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Nineteen

by Jeannette Lambert

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Nineteen Nineteen means never having to smile twice just because your mother asks walking under golden leaves in two hemispheres this past month graffiti on your lap a feather in your cap at toothpick at a jaunty angle for the kimchi or the bagels, unafraid now revolutionary bursting forth with bright ideas three dinners in a row or sleeping till lunch is over dashing in and out sliding into each chair whether its vacant or not the microphone is always armed the microphone is always armed the microphone is always armed rapidfire expressions, snapping out studios with wood and saws studios with ink and water studios with the avant-garde gathered carefully in their booths more studs are needed, designer tuques No one is gonna get away with anything Nah, no one is gonna get away with anything the water pistol has become a series of sharp words concordance continued free flowing brush strokes with ancestors on your arms the energy of centuries carrying you under your wings the energy of centuries carrying you under your wings nineteen means never having to smile twice just because your mother asks nah, no one gonna get away with anything no one gets away with anything

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Channelling the spirit of a son's nineteenth birthday, using digital tools to morph the jazz guitar, a poetic portrait from a mother's perspective. Based in free jazz, beatnik poetry, punk and electroacoustic experimentation.

From my blog at www.jeannettelambert.com

When adolescence and menopause meet! And with the creative goal of telling new stories, this is the portrait of the artist as a young man as perceived by myself, his mother. Because women need to sing about their lives at all stages, including moments like this one, being a parent of a young adult. Are there other songs about this life stage? I can't think of any offhand, at least not in this genre.

This track is also a quick view into a house where free jazz and punk sensibilities collide with rap and trap, especially in our studio. With an underlying guitar track, recorded by Reg in a palace in Yogyakarta, Java near our ancestral village, morphed into an appropriately explosive and untamed midi mess.

This track was composed using a formal structure of ancestral or familial astrology ie. my own set of rules that required me to compose, record and produce a track dedicated to painting a portrait of a family member on their actual birthday without exception!

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released January 25, 2024

Jeannette Lambert, voice, production
Reg Schwager, underlying guitar track

cover art by beam.illustrator @ instagram
produced, mixed and mastered by Jeannette

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Jeannette Lambert Montreal, Québec

Living creatively through jazz and intuition guides my life as a jazz singer and composer. As a Dutch-Indonesian immigrant raised in Northern Ontario, free jazz, sound poetry, and dreamwork have contributed to my creative freedom. I live in Montreal, Quebec where I insist everyone around me create as well. ... more

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