We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Memory's Kaleidoscope

from Makings by Jesse Olsen Bay

/

  • 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

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in digi-pak with original artwork and 16-page booklet.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Makings via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $5 USD

     

  • Poster/Print + Digital Album

    Lyrics from 'Thank You, Sleep' from Makings. 8" x 12" letter press print on heavy weight artist paper. Printed on an early 20th century press, by Eric Johnson of Iota Press.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Makings via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 25  6 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $12 USD or more 

     

  • Poster/Print + Digital Album

    Lyrics from the song 'Winter' from Makings. 8" x 16" letter press print on heavy weight artist paper. Printed on an early 20th century press, by Eric Johnson of Iota Press.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Makings via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 25  9 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $12 USD or more 

     

about

Based on unpublished writings by my grandmother, author/activist Tillie Olsen.

lyrics

The kaleidoscope, the twists and turns
The shapes and forms, reflected
The colors swirl, reveal, conceal
Memory’s mists are rising

What comes to the surface?
What remains, what never leaves?
What accidental wind blows the memory’s fragile seeds?
One blows to the rock, one blows into the sea
One finds deep and fertile earth, and grows into a tree

The breast less girl, forever young, under the Catalpa
The new ploughed fields, the black, stitched earth
I stretch my chest against it

The alleyways, the empty lots, the thunders in the night
The shirtwaists, and the clothes hanging dejected on the line
The moanings of the city dogs, the raven’s hacking caw
The smell of burning paper as we leave for Omaha

The Kansas coat, damp to the bone. Winter, 1930
Little one, the money’s gone. Hard times are coming
The nights I held them in my arms and gentled them to sleep
While songs of tangled searching twined through nerve and bone of me
The years move on, the ghosts awake, arise, and ask for life
The dusk is always falling and the evening always nigh
The dust is always restless and the wind is always high

credits

from Makings, released June 29, 2014
Composed, performed, and recorded by Jesse Olsen Bay
Mixed by Carlos Arredondo and Jesse Olsen Bay
Mastered by Jonathan Burnside at A Secret Location

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Jesse Olsen Bay image

Jesse Olsen Bay Montague, Massachusetts

Western Massachusetts based composer and performer Jesse Olsen Bay creates aural landscapes and narratives to explore the depths of the human experience.

contact / help

Contact Jesse Olsen Bay

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Jesse Olsen Bay, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Beans joins the show to discuss his album release, "ZWAARD".

listen now