Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow

by Jonah Parzen-Johnson

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Liance Innovative, experimental, haunting. Jonah packs some real emotion into these jarring pieces. Favorite track: I Keep Thinking Sit Down.

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I want to be part of a community of people whose first allegiance is to empathy and mutual understanding. This book is the result of an exercise meant to help actualize that aspiration. Over the course of two months of touring in support of my album, "Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow", I took time to imagine my own reasons for many strangers’ most basic decision. The result is three reasons to live in thirty four cities in the United States and Canada. Empathy and mutual understanding can start with a small affirmation:

I could live where you live.

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1.	I Keep Thinking Sit Down 06:18	buy track
2.	If You Can't Sleep, Just Shut Your Eyes 05:06	buy track
3.	Never Stop Counting 04:54	buy track
4.	Eyes Like Paddles 05:41	buy track
5.	I Wrote A Story About You, Without You 05:34	buy track
6.	Stay There, I'll Come To You 05:52	buy track
7.	On The Way Home (Neil Young Cover) 03:54	buy track

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Nostalgia can seem comforting, but I think it should be incredibly unsettling. I wrote the songs on "I Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow" around the idea that the best period in my generation’s lifespan was gone, but after a few nights on the road, looking people in the eye with that idea in mind, I saw how lazy I was being. It doesn’t feel good to be devoting so much time to counting the ways we’ve failed, and ignoring the hundreds of little ways I could be fixing this mess. Its time to stop drowning in nostalgia, and start finding ways to make our lives about repairing our broken systems. I think the first step is admitting that anyone's problem is all of our problem.
- Jonah

Recorded live to two track tape without loops or overdubs using only analog instruments.

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released June 2, 2015

Jonah Parzen-Johnson - Baritone Saxophone and Analog Synthesizer

All compositions except "On The Way Home" were written by Jonah Parzen-Johnson
On The Way Home was written by Neil Young

Engineered by Aaron Nevezie at The Bunker
Mastered by Alex DeTurk at Strange Weather

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Jonah Parzen-Johnson Brooklyn, New York

Music for solo baritone saxophone & hardware electronics. Touring on my own.

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