songs shimmer, mirage-like" ~ Round Magazine


"Catchy to the easily uninterested listener. [Four Stars] ****" ~ Cincinnati Examiner

"Jonathan Hape has written a wonderfully lo-fi/dream pop album that is as catchy as it is vivid. PLACES is candy to your ears, a sweet treat for rainy days and spirited nights. Do yourself a favor, download and listen generously." ~ dingusonmusic.com

"Drags you in a pastel flooded colour day... 60's style and vagrant attitude" ~ soundinjections.com

Live at the Southern Theatre:

We Were The Sky: youtu.be/BG0Z1l3Aa3c
Whirling Dervish: www.youtube.com/watch?v=keB_zcPLOAA


PLACES by Jonathan Hape is the follow up to 2009's Carnivore. Taking a much different approach than Carnivore, Hape made this record decidedly simple, ambient, electronic, and very automatic. In 2010 he abandoned recordings of what will be known as Color Wounds, the intended follow up, and started the new wave group Room & Board (then known as Honeymoon). During this, visions of Color Wounds grew, as well as his interest in Hinduism. While recording the material for a second time, Hape found a clearer vision, as well as a sharper view, than that which he was presenting. What started as a distraction and a writing experiment turned into PLACES. Recording would take place throughout August 2012, mixed in September, mastered in October.
PLACES deals with personal subjects such as indecision, lack of clarity, faith, remorse, and an overall winning optimism even in heartache. On a larger, more philosophical scale, the album's recording and presence is an example of the duality of all things and the third unity, or realization, or escape (Moksha) they create when understood as equal separate and whole. Symmetry in LRC panning, play on words and lyrical style, standard song structures, and the repetitive beats all add up to a larger philosophy on the structure of all things, and within that structure, the struggle leading to something of great purpose.

all songs were recorded with a 1981 American Fender Bullet plugged directly into a Presonus Firepod using Amp Modeler on Logic Pro 9. Hondo p bass copy with flatwounds. Lowry electric organ. Vocals were recorded with a Shure 57, hand held. Structure and theme.

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Read what Round Magazine says about Jonathan:
roundmagazine.net/component/k2/item/10-jonathan-hape

Read what Dingus had to say about PLACES:
www.dingusonmusic.com/2012/11/28/places-best-new-music/

Read what Sound Injections had to say about the song Buttons:
soundinjections.tumblr.com/tagged/Jonathan-Hape

Read what Almost Famous said about PLACES:
tomsin83.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/jonathan-hape-places/

Read what the Cincinnati Examiner wrote about PLACES:
www.examiner.com/review/jonathan-hape-places-2012?cid=PROD-redesign-right-next

if you can read Japanese, then read what Warszawa wrote here:
warszawanotrecords.blog.com/2012/12/02/jonathan-hape-places/

and if you can read Italian, read what Hidden Sounds said on both PLACES and Carnivore:
sites.google.com/site/sonofmarketing1/hidden-sounds-il-diario-di-viaggio-capitolo-29

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released October 16, 2012

Jonathan Hape: sequencing, keys, guitar, bass, vocals, percussion, engineering, mixing, mastering.

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Jonathan Hape is a Columbus OH artist and musician. Along with self recording and promoting solo material he is also known as Glass Cassette and plays in the bands Narrow/Arrow and Room & Board.

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