Last First, or Intermediaries as Solutions

by J Harold Thompson

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price

1.	The Longest Train in the World 03:42	info	buy track
2.	Something Boiling Inside My Brain 02:51	lyrics	buy track
There's something boiling inside my brain. What it is, I can't quite put my finger on. We must have added something up wrong. There's so much run amok I feel like I'm stuck In the future most of the time. Man's inhumanity to man is no longer a rule Now they call it a paradigm Now they've beseiged Zion and doused it in gasoline. And you can be sure they've got a box of matches. And I'm pretty worried that pretty soon there won't be a Zion to go back to.
3.	Train Your Horses 03:05	lyrics	buy track
If you were Napoleon, I'd still be some stumbling Malloy. If you had the strength to fight me, I'd still suit you with weaponry. If you were the windy breaches on the reaches of some dark green king's command, I'd be the fire that kept you warm and destroyed the lands. Gild your warships with three tons of untendered steel. Train your horses to buck at the first hint of feeling.
4.	Mexico City 03:10	info	buy track
5.	Going Back to the Earth 04:15	lyrics	buy track
(Unsung lyrics:) Don't tell me about the future before it gets here Don't tell me about today before I wake For we know it's back to the earth for us We know it's back to the earth for us and all.
6.	The Beauty Unutterable 03:47	lyrics	buy track
(Unintelligible)
7.	Anarquistas de España 04:07	lyrics	buy track
Well, I stole this song from someone long ago but not that far away. And as I write these words I'm thinking of those long long long gone days. Oh, the anarchists of Spain, O! Anarquistas de España, We still need you. I'm sad that you're gone. Oh, the anarchists of Spain, O! Anarquistas de España, I salute you, but I don't know where these solidarities should be sent. I can't help living in these dreams if everything around me is as it seems. A war by any other name is still a war. And a war is a war is still a war is still a war

about

With one exception, these songs were recorded as demos in 2008-9 in Morrocco (guitar, voice, harmonica), and overdubbed upon (violin, flute, percussion) in 2013-2014 in Argentina (with just a few finishing touches added in 2018 on one song, and one song that was recorded whole in 2016) by varied (but mostly questionable) digital means, most often just running the built-in laptop mic straight into Audacity.

This is the way I felt these songs to be at some time or other, this is the way I "gilded" already imperfect initial performances, and this is the way I wanted to play them, or was capable of playing them at some moment in time. I don't feel compelled now to record any more over top, so I'll leave them the way they are, open up the doors of the dusty digital cupboards they've been sitting in for most of a decade now, and just release 'em.

credits

released January 19, 2018

J Harold Thompson chanced up, dreamt up, or invented the songs; later, he played the instruments and sang the singing and uttered the utterances.

Album cover image is the 1450 Fra Mauro map of the "world."

Published on Bandcamp as Last First in August 2017, and again, re-intentioned and with a couple additions, subtractions, and modifications, in January 2018, in the form you see at present.

license

some rights reserved

about

J Harold Thompson Córdoba, Argentina

born in pittsburgh, lived mostly elsewhere

contact / help

Contact J Harold Thompson

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like J Harold Thompson, you may also like:

Sorry I'm So Sensitive
by Bea Stewart

The second EP from Northern Irish singer-songwriter Bea Stewart runs from gentle folk to pillowy pop ballads, all perfectly executed. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 15, 2024
go to album
Traverse
by Akagera

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 26, 2024
go to album
Torre
by F.S.BLUMM

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 19, 2024
go to album
Six and Forty-Six
by Riccardo La Foresta & James Ginzburg

Percussionist and sound artist Riccardo La Foresta joins musician and producer James Ginzburg for a fluid collaborative experiment. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 4, 2024
go to album
The Room
by Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jan 9, 2024
go to album
Sun to Sun
by Alice Gerrard

Stirring Americana set to acoustic arrangements and topped by the legendary Alice Gerrard’s lovely, world-wise voice. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 23, 2023
go to album
Invitation
by Michele Stodart

Michelle Stodart’s folk music captures hope in melancholy, addressing the transformational aspects of the most challenging times. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 3, 2023
go to album