A beautiful collaboration between the New Jersey trumpeter aka CJ Camerieri and the Detroit singer-songwriter about meditative struggles captured via sublime orchestration and sound, taken from CARM’s debut album. Co-written and arranged by CARM and Stevens, the song begins with an orchestral brass choir of French horns and trumpets that gives way to Francis Farewell Starlight on piano and harmony vocals are by Jake Luppen.
CARM has worked with many other artists including Stevens, and is a frequent collaborator of Bon Iver and a member of Paul Simon’s band. His debut album (see Spotify and Bandcamp embeds below) is a combination of instrumentals and songs with vocals by Sufjan Stevens, Justin Vernon, Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Shara Nova (My Brightest Diamond), and Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus, Lupin). The album is released on 37d03d.
CARM’s method is to regularly put trumpet and French horn in roles typically reserved for guitars, keyboards, and vocals. His brass sounds, that would normally used as a background colour, on his music becoming the lead voice.
The oil painting in the video is by New York artist Nick Weber, from his “Night Scenes” series.
The endless night, the shadow of the valley
The fading light where innocence is dead
I call to each of every angel out there
But I am left with nothing but a cloud
Trouble, who will be the last to laugh?
Trouble, so near to me I had to ask
Trouble, have you seen my confidence?
Trouble, why can't you put an end to this?
And through the night I make a resolution
That I must try to be a compliment
So I refrain the secret song of trouble
If it’s impossible I'm moving on
Struggle, focus on the evidence
Struggle, so everything was made for this
Struggle, rise above your consequences
Struggle, why can't you put an end to this?
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