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Rail Music is about the mystery of our lives, how quickly our journey happens and how little time we have to discover what it is about.

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Rail Music

You can hear it from a long way off
Coming down the pass
Horn echoing off the mountainside

And the love you had
You let it go
It slips away
Bonds all cut

And there it is:
Barrier between worlds:
Billions wandering the other side
Are they all ghosts?
Are you the ghost?

How can we know?

We’re standing in the station
Looking down at the crowd on the platform

We can stare all we like
Look down the tracks
We still won’t know when it comes

Until

WHOOSH (blow on the mic)

You wake up
Find yourself on a train
No memory of how you got on
No knowledge of where you’re going

And the headlight’s on
And the clouds are thudding across the sky in the dark
And the silver of the rails
It’s like the moon thrown across dark water

More clouds than the single headlight of the moon can unravel
And on this train we may not ever know all the stops
Or even the places we’ve been
And there will be no one
No conductor to tell us whether we only have seconds left
Or whether it’s hardly begun

I know who you are

Seen you before

Just a flash, something I saw in a window

Face on the subway

Gone so fast

****

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from Dark Sky Preserve, released February 19, 2023
Voice, verse and synth by Ian Ferrier; clarinet and fx by Louise Campbell; synth and mix by Drew Barnet; mastered by Harris Newman

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Ian Ferrier / Louise Campbell Montreal, Québec

Ian Ferrier and Louise Campbell have been improvising and performing together for the last six years. Ian is a well-known poet, performer and musician; Louise is a musician, composer and improviser.

Dark Sky Preserve is also a book from Clay Grouse Press. It includes the poetry, prose and musical scores for this work. ... more

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